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Every road in America, searched by the theme:

Famous Poets

We searched every named street in America for Famous Poets. 162 names turned up. A rare one we found is Shakespear Court in San Joaquin County, CA.

14810 roads in 50 states are named after Famous Poets

Illinois is the densest

States have a different total number of roads, so we compare by a percent of roads.

1 out of every 303 roads in Illinois resonates with this theme.

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Each dot is one county, sized by how many of its roads resonate with the theme. A small dot is a handful; a big one is hundreds.

Sizes are relative to this search: the biggest dot is this theme's busiest county, so a big dot here and a big dot in another theme are not the same number.

One of just 2 streets called Tupac Lane

Tupac Shakur

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Rarely used names, across the whole country: the spotlight on the map is the one you are reading.

Every public street name in the country was counted against the theme's subjects. A name used three or fewer times nationwide is rare; these twelve are the rarest, starting with the ones Wikipedia can introduce.

The only Shakespear Court in America

William Shakespeare

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Rarely used names, across the whole country: the spotlight on the map is the one you are reading.

Every public street name in the country was counted against the theme's subjects. A name used three or fewer times nationwide is rare; these twelve are the rarest, starting with the ones Wikipedia can introduce.

One of just 2 streets called Pablo Picasso Drive

Pablo Picasso

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Rarely used names, across the whole country: the spotlight on the map is the one you are reading.

Every public street name in the country was counted against the theme's subjects. A name used three or fewer times nationwide is rare; these twelve are the rarest, starting with the ones Wikipedia can introduce.

The only Mao Lane in America

Mao Zedong

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Rarely used names, across the whole country: the spotlight on the map is the one you are reading.

Every public street name in the country was counted against the theme's subjects. A name used three or fewer times nationwide is rare; these twelve are the rarest, starting with the ones Wikipedia can introduce.

The only Allan Poe Drive in America

Edgar Allan Poe

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Rarely used names, across the whole country: the spotlight on the map is the one you are reading.

Every public street name in the country was counted against the theme's subjects. A name used three or fewer times nationwide is rare; these twelve are the rarest, starting with the ones Wikipedia can introduce.

One of just 2 streets called Platon Avenue

Plato

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Rarely used names, across the whole country: the spotlight on the map is the one you are reading.

Every public street name in the country was counted against the theme's subjects. A name used three or fewer times nationwide is rare; these twelve are the rarest, starting with the ones Wikipedia can introduce.

The only Franz Kafka Avenue in America

Franz Kafka

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Rarely used names, across the whole country: the spotlight on the map is the one you are reading.

Every public street name in the country was counted against the theme's subjects. A name used three or fewer times nationwide is rare; these twelve are the rarest, starting with the ones Wikipedia can introduce.

The only John R. Street in America

J. R. R. Tolkien · possibly named for John R. R. Tolkien

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Rarely used names, across the whole country: the spotlight on the map is the one you are reading.

Every public street name in the country was counted against the theme's subjects. A name used three or fewer times nationwide is rare; these twelve are the rarest, starting with the ones Wikipedia can introduce.

One of just 2 streets called Jean Paul Lane

Pope John Paul II

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Rarely used names, across the whole country: the spotlight on the map is the one you are reading.

Every public street name in the country was counted against the theme's subjects. A name used three or fewer times nationwide is rare; these twelve are the rarest, starting with the ones Wikipedia can introduce.

One of just 2 streets called Oscar Wilde Way

Oscar Wilde

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Rarely used names, across the whole country: the spotlight on the map is the one you are reading.

Every public street name in the country was counted against the theme's subjects. A name used three or fewer times nationwide is rare; these twelve are the rarest, starting with the ones Wikipedia can introduce.

One of just 3 streets called Pushkin Lane

Alexander Pushkin

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Rarely used names, across the whole country: the spotlight on the map is the one you are reading.

Every public street name in the country was counted against the theme's subjects. A name used three or fewer times nationwide is rare; these twelve are the rarest, starting with the ones Wikipedia can introduce.

One of just 3 streets called Avicenna Street

Avicenna

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Rarely used names, across the whole country: the spotlight on the map is the one you are reading.

Every public street name in the country was counted against the theme's subjects. A name used three or fewer times nationwide is rare; these twelve are the rarest, starting with the ones Wikipedia can introduce.

4 streets exist only in Charles County, MD

Aldous Huxley Place

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Every name in the theme was counted against every other named road in the country. These appear exactly once: tap a thumbnail to walk them.

The county shown here holds the most of singular roads. Somebody named these roads, and nobody anywhere copied.

Most popular: Tupac Lane

2 roads 2 counties ~10.6M views last year

Tupac Shakur

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Fame is the entity's yearly Wikipedia readership, rolled up across every spelling the streets use.

Most popular: Caesar

102 roads 56 counties ~10.1M views last year

Julius Caesar

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Fame is the entity's yearly Wikipedia readership, rolled up across every spelling the streets use.

Most popular: Shakespeare Ln

290 roads 116 counties ~10.1M views last year

William Shakespeare

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Fame is the entity's yearly Wikipedia readership, rolled up across every spelling the streets use.

Most popular: Picasso

135 roads 80 counties ~8.8M views last year

Pablo Picasso

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Fame is the entity's yearly Wikipedia readership, rolled up across every spelling the streets use.

Most popular: Marx Way

70 roads 35 counties ~7.8M views last year

Karl Marx

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Fame is the entity's yearly Wikipedia readership, rolled up across every spelling the streets use.

Most popular: Mao Lane

1 road 1 county ~7.5M views last year

Mao Zedong

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Fame is the entity's yearly Wikipedia readership, rolled up across every spelling the streets use.

Least popular: Hamsun Avenue

1 road 1 county ~437.9k views last year

Knut Hamsun

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Fame is the entity's yearly Wikipedia readership, rolled up across every spelling the streets use.

Least popular: Gunter Grass Court

1 road 1 county ~514.9k views last year

Günter Grass

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Fame is the entity's yearly Wikipedia readership, rolled up across every spelling the streets use.

Least popular: Gide Court

1 road 1 county ~583.2k views last year

André Gide

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Fame is the entity's yearly Wikipedia readership, rolled up across every spelling the streets use.

Least popular: Horace

186 roads 109 counties ~759.9k views last year

Horace

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Fame is the entity's yearly Wikipedia readership, rolled up across every spelling the streets use.

Least popular: Saramago Alley

4 roads 3 counties ~778k views last year

José Saramago

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Fame is the entity's yearly Wikipedia readership, rolled up across every spelling the streets use.

all but the most common: all the streets, minus the most common roads in the country. This lets us see the 'long tail' of interesting roads in the country.