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Every road in America, searched by the theme:

Nazi Leaders

We searched every named street in America for Nazi Leaders. 21 names turned up. A rare one we found is Walter Blume Lane in Butte County, CA.

1404 roads in 45 states are named after Nazi Leaders

New York is the densest

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

1 out of every 1,199 roads in New York 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 Goring Road

Hermann Göring

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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 Brother-in-Law Lane in America

Hermann Fegelein · possibly named for The Brother in Law of Adolf Hitler

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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 Charles Edward Court

Charles Edward, Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha

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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 Todt Hill

Fritz Todt

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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 Stuka in America

Christian Wirth

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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 Brueckner Road

Wilhelm Brückner

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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 Grimminger Lane

Jakob Grimminger

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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 Walter Blume Lane in America

Walter Blume (SS officer)

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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 Ludin Lane in America

Hanns Ludin

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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 Brucher Road

Heinz Brücher

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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 Victor Emanuel Avenue in America

Victor-Emanuel Preusker

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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.

Scarface Road turns up in 4 counties

Otto Skorzeny

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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.

1 street exists only in Clark County, NV

Stuka

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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: Goring Road

2 roads 2 counties ~4.4M views last year

Hermann Göring

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

Most popular: Scarface Road

7 roads 4 counties ~1.3M views last year

Otto Skorzeny

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

Most popular: Todt Hill

2 roads 2 counties ~259.6k views last year

Fritz Todt

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

Most popular: Stuka

1 road 1 county ~177.6k views last year

Christian Wirth

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

Least popular: Brucher Road

3 roads 2 counties ~7.4k views last year

Heinz Brücher

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

Least popular: Siebert Way

69 roads 30 counties ~10.8k views last year

Ludwig Siebert

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

Least popular: Wittig Way

17 roads 9 counties ~20.4k views last year

Georg Wittig

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

Least popular: Ludin Lane

1 road 1 county ~22.2k views last year

Hanns Ludin

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

Least popular: Strauch Road

10 roads 6 counties ~27.3k views last year

Eduard Strauch

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

Least popular: Walter Blume Lane

1 road 1 county ~28.8k views last year

Walter Blume (SS officer)

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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.