Roads about …

Every road in America, searched by the theme:

Social Institutions

We searched every named street in America for Social Institutions. 7 names turned up. A rare one we found is The Family Drive in Dickenson County, VA.

112 roads in 18 states are named after Social Institutions

Delaware is the densest

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

1 out of every 8,197 roads in Delaware 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.

The only The Family Drive in America

Sociology of the family

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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 Mental Health Road in America

Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services

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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 Settlement House Road in America

Houchen Settlement House

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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.

Children's Way turns up in 17 counties

Sociology of knowledge · possibly named for sociology of children's song

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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 Dickenson County, VA

The Family Drive

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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: The Family Drive

1 road 1 county ~82.9k views last year

Sociology of the family

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

Most popular: Health Services Road

18 roads 6 counties ~7k views last year

Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services

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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.