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Every road in America, searched by the theme:

Types Of Knives

We searched every named street in America for Types Of Knives. 43 names turned up. A rare one we found is Bowie Knife in Burnet County, TX.

949 roads in 49 states are named after Types Of Knives

Rhode Island is the densest

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

1 out of every 2,309 roads in Rhode Island 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 Knife Cove

Knife

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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 Machete Park

Machete

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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 Tanto Place

Tantō

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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 Bowie Knife in America

Bowie knife

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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 Sak Road

Swiss Army knife

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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 Shiv Drive

Shiv

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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 Jack Knife Drive in America

Pocketknife

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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 Barong Court in America

Barong (sword)

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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 Case Knife Road in America

Case knife

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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 Chef's Road in America

Chef's knife

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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 Drawknife in America

Drawknife

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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 Gambler's Run in America

Boot knife · possibly named for gambler's dagger

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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 Pima County, AZ

East Pocketknife 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: Knife Cove

2 roads 2 counties ~767.7k views last year

Knife

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

Most popular: Machete Park

3 roads 3 counties ~591.9k views last year

Machete

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

Most popular: Tanto Place

2 roads 2 counties ~461.2k views last year

Tantō

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

Most popular: Bowie Knife

1 road 1 county ~449.1k views last year

Bowie knife

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

Most popular: Sak Road

3 roads 2 counties ~350.3k views last year

Swiss Army knife

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

Most popular: Switch Way

41 roads 30 counties ~333.6k views last year

Switchblade

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

Least popular: Bolo Road

20 roads 18 counties ~139.3k views last year

Bolo knife

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

Least popular: Cleaver Lane

37 roads 23 counties ~150.2k views last year

Cleaver

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

Least popular: Jackknife Road

4 roads 4 counties ~160.2k views last year

Pocketknife

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

Least popular: Shank Lane

77 roads 48 counties ~168.7k views last year

Shiv

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

Least popular: Lance

464 roads 310 counties ~204.9k views last year

Scalpel

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

Least popular: Sark Way

5 roads 4 counties ~278.5k views last year

SARK

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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.