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Every road in America, searched by the theme:

Types Of Rocks

We searched every named street in America for Types Of Rocks. 180 names turned up. A rare one we found is Sedimentary Rock Road in Kent County, DE.

22062 roads in 50 states are named after Types Of Rocks

Kansas is the densest

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

1 out of every 195 roads in Kansas 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 Sedimentary Rock Road in America

Sedimentary rock

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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 East Diatomite Drive in America

Diatomaceous earth

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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 Igneous Rock Road

Igneous rock

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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 Metamorphic Rock Drive

Metamorphic rock

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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 Southwest Pumice Stone Avenue in America

Pumice

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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 Black Coal Drive

Anthracite

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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 Coltan Drive

Coltan

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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 Laterite Trail in America

Laterite

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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 Schist Road

Schist

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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 Oil Shale Road in America

Oil shale

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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 Moldavite Lane in America

Moldavite

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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 Tektite Avenue

Tektite

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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.

14 streets exist only in Bexar County, TX

Adamellite Avenue

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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: Coal

372 roads 149 counties ~2.3M views last year

Coal

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

Most popular: Obsidian

185 roads 109 counties ~2M views last year

Obsidian

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

Most popular: Shooting Star

219 roads 139 counties ~2M views last year

Meteorite

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

Most popular: Limestone

1,183 roads 416 counties ~2M views last year

Limestone

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

Most popular: Granite

1,916 roads 633 counties ~1.8M views last year

Granite

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

Most popular: Rock

1,697 roads 641 counties ~1.6M views last year

Rock (geology)

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

Least popular: Ashlar Rd

70 roads 42 counties ~110k views last year

Ashlar

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

Least popular: Greywacke Drive

4 roads 2 counties ~116.7k views last year

Greywacke

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

Least popular: Bif Court

3 roads 3 counties ~117.4k views last year

Banded iron formation

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

Least popular: Bog Iron Road

2 roads 2 counties ~123.3k views last year

Bog iron

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

Least popular: Siderite Road

2 roads 2 counties ~141k views last year

Iron meteorite

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

Least popular: Grout Road

34 roads 13 counties ~144.8k views last year

Grout

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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.