Roads about …

Every road in America, searched by the theme:

Virus Families

We searched every named street in America for Virus Families. 9 names turned up. A rare one we found is B117 in Madison County, VA.

2913 roads in 49 states are named after Virus Families

Alaska is the densest

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

1 out of every 1,848 roads in Alaska resonates with this theme.

About

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 3 streets called Erv Court

Endogenous retrovirus

About

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 B117 in America

SARS-CoV-2 Alpha variant

About

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 Pel Street

Primary effusion lymphoma

About

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.

Corona turns up in 207 counties

SARS-CoV-2

About

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.

Delta turns up in 508 counties

SARS-CoV-2 Delta variant

About

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.

Chimera Run turns up in 13 counties

Chimera (virus)

About

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.

Gamma Way turns up in 63 counties

SARS-CoV-2 Gamma variant

About

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.

Kappa Way turns up in 27 counties

SARS-CoV-2 Kappa variant

About

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 Madison County, VA

B117

About

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: Corona

857 roads 207 counties ~1.1M views last year

SARS-CoV-2

About

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

Most popular: Delta

1,209 roads 508 counties ~95.8k views last year

SARS-CoV-2 Delta variant

About

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

Most popular: Erv Court

3 roads 3 counties ~58.1k views last year

Endogenous retrovirus

About

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

Most popular: Alpha

686 roads 340 counties ~52.1k views last year

SARS-CoV-2 Alpha variant

About

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

Least popular: Kappa Way

46 roads 27 counties ~7k views last year

SARS-CoV-2 Kappa variant

About

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

Least popular: Gamma Way

95 roads 63 counties ~21.2k views last year

SARS-CoV-2 Gamma variant

About

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

Least popular: Chimera Run

14 roads 13 counties ~26.1k views last year

Chimera (virus)

About

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.