Places that Share Your City's Name

[deja vu]

Not sure if this has been done on here before... What is another city or place that shares a name with your place? Is it bigger? Smaller? Linked in any way?

1. I was surprised to read that there is a Kalamazoo in Florida, Nebraska, and West Virginia. The Florida "Kalamazoo" is 100% private property. The Nebraska and West Virginia Kalamazoos are both unincorporated communities. None have a listed population. The Florida location definitely seems linked by settlers. the Nebraska location had a destructive tornado in 1954, 26 years almost to the day before Kalamazoo Michigan had a destructive tornado.
   
   
2. There's a Grand Rapids in Minnesota, Wisconsin, Ohio, North Dakota, British Columbia, and Manitoba. The Minnesota one has the next-most-sizeable population to the one in Michigan (~ 11,200).
   
   
3. There are at least six other Detroits - in Alabama, Illinois, Kansas, Maine, Oregon, and Texas. All of them seem to have declining populations. All are less than 1,000 people. Detroit, Maine has the most, with about 800+.
   
   
4. Michigan has a lot of names synonymous with New England, but especially with places in upstate New York, due to how it was settled. For example, we have a Troy, Utica, Rochester, and (New) Buffalo. Some of them are larger than their counterparts.

[Steely Dan]

according to wikipedia, here are all of the "Chicago's" in the world.

most of them are tiny little unincorporated fly-speck places (the KS example is even a ghost town), with the exception of the burbs within chicagoland itself.

the random Zimbabwe one is a real head-scratcher. i'd like to know that backstory.



California

Chicago Park - an unincorporated community in Nevada County
New Chicago - an unincorporated community in Amador County
Port Chicago - a former town and naval station in Contra Costa County



Illinois

Chicago - the original, and the only one of any serious consequence
Chicago Heights - chicagoland suburb
Chicago Ridge - chicagoland suburb
North Chicago - chicagoland suburb
South Chicago Heights - chicagoland suburb
West Chicago - chicagoland suburb



Indiana

East Chicago - chicagoland suburb
New Chicago - chicagoland suburb



Kansas

Chicago - a formerly populated community



Minnesota

Little Chicago - an unincorporated community



Ohio

Chicago Junction - former name of Willard, Ohio



Wisconsin

Chicago Corners - an unincorporated community
Chicago Junction - an unincorporated community
Little Chicago - an unincorporated community



Zimbabwe

Chicago - a suburb of Kwekwe

[thoughtcriminal]

Philadelphia

Philadelphia, PA - the one most people mean when they talk about Philadelphia
but there's also..
Philadelphia, Illinois
Philadelphia, Indiana
Philadelphia, Mississippi
Philadelphia, New York (where I once got a speeding ticket, and is the actual home of Philadelphia cream cheese...)
Philadelphia, Tennessee
Amman, Jordan - called Philadelphia during the Hellenistic and Roman periods
Philadelphia (Cilicia), a town and bishopric of ancient Cilicia
Philadelphia (Lydia) or Alaşehir, home of one of the seven churches of Asia Minor in the Book of Revelation
Philadelphia, Germany, a former village, now part of Storkow, Oder-Spree, Brandenburg
Philadelphia, Tyne and Wear, a village north of Houghton-le-Spring, City of Sunderland, United Kingdom
Philadelphia, Western Cape, a town in South Africa
Filadelfia, Calabria, a town in southern Italy
copied and pasted from wikipedia

[lio45]

My hometown (Sherbrooke, QC) has one other namesake in another province and the only reason I've known this (for over a decade now) is that when looking for real estate in real estate sites, you start typing Sherbrooke and it opens a scroll down menu to suggest between "Sherbrooke, QC" and "Sherbrooke, NS".

The guy was Governor General of Canada around the time of the city's birth (decades after the USA became its own country) so it's not likely at all that Americans named anything for him, and it's not a very common name.

But I just learned today that there was one in North Dakota (named by settlers from the original one...)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sherbrooke,_North_Dakota

[Centropolis]

Saint Louis, Senegal (Ndar) is the first one that always comes to mind. looks like New Orleans African doppleganger. The Saint Louis place names and New Orleans of course all linked by colonial France and the expanded Franco-creole universe.


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[mousquet]

You'll admit that you have to be somewhat ballsy to call yourself Paris when you're not Paris, France.
But the Texans somehow did it! There is a Paris in Texas, that's hardly a village lost in the middle of nowhere that came to our knowledge thanks to this movie.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paris,_Texas_(film)

It makes me thinking, sometimes, the French say - les cons, ça ose tout. C'est même à ça qu'on les reconnaît.
Literally: the fools (or cunts) would dare anything. That's even how you recognize them.

Well, the Texans dare having a Paris of their own in a desert. The title of a movie that won the Palme d'Or at the International Cannes Film Festival. That's something.
I don't actually find it foolish or cuntish. Frankly, I find it cute and funny.
And in fact, there would be a little bunch of Paris in the US.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paris_(disambiguation)

Nothing really surprising... But believe it or not, that of Texas is the only one we know about here. Because of the movie.

[badrunner]

There is a Bahia de los Angeles "Bay of the Angels" in Baja California.

There is a place called Bagdad in the Mojave desert, it's a ghost town/railroad siding. Bagdad Cafe is near there.

There is a Mecca in Coachella Valley, near the Salton Sea.

[IluvATX]

There is a Houston, Alaska.

[MonkeyRonin]

All of the fellow Torontos out there:


Canada:
Toronto, PEI

Australia:
Toronto, NSW

UK:
Toronto, County Durham, England

USA:
Toronto, IL
Toronto, IN
Toronto, IA
Toronto, KS
Toronto, MO
Toronto, SD
And the biggest of them all, Toronto, OH - pop. 5,000:


https://toronto.mediacoop.ca/story/p...uary-2011/6406

[lio45]

I knew Illinois had an Ottawa, just learned it has a Toronto too

[iheartthed]

Originally Posted by deja vu

Michigan has a lot of names synonymous with New England, but especially with places in upstate New York, due to how it was settled. For example, we have a Troy, Utica, Rochester, and (New) Buffalo. Some of them are larger than their counterparts.

The state of Michigan also has a name twin in Mexico: the state of Michoacán.

[Northern Light]

Originally Posted by mousquet

You'll admit that you have to be somewhat ballsy to call yourself Paris when you're not Paris, France.
But the Texans somehow did it! There is a Paris in Texas, that's hardly a village lost in the middle of nowhere that came to our knowledge thanks to this movie.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paris,_Texas_(film)

It makes me thinking, sometimes, the French say - les cons, ça ose tout. C'est même à ça qu'on les reconnaît.
Literally: the fools (or cunts) would dare anything. That's even how you recognize them.

Well, the Texans dare having a Paris of their own in a desert. The title of a movie that won the Palme d'Or at the International Cannes Film Festival. That's something.
I don't actually find it foolish or cuntish. Frankly, I find it cute and funny.
And in fact, there would be a little bunch of Paris in the US.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paris_(disambiguation)

Nothing really surprising... But believe it or not, that of Texas is the only one we know about here. Because of the movie.

There's also one in Ontario, Canada

Paris, Ontario is a small town, not all that far from London, Ontario, a mid-sized City.

Its about 12,000 people

From Wikipedia:

Paris was named for the nearby deposits of gypsum, used to make plaster of Paris

[hauntedheadnc]

Originally Posted by Steely Dan

according to wikipedia, here are all of the "Chicago's" in the world.

most of them are tiny little unincorporated fly-speck places (the KS example is even a ghost town), with the exception of the burbs within chicagoland itself.

There's also a Little Chicago, South Carolina. True to its name, it is very, very little. For what it's worth Little Chicago is about a twenty minute drive away from another little place in South Carolina: Little Africa, SC.

Regarding Asheville, it's the only city with its name but there are towns named "Ashville" in Alabama and Ohio. There is also a Buncombe, Illinois, named for early settlers who moved there from Asheville, in Buncombe County.

As for Greenville, there are places named Greenville in British Columbia, Nova Scotia, Liberia, and Ireland. In the US there are Greenvilles in Alabama, California, Delaware, Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kentucky, Maine, Massachusetts, Michigan, Mississippi, Missouri, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, Ohio, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Texas, Utah, Virginia, Wisconsin, and West Virginia, in addition to this Greenville in South Carolina.

[Acajack]

Originally Posted by deja vu

Not sure if this has been done on here before... What is another city or place that shares a name with your place? Is it bigger? Smaller? Linked in any way?

1. I was surprised to read that there is a Kalamazoo in Florida, Nebraska, and West Virginia. The Florida "Kalamazoo" is 100% private property. The Nebraska and West Virginia Kalamazoos are both unincorporated communities. None have a listed population. The Florida location definitely seems linked by settlers. the Nebraska location had a destructive tornado in 1954, 26 years almost to the day before Kalamazoo Michigan had a destructive tornado.
   
   
2. There's a Grand Rapids in Minnesota, Wisconsin, Ohio, North Dakota, British Columbia, and Manitoba. The Minnesota one has the next-most-sizeable population to the one in Michigan (~ 11,200).
   
   
3. There are at least six other Detroits - in Alabama, Illinois, Kansas, Maine, Oregon, and Texas. All of them seem to have declining populations. All are less than 1,000 people. Detroit, Maine has the most, with about 800+.
   
   
4. Michigan has a lot of names synonymous with New England, but especially with places in upstate New York, due to how it was settled. For example, we have a Troy, Utica, Rochester, and (New) Buffalo. Some of them are larger than their counterparts.

There is also a place or an island off the west coast of N America (Alaska, BC?) named Chicagof. Not sure if the origins of the name have anything to do with Chicago, IL.

[Acajack]

Originally Posted by lio45

I knew Illinois had an Ottawa, just learned it has a Toronto too

There is also an Ottawa in Kansas. Which has a university, called Ottawa University. The one 10 minutes away from me is the University of Ottawa.

There are a couple of more places named Ottawa here and there, in the US, but also two in Africa: Ivory Coast and South Africa.

Not sure if there is any link to Ottawa in Canada, or if it's just a coincidence (Ottawa meaning something in the local language).

[Acajack]

There are a number of places in the world (generally very small) named for Montreal.

Those in the new world (Canada and US) are named for the city in Quebec.

Those in the old world, especially in France where there are several, but there is one in Spain and another in Syria or Jordan I think, have no relation to the big city, and were named for the meaning of the word: Montreal = Mont Réal = Mont Royal = Royal Mountain or King's Mountain.

[Acajack]

My city, Gatineau, AFAIK does not have any other places that share the name.

Gatineau is actually a surname in France, though it is not a surname here in Quebec AFAIK.

It's also the name of a niche, high end cosmetics brand based in Paris. Founded about a century ago by a lady with that name.

Our city is apparently named for a dude named Nicolas Ga(s)tineau. Yeah, like Mark Gastineau the former New York Jets player.

Gatineau the French surname probably comes from the Gâtinais, which is a historic region of France just south of Paris. The people from there were probably called the Gatineau(x).

[TimCity2000]

Originally Posted by Steely Dan

Illinois

North Chicago - chicagoland suburb
South Chicago Heights - chicagoland suburb
West Chicago - chicagoland suburb


Indiana

East Chicago - chicagoland suburb

i love that there is actually an east chicago... in indiana.

also wonder if any other city can claim suburbs bearing the 4 cardinal directions.

[Acajack]

Originally Posted by TimCity2000

i love that there is actually an east chicago... in indiana.

also wonder if any other city can claim suburbs bearing the 4 cardinal directions.

Well there is a West New York, in New Jersey, is there not?

[harryc]

Originally Posted by mousquet

You'll admit that you have to be somewhat ballsy to call yourself Paris when you're not Paris, France.
But the Texans somehow did it! There is a Paris in Texas, that's hardly a village lost in the middle of nowhere that came to our knowledge thanks to this movie.

...

Went through Paris on my honeymoon - Paris Illinois.