# Cities With State Names: Any Others? **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [September 8, 2015, 2:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cities-with-state-names-any-others/730335 "2015-09-08T14:35:33Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 18\ **Page:** 6
**Author:** ![gigi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a587f6/32.png) [@gigi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gigi)\ **Post date:** [September 11, 2015, 4:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cities-with-state-names-any-others/730335/101 "2015-09-11T04:16:14Z")
> [@Bullitt](#): > > Not a city or town, so, sorry it doesn’t count. I did find Wyoming Valley in Kirby Park. Wyoming Valley, near Wilkes-Barre. > > Map: [Google Maps](https://goo.gl/maps/2uUMT) > > Hey that rhymes. What rhymes? ---
**Author:** ![dtilque](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/d6d6ee/32.png) [@dtilque](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dtilque)\ **Post date:** [September 11, 2015, 4:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cities-with-state-names-any-others/730335/102 "2015-09-11T04:53:23Z")
> [@Bullitt](#): > > Studying this for all of six minutes, there are civil townships and survey townships. The township of Upper Darby, PA has some 80,000 people. And yet some of those Iowa Townships are probably sparsely populated. All of them in Iowa will be unless there happens to be one or more towns in them. (They’re large enough to have several small towns in each.) But those towns will have their own names, which may or may not be the same as the township. Except for the east coast, townships in the US are all survey townships. I think Maine also has survey townships. One of the reasons I didn’t count them was that one of my main references (Rand McNally Commercial Atlas) listed them in italics, as if they weren’t in the same category as real towns. And I could see that most of them weren’t. > [@](#): > > I’m to Missouri now and I’ve found these: > . When you’re done with Wikipedia, go over to the [Board on Geographic Names](http://geonames.usgs.gov/) site and do searches on their database. You’ll find a lot of places not in Wikipedia. This was the other of my two main references. ---
**Author:** ![dtilque](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/d6d6ee/32.png) [@dtilque](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dtilque)\ **Post date:** [September 11, 2015, 7:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cities-with-state-names-any-others/730335/103 "2015-09-11T07:14:47Z")
Just one more thing: Someone above mentioned Texarkana, that being a portmanteau of three states’ names. There’s actually a whole bunch of such blends (most of only two states, though) and here’s a page with them all: [Stateline Portmanteaus](http://usends.com/Explore/Portmanteaus/index.html) ---
**Author:** ![Bullitt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bullitt/32/5725_2.png) [@Bullitt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bullitt)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2015, 3:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cities-with-state-names-any-others/730335/104 "2015-09-12T15:22:58Z")
> [@gigi](#): > > What rhymes? Valley rhymes with Barre. ---
**Author:** ![Bullitt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bullitt/32/5725_2.png) [@Bullitt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bullitt)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2015, 3:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cities-with-state-names-any-others/730335/105 "2015-09-12T15:25:48Z")
> [@buddha\_david](#): > > What about street names? For instance, there’s a Los Angeles Ave. in Ventura, and a Ventura Blvd. in Los Angeles. 🙂 Yeah, funny. That would take us into the tens of thousands. With just state names as cities / towns / places (not counties) we’re certainly into the hundreds, at least. ---
**Author:** ![snowmaster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e99b99/32.png) [@snowmaster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/snowmaster)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2015, 12:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cities-with-state-names-any-others/730335/106 "2015-09-13T00:29:16Z")
There’s also a Florida, MA and Washington, NH ---
**Author:** ![Mark\_Finn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/34f0e0/32.png) [@Mark\_Finn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mark_Finn)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2021, 2:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cities-with-state-names-any-others/730335/107 "2021-02-15T14:20:53Z")
I was about to start a new thread, but then I noticed this one from 6 years ago, so here’s an update. Cross-border cities: Ontario CA Ontario IA Ontario IL Ontario IN Ontario KS Ontario NY Ontario OH Ontario OK Ontario OR Ontario PA Ontario VA Ontario WI (also one in Spain and one in Peru) Quebec CT Quebec LA Quebec MT Quebec NC Quebec TX Quebec VA New Brunswick IN New Brunswick NJ Alberta AL Alberta KY Alberta LA Alberta MI Alberta MN Alberta MO Alberta VA (also one in Sweden, and one in DR Congo) Newfoundland KY Newfoundland NC Newfoundland NJ Newfoundland PA ---
**Author:** ![bibliophage](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bibliophage/32/7615_2.png) [@bibliophage](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bibliophage)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2021, 3:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cities-with-state-names-any-others/730335/108 "2021-02-15T15:00:55Z")
Not a city, but there is a Borough of Wyoming and a Borough of West Wyoming in Pennsylvania. Also cities named Wyoming in Illinois, Iowa, and Ohio that I didn’t see listed above, and a town in Delaware called Wyoming. ---
**Author:** ![Hari\_Seldon](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hari_seldon/32/5173_2.png) [@Hari\_Seldon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hari_Seldon)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2021, 3:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cities-with-state-names-any-others/730335/109 "2021-02-15T15:35:25Z")
Not cities, but there are four **counties** in PA that have the same name as states: Delaware, Indiana, Washington, and Wyoming. ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2021, 3:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cities-with-state-names-any-others/730335/110 "2021-02-15T15:47:48Z")
> [@bibliophage](#): > > Not a city, but there is a Borough of Wyoming and a Borough of West Wyoming in Pennsylvania. Also cities named Wyoming in Illinois, Iowa, and Ohio that I didn’t see listed above, and a town in Delaware called Wyoming. There’s a village of Wyoming in New York, which is in Wyoming County. There are also two towns called Florida in New York. ---
**Author:** ![slash2k](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/439d5e/32.png) [@slash2k](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/slash2k)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2021, 4:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cities-with-state-names-any-others/730335/111 "2021-02-15T16:33:46Z")
> [@dtilque](#): > > Except for the east coast, townships in the US are all survey townships. I think Maine also has survey townships. This is an old post, but it is incorrect. Most states in the western US have both civil townships and survey townships. Survey townships are geographic units based on the Public Land Survey System, so generally six miles square (with correcting sections in some townships to account for the earth’s curvature). Civil townships are units of government, often charged with activities such as road maintenance. They may overlap, but don’t necessarily do so. For example, Sherman County in western Kansas is one of the counties whose boundaries were drawn with a ruler: it is five survey townships north-south by six east-west, so 30 survey townships. However, it contains just 13 civil townships, none of them contiguous with a survey township. (A map of the recently-extant civil townships is available at the [Kansas Historical Society’s website](https://www.kshs.org/geog/geog_counties/view/county:SH), including Iowa Township. However, that township, with a 2010 population of 31 people, is no longer an active unit of government and its powers have reverted to the county. Other civil townships in the county, such as Voltaire, remain active [for certain definitions of active; the Voltaire Township treasurer’s race in the 2020 election attracted only four votes, all write-ins].) ---
**Author:** ![Marvin\_the\_Martian](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/marvin_the_martian/32/2898_2.png) [@Marvin\_the\_Martian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marvin_the_Martian)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2021, 6:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cities-with-state-names-any-others/730335/112 "2021-02-15T18:05:55Z")
Delaware City, DE was missed when this zombie was still alive. ---
**Author:** ![dtilque](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/d6d6ee/32.png) [@dtilque](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dtilque)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2021, 8:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cities-with-state-names-any-others/730335/113 "2021-02-15T20:17:01Z")
> [@slash2k](#): > > > [@dtilque](#): > > > > Except for the east coast, townships in the US are all survey townships. I think Maine also has survey townships. > > This is an old post, but it is incorrect. My only defense is that I was young and foolish at the time. > [@dtilque](#): > > Someone above mentioned Texarkana, that being a portmanteau of three states’ names. There’s actually a whole bunch of such blends (most of only two states, though) and here’s a page with them all: [Stateline Portmanteaus](http://usends.com/Explore/Portmanteaus/index.html) That link to stateline portmanteaus has been dead for quite some time. Instead, I’ll point to a Wikilist I compiled in the years since: > **[List of geographic portmanteaus | Towns, villages, and localities](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_geographic_portmanteaus#Towns,_villages,_and_localities)** > > § This symbol marks localities with no current population; some of them never had any population. ---
**Author:** ![Loach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/loach/32/350_2.png) [@Loach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Loach)\ **Post date:** [February 16, 2021, 7:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cities-with-state-names-any-others/730335/114 "2021-02-16T07:32:08Z")
Well I’m counting townships because in New Jersey we have what I guess you are calling civil townships. The township is what the mayor is in charge of. Any “towns” within the township are really just historical sections. We have multiple townships that over or around 100,000 in population. I don’t know if it was missed I missed it. We have six Washingtons in New Jersey. All in different counties. There were seven not too long ago but they voted to change it to Robbinsville which was the name of one of the sections. ---
**Author:** ![Senegoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/senegoid/32/6606_2.png) [@Senegoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Senegoid)\ **Post date:** [February 16, 2021, 8:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cities-with-state-names-any-others/730335/115 "2021-02-16T08:13:07Z")
> [@Hari\_Seldon](#): > > Not cities, but there are four **counties** in PA that have the same name as states: Delaware, Indiana, Washington, and Wyoming. Oh, so we’re doing counties now? There’s Nevada County (the seat of which is Nevada City), CA. ---
**Author:** ![Snowboarder\_Bo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snowboarder_bo/32/229_2.png) [@Snowboarder\_Bo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snowboarder_Bo)\ **Post date:** [February 16, 2021, 8:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cities-with-state-names-any-others/730335/116 "2021-02-16T08:18:40Z")
[Florida City, FL](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Florida_City,_Florida) ---
**Author:** ![Hari\_Seldon](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hari_seldon/32/5173_2.png) [@Hari\_Seldon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hari_Seldon)\ **Post date:** [February 16, 2021, 3:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cities-with-state-names-any-others/730335/117 "2021-02-16T15:55:55Z")
> [@Colibri](#): > > As a bit of trivia, although it’s not a US example, the only city I know in which the city name, next highest political unit, and country name are identical is the city of Panama, in the province of Panama, in the Republic of Panama. (The name of the city is actually just “Panama,” rather than Ciudad Panama or other variant.) Here is another example. The high German name of Switzerland is Schweiz, but the Swiss German name is Schwyz. one of the Cantons is also named Schwyz and the capital city is also Schwyz. So Schwyz, Schwyz, Schwyz. That canton is one of the “Four Forest Cantons” on which the entire country was founded and who gave its name to the country. ---
**Author:** ![zimaane](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/a3d4f5/32.png) [@zimaane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zimaane)\ **Post date:** [February 16, 2021, 8:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cities-with-state-names-any-others/730335/118 "2021-02-16T20:10:00Z")
There is a Maryland City, Maryland. It’s not an incorporated city, but it is a Census-designated place. > **[Maryland City, Maryland](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maryland_City,_Maryland)** > > Pages for logged out editors learn more > > Maryland City is a census-designated place (CDP) in Anne Arundel County, Maryland, United States. The population was 16,093 at the 2010 census. It is located east of Laurel, just over the border with Prince George's County, and it has a Laurel ZIP Code. Maryland City mostly consists of an older, compact housing development and is adjacent to Fort Meade army base. A large newer development (built mid-1990s) on the north side of Maryland Route 198 ... [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cities-with-state-names-any-others/730335.md?page=5)