What rhymes?
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.
When you’re done with Wikipedia, go over to the Board on Geographic Names 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.
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
Valley rhymes with Barre.
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.
There’s also a Florida, MA and Washington, NH
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
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.
Not cities, but there are four counties in PA that have the same name as states: Delaware, Indiana, Washington, and 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.
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, 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].)
Delaware City, DE was missed when this zombie was still alive.
My only defense is that I was young and foolish at the time.
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:
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.
Oh, so we’re doing counties now? There’s Nevada County (the seat of which is Nevada City), CA.
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.
There is a Maryland City, Maryland. It’s not an incorporated city, but it is a Census-designated place.