# How Many of the 20 Largest Cities in Your State Have You Been To? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [June 5, 2014, 1:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-of-the-20-largest-cities-in-your-state-have-you-been-to/690116 "2014-06-05T13:52:21Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 6
**Author:** ![wolfman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/a8b319/32.png) [@wolfman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wolfman)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2014, 7:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-of-the-20-largest-cities-in-your-state-have-you-been-to/690116/101 "2014-06-06T19:41:23Z")
> [@](#): > > 1 Detroit Wayne 1,027,974 951,270 713,777 > 2 Grand Rapids Kent 189,673 197,800 188,040 > 3 Warren Macomb 145,080 138,247 134,056 > 4 Sterling Heights Macomb 117,814 124,471 129,699 > 5 Lansing Eaton & Ingham 127,321 119,128 114,297 > 6 Ann Arbor Washtenaw 109,592 114,024 113,934 > 7 Flint Genesee 141,367 124,943 102,434 > 8 Dearborn Wayne 89,119 97,775 98,153 > 9 Livonia Wayne 100,864 100,545 96,942 > > 12 Westland Wayne 84,457 86,602 84,094 > 13 Troy Oakland 72,884 80,957 80,980 > 14 Farmington Hills Oakland 74,611 82,111 79,740 > > 16 Kalamazoo Kalamazoo 80,290 77,145 74,262 > > 18 Wyoming Kent 63,672 69,385 72,125 > 19 Southfield Oakland 75,706 78,296 71,739 > > 21 Rochester Hills Oakland 61,884 68,853 70,995 > > 23 Taylor Wayne 70,809 65,868 63,131 > 24 St. Clair Shores Macomb 68,300 63,096 59,715 > 25 Pontiac Oakland 71,136 67,561 59,515 > 26 Dearborn Heights Wayne 60,720 58,264 57,774 Oddly the only one I havn’t been to is the Capitol, Lansing. I have actually lived or worked in 10 of the top 25 ---
**Author:** ![OneCentStamp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/13edae/32.png) [@OneCentStamp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OneCentStamp)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2014, 9:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-of-the-20-largest-cities-in-your-state-have-you-been-to/690116/102 "2014-06-06T21:48:02Z")
20 cities down the list in Utah gets you pretty darned small. Salt Lake City - 186440 West Valley City - 129480 Provo - 112488 West Jordan - 103712 Orem - 88328 Sandy - 87461 Ogden - 82825 St. George - 72897 Layton - 67311 Taylorsville - 58652 South Jordan - 50418 Logan - 48174 Lehi - 47407 Murray - 46746 Bountiful - 42552 Draper - 42274 Riverton - 38753 Roy - 36884 Spanish Fork - 34691 And I’ve been to all twenty. With the exceptions of Logan and St. George, they’re all within at most an hour’s drive of each other, clustered closely in three main metro areas. ---
**Author:** ![standingwave](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9de0a6/32.png) [@standingwave](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/standingwave)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2014, 12:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-of-the-20-largest-cities-in-your-state-have-you-been-to/690116/103 "2014-06-07T00:03:57Z")
> [@susan](#): > > Woo! Road trip to Gresham and West Lynn! I don’t even live in Oregon but I broke down in Gresham once, ---
**Author:** ![Mona\_Lott](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ee7513/32.png) [@Mona\_Lott](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mona_Lott)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2014, 2:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-of-the-20-largest-cities-in-your-state-have-you-been-to/690116/104 "2014-06-07T02:57:39Z")
Idaho **Boise** **Nampa** **Meridian** Idaho Falls Pocatello **Caldwell** **Coeur d’Alene** Twin Falls **Lewiston** **Post Falls** Rexburg **Moscow** **Eagle** **Kuna** Mountain Home Chubbuck Ammon **Hayden** Blackfoot **Garden City** Obviously, I’ve never been east of Boise. ] ---
**Author:** ![Reeses\_Monkey](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/reeses_monkey/32/2885_2.png) [@Reeses\_Monkey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Reeses_Monkey)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2014, 3:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-of-the-20-largest-cities-in-your-state-have-you-been-to/690116/105 "2014-06-07T03:29:39Z")
Pennsylvania (which, by the way, is a Commonwealth.) 1 x Philadelphia 2 x Pittsburgh 3 Allentown 4 x Erie 5 Reading 6 Scranton 7 Bethlehem 8 x Lancaster 9 Harrisburg 10 Altoona 11 York 12 State College 13 Wilkes-Barre 14 Chester 15 Williamsport 16 Easton 17 Lebanon 18 Hazleton 19 x New Castle 20 x Johnstown This last one surprises me greatly because I now live there and it’s not really all that big. ---
**Author:** ![as\_u\_wish](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/6f9a4e/32.png) [@as\_u\_wish](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/as_u_wish)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2014, 4:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-of-the-20-largest-cities-in-your-state-have-you-been-to/690116/106 "2014-06-07T04:33:14Z")
Wisconsin. I had fun with this. I’ve been to all of the top 20; the first one I can’t be sure of is Franklin (a Milwaukee suburb), coming in at 22nd. So much fun, I decided to check all cities above 10,000. Of these 85 cities, I have been to all but 7. Not bad for a California transplant. 🙂 1 Milwaukee 594,833 2 Madison 233,209 3 Green Bay 104,057 4 Kenosha 99,218 5 Racine 78,860 6 Appleton 72,623 7 Waukesha 70,718 8 Oshkosh 66,083 9 Eau Claire 65,883 10 Janesville 63,575 11 West Allis 60,411 12 La Crosse 51,320 13 Sheboygan 49,288 14 Wauwatosa 46,396 15 Fond du Lac 43,021 16 New Berlin 39,584 17 Wausau 39,106 18 Brookfield 37,920 19 Beloit 36,966 20 Greenfield 36,720 21 Menomonee Falls **22 Franklin 35,451 \*\* - Not Sure 23 Oak Creek 34,451 24 Manitowoc 33,736 25 West Bend 31,078 26 Sun Prairie 29,364 27 Superior 27,244 28 Stevens Point 26,717 29 Mount Pleasant 26,197 30 Neenah 25,501 24,507 31 Fitchburg 25,260 32 Caledonia 24,705 33 Muskego 24,135 34 Watertown 23,861 35 De Pere 23,800 36 Mequon 23,132 37 South Milwaukee 21,156 38 Germantown 19,749 39 Pleasant Prairie 19,719 40 Marshfield 19,118 41 Wisconsin Rapids 18,367 42 Cudahy 18,267** - NO\*\* 43 Onalaska 17,736 44 Middleton 17,442 45 Howard 17,399 46 Menasha 47 Ashwaubenon 16,963 48 Menomonie 16,264 49 Beaver Dam 16,214 50 Oconomowoc 15,759 51 Kaukauna 15,462 52 River Falls 15, 53 Weston 14,868 54 Bellevue 14,570 55 Whitewater 14,390 56 Hartford 14,223 57 Whitefish Bay 14,110 58 Greendale 14,046 **59 Allouez 13,975** \*\* - NO\*\* 60 Chippewa Falls **61 Pewaukee 13,195** \*\* - NO\*\* 62 Shorewood 13,162 63 Glendale 12,872 64 Hudson 12,719 65 Stoughton 12,611 66 Fort Atkinson 12,368 67 Plover 12,123 68 Waunakee 12,097 69 Baraboo 12,048 **70 Brown Deer 11,999 - NO** 71 Two Rivers 11,712 72 Grafton 11,459 **73 Cedarburg 11,412 \*\*\*\* - NO** **74 Suamico 11,346 \*\*\*\* - NO** 75 Waupun 11,340 76 Port Washington 11,250 77 Platteville 11,224 78 Marinette 10,968 79 Monroe 10,827 80 Verona 10,619 **81 Sussex 10,518** \*\* - NO\*\* 82 Burlington 10,464 83 Little Chute 10,449 84 Portage 10,324 85 Elkhorn 10,084 ---
**Author:** ![Student\_Driver](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/3da27b/32.png) [@Student\_Driver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Student_Driver)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2014, 1:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-of-the-20-largest-cities-in-your-state-have-you-been-to/690116/107 "2014-06-07T13:05:26Z")
Indiana here. 1 Indianapolis: born here, currently live here 2 Fort Wayne: drove through, maybe stopped for food 3 Evansville: once 4 South Bend: no 5 Carmel: used to visit a lot in the laserdisc days because of a store there 6 Bloomington: a few times 7 Fishers: yes 8 Hammond: yes, usually on my way into or out of Chicago 9 Gary: drove through, stopped for gas once. Won’t be doing that again, I hope. 10 Muncie: yes, for concerts 11 Lafayette: yes, including one trip simply so a friend could get a peanut butter burger 12 Terre Haute: don’t think so 13 Kokomo: no 14 Anderson: yes 15 Noblesville: yes, it’s the location of the largest outdoor amphitheater in the state, so tons of concerts 16 Greenwood: lived there for nearly 20 years 17 Elkhart: no 18 Mishawaka: no 19 Lawrence : yes, family lives there 20 Jeffersonville: housed there for almost 10 weeks for a jury ---
**Author:** ![Beware\_of\_Doug](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/278dde/32.png) [@Beware\_of\_Doug](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beware_of_Doug)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2014, 9:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-of-the-20-largest-cities-in-your-state-have-you-been-to/690116/108 "2014-06-07T21:00:09Z")
Iowa: 1 Des Moines (yes) 2 Cedar Rapids (yes) 3 Davenport (yes) 4 Sioux City (yes) 5 Waterloo (yes) 6 Iowa City (yes) 7 Council Bluffs (no) 8 Ames (live here) 9 Dubuque (yes) 10 West Des Moines (yes) 11 Ankeny (yes) 12 Urbandale (yes) 13 Cedar Falls (yes) 14 Marion (no) 15 Bettendorf (yes) 16 Mason City (yes) 17 Marshalltown (yes) 18 Clinton (no) 19 Burlington (no) 20 Fort Dodge (yes) 16/20 ---
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2014, 10:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-of-the-20-largest-cities-in-your-state-have-you-been-to/690116/109 "2014-06-07T22:39:26Z")
For Oregon: Portland Eugene Salem Gresham Hillsboro Beaverton Bend Medford Springfield Corvallis Albany Tigard Lake Oswego Keizer Grants Pass McMinnville Oregon City Redmond Tualatin West Linn All of them. For Alaska: Anchorage Fairbanks Juneau Sitka Ketchikan Wasilla Kenai Kodiak Bethel Palmer Homer Unalaska Barrow Soldotna Valdez Nome Kotzebue Petersburg Seward Wrangell All but Bethel and Unalaska. ---
**Author:** ![Cognoscant](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/bbe5ce/32.png) [@Cognoscant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cognoscant)\ **Post date:** [June 8, 2014, 12:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-of-the-20-largest-cities-in-your-state-have-you-been-to/690116/110 "2014-06-08T00:59:42Z")
I haven’t lived in Pennsylvania in decades and I have been to every one of those 20 cities. Good lord. ---
**Author:** ![Cognoscant](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/bbe5ce/32.png) [@Cognoscant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cognoscant)\ **Post date:** [June 8, 2014, 1:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-of-the-20-largest-cities-in-your-state-have-you-been-to/690116/111 "2014-06-08T01:06:29Z")
Oh and by the way, if Hialeah really is the sixth - largest city in Florida they must be counting warehouses as people. I see more of those than anything else there. ---
**Author:** ![Nars\_Glinley](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/nars_glinley/32/8177_2.png) [@Nars\_Glinley](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nars_Glinley)\ **Post date:** [June 8, 2014, 3:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-of-the-20-largest-cities-in-your-state-have-you-been-to/690116/112 "2014-06-08T03:22:50Z")
I won’t bore you with the list but I had to go down to the 48th city in Oklahoma. (Sallisaw - population 8,880) ---
**Author:** ![pulykamell](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pulykamell/32/3166_2.png) [@pulykamell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pulykamell)\ **Post date:** [June 8, 2014, 8:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-of-the-20-largest-cities-in-your-state-have-you-been-to/690116/113 "2014-06-08T20:27:05Z")
> [@HeyHomie](#): > > Cicero: Unlikely; it’s in a part of the Chicago 'burbs that’s best avoided Nah. Cicero has a reputation, but it’s not that bad. I used to go to it regularly when the restaurant Xni-Pec was there, but there’s still several eating and drinking establishments that are worth visiting, especially Freddy’s, and I’m a big fan of the Czech scene at Klas. I find myself more often next door at Berwyn these days, but Cicero still has some things worth visiting. Cicero’s crime rate isn’t all that bad–certainly much better than Chicago’s, and better than a few nearby suburbs like North Riverside, Forest View, Forest Park, etc. ---
**Author:** ![campp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c5a1d2/32.png) [@campp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/campp)\ **Post date:** [June 8, 2014, 8:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-of-the-20-largest-cities-in-your-state-have-you-been-to/690116/114 "2014-06-08T20:32:04Z")
Arizona for me, been here on and off most of my life. All of them except #18 and #20, both of those being retirement enclaves off the path. ---
**Author:** ![campp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c5a1d2/32.png) [@campp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/campp)\ **Post date:** [June 8, 2014, 8:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-of-the-20-largest-cities-in-your-state-have-you-been-to/690116/115 "2014-06-08T20:33:48Z")
Lived in Idaho for three years, and have all but Chubbuck Ammon, 18 out of 20 there. ---
**Author:** ![campp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c5a1d2/32.png) [@campp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/campp)\ **Post date:** [June 8, 2014, 8:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-of-the-20-largest-cities-in-your-state-have-you-been-to/690116/116 "2014-06-08T20:36:38Z")
Lived in Washington 8 years, and looks like I have 19 out of 20 there. -Whew- I’m out of states. ---
**Author:** ![MrKnowItAll](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mrknowitall/32/87_2.png) [@MrKnowItAll](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrKnowItAll)\ **Post date:** [June 8, 2014, 10:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-of-the-20-largest-cities-in-your-state-have-you-been-to/690116/117 "2014-06-08T22:55:50Z")
Thanks bartleby, for putting together the list. Ohio: Columbus - Y Cleveland - Y Cincinnati - Y Toledo - N Akron - N Dayton - Y Parma - N Canton - Y Youngstown - N Lorain - N Hamilton - Y Springfield - N Kettering - Y Elyria - N Lakewood - N Cuyahoga Falls - Y Euclid - N Middletown - N Mansfield - N Newark - N Previously, I lived in Kentucky, and still work there. Thanks to Ellen Cherry for this list: Louisville Y Lexington Y Bowling Green Y Owensboro N Covington Y Hopkinsville N Richmond Y Florence Y Henderson N Elizabethtown Y Nicholasville Y Jeffersontown N Frankfort N Independence Y Radcliff N Ashland Y Madisonville N Winchester Y I was disappointed that Morehead didn’t make the top 20 cut. Not surprised, but disappointed. ---
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New York City - Yes Buffalo - Yes Rochester - Yes Yonkers - Yes Syracuse - Yes Albany - Yes New Rochelle - Yes Cheektowaga - No Mount Vernon - Passed through on highway Schenectady - Passed through on highway Utica - No White Plains - Yes Hempstead - Yes Irondequoit - No Troy - Passed through on highway Niagara Falls - Yes Binghamton - Yes West Seneca - No Freeport - Yes Valley Stream - Yes ---
**Author:** ![jtur88](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e9c0ed/32.png) [@jtur88](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jtur88)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2014, 4:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-of-the-20-largest-cities-in-your-state-have-you-been-to/690116/119 "2014-06-10T04:30:05Z")
Texas, all of them, but in many, I just sailed past the interstate exit ramps. ---
**Author:** ![Lord\_Feldon](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lord_feldon/32/341_2.png) [@Lord\_Feldon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lord_Feldon)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2014, 5:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-of-the-20-largest-cities-in-your-state-have-you-been-to/690116/120 "2014-06-10T05:28:39Z")
Ohio: Columbus - Yes Cleveland - Yes Cincinnati - Yes Toledo - Yes Akron - Yes Dayton - No Parma - No Canton - Yes Youngstown - No Lorain - Yes Hamilton - Yes Springfield - Yes Kettering - No Elyria - Yes Lakewood - No Cuyahoga Falls - Yes Euclid - Yes Middletown - No Mansfield - Yes Newark - Yes [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-of-the-20-largest-cities-in-your-state-have-you-been-to/690116.md?page=5) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-of-the-20-largest-cities-in-your-state-have-you-been-to/690116.md?page=7)