How Many of the 20 Largest Cities in Your State Have You Been To?

In My Humble Opinion
61

I have visited 100% of the cities in my administrative boundary.

But I live in DC so I don’t think it counts. :slight_smile:

62

Been to the top 33 in Wisconsin, but didn’t get to #34, Watertown.

63

In my state (New South Wales), it’s going to depend on what you mean by a “city”. The most restrictive list has only 21 places, and I’ve been to all of them except Lithgow and Orange (unless going through the city by car or train counts).

64

Milwaukee - Y
Madison - Y
Green Bay - Y
Kenosha - Y (I think as a kid)
Racine - Y (I think as a kid)
Appleton - Y
Waukesha - N (except driving through)
Oshkosh - Y
Eau Claire - Y
West Allis - Y
Janesville - Y
La Crosse - N
Sheboygan - Y
Wauwatosa - N
Fond du Lac - Y
Brookfield - Y
Wausau - Y
New Berlin - N
Beloit - Y
Greenfield - Y

65

I don’t miss one until number 25.

Just to post the top 20 cities in Colorado;
Denver 600,158 Yes
ColoradoSprings 416,427 Yes
Aurora 325,078 Yes
Fort Collins 143,986 Yes
Lakewood 142,980 Yes
Thornton 118,772 Yes
Arvada 106,433 Yes
Westminster 106,114 Yes
Pueblo 106,595 Yes
Centennial 100,377 Yes
Boulder 97,385 Yes
Greeley 92,889 Yes
Longmont 86,270 Yes
Loveland 66,859 Yes
Grand Junction 58,566 Yes
Broomfield 55,889 Yes
Castle Rock 48,231 Yes
Commerce City 45,913 Yes
Parker 45,297 Yes
Littleton 41,73 Yes

66

This is certainly true for New Mexico (adjusted downward; our largest city isn’t even a million unless we steal the actual, statutory, designated city of Rio Rancho). Wikipedia resorts to calling their list a “List of populated places in New Mexico,” and they list Albuquerque’s North and South Valleys separately as “Census-designated places” even though they’re within the city limits in every sense.

At any rate, our actual cities (and “cities”) of over 10,000 people are:

Albuquerque
Las Cruces
Rio Rancho
Santa Fe
Roswell
Farmington
Clovis
Hobbs
Alamogordo
Carlsbad
Gallup
Los Alamos
Deming
Los Lunas
Sunland Park
Las Vegas
Portales
Artesia
Lovington
Silver City
Espanola

I’ve been to all of them. Come to think of it, looking over the Wikipedia list, I’ve been to almost all the places that are on it. We used to get in the car and just drive, back in the pre-kids days.

67

Where is this list from? It should have Paducah and Georgetown.

I lived in Kentucky for 5 years, then 7 years. I’ve been to all of these thanks to work travel.

68

If you count driving, I’ve been through all of them. I was sticking to places I had stopped.

69

Ohio 16 out of 20 for me.

Columbus - Y
Cleveland - Y
Cincinnati - Y
Toledo - Y
Akron - Y
Dayton - Y
Parma - Y
Canton - Y
Youngstown - Y
Lorain - Y
Hamilton - N
Springfield - N
Kettering - N
Elyria - Y
Lakewood - Y
Cuyahoga Falls - Y
Euclid - Y
Middletown - N
Mansfield - Y
Newark - Y

70

It helps that a few years ago I made an effort to go everywhere in the state and see the whole thing. It also helps that the biggest three counties (with most of the largest cities) are the one I live in, the one directly to the south and the one directly to the north.

But #11 Spokane Valley. I may have driven through it going in or out of Spokane, but I’ve never been there. I didn’t even know it existed. The next highest one I’ve not been to is #63 Sunnyside.

71

Michigan: Looks like 11 of the top 20, although it’s hard to say if I’ve been in a couple more of the cities just North of Detroit. They kind of run together.
Detroit
Grand Rapids
Warren
Lansing
Ann Arbor
Dearborn
Livonia
Westland
Kalamazoo
Rochester Hills
Pontiac

Here’s the list of cities (discarding townships from this list), for any other Michiganians:
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

72

There might be areas called that within the city limits too, but the South Valley and North Valley CDPs are not in the city limits (or at least they weren’t in 2010). By definition, a census-designated place is an unincorporated area.

73

In Victoria, Australia, there aren’t 20 ‘cities’! I consider a city to have a central business district and suburbs (that have a different name to the city). Using that criteria, there’s five, and I’ve been to all of them.

Melbourne
Geelong
Bendigo
Ballarat
Wodonga

There are plenty of towns that call themselves cities (eg, Benalla, Wangaratta, Traralgon) but they’re dreamin’. :smiley: I’ve been to all of THEM too.

74

Connecticut only has 21 incorporated cities, and only 5 with populations over 100,000. I’ve definitely been to the top 20 and actually done something in it not just passed through. I’m not 100% positive exactly where the 21st, Winstead (population 7321), is without consulting a map. It’s someplace in the northwest of the state, though I couldn’t put my finger on it in an unlabeled map so I don’t know if I’ve driven through it or not. However, given the size of CT, it’s likely.

75

Based on this list, I have been to or through every single one of them. In some cases, I’m not proud of that (I’m looking at you, Fresno.)

76

The list on wikipedia includes Waldorf, but only has 10 entries.

I live in Towson, which I imagine doesn’t show up on the lists because it’s unincorporated, but based on population would rank fifth.

To be fair some states don’t have room for 20. Has anyone from Delaware chimed in yet? Rhode Island?

For the record, I’ve been to 11 on FairyChatMom’s Maryland List

77

I’ve been to all of the top 20 cities of Minnesota, but since 15 of the 20 are suburbs of the Twin Cities, I’ve assembled a more interesting list of the top 20 non-suburb cities. Number in parentheses is the overall rank including suburbs.

  1. (1) Minneapolis: Yes
  2. (2) St. Paul: Yes
  3. (3) Rochester: Yes
  4. (4) Duluth: Yes
  5. (8) St. Cloud: Yes
  6. (21) Mankato: Yes
  7. (23) Moorhead: Yes
  8. (32) Winona: Yes
  9. (36) Owatonna: Yes
  10. (37) Austin: No
  11. (44) Faribault: Yes
  12. (45) Elk River: Yes
  13. (48) Hastings: No
  14. (54) Northfield: Yes
  15. (57) Willmar: Yes
  16. (60) Stillwater: Yes
  17. (62) Albert Lea: Yes
  18. (65) Red Wing: Yes
  19. (66) Hibbing: No
  20. (68) Buffalo: Yes

Using kambuckta’s criteria, which I totally agree with, only Minneapolis, St. Paul, Rochester, Duluth, St. Cloud, Mankato, Moorhead and Winona would be considered cities. Alternately, Moorhead could be considered a suburb of Fargo.

78

As I live in the Australian Capital Territory, I have been to its only city. In fact I’m in it now.

For NSW, I’ve been to 17 of the 21 in the list that Giles linked to, missing Lithgow, Armidale, Broken Hill and Tamworth.

79

It’s something to watch while stuck in traffic between KC and StL.:smiley:

80

For certain values of city…

Saskatchewan

Saskatoon 222,035 Yes
Regina 192,756 Yes
Prince Albert 35,552 Yes
Moose Jaw 33,617 Yes
North Battleford 17,595 Yes
Yorkton 15,795 Yes
Swift Current 15,503 Yes
Estevan 11,054 Yes
Weyburn 10,484 Yes
Lloydminster 9,772 (27k if you include the Alberta side of town) Yes
Martensville 7,716 Yes
Warman 7,084 Yes
La Ronge 5,905 No
Humboldt 5,678 Yes
Melfort 5,576 Yes
Meadow Lake 5,045 Yes
Kindersley 4,678 Yes
Melville 4,517 No
Nipawin 4,330 No
Tisdale 3,185 Yes

17/20.