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

[Desert_Nomad]

I’ve been to all of them in Nevada:

1. Las Vegas - 589,317
2. Henderson - 260,068
3. Reno - 227,511
4. North Las Vegas - 219,020
5. Sparks - 91,195
6. Carson City - 55,439
7. Fernley - 19,327
8. Elko - 18,546
9. Mesquite - 15,423
10. Boulder City - 15,166
11. Fallon - 8,522
12. Winnemucca - 7,489
13. West Wendover - 4,472
14. Ely - 4,288
15. Yerington - 3,041
16. Carlin - 2,400
17. Lovelock - 1,881
18. Wells - 1,309
19. Caliente - 1,123
20. (We don’t have 20 cities)

I have also been to Jean, population zero, zipcode 89019. How many other states have real towns with a functioning courthouse and post office with zero population?

Jean, Nevada

[Ludovic]

1 Jacksonville 823316 – bowling tournament
2 Miami 408568 – a concert, plus family wanted to go to beach but was raining
3 Tampa 335709 – go to Hard Rock casino all the time
4 St. Petersburg 244818 – went to beach occasionally
5 Orlando 239037 – used to live there
6 Hialeah 225461 – nope
7 Tallahassee 181376 – been though, don’t think I’ve ever visited
8 Fort Lauderdale 166039 – I’m sure I’ve been there as a child although it may have been Boca
9 Port St. Lucie 165153 – nope
10 Pembroke Pines 155252 – May have gone to a wedding there
11 Cape Coral 154668 – I’m counting this because I know I’ve been to Ft Myers which isn’t on the list
12 Hollywood 141202 – Hard Rock.
13 Gainesville 124433 – Stayed there before my ultramarathon
14 Miramar 122438 – What’s up with all these suburbs of Miami? geesh
15 Coral Springs 121492 – umm, did you hear me
16 Clearwater 107697 – visited a friend there
17 Miami Gardens 107559 – OMG you can’t be serious, stop that!
18 Palm Bay 103225 – I live there. There is no there there. It should positively not count as a city, let alone the 18th largest. There isn’t even a downtown. Even though Melbourne is smaller I always think of Palm Bay as a suburb of Melbourne since it actually has a downtown.
19 West Palm Beach 100175
20 Pompano Beach 100154

So, 12. I’ve probably been to a few more suburbs of miami but who really knows?

[astorian]

@lieu

In Texas, living here for this long and the work and vacationing I do mean I had to go to #37, San Angelo, to have a miss. In fact, I’m 66/67 and will need a bigger list.

See, now I HAVE been to San Angelo!

[gigi]

I’m sure I’ve driven through a number of them, but to actually stop and do something, a handful.

1 Manchester, New Hampshire 109,565 Yep
2 Nashua, New Hampshire 86,494 Yep
3 Concord, New Hampshire 42,695 Yep
4 Derry, New Hampshire 33,109
5 Dover, New Hampshire 29,987
6 Rochester, New Hampshire 29,752
7 Salem, New Hampshire 28,776
8 Merrimack, New Hampshire 25,494 Yep
9 Hudson, New Hampshire 24,467
10 Londonderry, New Hampshire 24,129
11 Keene, New Hampshire 23,409
12 Portsmouth, New Hampshire 21,233 Yep
13 Bedford, New Hampshire 21,203
14 Goffstown, New Hampshire 17,651
15 Laconia, New Hampshire 15,951
16 Milford, New Hampshire 15,115
17 Hampton, New Hampshire 14,976
18 Durham, New Hampshire 14,638
19 Exeter, New Hampshire 14,306
20 Windham, New Hampshire 13,592

[penultima_thule]

@HeyHomie

Most Populous Cities in Illinois

1 Sydney, NSW 3,502,301
2 Newcastle, NSW 279,975
3 Central Coast, NSW 255,429
4 Wollongong, NSW 228,846
5 Maitland, NSW 53,470
6 Tweed Heads, NSW 45,024
7 Wagga Wagga, NSW 44,451
8 Albury, NSW 42,148
9 Port Macquarie, NSW 37,982
10 Tamworth, NSW 32,543
11 Orange, NSW 31,970
12 Dubbo, NSW 30,937
13 Queanbeyan, NSW 29,928
14 Lismore, NSW 27,358
15 Bathurst, NSW 27,036
16 Coffs Harbour, NSW 26,083
17 Richmond, NSW 25,889
18 Windsor, NSW 25,889
19 Bomaderry, NSW 24,765
20 Nowra, NSW 24,765

20/20

Apart from Broken Hill #23 have been to all of the top 50.

[bibliophage]

Maine. Looks like I’ve been to 17 of the 20 most populous municipalities, including all of the top 13. I’m not sure they’re all technically cities. I’ve never been to Bath or Caribou, but I’ve been within five miles of each. I’ve never been closer than 20 miles from Rockland.

Portland yes
Lewiston yes
Bangor yes
South Portland yes
Auburn yes
Biddeford yes
Sanford yes
Augusta yes
Saco yes
Westbrook yes
Waterville yes
Presque Isle yes
Brewer yes
Bath no
Caribou no
Old Town yes
Ellsworth yes
Rockland no
Belfast yes
Gardiner yes

[penultima_thule]

@kambuckta

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

You might (just) squeeze Mildura into that list as well

[Siam_Sam]

Grew up in Texas:

Houston: Yes
San Antonio: Yes
Dallas: Yes
Austin: Yes
Fort Worth: Yes
El Paso: Yes
Arlington: Yes
Corpus Christi: Yes
Plano: Yes
Laredo: No
Lubbock: Yes
Garland: Yes
Irving: Yes
Amarillo: Yes
Grand Prairie: Yes
Brownsville: No
Pasadena: Yes
Mesquite: No
McKinney: No
McAllen: No

That’s 15 out of 20 or 75%. And nine of the top 10 or 90%.
I lived in Albuquerque for a while, and of the top 20 in New Mexico:

Albuquerque: Yes (duh)
Las Cruces: Yes
Rio Rancho: No
Santa Fe: Yes
Roswell: Yes
Farmington: Yes
South Valley: Yes
Clovis: Yes
Hobbs: Yes
Alamogordo: Yes
Carlsbad: Yes
Gallup: Yes
Los Alamos: Yes
Deming: Yes
Los Lunas: Yes
Chaparral: No
Sunland Park: No
Las Vegas: Yes
Portales: Yes
North Valley: Yes

That’s 17 of 20 or 85%. Again, nine of the top 10 or 90%.
And then there was my time in Honolulu. The top 20 in Hawaii:

Honolulu
East Honolulu
Pearl City
Hilo
Kailua
Waipahu
Kaneohe
Mililani Town
Kahului
Ewa Gentry
Mililani Mauka
Kihei
Makakilo
Wahiawa
Schofield Barracks
Wailuku
Kapolei
Ewa Beach
Royal Kunia
Halawa

Yes to all for 100%.

[Gatopescado]

I’ve been to all three! And one of them only counts ‘cause it has "City’ in its name!

[standingwave]

@amarinth

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.

It’s a new city, just ten years old. I90 east of Spoksne bisects it so you may have driven through it.

[kambuckta]

@penultima_thule

You might (just) squeeze Mildura into that list as well

Yer’ right! :smack:

[aceplace57]

Top 20? 20 large cities don’t exist in Arkansas. We barely can produce a top 4 over 75k.
been to the top 7 cities. Never visited Rogers

Little Rock includes the Little Rock Metropolitan Area. Quite a few different communities. So really Little Rock is more like three-quarters of a million.

Little Rock is the capital and the largest city of the U.S. state of Arkansas. The Metropolitan Statistical Area (MSA) had a population of 724,385 people in the 2013 census estimate. The MSA is included in the Little Rock-North Little Rock, AR Combined Statistical Area, which had a population of 898,683 in the 2013 census estimate. As of the 2010 US Census, Little Rock had a city proper population of 193,524.[1][2] It is the county seat of Pulaski County.

Arkansas (USA): State, Major Cities, Towns & Places - Population...

1 Little Rock 197,357
2 Fort Smith 87,650
3 Fayetteville 78,960
4 Springdale 75,229
5 Jonesboro 71,551
6 North Little Rock 66,075
7 Conway 63,816
8 Rogers 60,112

[Ellen_Cherry]

@It_s_Not_Rocket_Surgery

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.

You know what? I suck. I retyped a list from here and I omitted Paducah and Georgetown.

The good news is, I’ve been to both places, a bazillion times.

(Do you live here now?)

[Qadgop_the_Mercotan]

@Desert_Nomad

I have also been to Jean, population zero, zipcode 89019.

The Mrs. and I have been to Jean, too. Nice buffet at the casino. Didn’t know the whole Population Zero at the time. Thanks for the fun fact!

[RachelChristine]

I’m in WV. Our biggest city, Charleston, has just over 50,000 people. It quickly drops from there. By the time you get to number 6 you are below 20,000.

Charleston YES
Huntington YES
Parkersburg YES
Wheeling YES
Morgantown YES
Weirton NO
Fairmont YES
Beckley YES
Clarksburg YES
Martinsburg NO
South Charleston YES
Teays Valley YES
St. Albans YES
Vienna I don’t even know where this is!
Bluefield YES
Shepherdstown NO
Cross Lanes YES
Moundsville Driven through it
Bridgeport YES
Cheat Lake NO

If I keep going I also hit #21, 23, 24, 25, 26, and 27, which is as far as the list I found goes.

Oddly the website I found (city-data) listed the place where I grew up, Pea Ridge, with 6,650 residents. The thing is, Pea Ridge isn’t a city, town, village, anything. It’s two roads (and their offshoots) in an unincorporated area. No matter which ridge you live on, your address is considered Huntington. If people consider Pea Ridge anything, they usually think of it as Barboursville, since it’s right outside the village limits.
I just looked it up and it is called a “census-designated place”. Cool!

Now I’ll go figure out where my own unincorporated community ranks (although we do have a post office!)

[Sahirrnee]

@FairyChatMom

From the 2010 census:

I’m not sure how Maryland defines “city” or “town” because Waldorf, which is home to all the big box stores and the mall and a lot of apartments and other businesses in this part of the state, doesn’t show up on the list. Same with Lexington Park, home of a large Naval Air Station.

I would never have thought MD had 20 ‘cities’.
So I’ll copy your list.

Baltimore city - Yes
Frederick city - Yes
Rockville city - Yes
Gaithersburg city - Yes
Bowie city - Yes
Hagerstown city - Yes
Annapolis city - Yes
College Park city - No
Salisbury city - Yes - if you count driving through it on the way to the ocean
Laurel city - Yes
Greenbelt city - No
Cumberland city - Yes
Westminster city - Yes
Hyattsville city - No
Takoma Park city - Yes
Easton town - Yes
Elkton town - Yes
Aberdeen city - Yes
Havre de Grace city - Yes
Cambridge city - Yes

[Doctor_Jackson]

1 Atlanta
2 Augusta
3 Columbus
4 Savannah
5 Athens
6 Sandy Springs
7 Roswell
8 Macon
9 Johns Creek
10 Albany
11 Warner Robins
12 Alpharetta
13 Marietta
14 Valdosta
15 Smyrna
16 Dunwoody
17 Rome
18 East Point
19 Milton
20 Gainesville

I have been to all except Milton, one of GA’s newer cities. I have probably been through there, but had no reason to stop…

[susan]

I’d like to point out that while Wikipedia lists 242 cities in Oregon, the 242nd has a population of 0.

**1 Portland
2 Salem
3 Eugene **
4 Gresham
5 Hillsboro
6 Beaverton
7 Bend
8 Medford
9 Springfield
10 Corvallis
11 Albany
12 Tigard
13 Lake Oswego
14 Keizer
15 Grants Pass
16 Oregon City
17 McMinnville
18 Redmond
19 Tualatin
20 West Linn

Woo! Road trip to Gresham and West Lynn!

[standingwave]

@susan

I’d like to point out that while Wikipedia lists 242 cities in Oregon, the 242nd has a population of 0.

Salute!

[Jonathan_Chance]

South Carolina

[ol]
[li]Columbia - Yes[/li][li]Charleston - Yes[/li][li]North Charleston - Yes[/li][li]Mount Pleasant - Yes[/li][li]Rock Hill - Yes[/li][li]Greenville - Yes[/li][li]Summerville - Yes[/li][li]Sumter - Yes[/li][li]Hilton Head Island - Yes[/li][li]Spartanburg - Yes[/li][li]Florence - Yes[/li][li]Goose Creek - Yes[/li][li]Aiken - Yes[/li][li]Myrtle Beach - Yes[/li][li]Anderson - No[/li][li]Greer - No[/li][li]Mauldin - No[/li][li]Greenwood - No[/li][li]North Augusta - Yes[/li][li]Easley - No[/li][/ol]

Down to #15 for a miss. But having a kid in competitive, state level gymnastics will do that to you.