I think that covers it. I’m talking about a place like Virginia, Minnesota. I’m assuming that there must be a number of places with a city called Washington because of ol’ George. There is also Owyhee, OR, named for the old spelling of Hawaii.I’m having trouble coming up with any others.
Indiana, Pennsylvania. I have an extended family member that lives there. The confusion it causes during conversations with strangers and customer service people knows no bounds.
Here is the whole list in case you just want a comprehensive list. There are a lot (113) of them in total in the U.S. It sounds like a nice gesture or a cool coincidence but I think it causes enough problems in daily life to warrant a name change to help everyone out, especially the residents of those places.
There’s Virginia City, NV. Does that count? Not sure if you were looking for just the state name as the city name.
Oregon has Ontario, which is something like a state.
Florida, Massachusetts.
California, Pennsylvania.
Missouri, Texas (suburb of Houston).
There are Kansas cities in Alabama, Illinois, Ohio, Oklahoma; and a Kansasville, Wisconsin.
Texas, NJ, NY, WV, WI
Texas City, IL, TX
Arizona Township, Nebraska
Arizona, Manitoba
Virginia, CA, IL, MN, Nebraska
California, KY, MD, MI, MO, PA
Nevada, IN, Iowa, MO, OH, TX, and one in Serbia Nevada, Serbia - Wikipedia
That site has some omissions, provided we’re allowed some leeway in interpreting the question. I found…
New Hampshire, Ohio
Arizona Township, Nebraska
Arkansas, West Virginia
Illinois Township, Arkansas
Idaho Springs, Colorado
Michigan, West Virginia
Minnesota Junction, Wisconsin
Missouri City, Texas
Wisconsin Township, Minnesota
Also, my Delorme atlas has a place called New Connecticut, New York, which is in the town of Newark Valley in Tioga County.
Kansas City, MO
New York has towns named Alabama, Florida, Maine, Maryland, Ohio, and Wyoming.
We also have a surprising number of towns that have the same names as countries: Angola, Columbia, Cuba, Greece, Holland, Italy, Jamaica, Lebanon, Malta, Mexico, Norway, Panama, Persia, Peru, Poland, Russia, and Sweden.
Here’s a trivia note. Texas, New York is a hamlet located in the town of Mexico.
So in New York, Texas is still legally part of Mexico.
My DeLorme atlas for Minnesota has a dot named “West Virginia”, which is (surprise, surprise) just west of Virginia. I may actually have driven through West Virginia MN once or twice about 15 or 20 years ago but I didn’t notice it if I did.
In addition to Kansas city, Missouri also has California, Louisiana, Maryland (Heights), Mexico, Nevada, and Washington.
It’s not exactly the same thing but there’s a Toronto, Ohio which always made me laugh.
And where do Texarkana and Kanorado fit in?
Pretty sure there’s an Oregon, Wisconsin, but they pronounce it ‘ory-GON’.
Does Washington County, Maine count?
Ohio includes the cities of Texas and Oregon (the latter is substantial)
Wyoming, Michigan (suburb of Grand Rapids)
Georgia has a Washington County, and a city named Washington (in Wilkes County.) Both are named for the man, not the state, though - both predate the founding of the state of Washington. And there’s a tiny town named Jersey.
To make up for the dearth of other state names, however, we have Athens, Rome, Cairo (pronounced KAY-row,) Turin, Sparta, Vienna(VIE-ee-nuh ,) Damascus, Berlin, Kingston, Hamilton, Geneva, Culloden, and Avalon.
Then there are the incorporated towns of Gay, Climax, and Cumming! Not to mention Between, Santa Claus, Newborn, plus Enigma and Riddleville. (And some fun little unincorporated communities, including Bugtussle, K’ville, and Hopeulikit.)
I would guess just about all of them. Possibly Hawai’i and Alaska don’t since much of both of them use native language names. But I bet the rest of them do.
A quick check of Wikipedia confirms that neither Hawaii or Alaska has any cites with the same name as another state, at least not that they list. The closest is St. George, Alaska.
So I revise my estimate to say that the other 48 probably do.