# How many states have a city with another state name? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [June 9, 2014, 12:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-states-have-a-city-with-another-state-name/690366 "2014-06-09T00:00:02Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**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 9, 2014, 4:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-states-have-a-city-with-another-state-name/690366/21 "2014-06-09T04:11:39Z")
Well damn. I just checked the next least likely, the sparsely populated Wyoming. They don’t seem to have one either. At this point, I’m giving up and going to bed. ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2014, 4:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-states-have-a-city-with-another-state-name/690366/22 "2014-06-09T04:39:49Z")
There’s apparently no towns named after other states in Rhode Island. But there is a [Carolina](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carolina,_Rhode_Island). ---
**Author:** ![Gatopescado](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gatopescado/32/5711_2.png) [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2014, 4:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-states-have-a-city-with-another-state-name/690366/23 "2014-06-09T04:53:37Z")
> [@Rhiannon8404](#): > > There’s Virginia City, NV. Does that count? That Shit-hole counts for little! An open junkyard of discarded VW’s, crappy fudge retailers and bogus haberdasheries! Feh! I say Feh! On a related topic: Goddamn, a lot of states have a “Douglas” County! ---
**Author:** ![Desert\_Nomad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/desert_nomad/32/177_2.png) [@Desert\_Nomad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Desert_Nomad)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2014, 5:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-states-have-a-city-with-another-state-name/690366/24 "2014-06-09T05:08:38Z")
Virginia City, NV Nevada City, CA ---
**Author:** ![Siam\_Sam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d78d45/32.png) [@Siam\_Sam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siam_Sam)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2014, 5:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-states-have-a-city-with-another-state-name/690366/25 "2014-06-09T05:35:45Z")
> [@Cognoscant](#): > > And where do Texarkana and Kanorado fit in? Not to mention [Texico](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Texico,_New_Mexico), on the Texas-New Mexico line. (Apparently Texico is all in New Mexico, with the town called Farwell on the Texas side.) ---
**Author:** ![Gatopescado](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gatopescado/32/5711_2.png) [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2014, 5:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-states-have-a-city-with-another-state-name/690366/26 "2014-06-09T05:37:57Z")
> [@Desert\_Nomad](#): > > Virginia City, NV > Nevada City, CA _“Can you help me to find Nevada, California?”_ - **The Jayhawks** off _Hollywood Town Hall_ Damn good album! ---
**Author:** ![Hari\_Seldon](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hari_seldon/32/5173_2.png) [@Hari\_Seldon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hari_Seldon)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2014, 11:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-states-have-a-city-with-another-state-name/690366/27 "2014-06-09T11:57:46Z")
There is an Ontario in California. And a Delaware County in Pennsylvania (which is not even on the river). ---
**Author:** ![ElvisL1ves](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/5daacb/32.png) [@ElvisL1ves](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ElvisL1ves)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2014, 12:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-states-have-a-city-with-another-state-name/690366/28 "2014-06-09T12:41:01Z")
Calexico, California abuts Mexicali, Mexico. That has to count for something. ---
**Author:** ![BobLibDem](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/boblibdem/32/3149_2.png) [@BobLibDem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BobLibDem)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2014, 12:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-states-have-a-city-with-another-state-name/690366/29 "2014-06-09T12:57:05Z")
There’s Michigan City, Indiana. Actually probably named more for the lake than for their superior neighbors to the north. ---
**Author:** ![Doyle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/doyle/32/439_2.png) [@Doyle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Doyle)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2014, 2:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-states-have-a-city-with-another-state-name/690366/30 "2014-06-09T14:22:42Z")
> [@mbh](#): > > 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](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nevada_(Kur%C5%A1umlija)) There’s also an[Iowa, LA](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iowa,_Louisiana). ---
**Author:** ![lieu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c2a13f/32.png) [@lieu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lieu)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2014, 2:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-states-have-a-city-with-another-state-name/690366/31 "2014-06-09T14:24:11Z")
There’s an Onalaska, TX, which makes me wonder what there were _on_ to name this flat, sweltering place that. ---
**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 9, 2014, 2:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-states-have-a-city-with-another-state-name/690366/32 "2014-06-09T14:39:00Z")
> [@MrKnowItAll](#): > > 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. The closest Alaska comes is a town named Honolulu. ---
**Author:** ![robert\_columbia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e79b87/32.png) [@robert\_columbia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/robert_columbia)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2014, 2:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-states-have-a-city-with-another-state-name/690366/33 "2014-06-09T14:46:22Z")
I have been to California, Maryland. I know there is a Washington, Virginia, but I don’t think I’ve been there. ---
**Author:** ![RickJay](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/bb73d2/32.png) [@RickJay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RickJay)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2014, 3:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-states-have-a-city-with-another-state-name/690366/34 "2014-06-09T15:56:23Z")
> [@Cognoscant](#): > > It’s not exactly the same thing but there’s a Toronto, Ohio which always made me laugh. There’s also an Ottawa, Ohio, just a bit west of Findlay off I-75. Nice little town. Ottawa, OH is named after the Ottawa River, as is Ottawa, Ontario, but they are not the same Ottawa Rivers. Once would assume they got their names from the same Algonquian word. Conversely, Toronto, Ohio was actually named after Toronto, Ontario on purpose. Then you have the various Ontarios, the most famous of which outside Ontario, Ontario is certainly Ontario, California, inland of LA. It, too, is deliberately named after the Canadian original. The original founders were from Ontario, and so started another Ontario. ---
**Author:** ![ElvisL1ves](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/5daacb/32.png) [@ElvisL1ves](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ElvisL1ves)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2014, 4:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-states-have-a-city-with-another-state-name/690366/35 "2014-06-09T16:02:47Z")
Ontario also has a Mississippi River. ---
**Author:** ![ElvisL1ves](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/5daacb/32.png) [@ElvisL1ves](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ElvisL1ves)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2014, 4:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-states-have-a-city-with-another-state-name/690366/36 "2014-06-09T16:04:15Z")
> [@Chefguy](#): > > The closest Alaska comes is a town named Honolulu. I suppose Aloha, Oregon doesn’t quite count. ---
**Author:** ![John\_Bredin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/96bed5/32.png) [@John\_Bredin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_Bredin)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2014, 6:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-states-have-a-city-with-another-state-name/690366/37 "2014-06-09T18:34:11Z")
In Illinois we’ve got Oregon and Ohio for cities/villages (in addition to those named above), and we’ve got townships named Maine, Missouri, Pennsylvania, Tennessee, Texas, Vermont, and Virginia. Lots of [townships](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Illinois_townships), so lots of townships to be named. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Ludovic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ab992/32.png) [@Ludovic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ludovic)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2014, 6:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-states-have-a-city-with-another-state-name/690366/38 "2014-06-09T18:53:35Z")
Alaska should count since it has Unalaska, which to me reads like _every_ other state _except_ Alaska 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Kimballkid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/b5a626/32.png) [@Kimballkid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kimballkid)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2014, 7:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-states-have-a-city-with-another-state-name/690366/39 "2014-06-09T19:43:13Z")
Dakota City, Nebraska and Dakota City, Iowa And since we’re going that way: Toronto, South Dakota ---
**Author:** ![Lsura](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7993a0/32.png) [@Lsura](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lsura)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2014, 8:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-states-have-a-city-with-another-state-name/690366/40 "2014-06-09T20:24:08Z")
[Iowa, Louisiana](https://maps.google.com/maps?q=Iowa,+LA&hl=en&ll=30.238677,-93.014116&spn=0.049385,0.090895&sll=30.236874,-93.013761&sspn=0.049386,0.090895&t=h&hnear=Iowa,+Calcasieu+Parish,+Louisiana&z=14) (it’s pronounced differently from the state, but I don’t remember the pronunciation) [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-states-have-a-city-with-another-state-name/690366.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-states-have-a-city-with-another-state-name/690366.md?page=3)