# 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:** 11\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![cochrane](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cochrane/32/10441_2.png) [@cochrane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cochrane)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2014, 8:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-states-have-a-city-with-another-state-name/690366/41 "2014-06-09T20:48:10Z")
> [@MrKnowItAll](#): > > 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. Interestingly enough, though, the state of Wyoming is named after the Wyoming Valley in northeastern Pennsylvania. > [@Rhiannon8404](#): > > There’s Virginia City, NV. Does that count? Not sure if you were looking for just the state name as the city name. > [@Gatopescado](#): > > That Shit-hole counts for little! An open junkyard of discarded VW’s, crappy fudge retailers and bogus haberdasheries! Feh! I say Feh! Virginia City sure went downhill after the Ponderosa went under. ---
**Author:** ![Katriona](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/katriona/32/113_2.png) [@Katriona](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Katriona)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2014, 8:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-states-have-a-city-with-another-state-name/690366/42 "2014-06-09T20:57:36Z")
> [@RickJay](#): > > 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. There’s also an Ottawa, KS. ---
**Author:** ![AncientHumanoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ancienthumanoid/32/278_2.png) [@AncientHumanoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AncientHumanoid)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2014, 9:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-states-have-a-city-with-another-state-name/690366/43 "2014-06-09T21:16:22Z")
There’s a China Grove (Doobie Brothers rock, man!) and an Orient in Texas. Texas City, Texas. That has to count for something. ---
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> [@ElvisL1ves](#): > > Ontario also has a Mississippi River. Yes, it’s just north of Ottawa. 🙂 And there’s a Toronto, Australia. There is also a wide spot in the road along Highway 48 called Virginia, Ontario. It has a Virginia Beach. ---
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> [@Hari\_Seldon](#): > > … And a Delaware County in Pennsylvania (which is not even on the river). There’s another Delaware in Ohio, which is the county seat of Delaware County, and the [birthplace of a president](https://www.flickr.com/photos/75905404@N00/2379063941/). ---
**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, 11:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-states-have-a-city-with-another-state-name/690366/46 "2014-06-09T23:06:32Z")
There’s a town called Delaware in New York also. And we have a Washington. I missed those in my previous post. So New York has Alabama, Delaware, Florida, Maine, Maryland, Ohio, Texas, Washington, and Wyoming. And we have New Connecticut and Vermontville. ---
**Author:** ![Accidental\_Martyr](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ce7236/32.png) [@Accidental\_Martyr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Accidental_Martyr)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2014, 11:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-states-have-a-city-with-another-state-name/690366/47 "2014-06-09T23:30:43Z")
> [@Desert\_Nomad](#): > > Virginia City, NV > Nevada City, CA “Nevada City, California”-Utah Phillips and Ani DiFranco https://www.youtube.com/embed/CCgiFzYgUiQ?feature=oembed&wmode=opaque ---
**Author:** ![Ludovic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ab992/32.png) [@Ludovic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ludovic)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2014, 12:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-states-have-a-city-with-another-state-name/690366/48 "2014-06-10T00:04:50Z")
> [@Little\_Nemo](#): > > 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. And if you include poetic names and/or near spellings, there’s Chili, Scotia, Albion, and Batavia, not to mention all the ancient Mediterranean city-states. ---
**Author:** ![Tom\_Tildrum](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/e95f7d/32.png) [@Tom\_Tildrum](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tom_Tildrum)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2014, 5:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-states-have-a-city-with-another-state-name/690366/49 "2014-06-10T05:23:40Z")
> [@Shagnasty](#): > > Indiana, Pennsylvania. Home of Indiana University of Pennsylvania, which is a frequent athletic rival of California University of Pennsylvania, which is located in California, Pennsylvania. ---
**Author:** ![Freddy\_the\_Pig](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/a587f6/32.png) [@Freddy\_the\_Pig](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Freddy_the_Pig)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2014, 8:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-states-have-a-city-with-another-state-name/690366/50 "2014-06-10T20:05:18Z")
> [@Tom\_Tildrum](#): > > Home of Indiana University of Pennsylvania, which is a frequent athletic rival of California University of Pennsylvania, which is located in California, Pennsylvania. A game between Indiana University-Purdue University of Indianapolis and Indiana University of Pennsylvania would pretty much have the I’s, U’s, and P’s covered. ---
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There is a Onalaska in Wisconsin [QUOTE=wikipedia] The name for the city comes from the poem, “The Pleasures of Hope”, by the Scottish poet Thomas Campbell. The original spelling of the name in Campbell’s poem was “Oonalaska” (an Aleutian island and fishing village). [/QUOTE] Brian [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-states-have-a-city-with-another-state-name/690366.md?page=2)