# Interesting Subdivision Street Name Themes **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [November 28, 2009, 5:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/interesting-subdivision-street-name-themes/519256 "2009-11-28T17:54:47Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Ellen\_Cherry](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ellen_cherry/32/3600_2.png) [@Ellen\_Cherry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ellen_Cherry)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2009, 2:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/interesting-subdivision-street-name-themes/519256/21 "2009-11-29T02:46:24Z")
> [@runner pat](#): > > Several _Star Trek:TNG_ themed streets including [Warp Drive.](http://maps.google.com/maps?q=warp+drive+turlock,+ca&oe=utf-8&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a&um=1&ie=UTF-8&hq=&hnear=Warp+Dr,+Turlock,+CA+95380&gl=us&ei=290RS-mVBIm1lAeG2OWYBA&sa=X&oi=geocode_result&ct=title&resnum=1&ved=0CAgQ8gEwAA) Ooo this is my favorite! Oh to live at the corner of Crusher and Picard! ---
**Author:** ![whiterabbit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/cab0a1/32.png) [@whiterabbit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/whiterabbit)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2009, 2:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/interesting-subdivision-street-name-themes/519256/22 "2009-11-29T02:58:47Z")
How could they do that and misspell Riker??? HERETICS! [inner Trekkie geek]I want to live in that neighborhood![/inner Trekkie geek] ---
**Author:** ![Typo\_Knig](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/cdc98d/32.png) [@Typo\_Knig](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Typo_Knig)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2009, 5:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/interesting-subdivision-street-name-themes/519256/23 "2009-11-29T05:01:55Z")
A neighborhood near me named Camelot, with appropriate street names. But I noticed that Guinevere Dr intersects with Launcelot Way, but does not intersect with King Arthur Rd … :dubious: Stupidest one IMNSHO is a street named “Sir Viceroy Drive” :rolleyes: ---
**Author:** ![GrizzRich](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/7ba0ec/32.png) [@GrizzRich](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GrizzRich)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2009, 6:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/interesting-subdivision-street-name-themes/519256/24 "2009-11-29T06:01:32Z")
I’m now a resident of Palm Coast, FL Here, the neighborhoods are grouped together by a common first letter of the alphabet. It’s not uncommon for conversation to have the phrase “We live in the “P” (or “R” or “S” or “W” or any of a number of other letters) section.” I do find it funny that there is a neighborhood full of street names begging with the letter “C”. (C-Section…get it?) ---
**Author:** ![Robot\_Arm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/robot_arm/32/18280_2.png) [@Robot\_Arm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Robot_Arm)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2009, 6:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/interesting-subdivision-street-name-themes/519256/25 "2009-11-29T06:06:33Z")
In my neighborhood, the streets were all named for gemstones. I grew up on the corner of Ruby and Citrine. > [@Typo\_Knig](#): > > A neighborhood near me named Camelot, with appropriate street names. But I noticed that Guinevere Dr intersects with Launcelot Way, but does not intersect with King Arthur Rd … :dubious: I went to a shopping mall once where the various parking areas were named after animals. I parked in Camel Lot. ---
**Author:** ![ZipperJJ](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zipperjj/32/211_2.png) [@ZipperJJ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ZipperJJ)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2009, 6:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/interesting-subdivision-street-name-themes/519256/26 "2009-11-29T06:14:02Z")
Would any of you let street name dictate where you will or won’t buy a house? I honestly cannot see myself wanting to live on Miss Muffet Lane…ever. Now, Crusher or Picard - definitely. And I’m not even a Trekkie! 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Colibri](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/colibri/32/1841_2.png) [@Colibri](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colibri)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2009, 6:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/interesting-subdivision-street-name-themes/519256/27 "2009-11-29T06:38:47Z")
There’s a small section of the northeast Bronx where all the streets have names related to electricity: Watt, Ohm, Ampere, Radio Drive, Research Avenue. The land was donated to the city by a storage battery company in the early 1900s. ---
**Author:** ![Waterman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/b2d939/32.png) [@Waterman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Waterman)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2009, 7:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/interesting-subdivision-street-name-themes/519256/28 "2009-11-29T07:26:40Z")
Many of the streets and public parks in Richland are named after the principle scientists and military personnel associated with the Manhatten Project (for the uninitiated Richland became a government owned City in 1942 to provide housing for the Hanford site. It reverted to private ownership in 1958). There is, among others, Lesley Groves Park! BTW - the first high school in Richland has the unique name of Richland Bombers with the school insignia being a “mushroom cloud”. ---
**Author:** ![EvilTOJ](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ee59a6/32.png) [@EvilTOJ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EvilTOJ)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2009, 7:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/interesting-subdivision-street-name-themes/519256/29 "2009-11-29T07:49:10Z")
Park City, UT (of infamous Winter Olympics 2002) has a Picabo St. My GF’s auntie lives on Drury Ln. I asked here where the muffin man was, she had no idea what I was talking about. Many downtown Portland, OR streets are named after Simpson’s characters. Before you break out the pitchforks, I realize it’s the other way around, I’m just trying to get a rise out of you. ---
**Author:** ![Haunted\_Pasta](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/94ad74/32.png) [@Haunted\_Pasta](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Haunted_Pasta)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2009, 9:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/interesting-subdivision-street-name-themes/519256/30 "2009-11-29T09:15:56Z")
The subdivision of the subdivision I grew up in had streets named for 19th-century American authors and poets. I remember Poe, Stevenson, Longfellow, Masefield, and Thackeray. You could do worse, I guess. I always thought it was weird that there was no Emerson, though. Speaking of death by drollery, my current neighborhood includes Cattle Drive. ---
**Author:** ![brujaja](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/4af34b/32.png) [@brujaja](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/brujaja)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2009, 9:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/interesting-subdivision-street-name-themes/519256/31 "2009-11-29T09:49:40Z")
There’s a neighborhood of short streets and alleys in San Francisco which are named after Barbary Coast-era prostitutes, including Isis and Minna. ---
**Author:** ![LouisB](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/dfb087/32.png) [@LouisB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LouisB)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2009, 9:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/interesting-subdivision-street-name-themes/519256/32 "2009-11-29T09:59:34Z")
> [@None\_of\_the\_above](#): > > Sterling Heights, Michigan, has a subdivision named after cigarette brands (Camel, Pall Mall, Winston, etc.). Same thing in south Dallas; at least there used to be. ---
**Author:** ![Sophistry\_and\_Illusion](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b3f665/32.png) [@Sophistry\_and\_Illusion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sophistry_and_Illusion)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2009, 10:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/interesting-subdivision-street-name-themes/519256/33 "2009-11-29T10:20:01Z")
[Here in North Dallas](http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&geocode=&q=aladdin+drive,+dallas,+tx&sll=32.893228,-96.846886&sspn=0.010324,0.026114&ie=UTF8&hq=&hnear=Aladdin+Dr,+Dallas,+Texas+75229&ll=32.896687,-96.843688&spn=0.010324,0.026114&z=16)near where I grew up there are a bunch of Disney-themed streets–Peter Pan, Snow White, Cinderella, Aladdin, Pinocchio, etc. [In Highland Park](http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&geocode=&q=colgate+avenue,+dallas,+tx&sll=37.0625,-95.677068&sspn=39.780156,106.962891&ie=UTF8&hq=&hnear=Colgate+Ave,+Dallas,+Texas+75225&z=15), there is a series of university-themed streets–Colgate, Purdue, Stanford, Amherst, Bryn Mawr, etc. ---
**Author:** ![fisha](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/da6949/32.png) [@fisha](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fisha)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2009, 1:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/interesting-subdivision-street-name-themes/519256/34 "2009-11-29T13:53:31Z")
> [@Harriet\_the\_Spry](#): > > Cottage Grove, MN had the bright idea to name streets in subdivisions based on the nearest county road, which is named for a letter. So between County Roads I and J, you have all I names (I remember Inskip as particularly ridiculous), then you start in on the Js. This has the really unfortunate consequence of all the street names sounding very similar. Actually that goes all the way to I=35, and maybe a little west of it. Lakeville is absurd in the naming of streets to keep with the "I or “J” theme. Better is the street names in Ramsey, MN. Iodine, Tungsten, Potassium, Krypton, Fluoride, Neon, etc. They are alphabetical as well. ---
**Author:** ![don\_t\_ask](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e68b1a/32.png) [@don\_t\_ask](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/don_t_ask)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2009, 2:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/interesting-subdivision-street-name-themes/519256/35 "2009-11-29T14:01:25Z")
Once a week on my way home I drive along Station Street and on my right I pass Perry Street then turn right into Smith Street. ---
**Author:** ![Avarie537](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/48db29/32.png) [@Avarie537](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Avarie537)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2009, 3:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/interesting-subdivision-street-name-themes/519256/36 "2009-11-29T15:12:56Z")
> [@ZipperJJ](#): > > \*\*Would any of you let street name dictate where you will or won’t buy a house? \*\* > I honestly cannot see myself wanting to live on Miss Muffet Lane…ever. Now, Crusher or Picard - definitely. And I’m not even a Trekkie! 😃 Absolutely … one neighborhood over from us is Liberty Creek, and one of the main streets is Pillory Lane. Immediately took those off the list! ---
**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:** [November 29, 2009, 4:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/interesting-subdivision-street-name-themes/519256/37 "2009-11-29T16:13:52Z")
I had a friend in Anchorage who lived on Galactica. It was just off of Enterprise. Honest. ---
**Author:** ![janeslogin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/df788c/32.png) [@janeslogin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/janeslogin)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2009, 6:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/interesting-subdivision-street-name-themes/519256/38 "2009-11-29T18:25:49Z")
My favorite was an area outside some city that was about to be incorporated against the owners wishes so they named all the streets with name like “Keepa Way”, “Goa Way”, “Staya Way” etc. I was in Nevada when I heard about it but I don’t remember where the situation was nor did I ever lean if they were allowed to keep their names. ---
**Author:** ![Argent\_Towers](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e8c25b/32.png) [@Argent\_Towers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Argent_Towers)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2009, 6:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/interesting-subdivision-street-name-themes/519256/39 "2009-11-29T18:31:14Z")
My girlfriend’s aunt and uncle live in one of those private golf-course/development things. The streets are all just named after golf terms. The one they live on is “Hole in One Road.” ---
**Author:** ![rjk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/ed655f/32.png) [@rjk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rjk)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2009, 6:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/interesting-subdivision-street-name-themes/519256/40 "2009-11-29T18:33:56Z")
**Zyada** and I live in a bird subdivision. I have nothing interesting, but she used to live in an Indian section (including a very short street named “Ute”). The best she lived in was [an aromatic neighbourhood](http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&geocode=&q=sage+ln,+euless,+tx&sll=32.874451,-97.077298&sspn=0.008164,0.013797&ie=UTF8&hq=&hnear=Sage+Ln,+Euless,+Tarrant,+Texas+76039&ll=32.875983,-97.076182&spn=0.008164,0.013797&z=16). [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/interesting-subdivision-street-name-themes/519256.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/interesting-subdivision-street-name-themes/519256.md?page=3)