I don’t recall hearing of Gilbert, AZ before now, so that was mine.
Also, as a lifelong LA native, I find the number of SoCal locations people have never heard of to be kind of amusing, but there ya go.
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Henderson, NV, #71
#71 Henderson, Nevada. That may as well be made up; I’ve never heard of it.
I know it mostly from Hohokam Park, where the Cubs host their spring training games.
I tapped out at #42 Virginia Beach, VA. Perhaps somewhere in my mind I’ve heard of it – looking at the map, I know Newport News, VA, which is next door – but I can’t think of any other reason to know Virginia Beach.
After that, I get tripped up at #47 Bakersfield, CA, and again at #63 Stockton, CA.
I’m surprised at the number of people that have never heard of Aurora or Virginia Beach, but then I’ve been to both.
Bakersfield, CA, home of the Onion Field Killings.
And damn expensive convenience store sodas.
Santa Ana for me, too. I thought “Santa Ana” referred to just mountains and the wind they cause.
LSLGuy, Warren is one of the innermost suburbs of Detroit. Very working class, for the most part.
Fremont, Calif. (#104).
Isn’t it Jacksonville, FL?
58, Aurora, CO.
Aurora, Colorado? Where the heck is that city hiding?
I will say that the only time’s I’ve heard of Mesa, Arizona, are in various articles assuring me that it’s the largest American city I’ve never heard of.
I opened this thread bracing for the moment someone mentioned the town where I was born and raised. Growing up there, you’re inundated with home town boosterism: we’re important! Center of the technological revolution! More people than San Francisco! Oh, how I miss San Jose.
To address the St. Louis v. Omaha point, I went to undergrad there, and I can report that even the residents of St. Louis County (which is the suburbs) say they are from St. Louis. The fact that the city boundary ends at Skinker is of no matter to anyone, except that the road surface quality gets better and the bars close earlier. (Of course, the balkinization of municipalities in the Eastern Missouri area has led to an enormous amount of inefficiencies, but that’s neither here nor there.)
I’ve always heard it to be Jacksonville, FL but it wouldn’t surprise me to find it’s some godforsaken location in Alaska.
I think that’s correct. Without bothering to try to find it right now, I think I’ve read, maybe on this board, that it is something like Fairbanks or Anchorage, some Alaskan city whose legal boundaries extend for hundreds of miles.
What! Do you not read my posts, or just not read my location? 
- Riverside, CA for me. My wife recognized everything until 94. Gilbert, AZ; she worked for many years in collections & called people all over the country.
There’s only one real ‘pop’ operation in Plano, buddy. 
That is correct - the entirety of Duval County was incorporated as the city of Jacksonville for some reason that nobody quite understands.
39 Mesa Arizona. Only missed a couple more in the top 100. It strikes me that you can really live anonymously in the US. 273 cities of over 100,000 people. Take your pick and get lost. And I suppose lots of them are just political divisions in an endless stretch of urban centers that have 3M+.
Up here in Canada, you’ve got about 20 places maybe where you can really go unnoticed if you want. Go ahead, try to be invisible in number 100, Pembroke Ontario, population 23,000. The mob/cops/ex-wife will track you down by noon.
To look bigger on maps.
(I think it must’ve worked to some degree. How else could they have landed an NFL franchise?)