There’s also Upper & Lower Merion, Upper & Lower Moreland, & Upper & Lower Salford, as well as an Upper but no Lower Dublin
There’s also one in Bucks, which makes a Springfield Township in three of the four counties surrounding Philadelphia.
And near Westhampton and Southampton. No plain “Hampton”, though.
New Jersey has Upper Saddle River, which is both north and upriver of Saddle River.
New Jersey also has a Lower Township, a Middle Township and an Upper Township. Between those three townships they cover most of the land in Cape May County.
That’s the one I opened the thread to mention. You beat me to it!
I can see why you would believe it to be separate towns; other than the Landing, each are had it’s own Square-North has Bicknell Square, East has Jackson Square, South is Colombian Square. Each, including the Landing, with their own Post Office.
I was disappointed to see the Base close in 1995, I rather enjoyed hearing the planes come and go. I also enjoyed meeting kids from other states while attending school.
And Hampton, VA is even further away.
And Bristol, CT is a long way from Bristol, TN where the motor speedway is. But Bristol, VA is directly adjacent to Bristol, TN: one city straddling a state line.
Interesting. My eldest had problems with the local kids at school, and my impression of local people was that they tolerated the base, but weren’t happy with it; something about a drunk military man who years earlier had struck and killed a local. My only real complaint about the place was the really crappy on-base housing.
Plattsburgh NY still retains its “h”.
Are periods discouraged in US place names - e.g. St. Albans VT (or many other “saintly” places)?
Not officially, but lots of people have stopped using periods on abbreviations in recent times. It wasn’t something people did when the Board on Geographic Names first began (1894). They stopped doing the truncation of -burgh and -borough long ago and even have let a number of places revert to their original spelling.
North Carolina has Wilkesboro, population 3687, and North Wilkesboro, population 4382. Neither is particularly big, but North Wilkesboro is the larger community. Its claim to fame is that it was the birthplace of Lowe’s Home Improvement and former location of its corporate headquarters, and it’s considered one of the birthplaces of NASCAR. Regular Wilkesboro still gets to be the county seat.
One I coincidentally saw the other day. In Vermont there’s:
Brattleboro, a town (New England definition)
West Brattleboro, a CDP
Brattleboro, another CDP that’s basically the populated area of Bratteboro
Achiet-le-Petit is a village 13 miles S. of Arras, France. (pop. 310)
Achiet-le-Grand (pop. 965) is about a mile E. of it. Both were fought over. Twenty Years After, a magazine about the WW1 battlefields published in the 1930s, subsequently turned into three books, noted that Achiet-le-Petit was actually bigger than Achiet-le-Grand, but a century later that seems to have been reversed.
That was the example I came to contribute. I’ve been there. You can see the partition because once you cross into Utah, all the casinos dry up.
That reminds me of West Yellowstone, MT.
There was a line in the parking lot just past the casinos where one side said Nevada and the other Utah. My kids got a kick out of it,our car was parked in a different state than our hotel.
A bunch of cities are split across two different jurisdictions, but in that case it’s not usually an instance of North/South/East/West, especially if it is really one city (except for the international border running through it…)
There are a number of places where two adjacent towns on opposite sides of a border have the same name. Here’s a list (possibly incomplete) of those from North America where both towns are incorporated. There are others where one or both are not incorporated. There are more in other parts of the world.
Anthony NM/TX
Ardmore AL/TN
Bluefield VA/WV
Bristol TN/VA
Delmar DE/MD
Junction City AR/LA
Kansas City KS/MO
Lloydminster AB/SK Canada
Niagara Falls ON/NY Canada/USA
Nogales AZ/Sonora USA/Mexico
Sault Sainte Marie ON/MI Canada/USA
Texarkana AR/TX
Texhoma TX/OK
Union City IN/OH
I’m not really sure what this means - usually, it’s actually two different cities with the same name in two jurisdictions. There are certainly a lot of things they have in common but as far as I can tell not any more than two adjacent cities with the different names in different jurisdictions. Nobody ever refers to Derby Line ,Vermont and Stanstead, Canada as a single city with an international border running through it.
I’d like to chime in and clarify that South Orange (pop 18,000), East Orange (pop 70,000), West Orange (pop 49,000), and Orange (pop 34,000) each are self governing with their own mayor. They are all located in Essex County, NJ.
I see from wiki that, “Orange was initially part of the city of Newark, but it was originally known as “Newark Mountains”. On June 7, 1780, the townspeople of Newark Mountains officially voted to adopt the name Orange. At the time, a significant number of people favored secession from Newark. This did not occur until November 27, 1806, when the territory now encompassing all of the Oranges was finally detached.”
The precise origins of the name “South Orange” are apparently lost to the mists of time.