# Roads on the border -- portmanteaus **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [September 22, 2019, 8:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/roads-on-the-border-portmanteaus/840658 "2019-09-22T20:03:02Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Rich\_Mann](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/ce73a5/32.png) [@Rich\_Mann](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rich_Mann)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2019, 8:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/roads-on-the-border-portmanteaus/840658/21 "2019-09-23T20:45:41Z")
Dalrock Rd. is on the border between Dallas and Rockwall counties. ---
**Author:** ![Zyada](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zyada/32/3028_2.png) [@Zyada](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zyada)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2019, 9:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/roads-on-the-border-portmanteaus/840658/22 "2019-09-23T21:09:10Z")
For your city names, I assume you have Texarkana, but in the DFW area that is a small suburb named Dalworthington Gardens, that is a portmanteau of Dallas, Fort Worth and Arlington. It’s wholly contained by Arlington ---
**Author:** ![dtilque](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/d6d6ee/32.png) [@dtilque](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dtilque)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2019, 9:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/roads-on-the-border-portmanteaus/840658/23 "2019-09-23T21:38:38Z")
> [@Rich\_Mann](#): > > Dalrock Rd. is on the border between Dallas and Rockwall counties. Awesome! keep 'em coming guys. > [@Zyada](#): > > For your city names, I assume you have Texarkana, but in the DFW area that is a small suburb named Dalworthington Gardens, that is a portmanteau of Dallas, Fort Worth and Arlington. It’s wholly contained by Arlington Have that one. There’s lots cities, towns, villages, localities, etc, already on the list, including many very obscure places. I’m not saying it already has every single North American portmanteau town or locality, but finding a new one would likely take lots of research. I’d be extremely surprised if anyone here can come up with one off the top of their head. However, there’s zillions of roads around, so most of those are obscure to anyone not living in that area. (Ditto for school districts.) So that’s why I’m asking for those, and you guys have not disappointed me. Thanks to everyone who has contributed to this thread. ---
**Author:** ![Kent\_Clark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kent_clark/32/105_2.png) [@Kent\_Clark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kent_Clark)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2019, 9:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/roads-on-the-border-portmanteaus/840658/24 "2019-09-23T21:53:35Z")
If you’ve ever been to either the Louisville or Evansville-Henderson-Owensboro metro areas, then you’ve been to[Kentuckiana](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kentuckiana). There’s Illmo, Missouri, right on the Mississippi River (sadly, now just a neighborhood in Scott City) Mokane, MO might not seem like a portmanteau, but it was named for the railroad that passed through it, the Missouri-Kansas-Texas (aka, the "Katy’). ---
**Author:** ![bibliophage](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bibliophage/32/7615_2.png) [@bibliophage](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bibliophage)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2019, 10:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/roads-on-the-border-portmanteaus/840658/25 "2019-09-23T22:19:49Z")
Lin-Wood Drive in Lincoln, NH, is so called because that’s where the Lin-Wood Public School is located. The school is so called because it serves the towns of Lincoln and Woodstock. Both the school and the road are completely inside Lincoln, but less than a mile from the town line. ---
**Author:** ![dtilque](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/d6d6ee/32.png) [@dtilque](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dtilque)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2019, 11:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/roads-on-the-border-portmanteaus/840658/26 "2019-09-23T23:03:03Z")
> [@Kent\_Clark](#): > > If you’ve ever been to either the Louisville or Evansville-Henderson-Owensboro metro areas, then you’ve been to[Kentuckiana](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kentuckiana). > > There’s Illmo, Missouri, right on the Mississippi River (sadly, now just a neighborhood in Scott City) Yup, already got em. For towns like Illmo, that is, portmanteaus of two or three states that are located on or near the borders, I was helped by a book called [_Edge Effects_](http://www.edge-effects.com/pages/pressroom.html) by Robert Temple. He found 83 such places, some long abandoned or never more than a railroad siding. Not only that, but he went out and visited them or the places they used to be and wrote the book about his travels. I’m not that ambitious in terms of travelling, but I managed to find about 8 or so additions to his list, using various references including some old atlases I own. They’re all on the portmanteau list, in the [section titled “Blends of country, state, and province names”](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_geographic_portmanteaus#Blends_of_country,_state,_and_province_names). > [@](#): > > Mokane, MO might not seem like a portmanteau, but it was named for the railroad that passed through it, the Missouri-Kansas-Texas (aka, the "Katy’). Technically, Mokane is an acronym for the Missouri, Kansas and Eastern RR, a subsidiary of the Katy that built a line from central Missouri to St Louis. It’s in the list of places named for companies on the [acronym list](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_geographic_acronyms_and_initialisms) ---
**Author:** ![Melbourne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b5e925/32.png) [@Melbourne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Melbourne)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2019, 8:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/roads-on-the-border-portmanteaus/840658/27 "2019-09-24T08:01:50Z")
> [@Aspidistra](#): > > The Melbourne suburb of [Warranwood](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warranwood,_Victoria) is named for its neighbors, Ringwood and Warrandyte and contains (briefly) a Warranwood Road. Odd. The internet says it was re-named in 1948, and redeveloped in the 1990s, but I would have said it was still Croydon Heights until the real estate redevelopment. ---
**Author:** ![Driver8](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b5a626/32.png) [@Driver8](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Driver8)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2019, 11:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/roads-on-the-border-portmanteaus/840658/28 "2019-09-24T11:28:54Z")
Bel-Red Road here on the Seattle east side runs between the cities of Bellevue and Redmond. ---
**Author:** ![Ludovic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ab992/32.png) [@Ludovic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ludovic)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2019, 12:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/roads-on-the-border-portmanteaus/840658/29 "2019-09-24T12:21:38Z")
Roads on the border – portmanteaus Roads on the border – portmanteaus Roads on the border – portmanteaus Skip to my lou, my darling. ---
**Author:** ![dtilque](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/d6d6ee/32.png) [@dtilque](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dtilque)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2019, 3:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/roads-on-the-border-portmanteaus/840658/30 "2019-09-24T15:33:57Z")
> [@bibliophage](#): > > Lin-Wood Drive in Lincoln, NH, is so called because that’s where the Lin-Wood Public School is located. The school is so called because it serves the towns of Lincoln and Woodstock. Both the school and the road are completely inside Lincoln, but less than a mile from the town line. Thanks for the addition. I’ll probably only add one of these to avoid having the same name in the list twice. Probably the school, since it was named first. > [@Driver8](#): > > Bel-Red Road here on the Seattle east side runs between the cities of Bellevue and Redmond. Nice one. Thank you. Wikipedia says there’s a neighborhood with that name that the road is the major thoroughfare for. Again, I’ll probably do only one of the two. ---
**Author:** ![Civil\_Guy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/d78d45/32.png) [@Civil\_Guy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Civil_Guy)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2019, 11:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/roads-on-the-border-portmanteaus/840658/31 "2019-09-24T23:56:29Z")
The towns of Calexico, California, and Mexicali, Mexico. ---
**Author:** ![dtilque](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/d6d6ee/32.png) [@dtilque](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dtilque)\ **Post date:** [September 25, 2019, 10:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/roads-on-the-border-portmanteaus/840658/32 "2019-09-25T10:31:40Z")
> [@Civil\_Guy](#): > > The towns of Calexico, California, and Mexicali, Mexico. Mexicali is, by far, the largest city with a portmanteau name; Calexico is a distant #2. (The Texarkana’s are 3 and 4.) Hard to miss them. This thread has run out of steam, so I updated the [portmanteau list](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_geographic_portmanteaus). It’s late at night and there’s still a couple to add to the acronym list, but I’m tired. They can wait until tomorrow. In case you’re looking for the additions with a search: it’s Can-Ada Road, rather than Canada Rd, at least in Googlemaps, so that’s what I went with. Anyway, a big THANK YOU to everyone who contributed. I couldn’t have done it without you. ---
**Author:** ![Aspidistra](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aspidistra/32/3894_2.png) [@Aspidistra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Aspidistra)\ **Post date:** [September 25, 2019, 12:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/roads-on-the-border-portmanteaus/840658/33 "2019-09-25T12:18:34Z")
> [@Melbourne](#): > > Odd. The internet says it was re-named in 1948, and redeveloped in the 1990s, but I would have said it was still Croydon Heights until the real estate redevelopment. I expect “what real estate agents think will shift the price up when they list a house” has a big impact on local naming schemes. Like folks in Balwyn hanging onto the name “Deepdene” like grim death… ---
**Author:** ![Ludovic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ab992/32.png) [@Ludovic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ludovic)\ **Post date:** [September 25, 2019, 12:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/roads-on-the-border-portmanteaus/840658/34 "2019-09-25T12:29:33Z")
> [@dtilque](#): > > Mexicali is, by far, the largest city with a portmanteau name; Calexico is a distant #2. (The Texarkana’s are 3 and 4.) Hard to miss them. From looking at Wikipedia it seems that [Deltona, FL](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deltona,_Florida) (Deland/Daytona) at around 90K surpasses #2,3 and 4 none of which seem to be much higher than 40k. ---
**Author:** ![Nava](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/da6949/32.png) [@Nava](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nava)\ **Post date:** [September 25, 2019, 12:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/roads-on-the-border-portmanteaus/840658/35 "2019-09-25T12:34:56Z")
The two villages of Arguedas and Valtierra are very close: the name Valguedas started being used as a joke that the locals didn’t much like, but nowadays even they sometimes use the name. They may use it to refer, for example, to the new road which bypasses both of them with no intermediate connection to the old road. Not an official name yet, but it may eventually become one: the regional government makes periodic attempts to reduce the amount of townships and these are a definite candidate. ---
**Author:** ![Sternvogel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bc79bd/32.png) [@Sternvogel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sternvogel)\ **Post date:** [September 25, 2019, 6:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/roads-on-the-border-portmanteaus/840658/36 "2019-09-25T18:53:07Z")
In northeast Ohio, there’s the Nordonia school district, whose name features a portmanteau of the towns of Norton and Macedonia. Also, there’s Midpark High School, which is in the Cleveland suburb of Berea but honors Middleburg Heights and Brook Park, two other communities served by the district. ---
**Author:** ![dtilque](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/d6d6ee/32.png) [@dtilque](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dtilque)\ **Post date:** [September 25, 2019, 6:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/roads-on-the-border-portmanteaus/840658/37 "2019-09-25T18:54:13Z")
> [@Ludovic](#): > > From looking at Wikipedia it seems that [Deltona, FL](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deltona,_Florida) (Deland/Daytona) at around 90K surpasses #2,3 and 4 none of which seem to be much higher than 40k. Yes, and I missed a few others, especially Sandton SA at over 200K. > [@Nava](#): > > The two villages of Arguedas and Valtierra are very close: the name Valguedas started being used as a joke that the locals didn’t much like, but nowadays even they sometimes use the name. They may use it to refer, for example, to the new road which bypasses both of them with no intermediate connection to the old road. Not an official name yet, but it may eventually become one: the regional government makes periodic attempts to reduce the amount of townships and these are a definite candidate. Very good. Another non-NA entry. For now it’ll go in the ‘Other regions named from their components’ section, but if they combine, there’s a section for merged cities. ---
**Author:** ![Lancia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lancia/32/17174_2.png) [@Lancia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lancia)\ **Post date:** [September 25, 2019, 9:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/roads-on-the-border-portmanteaus/840658/38 "2019-09-25T21:26:13Z")
Just west of Roseburg, Oregon is the small community of Melrose. North of Melrose, about ten miles or so, is an even smaller community called Umpqua, which shares its name with many other places and businesses in the area. A 2-lane county road running between Melrose and Umpqua is called the Melqua road. ---
**Author:** ![Kent\_Clark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kent_clark/32/105_2.png) [@Kent\_Clark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kent_Clark)\ **Post date:** [September 25, 2019, 9:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/roads-on-the-border-portmanteaus/840658/39 "2019-09-25T21:50:33Z")
Just north of Kansas City in Clay County, Mo is the town of Claycomo. ---
**Author:** ![dtilque](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/d6d6ee/32.png) [@dtilque](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dtilque)\ **Post date:** [September 25, 2019, 10:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/roads-on-the-border-portmanteaus/840658/40 "2019-09-25T22:50:26Z")
> [@Lancia](#): > > Just west of Roseburg, Oregon is the small community of Melrose. North of Melrose, about ten miles or so, is an even smaller community called Umpqua, which shares its name with many other places and businesses in the area. A 2-lane county road running between Melrose and Umpqua is called the Melqua road. Very good. Another connector road. Nice to get something a bit more local to me. > [@Kent\_Clark](#): > > Just north of Kansas City in Clay County, Mo is the town of Claycomo. That one’s in the acronym list along with other Missouri towns with similar names: Hico (Hickory County) although it’s actually in Dallas County; Hocomo (Howell County) and lakes: Jacomo (Jackson County); Tanycomo (Taney County). [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/roads-on-the-border-portmanteaus/840658.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/roads-on-the-border-portmanteaus/840658.md?page=3)