# What is the longest "geographically sequential" place name you've seen.? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [April 19, 2020, 8:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-longest-geographically-sequential-place-name-youve-seen/852139 "2020-04-19T20:05:19Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![jebert](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ec9cab/32.png) [@jebert](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jebert)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2020, 8:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-longest-geographically-sequential-place-name-youve-seen/852139/1 "2020-04-19T20:05:19Z")
I’ve seen examples of places that seem to have been named in an expanding sequence of geographic terms (unfortunately I can’t come up with a real-life example right now). For example, let’s say there was a mountain named Bald Mountain. Then a ridge leading up to it was named Bald Mountain Ridge. Then a creek flowing below was named Bald Mountain Ridge Creek. Then the creek’s valley was named Bald Mountain Ridge Creek Valley. And on down the line, each time appending a different geographic feature (hill, canyon, road, …), What is the longest “sequential” name like this that you know of? Please limit this to places that actually exist. And no fair getting length by using a person with a long name as part of it - e.g., John Fitzroy Blandington III, Duke of Twattlesby Memorial Bridge. ---
**Author:** ![Mama\_Zappa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/71e660/32.png) [@Mama\_Zappa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mama_Zappa)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2020, 9:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-longest-geographically-sequential-place-name-youve-seen/852139/2 "2020-04-20T21:08:09Z")
> [@jebert](#): > > I’ve seen examples of places that seem to have been named in an expanding sequence of geographic terms (unfortunately I can’t come up with a real-life example right now). For example, let’s say there was a mountain named Bald Mountain. Then a ridge leading up to it was named Bald Mountain Ridge. Then a creek flowing below was named Bald Mountain Ridge Creek. Then the creek’s valley was named Bald Mountain Ridge Creek Valley. And on down the line, each time appending a different geographic feature (hill, canyon, road, …), > > What is the longest “sequential” name like this that you know of? Please limit this to places that actually exist. And no fair getting length by using a person with a long name as part of it - e.g., John Fitzroy Blandington III, Duke of Twattlesby Memorial Bridge. Huh - probably the longest I’ve seen wasn’t quite in the same vein as your first example. but in North Carolina, along state road 54 between Burlington and Chapel Hill, there’s “Bethel Hickory Grove Church Road”. ---
**Author:** ![Filbert](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/filbert/32/3433_2.png) [@Filbert](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Filbert)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2020, 9:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-longest-geographically-sequential-place-name-youve-seen/852139/3 "2020-04-20T21:30:50Z")
Not quite what you’re looking for, but I have to mention ‘Pendle Hill’, which translates as ‘Hill hill hill’ in Celtic, Old English and modern English. ---
**Author:** ![WildaBeast](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wildabeast/32/6_2.png) [@WildaBeast](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WildaBeast)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2020, 10:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-longest-geographically-sequential-place-name-youve-seen/852139/4 "2020-04-20T22:24:21Z")
> [@Filbert](#): > > Not quite what you’re looking for, but I have to mention ‘Pendle Hill’, which translates as ‘Hill hill hill’ in Celtic, Old English and modern English. So kind of like The Los Angeles Angels baseball team which means “The The Angels Angels” in Spanish and English. But that’s straying even farther from the OP. Getting back to the OP, if city names count, then: I live in the city of Folsom. The dam just upstream is Folsom Dam. The road that used to cross over the dam was called Folsom Dam Road (but they closed it after 9/11). You can also do: Folsom Folsom Lake Folsom Lake Crossing (the new bridge that replaced Folsom Dam Road). ---
**Author:** ![WildaBeast](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wildabeast/32/6_2.png) [@WildaBeast](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WildaBeast)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2020, 10:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-longest-geographically-sequential-place-name-youve-seen/852139/5 "2020-04-20T22:36:23Z")
I missed the edit window, but I just thought of another one: The river Folsom Dam is on is called the American River. Then there’s American River Canyon. And American River Canyon Drive. That could arguably include four place names if you count America as one of the places. ---
**Author:** ![Sunspace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunspace/32/1250_2.png) [@Sunspace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunspace)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2020, 10:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-longest-geographically-sequential-place-name-youve-seen/852139/6 "2020-04-20T22:43:03Z")
There’s an Old Upper Middle Road in Oakvulle, Ontario. Originally, there were Lakeshore Road, along the lakeshore, and Dundas Street, parallel to it, uphill and inland. At some point another road was built midway between the two, at the base of the hills above the coastal plain, so it became Middle Road. (Later, much of it was turned into the Queen Elizabeth Way.) Still later, another road was built midway between Middle Road and Dundas Street, but at the top of the hills, so it became Upper Middle Road. Then they rerouted Upper Middle Road to a new bridge across the valley of Sixteen Mile Creek, but part of the old road was left to serve the few houses on it. Thus, [Old Upper Middle Road](https://goo.gl/maps/KdTi5dLdxKypPQBUA). 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Bullitt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bullitt/32/5725_2.png) [@Bullitt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bullitt)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2020, 10:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-longest-geographically-sequential-place-name-youve-seen/852139/7 "2020-04-20T22:43:58Z")
I’ve been to Lake Chargoggagoggmanchauggagoggchaubunagungamaugg in Massachusetts. Its name is Algonquin, meaning “Fishing Place at the Boundaries—Neutral Meeting Grounds”. But that’s not what the OP is looking for, exactly. ---
**Author:** ![Bullitt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bullitt/32/5725_2.png) [@Bullitt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bullitt)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2020, 10:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-longest-geographically-sequential-place-name-youve-seen/852139/8 "2020-04-20T22:46:51Z")
Wiki says that Winchester-on-the-Severn, Maryland, and Washington-on-the-Brazos, Texas are the longest hyphenated place names in the U.S. And in Canada it is Corporation of the United Townships of Dysart, Dudley, Harcourt, Guilford, Harburn, Bruton, Havelock, Eyre and Clyde (61 letters, 68 non-space characters), usually shortened to Dysart, et al., Ontario. > **[List of long place names | Names with spaces or hyphens](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_long_place_names#Names_with_spaces_or_hyphens)** > > 1.Krungthepmahanakhon Amonrattanakosin Mahintharayutthaya Mahadilokphop Noppharatratchathaniburirom Udomratchaniwetmahasathan Amonphimanawatansathit Sakkathattiyawitsanukamprasit (176 letters) Full name of Bangkok, Thailand > in Thai: กรุงเทพมหานคร อมรรัตนโกสินทร์ มหินทรายุธยา มหาดิลกภพ นพรัตนราชธานีบูรีรมย์ อุดมราชนิเวศน์มหาสถาน อมรพิมานอวตารสถิต สักกะทัตติยวิษณุกรรมประสิทธิ์ (132 letters + 7 spaces) | > 2.in Thai: กรุงเทพมหานคร อมรรัตนโกสินทร์ มหินทรายุธยา มหาดิลกภพ นพรัตนราชธานีบูรีรมย์ อุดมราชนิ... ---
**Author:** ![WildaBeast](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wildabeast/32/6_2.png) [@WildaBeast](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WildaBeast)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2020, 10:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-longest-geographically-sequential-place-name-youve-seen/852139/9 "2020-04-20T22:47:45Z")
I don’t know if this is exactly what you’re looking for either, but continuing up the American River, the river splits into three forks. Rather than giving them interesting names they’re just called the North Fork American River, Middle Fork American River, and South Fork American River. This results in things with names like the South Fork American River Trail. ---
**Author:** ![Sunspace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunspace/32/1250_2.png) [@Sunspace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunspace)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2020, 10:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-longest-geographically-sequential-place-name-youve-seen/852139/10 "2020-04-20T22:49:09Z")
I wonder whether one of the many golf club roads in Canada would count? For example, [Scarborough Golf Club Road](https://goo.gl/maps/dLoFKLk1pUgDjDhh9). First there was a club, then it was narrowed down to a golf club, then it was the Scarborough golf club, then it was the road going to the Scarborough golf club… It doesn’t quite seem to fit, but it’s close. ---
**Author:** ![Peter\_Morris](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/peter_morris/32/359_2.png) [@Peter\_Morris](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Peter_Morris)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2020, 11:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-longest-geographically-sequential-place-name-youve-seen/852139/11 "2020-04-20T23:11:50Z")
Famously, Wales has Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch. This is Welsh language for: “Saint Mary’s Church in the hollow of the white hazel near the rapid whirlpool and the Church of Saint Tysilio of the red cave”. ---
**Author:** ![John\_Bredin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/96bed5/32.png) [@John\_Bredin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_Bredin)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2020, 11:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-longest-geographically-sequential-place-name-youve-seen/852139/12 "2020-04-20T23:19:44Z")
> [@WildaBeast](#): > > I don’t know if this is exactly what you’re looking for either, but continuing up the American River, the river splits into three forks. Rather than giving them interesting names they’re just called the North Fork American River, Middle Fork American River, and South Fork American River. This results in things with names like the South Fork American River Trail. In the same vein, there’s the West Fork North Branch Chicago River and Middle Fork North Branch Chicago River. What should logically be the East Fork _etc._ is the Skokie River. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![markn\_1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f9ae1b/32.png) [@markn\_1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/markn_1)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2020, 11:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-longest-geographically-sequential-place-name-youve-seen/852139/13 "2020-04-20T23:26:40Z")
There’s a municipality in Canada called “The United Townships of Dysart, Dudley, Harcourt, Guilford, Harburn, Bruton, Havelock, Eyre and Clyde”, but I think it’s just a conjunction of nine earlier named towns so not really what the OP is looking for either. ---
**Author:** ![Shalmanese](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/45deac/32.png) [@Shalmanese](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shalmanese)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2020, 11:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-longest-geographically-sequential-place-name-youve-seen/852139/14 "2020-04-20T23:42:37Z")
There’s a Mount Desert Island in Maine. Not sure if anything on the island inherits the name any levels deeper. ---
**Author:** ![boffking](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/858c86/32.png) [@boffking](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/boffking)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2020, 2:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-longest-geographically-sequential-place-name-youve-seen/852139/15 "2020-04-21T02:25:24Z")
> [@Shalmanese](#): > > There’s a Mount Desert Island in Maine. Not sure if anything on the island inherits the name any levels deeper. Best I could find was the Mount Desert Island High School. ---
**Author:** ![Jackmannii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jackmannii/32/311_2.png) [@Jackmannii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jackmannii)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2020, 2:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-longest-geographically-sequential-place-name-youve-seen/852139/16 "2020-04-21T02:55:15Z")
It doesn’t meet the OP’s requirements, but I just found out there is a community in my county called Rabbit Town. And now I have a funk-orrific earworm. _Won’t you take me to Rabbit Town Won’t you take me to Rabbit Town_ ---
**Author:** ![jtur88](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e9c0ed/32.png) [@jtur88](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jtur88)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2020, 4:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-longest-geographically-sequential-place-name-youve-seen/852139/17 "2020-04-21T04:54:35Z")
> [@boffking](#): > > Best I could find was the Mount Desert Island High School. How about the Mount Desert Island Junior High School Stadium track? The busiest traffic light in Traverse City Michigan is at the intersection of West South Airport Road and North US-31 South. ---
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There are rather a lot of High Streets in Australia (and in Britain too, where we got the custom from) One particularly long and significant one in Melbourne, became High Street Road Down the end of High Street Road, we have High Street Road Service Road ---
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Not exactly conforming to OP, but. [Taumatawhakatangihangakoauauotamateaturipukakapikimaungahoronukupokaiwhenuakitanatahu](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taumatawhakatangi) > [@](#): > > The name “Taumatawhakatangihangakoauauotamateaturipukakapikimaungahoronukupokaiwhenuakitanatahu” translates roughly as “The summit where Tamatea, the man with the big knees, the slider, climber of mountains, the land-swallower who travelled about, played his kōauau (flute) to his loved one”. [Pronounced](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=01WhzdaF5dY) ---
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> [@Filbert](#): > > Not quite what you’re looking for, but I have to mention ‘Pendle Hill’, which translates as ‘Hill hill hill’ in Celtic, Old English and modern English. Torpenhow, IIRC [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-longest-geographically-sequential-place-name-youve-seen/852139.md?page=2)