Every town I’ve ever lived in has had a Spring Street, Summer Street, and a Winter Street. But I hardly ever see a Fall or Autumn Street.
Googling around seems to support this - there appear to be ballpark 50 to 100 times as many each of Spring and Summer Streets as there are Fall or Autumn Streets.
Fall and Autumn Streets do exist, but they do seem to be very much in the minority.
Assuming my counts are correct, is there a reason for this disparity other than “people just feel like it”?
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Just a WAG at this point, but couldn’t Spring Summer and Winter be the last names of real people? Fewer named Fall, and certainly less named Autumn.
Because autumn sucks. 
Obviously not every town is good enough to have the Four Seasons in them.
Truefully I’ve only seen roads with spring in them and that was like in a water spring.
My good friends just had a baby they named Autumn. We’ve threatened to nickname her “Tummy”.
As for the question, I got nuthin’, except that I grew up on a Spring Avenue, and I’ve never heard of a Fall or Autumn street.
How about here?
Truefully I’ve only seen roads with spring in them and that was like in a water spring.
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Actually, I’ve seen a few where the season was clearly meant, such as Spring Garden Road. But it’s a good point that “spring” may indeed have a different toponymic meaning.
That was more a comment that many towns don’t have a road named for seasons and if only the word spring is used it meant water. Now my town has all the Great Lakes, a Canal Street, and two River Roads nearby.
The OP does have a point at least for New England. There are tons of Spring streets, Summer streets, and Winter streets but not many Fall or Autumn streets. I am pretty sure they refer to the seasons which is strange because true New Englanders will tell you the two weeks of Autumn are their favorite.
I don’t doubt the OP’s towns have had these streets.
Why would that not mean a garden that has formed around a [water] spring?
It could in any individual case but I assure you that New England has Summer, Winter, and Spring streets all over the place but few Fall or Autumn ones. The town boundaries run directly into each other so you can find yourself lost if you pick the wrong Summer, Winter, or Spring street and it is hard to know where they are by memory because there are so many different ones spread all around in a fairly small geographic area.
Well, even if I’m not US, I played around with the local area in google maps.
Hamilton, my hometown, has:
Summer place, a short residential cul-de-sac up on the Mountain.
No winter-type streets
Spring street, three blocks long, just east of downtown.
Autumn drive, this is actually way out in the boonies and in Smithville - I didn’t realize that we’d been amalgamated that far out yet.
Oddly enough, entering “Fall street, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada” returns a street called Hamilton Court in Paris, Ontario - must be some kind of unintended feature in the address recognition routine.
Nearby, Burlington has:
Autumn Hill Crescent, on the north side, again a small little residential lane
Autumn Harvest Way, even smaller
No Spring street, (but it returns Hamilton’s.)
No winters.
Summer wind drive, barely two blocks long
So that looks like two summers, one spring, and three autumns. Maybe we got the ones that New England didn’t want, because Autumn is even prettier in Canada.
On the other hand, all six of these are very small and obscure streets that I’d never seen or noticed until I looked for them.
And I, the OP, should clarify that I am in New England now and have lived in New York previously. But I did my google testing on other states.
I used to live in Dover, N.H. There Spring Street and Summer Street are obviously related because they run parallel and are a block apart. Winter St. is a mile to the north, and Autumn St. is another mile to the northwest.
In Bangor, Maine, Winter St. and Autumn St. are a block apart and parallel. Spring St. is a mile to the east and Summer St. is a mile to the south of that.
Actually, I’ve seen a few where the season was clearly meant, such as Spring Garden Road. But it’s a good point that “spring” may indeed have a different toponymic meaning.
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You don’t have to go to some little town in Marin to find a Spring Street. It’s one the tmain streets in downtown L.A. It most likely was named for a source of water. And not far away is a Fall Avenue, but it’s pretty small.
Interesting question. I thought that perhaps your premise held true for Minneapolis as well, because I knew of Spring, Summer, and Winter streets in NE Minneapolis, but not Fall or Autumn. Well, according to Google Maps, there is an Autumn Street, also in NE, and it is only one block long!
Perhaps it’s because “autumn” is hard to spell. I’d hate to live on a street that’s hard to spell.
Interesting, my town (Beaverton, OR) has an Autumn Dr and Autumn Lane (both of which are fairly near to my home) and an Autumn Ridge Dr that intersects a Fall Ave. Yet according to Google maps, there are no streets named for Spring, Summer or Winter. Well there is a Springville Road well north of town, but it’s named for a former town the road used to go to.
I should note that none of these streets are in Beaverton proper, but they’re close. My home is also not within the Beaverton city limits.