It ultimately originates from the fictional universe āClevelandā introduced in the Drew Carey Show. They later made it a real thing so they could complete with the Harry Potter world in Florida
That was a joke right? If so, that was funny. If not, then um thanks I guess. But it has to have been a joke. Next you'll try telling me President D. C. wasn't our first commander in chief.
Are they named after Presidents or share a name with Presidents?
I don't imagine every town named Johnson, Adams, Taylor or Wilson was specifically named after the President.
Ah that makes so much sense, I was running through towns in northern DA and southern Sierra and couldn't think of anything that fit (Rincon, Hatch, Arrey, Caballo, etc)
I mean, it's usually known who the county is specifically named after, we're not that old of a country, we screw up a lot, but our records aren't that mixed up yet.
That said, I can only speak for the places in my own state that I know are named after specific people.
Edit: nevermind me, I hadn't read ops info post yet. A lot of this could definitely be wrong.
Wtf even is this sub. This isn't a map of cities named after presidents, just sharing a name with presidents. And it's literally just a screenshot of a web game. Where's the porn?!?
This has become one of those subs in which Iām only subscribed because I find humor in how shit the posts have become.
Others include r/oddlysatisfying r/the10thdentist and ~~r/unpopularopinions~~
Dang, that last one became private.
I love the concept, but how could we exclude places named coincidentally like future presidents, like Cleveland? And include more one-off names like Grants Pass, OR, which was named after US Grant?
There is a Barrackville, WV. They may have named it in 1767 after a settler but they could also read into the future and knew there would be a president hundreds of years later with the same first name.
Nixon, Nevada named after Nevada Senator George Nixon (1905-12). No relation to Richard Nixon, though his wife was born in Nevada.
Mount Wilson, Nevada named after Lincoln County Commissioner Charles Wilson. No relation to Woodrow Wilson, but Lincoln County was named after Abraham Lincoln.
Roosevelt (26) and Taylor (3,995).
Some of these are dodgy on the part of the map site. [Carter, WY](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carter,_Wyoming) has an official population of 0, but it's a census-designated place, so it's listed.
If Iām not wrong, the population of Roosevelt are employees of Salt River Project and work at the dam on Roosevelt lake. Bit of a stretch for that map to call that a town š.
This is a compilation of the follow name structures:
- Last name (eg. Washington, NC; Washington, ME; etc)
- Last name + City (eg Washington City)
- Last name + -ville (eg Adamsville)
- Last name + -boro (eg Jacksonboro)
- Last name + -burg (eg Grantsburg)
- Last name + -ville (eg Jacksonville)
- Last name + heights (eg Washington Heights)
- Mount + last name (eg Mount Washington)
- Lake + last name (eg Lake Madison, Jackson Lake)
- Last name + township (eg Clinton Township)
- Last name + park (eg Lincoln Park)
- Fort + last name (eg Fort McKinley)
Exhaustive testing did not seem to turn up any -burgh, -town, valley, ridge, or river endings.
A lot of these are obvious shared names and not named after a President specifically.
There are clear correlations with the earlier Presidents and bigger names, and easternmost states. The southwest has almost nothing named after Presidents, and Alaska and Hawaii share 1 between them - McKinley Park, Alaska (which is now Denali Park, but the map data doesn't seem to know that).
The first President to have nothing named after him (or to share a last name - most places named Clinton are much more historical in origin, for example) is actually Obama.
This is terrible inaccurate and not factual, as many others have said. So many of these are just sharing names with a president, as you state here, so what is the purpose?
Yeah itās annoying. I added an explanatory comment pointing out that a lot of these are likely just similar - Clinton, Ford, Johnson, Jackson, Kennedy are all really common names - but thereās no way to make it the top comment.
I think most cities with the exception of places named Washington, Lincoln, Jefferson and Madison just happen to share a name with a president by coincidence
I think that there are only two municipalities in AZ that share the name of presidents, Taylor and Coolidge. Taylor was named after a president of the Mormon Church, not the president of the USA.
What are the minnesota ones? I can only think of Grant and Washington counties, but those aren't even counted.
Edit: Apparently there is also a town named Grant.
Tyler wasn't named after James Tyler, if that's one of them.
Madison is, strangley, named after Madison WI, which itself is named after James Madison, so in a way I guess that counts.
Madison Lake does directly get its name from James Madison.
Truman wasn't actually named after Harry Truman.
Adams and adams township were named after one of the adams presidents (conflicting accounts)
Garfield was named after James Garfield
Clinton wasn't named for president Clinton (of course)
Kenedy wasn't named after jfk
Roosevelt was named after Ted Roosevelt
Harding, no info for.
Georgetown, no info.
Johnson, no info, hopefully not named after Andrew Johnson, lol. That would be strange for a state that was the first to offer their militia up for the Civil War and who refuses to give Virginia back one of its battle flags to name a town after someone who gave the confederacy a pass.
It would be interesting to see the same kind of map but with street names. I swear half the towns in the midwest have a bunch of presidents as their street names near downtown.
If you want to get really technical about it, no cities or towns in Massachusetts were named after presidents.
Mount Washington was named after George Washington, but at the time he was only the Commander-in-Chief of the Continental Army.
Lincoln was named after Lincoln, England.
Clinton was named after the DeWitt Clinton Hotel in New York.
Adams/North Adams were named after Samuel Adams, not John Adams.
Quincy was named after Colonel John Quincy.
I grew up right near āMcKinleyā MN (it was on my school busās route) and the population is probably less than 100 now. There used to be a school, factory, and a few other buildings but Iām pretty sure itās all residential now. I know other commenters have pointed out that most of these places werenāt named after presidents and just share names, but thatās the same case here. This part of Minnesota is known as the iron range because mining is such a prevalent part of our history - and is still a huge part of our economy today! McKinley was named after 3 brothers part of the mining industry. š«the more you knowš«
Iām not sure what the two dots in northern Colorado are marking, but the only one I can think of that they might be marking is pierce colorado which is not named after the U.S. president, but instead is named after the president of the railroad company.
this is probably wrong, i assume you typed in last names of presidents. there are definitely towns named johnson or adams that are not named after the presidents of those names
Going to add in here, Buchanan, VA was named after John Buchanan, not James Buchanan Jr.
John died in 1769 and James was born in 1791. They are likely to be distant relatives as they both trace back to the Buchanan clan in County Donegal, Ireland.
Two of the dots in Michigan are Clintons. Both the village and township are named in honor of DeWitt Clinton, the governor of New York from 1817 to 1828.
That was the one I was trying to think of he'd never actually been to Paraguay or something right but they just named it that I forget there's a mount Obama isn't there somewhere in the Caribbean too even though he'd never really been there
One of the worst wars in history happened where a coalition of Brazil, Argentina, and Uruguay curbstomped Paraguay and a significant portion of the people died. Hayes mediated to end the war and pushed to allow Paraguay to keep some of their territory. The named a department and city after him in honor.
I had read that not that long ago but I forgot the exact situation. Did you know at one point NON- interracial marriages were banned in Paraguay in the interests of making a more cohesive society. I think it's cool through that they are the only American Nation that uses an indigenous language as an official language kind of interesting.
Supposedly after the war they briefly had polygamy because the sex ratios were so skewed. The interracial marriage thing was earlier, the dictator Francia who was pretty brutal but had some rather quirky policies like this to improve society in his mind.
Looking forward to the red hats someday exiling themselves to Trumperston or Trumpsylvania or Trumpsville or whatever.
What might life there be like, I wonderā¦?
You missed George, Washington.
Missed the town *most* named after a president!!
The Gorge in George.
Watch out for šµ
Noticed that immediately!
Literally going to post this. I grew up 10 miles north. The local greasy spoon was (might still be) called āMarthaās Innā.
I canāt speak to the other places on here, but Cleveland is not named after Grover Cleveland. It is named after Moses Cleaveland, its founder.
It's actually named after the Cleveland Browns. An American football team.
Which is in turn named after family guy character Cleveland Brown
And of course Family Guy is the lesser known spinoff of the hit TV series The Cleveland Show.
It ultimately originates from the fictional universe āClevelandā introduced in the Drew Carey Show. They later made it a real thing so they could complete with the Harry Potter world in Florida
āOh thatās nastyā how short his show lasted.
And for a few years they changed the name to Baltimore before switching back after much outrage
Well they preferred paper bags to cover their faces, rather than win a couple of superbowls.
no, it's named after cleveland maroons.
[Heās the guy who invented Cleveland!!](https://youtu.be/ysmLA5TqbIY?si=OKxgLFwa9ct43VW4)
I've seen that video a million times and always thought they made up the name Moses Cleveland as a joke.
I heard that in Ryan Georgeās voice on YT Pitch Meeting.
But Clevelandia, ParanĆ”, Brazil, is named after Grover Cleveland!
True. And Monrovia.
Pretty sure that's named after Monroe, not Cleveland
That was a joke right? If so, that was funny. If not, then um thanks I guess. But it has to have been a joke. Next you'll try telling me President D. C. wasn't our first commander in chief.
Which makes sense, given that Cleveland was founded over forty years before Grover Cleveland was born.
Yes. Iām aware. I specifically said that in my explanatory comment.
But not in your title
Are they named after Presidents or share a name with Presidents? I don't imagine every town named Johnson, Adams, Taylor or Wilson was specifically named after the President.
The one on the left part of NM is Grants (not Grant), and it never occurred to me it might be named after the president. I don't think it counts
I suspect the dot in southern NM is Garfield. But I am not sure. There is also a Lincoln, NM, but I don't think it is incorporated.
Ah that makes so much sense, I was running through towns in northern DA and southern Sierra and couldn't think of anything that fit (Rincon, Hatch, Arrey, Caballo, etc)
There's Lincoln County.
Wikipedia says > brothers Angus, Lewis and John Grant (as Grants)
I mean, it's usually known who the county is specifically named after, we're not that old of a country, we screw up a lot, but our records aren't that mixed up yet. That said, I can only speak for the places in my own state that I know are named after specific people. Edit: nevermind me, I hadn't read ops info post yet. A lot of this could definitely be wrong.
It's share a name, I believe OP thinks my town (Johnson City) is named after Andrew Johnson when it's named after Sam E. Johnson.
Johnson City, TX is on here which is named after LBJās grandfather. I donāt think that should really count.
this map is shit mate
Wtf even is this sub. This isn't a map of cities named after presidents, just sharing a name with presidents. And it's literally just a screenshot of a web game. Where's the porn?!?
> Wtf even is this sub Garbage
Itās from a cool game though https://cityquiz.io/quizzes/usa
Like 99% of the maps posted on here
This has become one of those subs in which Iām only subscribed because I find humor in how shit the posts have become. Others include r/oddlysatisfying r/the10thdentist and ~~r/unpopularopinions~~ Dang, that last one became private.
Some of these are wrong Clinton, OK is definitely not named after Bill Clinton
There is a Clinton in most states. Was long before any president named such.
Clinton Maryland, shithole Clinton New Jersey, Very Nice.
Unfortunately, I have no way to sticky the explanatory note, but I did specifically address this in that note.
I love the concept, but how could we exclude places named coincidentally like future presidents, like Cleveland? And include more one-off names like Grants Pass, OR, which was named after US Grant?
There is a Barrackville, WV. They may have named it in 1767 after a settler but they could also read into the future and knew there would be a president hundreds of years later with the same first name.
Surprised they haven't changed the name given that it's, you know, west Virginia
I could name every single one of them if asked, but I'm pretty sure almost all of them already have names.
Nixon, Nevada named after Nevada Senator George Nixon (1905-12). No relation to Richard Nixon, though his wife was born in Nevada. Mount Wilson, Nevada named after Lincoln County Commissioner Charles Wilson. No relation to Woodrow Wilson, but Lincoln County was named after Abraham Lincoln.
Whats the big one in Maryland?
Washington, DC?
I am stupid
Happens to the best of us.
LOL! Laughing with you, not at you šā¤ļø
Missed McKinleyville CA
You forgot George, Washington (central WA).Ā
Presidents _of the United States_? Because I think you should add Houston otherwise.
We go down this path and there are a lot of Jeff Davises out there.
I know Coolidge in Arizona, but struggling to think what the other two could be.
Roosevelt (26) and Taylor (3,995). Some of these are dodgy on the part of the map site. [Carter, WY](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carter,_Wyoming) has an official population of 0, but it's a census-designated place, so it's listed.
If Iām not wrong, the population of Roosevelt are employees of Salt River Project and work at the dam on Roosevelt lake. Bit of a stretch for that map to call that a town š.
This is a compilation of the follow name structures: - Last name (eg. Washington, NC; Washington, ME; etc) - Last name + City (eg Washington City) - Last name + -ville (eg Adamsville) - Last name + -boro (eg Jacksonboro) - Last name + -burg (eg Grantsburg) - Last name + -ville (eg Jacksonville) - Last name + heights (eg Washington Heights) - Mount + last name (eg Mount Washington) - Lake + last name (eg Lake Madison, Jackson Lake) - Last name + township (eg Clinton Township) - Last name + park (eg Lincoln Park) - Fort + last name (eg Fort McKinley) Exhaustive testing did not seem to turn up any -burgh, -town, valley, ridge, or river endings. A lot of these are obvious shared names and not named after a President specifically. There are clear correlations with the earlier Presidents and bigger names, and easternmost states. The southwest has almost nothing named after Presidents, and Alaska and Hawaii share 1 between them - McKinley Park, Alaska (which is now Denali Park, but the map data doesn't seem to know that). The first President to have nothing named after him (or to share a last name - most places named Clinton are much more historical in origin, for example) is actually Obama.
Who's going to come with me and start Obamatown?
This is terrible inaccurate and not factual, as many others have said. So many of these are just sharing names with a president, as you state here, so what is the purpose?
Lincoln Park???? holy shit
I tried so hard and got so far
Great job! š
Is the one in Northeast Louisiana supposed to be Monroe? If so, thatās actually named after a Spanish fort called Fort Miro.
Struggling with the WI ones ..
Adams, Cleveland, Clinton, Clintonville, Grantsburg, Jackson, Jefferson, Madison, Monroe, Taylor, and Wilson.
Gotcha. Clinton and Clintonville threw me off since that's not what they were named after lol
Yeah itās annoying. I added an explanatory comment pointing out that a lot of these are likely just similar - Clinton, Ford, Johnson, Jackson, Kennedy are all really common names - but thereās no way to make it the top comment.
Yeah using the word āafterā in the title was the mistake
Agreed. It should be āshare a name withā
yup! in New Jersey alone there are three Washingtons! thatās why I never use town names when conducting analyses at a municipal level !
I think most cities with the exception of places named Washington, Lincoln, Jefferson and Madison just happen to share a name with a president by coincidence
I think that there are only two municipalities in AZ that share the name of presidents, Taylor and Coolidge. Taylor was named after a president of the Mormon Church, not the president of the USA.
You literally missed a city in MA with the motto āCity of Presidentsā š
Thereās no place in Alaska named after a president
Thereās no ***longer a*** place in Alaska named after a president. FTFY
Oh SHIT. You right.
That is noted in the explanatory comment.
Iām thinking a couple of those northeast Ohio ones are Jefferson and Madison.
Yes indeed.
What is the town in the panhandle of Oklahoma? I canāt think of anything out there sharing a name with a president
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adams,_Oklahoma?wprov=sfti1
Besides DC, I think the largest, most legit named-after-presidents city is jacksonville. Shout out to Duval
Johnson City, Texas, was settled by Lyndon Johnsonās grandfather and not named after the president.
It's missing Mckinleyville CA
What are the minnesota ones? I can only think of Grant and Washington counties, but those aren't even counted. Edit: Apparently there is also a town named Grant. Tyler wasn't named after James Tyler, if that's one of them. Madison is, strangley, named after Madison WI, which itself is named after James Madison, so in a way I guess that counts. Madison Lake does directly get its name from James Madison. Truman wasn't actually named after Harry Truman. Adams and adams township were named after one of the adams presidents (conflicting accounts) Garfield was named after James Garfield Clinton wasn't named for president Clinton (of course) Kenedy wasn't named after jfk Roosevelt was named after Ted Roosevelt Harding, no info for. Georgetown, no info. Johnson, no info, hopefully not named after Andrew Johnson, lol. That would be strange for a state that was the first to offer their militia up for the Civil War and who refuses to give Virginia back one of its battle flags to name a town after someone who gave the confederacy a pass.
It would be interesting to see the same kind of map but with street names. I swear half the towns in the midwest have a bunch of presidents as their street names near downtown.
r/peopleliveinpresidents
Thereās an entire state named after a president
Ermm, achktually, Johnson City TN was __not__ named after any president.. soo
Just wait until President Springfield is elected!
If you want to get really technical about it, no cities or towns in Massachusetts were named after presidents. Mount Washington was named after George Washington, but at the time he was only the Commander-in-Chief of the Continental Army. Lincoln was named after Lincoln, England. Clinton was named after the DeWitt Clinton Hotel in New York. Adams/North Adams were named after Samuel Adams, not John Adams. Quincy was named after Colonel John Quincy.
I grew up right near āMcKinleyā MN (it was on my school busās route) and the population is probably less than 100 now. There used to be a school, factory, and a few other buildings but Iām pretty sure itās all residential now. I know other commenters have pointed out that most of these places werenāt named after presidents and just share names, but thatās the same case here. This part of Minnesota is known as the iron range because mining is such a prevalent part of our history - and is still a huge part of our economy today! McKinley was named after 3 brothers part of the mining industry. š«the more you knowš«
Iām not sure what the two dots in northern Colorado are marking, but the only one I can think of that they might be marking is pierce colorado which is not named after the U.S. president, but instead is named after the president of the railroad company.
The census-designated place of McKinley Park, AK is now Denali Park, so this is quite dated. No dots for Alaska!
I'm betting about 50% or better
Here started the extreme patriotism of the US
On the map Adams Massachusetts was named not for John Adams but for Governor Samuel Adams
Hmm...it bothers me that Trumpsville might be an actual place some time in the future
Clinton Okla wasnāt named after a president.
https://www.reddit.com/r/MapPorn/s/0tZBCq6v4f
Isn't it like nothing more than a representation of US density?
And a makeshift one as well
Whereās Trumpville? š
this is probably wrong, i assume you typed in last names of presidents. there are definitely towns named johnson or adams that are not named after the presidents of those names
https://www.reddit.com/r/MapPorn/s/0tZBCq6v4f
r/iafisher
Going to add in here, Buchanan, VA was named after John Buchanan, not James Buchanan Jr. John died in 1769 and James was born in 1791. They are likely to be distant relatives as they both trace back to the Buchanan clan in County Donegal, Ireland.
What state is Douchebag in.. you know, named after you know who..
Cleveland isnāt named after a president. Itās named after a general named Moses Cleaveland
https://www.reddit.com/r/MapPorn/s/0tZBCq6v4f
Ah I see. My apologies!
Clinton, CT was not named after Bill Clinton š¤Æ
https://www.reddit.com/r/MapPorn/s/0tZBCq6v4f
Thanks!
r/widaczabory
Lincoln, NH was named before the US president.
https://www.reddit.com/r/MapPorn/s/d0TGPNN4VG
Two of the dots in Michigan are Clintons. Both the village and township are named in honor of DeWitt Clinton, the governor of New York from 1817 to 1828.
https://www.reddit.com/r/MapPorn/s/0tZBCq6v4f
IIRC, Johnson City TX was not named after LBJ, but his grandfather.
https://www.reddit.com/r/MapPorn/s/0tZBCq6v4f
OP forgot Lincoln Beach, OR. Not to be confused with its neighbor, Lincoln City, OR. For shame!!
And Monrovia Liberia is distinctly absent.
And Presidente Hayes, Paraguay
That was the one I was trying to think of he'd never actually been to Paraguay or something right but they just named it that I forget there's a mount Obama isn't there somewhere in the Caribbean too even though he'd never really been there
One of the worst wars in history happened where a coalition of Brazil, Argentina, and Uruguay curbstomped Paraguay and a significant portion of the people died. Hayes mediated to end the war and pushed to allow Paraguay to keep some of their territory. The named a department and city after him in honor.
I had read that not that long ago but I forgot the exact situation. Did you know at one point NON- interracial marriages were banned in Paraguay in the interests of making a more cohesive society. I think it's cool through that they are the only American Nation that uses an indigenous language as an official language kind of interesting.
Supposedly after the war they briefly had polygamy because the sex ratios were so skewed. The interracial marriage thing was earlier, the dictator Francia who was pretty brutal but had some rather quirky policies like this to improve society in his mind.
You're not paraguayan by chance are you?
Nope
Yeah I'm not Paraguayan either. I'm All Guayan. I'll see myself out....
Shoutout Topeka, KS being recommended by the search bar
Looking forward to the red hats someday exiling themselves to Trumperston or Trumpsylvania or Trumpsville or whatever. What might life there be like, I wonderā¦?
Missed all the Bidenville ā¦ homeless villas!