J.I. Wall
Repeated County Names in the Southeast
This map shows counties that share the same name across nine states in the southeastern United States (defined as as far north as Kentucky and Virginia and falling east of the Mississippi River).
Franklin is the most common county name, appearing in all nine states. (EDIT: Nope, looking at it again I'm wrong here. There isn't a Franklin County, South Carolina. The ninth Franklin is the independent city of Franklin, Virginia, which the Census Bureau equates as a county for its purposes.)
Lee, Washington, and Madison are next appearing in eight of the nine states. (EDIT: Franklin too here, there isn't a name shared by all nine states in the region!)
The sheer number of repeats makes the map pretty ineffective actually, but it has kindled the idea for a more interactive web map that I sadly don't have the programming chops to pull off at the moment.
Repeated County Names in the Southeast
This map shows counties that share the same name across nine states in the southeastern United States (defined as as far north as Kentucky and Virginia and falling east of the Mississippi River).
Franklin is the most common county name, appearing in all nine states. (EDIT: Nope, looking at it again I'm wrong here. There isn't a Franklin County, South Carolina. The ninth Franklin is the independent city of Franklin, Virginia, which the Census Bureau equates as a county for its purposes.)
Lee, Washington, and Madison are next appearing in eight of the nine states. (EDIT: Franklin too here, there isn't a name shared by all nine states in the region!)
The sheer number of repeats makes the map pretty ineffective actually, but it has kindled the idea for a more interactive web map that I sadly don't have the programming chops to pull off at the moment.