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Urban Place Names in New York StateRen Vasiliev, Ph.D
Professor of GeographyState University of New York, College at Geneseo
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Manhattan, Kansas
Syracuse, Kansas
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Ithaca Pop. 30,054
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Montezuma, NYA port on the Erie Canal, both the original 1825 build and during the enlargement in 1849, when this aqueduct over the Seneca River was built.
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Downtown Eden in
Western New York, outside of Buffalo
Ross Lake in
Sodom, NY, in
the Adirondacks
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62 Cities in New York State
Smallest: Sherrill Oneida County, pop. 3,147
Largest: New York Pop. 8,550,405
NYC is Five Boroughs:Bronx, Brooklyn, Manhattan, Queens, Richmond (Staten Island)Each borough is a NYS county.
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Buffalo Pop. 261,025
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Buffalo Pop. 261,025
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RochesterPop. 210,855
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Syracuse Pop. 145,151
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Utica Pop. 62,110
RomePop. 33,660
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Albany Pop.97,660
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Plattsburgh Pop. 19,949
United States Board on Geographic Names in 1906 was given the authority to determine and change place names. The following 12 principles relating to geographic names in the United States were recommended by the Board in 1933 . . .
8. Drop the “h” in “burgh.”
The Plattsburgh Post Office got its “h” back in 1951.
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Binghamton Pop. 46,996
The confluence of the Chenango and Susquehanna Rivers
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New York Pop. 8,550,405
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Who standardized city street names in New York City?
Numbering Instead of Naming Street Names
The grid was imposed in 1811.
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Who standardized city streets in New York State?
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Park 451Maple 314Lake 292Sunset 245Pine 243Main 228Oak 222North 210First/1st 203River 202
The most popular street names in New York State
Most Popular Street Names in the US
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Signpost in Maine, but New York State has all of these place names, also.
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Further Reading
And everything in the sources in these books.
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Definitions*
URBAN
: of, relating to, characteristic of, or constituting a city
CITY
d : a usually large or important municipality in the U.S. governed under a charter granted by the state
* From Merriam-Webster Unabridged