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Do the names of any cities or towns begin with a number?

Question #108009. Asked by serpa.
Last updated May 17 2021.

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One of them is:

Twentynine Palms (also 29 Palms), a city in San Bernardino County, California, United States. The population was 14,764 at the 2000 census.
link https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twentynine_Palms,_California

And, there is:
Two Rivers, Wisconsin
link http://www.two-rivers.org

And:
Thousand Oaks, a city in southeastern Ventura County, California.
link https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thousand_Oaks,_California


Response last updated by gtho4 on May 17 2021.
Aug 15 2009, 12:57 AM
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And in Australia, we have Seventeen Seventy, QLD.

link http://www.australiantraveller.com/index.php?view=article&id=3803

Nine Mile, VIC
Eighteen Mile, NSW
Four Corners, NSW
Four Mile Creek, NSW
Seven Hills, NSW
Seven Oaks, NSW
Ten Mile Hollow, NSW
Third Creek, NSW (third being an ordinal rather than a cardinal number)
Twelve Mile, NSW
Twelve Mile Creek, NSW
Twenty Forests, NSW
Two Mile Flat, NSW
Eight Mile Creek, QLD
Eight Mile Plains, QLD
Forty Mile, QLD
Four Mile Beach, QLD
Four Ways, QLD
Nine Mile, QLD
Nine Mile Creek, QLD
Seven Hills, QLD
Seventeen Mile, QLD
Seventy Mile, QLD
Three Moon, QLD
Three Rivers, QLD
Two Mile, QLD

And more in other states and territories! Australian settlers had a real propensity for naming their settlements after the distance they were from the last town.

link http://www.postcodes-australia.com/

Aug 15 2009, 1:47 AM
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There are many place names that begin with a number name, as listed above. I'm thinking the question means the place name begins with a numeral. Made-up example: 4ever, Tennessee. I don't know of any such, but there may be.

Meanwhile, the name that gets me is Wonowon, BC (Canada). It's located at mile 101 of the Alaska Highway.
link https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wonowon,_British_Columbia

Aug 15 2009, 2:30 AM
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Septfontaines in Luxembourg might do as well.
link https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Septfontaines
And in the Netherlands there is Driebergen. link https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Driebergen
France has - apart from such places as Les Deux-Alpes, Colombey-les-Deux Eglises which are not really perfect examples - a commune called Troisfontaines. link https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Troisfontaines

Aug 15 2009, 4:27 AM
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Tripoli (in both Lebanon and Libya) means "tree cities".

link https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tripoli

Dreikirchen, Germany, means "three churches".

link https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dreikirchen

Zweibrücken, Germany, means "two bridges".

link https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zweibr%C3%BCcken

Aug 15 2009, 8:29 AM
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Big Bill Voiselle was a major league baseball player/pitcher in the 1940's who wore jersey # 96 to honor his hometown of Ninety Six, South Carolina.

Aug 15 2009, 6:09 PM
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In Israel there is a place called simply "Shiváh" (Seven).

Aug 15 2009, 7:37 PM
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In Germany, we have four villages whose names do not only START with numbers. Their names ARE actually numbers.

Drei (i.e. three)
Vier (i.e. four)
Acht (i.e. eight)
Vierzehn (i.e. fourteen)

link https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ortsname#Zahlen_als_Ortsnamen

Nov 30 2020, 4:06 PM
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Alberta, Canada has Onefour, Two Hills, Three Hills, Seven Persons, and Manyberries. link https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_communities_in_Alberta

Dec 01 2020, 4:27 PM
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