ALL STREETS

Ohio Avenue, Texas Street: street names that match state names

Our counts from the Census Bureau's TIGER/Line Feature Names files: 8,261,451 streets in 3,231 counties.

Our take written by All Streets

Washington appears as an exact base name on 12,452 streets, whoever or whatever the name refers to. Virginia appears on 3,540 streets and Ohio on 2,194, with 260 of the Ohio streets inside Ohio.

California appears on 1,608 streets, 444 of them in California, and Texas on 1,483, 477 of them in Texas. North Dakota appears on 138 streets, none in North Dakota.

Our reading of the counts on this page. It adds no facts of its own.

Our count of Census linear features (streets, as defined in the method note), by exact base name, whatever the name refers to, with how many lie in the state of that name.
Base nameStreetsIn the matching state
Washington12,452317
Virginia3,540219
Ohio2,194260
Delaware2,14157
Michigan2,125433
Pennsylvania1,956300
Indiana1,710329
Georgia1,687158
Colorado1,642234
California1,608444
Florida1,488317
Iowa1,487257
Texas1,483477
Illinois1,468378
Kentucky1,466140
Kansas1,392426
Oregon1,301113
Maryland1,278110
Alabama1,180163
Montana1,116126
Vermont1,1157
Nevada1,09843
Missouri1,078247
Idaho942111
Tennessee93194
Wisconsin930338
Arizona887123
Minnesota850199
New York84678
Wyoming84538
Louisiana826161
Utah82613
Nebraska821123
Oklahoma721294
Mississippi66054
Arkansas601110
Connecticut47726
Massachusetts46265
Rhode Island41517
Maine41038
Alaska36715
New Jersey33677
New Hampshire2938
West Virginia28729
Hawaii2389
North Carolina15624
North Dakota1380
South Carolina1249
New Mexico11614
South Dakota11618

Rows from the Census files

Verbatim field values from the county Feature Names files behind this page's counts. Each is one edge record; our count treats each LINEARID as one street.

File (county)TLIDLINEARIDFULLNAMENAMEPREDIRABRVPRETYPABRVSUFTYPABRVSUFDIRABRVMTFCCPAFLAG
tl_2025_39029_featnames.zip
Columbiana County, Ohio
636442531101009484690Ohio AveOhioAveS1400P
tl_2025_40029_featnames.zip
Coal County, Oklahoma
1172796171101016211800California AveCaliforniaAveS1400P
tl_2025_41015_featnames.zip
Curry County, Oregon
1371119261101025900124California StCaliforniaStS1400P

Our checker re-read these rows from census.gov on October 14.

How we counted

Method note Our count of Census linear features (streets, as defined in the method note): one street is one LINEARID that carries a primary name (PAFLAG P) on at least one edge classed S1200 or S1400, with a non-blank NAME, across 3,234 of the 3,235 county files; the file for St. John, U.S. Virgin Islands was answered by the Census server with a "Request Rejected" page and is left out. A name counts once per LINEARID, so a road the Census splits into several linear features counts more than once. Full method and definitions →

The MAF/TIGER System breaks/ends linear elemental features when the feature name changes. All spelling differences result in a new feature. Features will also break at county boundaries, changes in primary/alternate designation, MTFCC, and gaps in the geometry.
Census Bureau: TIGER/Line Shapefiles Technical Documentation (PDF) · our check found this text on October 14

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