List of places with numeric names

The following list contains places which uses a number as its name.

6

• Six, West Virginia
• Sixes, Georgia
• Sixes, Oregon - Accounts vary as to the origin of the name "Sixes". The community was named after the river. One local postmaster said Sixes was named for a Native American chief.

8

• Eight, West Virginia

20

• Twenty, Lincolnshire

29

• Twentynine Palms, California

56

• Fifty-Six, Arkansas - When founding the community in 1918, locals submitted the name "Newcomb" for the settlement. This request was rejected, and the federal government internally named the community for its school district number (56).^[1] It has frequently been noted on lists of unusual place names.^[2][3]

60

• Hatvan - A town in Hungary located 60 km from the capital city.

66

• Sixty Six, South Carolina

76

• Seventy Six, Kentucky
• Seventy-Six, Missouri

84

• Eighty Four, Pennsylvania - Eighty Four was originally named Smithville. Due to postal confusion with another town of the same name, its name was changed to "Eighty Four" on July 28, 1884.^[4]

88

• Eighty Eight, Kentucky - As reported in a New York Times article, the town was named in 1860 by Dabnie Nunnally, the community's first postmaster. He had little faith in the legibility of his handwriting, and thought that using numbers would solve the problem. He then reached into his pocket and came up with 88 cents.^[5] Another explanation is that the hamlet is 8.8 miles from Glasgow.^[6]

96

• Ninety Six, South Carolina - There is much confusion about the mysterious name, "Ninety-Six," and the true origin may never be known. Speculation has led to the mistaken belief that it was 96 miles to the nearest Cherokee settlement of Keowee; to a counting of creeks crossing the main road leading from Lexington, SC, to Ninety-Six; to an interpretation of a Welsh expression, "nant-sych," meaning "dry gulch."

100

• Hundred, West Virginia - It was named for Henry Church and his wife, the first settlers who lived to be 109 and 106. Hundred is the only place in the United States with this name.

101

• Wonowon, British Columbia - located at Mile 101 on Highway 97, the Alaska Highway.

1770

• Seventeen Seventy, Queensland - Although the town is referred to locally as "1770", the official name of the town is "Seventeen Seventy".

40,010

• Shimanto, Kōchi, Japan

References

1. ↑ Earngey, Bill. "Arkansas Roadsides." 1978 East Mountain Press. Eureka Springs, Arkansas. pp. 32. ISBN 0-9619592-0-7.
2. ↑ Thompson, George E. (2009). You Live Where?: Interesting and Unusual Facts about where We Live. iUniverse. p. 7. 
3. ↑ "Colorful Names". Arkansas Department of Parks & Tourism. Archived from the original on November 24, 2013. Retrieved 14 July 2014.  CS1 maint: Unfit url (link)
4. ↑ "Eighty-four, Pa. turns 100". The Ledger. The Associated Press. 1984-07-28. Retrieved 2009-10-02. 
5. ↑ Wheeler, Lonnie (1988-08-05). "Eighty Eight Journal; A Date That Will Live in Kentucky". New York Times. Retrieved 2007-11-22. 
6. ↑ Rennick, Robert M. (1987). Kentucky Place Names. University Press of Kentucky. p. 90. Retrieved 2013-04-28.