First Street and other numbered streets in Louisville were designed to be perpendicular to the Ohio River. Here's how those ...

NEW YORK (PIX11) – You can explore the history behind co-named streets in New York City through an interactive map. The New York City Department of Records offers an interactive map online that ...

Street maps aren’t always as logical as they look on paper. In several American cities, drivers face odd angles, sudden dead ...

Liberty City is set to become a landmark for music fans as some of Miami's most iconic song titles and phrases will soon be immortalized as street names. The initiative, led by Miami-Dade ...

Numbered streets are the most common form of name in Iowa, followed by directional names and then streets named after presidents or nature, like Washington and Oak, which are in 144 and 145 cities ...

We rely on street names to find our way, but how often do we stop and ponder the stories behind the names? An ongoing project researching the history of Los Altos' street names led by two curious ...

Detroit — Five Detroiters, from a civil rights pioneer and Pistons legend to two musicians, will be honored with secondary street signs in Detroit to recognize their contributions to the city ...

Perhaps unsurprisingly, given the country’s history of colonization, the most common source nation of local place names in 18 ...

Do you recognize these names of Tucsonans involved in the homesteading, subdividing, and street naming of El Encanto Estates in the early 1900s?

Columbus has a sizable list of streets that share names with foreign countries, cities, rivers or mountain ranges.

NEW YORK (PIX11) – If you’ve walked by Houston Street in Manhattan and pronounced it as “Hue-stin,” you wouldn’t be the first person. It’s actually pronounced “H… ...

Virginia Alexandria proposes new street names to represent an inclusive community The names that are being proposed are all prominent African-American figures in Alexandria’s history.