Do the street names in your neighborhood have a theme?

[KelNottAt]

If so, what is it?

Mine is a certain mystery detective: Conan Doyle, Sherlock Holmes, Watson, Elementary, etc.

There's a community with a stone theme: Granite, Marble, etc.

And one with New England theme: Nantucket, Pawtucket, Cohasset

I used to make fun of themed street names. Now I just shrug, whatev.

I suppose it's harder than we realize to think up new names.

 

[wowsmom]

My neighborhood doesn't, but my friend's neighborhood does. Streets there include Pirate, Phantom, Vigilance, and Heroic.

 

[LiteBrite]

I live in a subdivision in Florida that was new in the 1960s, and all the streets are named for tropical flowers - Hibiscus, Poinciana, Nandina, etc.

 

[becka]

Our neighborhood is plant names (flowers, trees, etc). Our old neighborhood was horse racing names: Triple Crown, Derby Ride, Typhoon, Seabiscuit, etc..

 

[Cindy B]

Yes--they are all state names

Around here it is:

Pennsylvania
Massachusetts
Rhode Island
Connecticut
Maine
New Hampshire

In another development it is authors:

Longfellow
Kipling
Walt Whitman
Keats

 

[Caboosey]

37th Avenue, 38th Avenue, 39th Avenue... 59th Street, 60th Street, 61st Street... pretty boring, but pretty easy to find your way around!

 

[wishuponastarforever]

Yes - our streets are named after lakes. It's funny though since we have small ponds in our neighborhood - not lakes.

 

[KelNottAt]

Yes--they are all state names

Around here it is:

Pennsylvania
Massachusetts
Rhode Island
Connecticut
Maine
New Hampshire

In another development it is authors:

Longfellow
Kipling
Walt Whitman
Keats

I know of a suburb of Washington (Derwood, Md) that fits this description.

 

[Fairy Dust]

Not here, but I lived where they named the roads after different heathers (small flowering shrubs).


Lots of new estates have themed names.

 

[lucas]

My neighborhood streets are named for trees.

 

[mommasita]

Our streets are named after heroes from the war.

 

[Magickndm]

My neighborhood is all horse related names. Thoroughbred, Percheron, etc.

 

[Mono~rail]

The neighborhood we live in now doesn't have a theme to the street names -- the streets are just random names.

My friend lives in a new subdivision and the 4 streets all have the same name but with a direction: North Cade, South Cade, West Cade, East Cade. I've always thought those street names are a bit odd.

 

[monkeyboy]

Mine are:

Candi Circle
Bambi Blvd

 

[MomofKatie]

Is "silly, made-up and hard to pronounce" a theme? If so, our subdivision has a theme. Street names:

Bikar
Thicketty
Enderbury
Ponape
Mortlock
Makin
Bonaba

I think the builder was smoking something when he came up with those names...

 

[Mono~rail]

I forgot about the neighborhood I grew up in. It was called Sherwood Forest and all the streets followed that theme. I can't remember any of the street names, but they all had to do with Robin Hood.

 

[katerkat]

Some of the streets in my neighborhood are trees. My street doesn't fit in the theme. The other base neighborhood are state names.

In Mississippi, the base had two housing areas - Capital Village and State Village. The main road in CV was, of course, Capital Ave, and the rest of the were state capitals. SV was state names.

 

[kctwinmommy]

Not really in any one area, but they do go kind of alphabetically. So, there's a bunch of P streets, then O's, N's, M's, etc... But I think it only goes to about the K's.

The town I used to work in had areas though with themes. Army Generals: MacArthur, Stonewall, Jackson, etc... Then they had some flowers, trees, the basic things that I think a lot of towns do.

 

[tonilea]

One of the nice things about theme names is law enforcement can head to the general direction (expecially if they are not really familiar with the area) while they get better information from dispatch.

 

[TKERBELL]

Our are all named for Golf Courses

St. Andrews
Spyglass Hill
Cypress Point
Augusta
Torrey Pines
Pebble Beach


There are so many many more - but those are a few off the top of my head