Two Kansas Citys: Yes, I seem to have misspelled "Citys," but I did that for a reason. Kansas City is the name of the city, so if you use the plural, it should be "City" with an "s"...

jerryc41 Loc: Catskill Mts of NY

Yes, I seem to have misspelled "Citys," but I did that for a reason. Kansas City is the name of the city, so if you use the plural, it should be "City" with an "s" tacked onto the end. There are other examples which elude me at the moment.

I finally found out why there are two cities with that name. Before Kansas and Missouri were states, people were living in the border area between what would become states. Still, I think it's a ridiculous situation because "Kansas City" is virtually never followed by the name of the state. But I guess I shouldn't complain about place names because my state has - "Swastika, NY." I wonder what the town logo looks like. 😁

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swastika,_New_York

"At around the same time, settlement was beginning along the river bottoms in Wyandotte County just across the border in the state of Kansas. So from the 1850s on there were two Kansas Cities, divided by the Missouri-Kansas state line, and both grew from a consolidation of villages rather than from a single unit."

http://plainshumanities.unl.edu/encyclopedia/doc/egp.ct.028#:~:text=At%20around%20the%20same%20time,than%20from%20a%20single%20unit.

Shellback Loc: North of Cheyenne Bottoms Wetlands - Kansas

Yep - Sis-in-law lives in KC Missouri and her son lives a couple of miles away in KC, Kansas - and both say their from Kansas City

jerryc41 Loc: Catskill Mts of NY

Shellback wrote:

Yep - Sis-in-law lives in KC Missouri and her son lives a couple of miles away in KC, Kansas - and both say their from Kansas City

Funny. I always wondered about that song.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oj5drFXNnEI

Bartulius Loc: Bristol, Ct

More city trivia for those who love it. There are 34 states with a Springfield. Forty-Six states have a Riverside. There are 838 Burlingtons in the U.S. with Texas claiming 91 of them. I guess that's why we use Zip Codes.
Connecticut has a Berlin; during WWII they began placing the emphasis on the other syllable. They still do.

hippi Loc: Sedalia MO

the giveaway is 12 street and vine that is on the Mo. side and there were all kinds of juke joints around this aera.

tomad Loc: North Carolina

There are two Memphis's in different states as well, Tennessee and Arkansas, only seperated by the Mississippi River. They named the one in Arkansas "West" Memphis to avoid confusion. There is also an East St Louis in Illinois across the river from St Louis Missouri. I guess Kansas City Missouri should be renamed East Kansas City.

dcma2005 Loc: Waterbury, Connecticut

Bartulius wrote:

More city trivia for those who love it. There are 34 states with a Springfield. Forty-Six states have a Riverside. There are 838 Burlingtons in the U.S. with Texas claiming 91 of them. I guess that's why we use Zip Codes.
Connecticut has a Berlin; during WWII they began placing the emphasis on the other syllable. They still do.

And Connecticut also has a town named Southbury. It is the only town or city named Southbury in the United States. There is even a sign in the town commemorating this factoid.

I also believe it is the only town or city in the world named Southbury. At least that is what Google told me recently and we all know that whatever we read on the internet is always true.

jerryc41 Loc: Catskill Mts of NY

Bartulius wrote:

More city trivia for those who love it. There are 34 states with a Springfield. Forty-Six states have a Riverside. There are 838 Burlingtons in the U.S. with Texas claiming 91 of them. I guess that's why we use Zip Codes.
Connecticut has a Berlin; during WWII they began placing the emphasis on the other syllable. They still do.

Yes, Springfield is definitely a popular name. They make comical references to that in The Simpsons, and we never know what state they are in.

TheShoe Loc: Lacey, WA

jerryc41 wrote:

... Still, I think it's a ridiculous situation because "Kansas City" is virtually never followed by the name of the state. ...

I lived in Missouri and Kansas for over 30 years and the rule was if the state was not mentioned, it was Kansas City, Missouri.

M1911 Loc: DFW Metromess

There is also Kansas City North. But the common abbreviation for For Kansas City Missouri is KCMO.

KillroyII Loc: Middle Georgia

Augusta in Georgia and South Carolina. They call it North Augusta in South Carolina

SteveFranz Loc: Durham, NC

And don't forget the city of Texarkana.

Texas - Arkansas state line runs through the middle of a street - appropriately named State Line Avenue.

John7199 Loc: Eastern Mass.

Bartulius wrote:

More city trivia for those who love it. There are 34 states with a Springfield. Forty-Six states have a Riverside. There are 838 Burlingtons in the U.S. with Texas claiming 91 of them. I guess that's why we use Zip Codes.
Connecticut has a Berlin; during WWII they began placing the emphasis on the other syllable. They still do.

New Hampshire also has a Berlin, with the emphasis on the second syllable, ber-LIN.

Drbobcameraguy Loc: Eaton Ohio

Shellback wrote:

Yep - Sis-in-law lives in KC Missouri and her son lives a couple of miles away in KC, Kansas - and both say their from Kansas City

I used to live in Kansas City Kansas. At the time it was dry on Sunday so we would go to Kansas City Missouri for beer on Sunday. Lol

TheShoe Loc: Lacey, WA

M1911 wrote:

There is also Kansas City North. But the common abbreviation for For Kansas City Missouri is KCMO.

The name is actually North Kansas City, Missouri. It is a small town, of approximately 4000 residents, on the North side of the Missouri River. It was built and incorporated after the levees on that side were completed in 1911. At the time, it was North of Kansas City, hence its name. It is now enapsulated by Kansas City.