As an alternative, the Mormons developed their own style of street names/addresses. It is still in use throughout cities in Utah.
Choose the center point in town. That is 0.
Find the directions, North, South, East, West.
The first street North of 0 is named 100 North. The second street North is named 200 North, etc.
The first street East is called 100 East. And so on.
Naturally, a buildings address will be a number between streets. e.g. 323 East 200 South, or 577 West 1200 North. Normally, even numbers are on the North and East sides of a street, while odd numbers are on the South and West sides.
Its very simple to pinpoint a location in town with only the address to go by.
Just thought I would toss that out there for those that dont know.
Desert Names
(ghost towns)
Alamo Crossing
Alexandra
Allen
American Flag
Aubrey Landing
Bellevue
BigBug
Bradshaw
Bueno
Bumble Bee
Calabasas
Castls Dome Landing
Catoctin
Cedar
Cerbat
Cerron Colorado
Chaparral
Charleston
Cherry
Chilito
Christmas
Chrysolite
Clarkston
Cleator
Clip
Cochran
Columbia
Congress
Constellation
Contention
Copper Creek
Copper Hill
Courtland
Crown King
(those are just the first three letters in the book I'm reading.)
Theres about a 170 ghost towns listed in Arizona.
Out here in the wild west of Las Vegas, I live in a development called Copperhead. I guess they fashioned it after the old west as some of the streets have names like:
Smoking Gun Court
Bronco Billy Way
Wagon Wheel Cir
Copperkeg
Defiance
When we were picking out the house and where it was to be placed, I told my husband there was no way I was living on Bronco Billy Court.
In my house, dog hair sticks to everything but the dog.
My brother lives in an area called 'Mallard Lake Estates' and all streets are named after 'ducks' such as, Red Wing, Merganser, Blackduck, CanvasBack, Widgeon...you get the idea. Have fun!
In California Spanish names are popular. To any of these names add Avenue, Way, Drive, Street, Place, Circle, Lane or Court.
El Cajon
Valencia
Paloma
Ensenada
Don Carlos
Maria
Rio Grande
Alturas
El Camino Real
Adobe Creek
Alta Sierra
Arguello
Buena Vista
Carmellia
De Anza
Del Norte
El Dorado
El Capitan
El Monte
Junipero Sierra
Rosario
San Mateo
Santa Clara
San Joaquin
Pomona
Villalobos
I'f your creating a world carelessly you could name Glitch ave and have that street horribly paved and every house on it have some sort of books shelf or chair merged with itself so it flashes.
In the UK, street names tend to be named by the use and shape and formation of the buildings adjoining it.
For example:
- Way, - Drive, - Lane, tend to be small streets, mostly residential
- Circle, is often commercial, where buildings form around a roundabout
- Crescent, quite often residential, a semi circle formation of terrace (row) houses, the most famous example being the Royal Crescent in Bath.
- Green, - Common, tend to be in low density residential areas where the surrounding houses overlook a park green or large public lawn.
- Close, don't tend to conform to a road, instead, a road shoots off a road, with an open car park at the end, and houses (mostly terrace) surround and encompass it, without any strict adherence to pattern)
I use to use Google maps to find road names in different areas. You can go down to street level and see all the road names on the maps - anywhere they offer google maps.
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Rflong7, Here in West Virginia ,they have a habit of naming way too many roads Lick or Run . Such as log Lick Run , Deer Run or even Goat Lick . Makes for an interesting drive in the country .
Rflong7, Here in West Virginia ,they have a habit of naming way too many roads Lick or Run . Such as log Lick Run , Deer Run or even Goat Lick . Makes for an interesting drive in the country .
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Moonlite Park Ave.
Seaglass Way
Choose the center point in town. That is 0.
Find the directions, North, South, East, West.
The first street North of 0 is named 100 North. The second street North is named 200 North, etc.
The first street East is called 100 East. And so on.
Naturally, a buildings address will be a number between streets. e.g. 323 East 200 South, or 577 West 1200 North. Normally, even numbers are on the North and East sides of a street, while odd numbers are on the South and West sides.
Its very simple to pinpoint a location in town with only the address to go by.
Just thought I would toss that out there for those that dont know.
(ghost towns)
Alamo Crossing
Alexandra
Allen
American Flag
Aubrey Landing
Bellevue
BigBug
Bradshaw
Bueno
Bumble Bee
Calabasas
Castls Dome Landing
Catoctin
Cedar
Cerbat
Cerron Colorado
Chaparral
Charleston
Cherry
Chilito
Christmas
Chrysolite
Clarkston
Cleator
Clip
Cochran
Columbia
Congress
Constellation
Contention
Copper Creek
Copper Hill
Courtland
Crown King
(those are just the first three letters in the book I'm reading.)
Theres about a 170 ghost towns listed in Arizona.
DocSprock- that is cool about SLC names. Makes a lot of sense, even if removes a lot of charm from the city.
I decided to do desert names for Rattlesnake Ridge.
Kalahari
Namib
Owami
Sahara
Akshi
Gobi
Ordos
Taklamakan
Tahami
Accona
Olesky
Tabernas
Wahiba Sands
Mojave
Sonoran
Atacama
La Guajira
Sechura
Monte
Colorado
Ramlat
Piscinas
Rangipo
Kyzyl Kum
Kara Kum
And those are just the ones I found interesting. Here is an entire list of all the world's deserts...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_deserts
You could also do fish species - I've seen that in some towns built up because of proximity to a lake - Bass Avenue, Waleye Way, Guppy Street.
If you have a tropical paradise, look up what birds and reptiles might be there. Sea Turtle Grange would be a cool one
Have something up in the mountains - mountain range names. There's tons of those. Something that is a city - then why not chose city names.
Boston Boulevard
New York Strip
Las Vegas Parkway
San Diego Drive
Rocks would be an interesting thing to name streets after -
Gold Dust Circle
Granite Ridge Road
Feldespar Terrace
Those are what I can come up with right now
God Bless,
mik
Smoking Gun Court
Bronco Billy Way
Wagon Wheel Cir
Copperkeg
Defiance
When we were picking out the house and where it was to be placed, I told my husband there was no way I was living on Bronco Billy Court.
Ramblings (that's the name of the world i am building)
Coffee (takes a sip lol)
Stopping way
Debug Ally
Fallow Corners 8)
eg - Long Hill is a road in our area
In some place they use native/indigenous words for street and town names.
eg North America : eg Squamish, Niagra, ...etc
Australian : Joondalup, Kakadu, Burrendah
El Cajon
Valencia
Paloma
Ensenada
Don Carlos
Maria
Rio Grande
Alturas
El Camino Real
Adobe Creek
Alta Sierra
Arguello
Buena Vista
Carmellia
De Anza
Del Norte
El Dorado
El Capitan
El Monte
Junipero Sierra
Rosario
San Mateo
Santa Clara
San Joaquin
Pomona
Villalobos
For example:
- Way, - Drive, - Lane, tend to be small streets, mostly residential
- Circle, is often commercial, where buildings form around a roundabout
- Crescent, quite often residential, a semi circle formation of terrace (row) houses, the most famous example being the Royal Crescent in Bath.
- Green, - Common, tend to be in low density residential areas where the surrounding houses overlook a park green or large public lawn.
- Close, don't tend to conform to a road, instead, a road shoots off a road, with an open car park at the end, and houses (mostly terrace) surround and encompass it, without any strict adherence to pattern)
Goingwong Way
Sitonicend Culdyersack
Gotinboatand Road
Goodbyeand Highway
Openand Close
Hope you like :XD:
Please don't close, It took many pages to find.
"Games Are Not The Place To Tell Stories, Games Are Meant To Let People Tell Their Own Stories"...Will Wright.
In dreams - I LIVE!
In REALITY, I simply exist.....
It's a good idea.
Hi, RLP4444wildblue
I didn't know. Thanks for sharing.