Having explored the spatial distribution of towns as well as villages named for saints, inward my Saints Of Europe interactive map, I was intrigued to run into which towns inward the USA convey been given the names of saints.
Saints as well as Sinners shows the location of towns as well as villages inward the USA which include the prefixes 'St', 'Saint', 'San' or 'Santa'. To add together a picayune spice to the map I equally good added the location of all roads which include 'devil' inward their name. There don't look to endure whatsoever towns or cities inward the U.S. which convey the discussion 'devil' inward their bring upwards - but at that spot are a few streets which convey been inspired past times the devil.
Towns starting alongside the words 'St' or 'Saint' are to a greater extent than oft than non establish inward the eastern states.
As you lot powerfulness facial expression at that spot is a distinct divergence inward the spatial distribution of towns alongside the Castilian prefixes of 'San' as well as 'Santa' as well as those alongside the English linguistic communication prefixes 'St' as well as 'Saint'. Towns as well as cities which kickoff alongside 'San' or 'Santa' tin endure establish most alone inward California as well as inward states bordering United Mexican States (particularly Texas as well as New Mexico). Towns as well as cities starting alongside the words 'St' or 'Saint' are to a greater extent than oft than non establish inward the eastern states.
All the information for the map comes from OpenStreetMap. To become the information I used Overpass Turbo. I queried Overpass Turbo to detect towns as well as cities inward the USA which included the words 'St', 'Saint', 'San' as well as 'Santa'. You tin run into how the Overpass Turbo inquiry is formed inward the event below:
[out:json][timeout:185];
area["name"="United States"]->.boundaryarea;
(
node(area.boundaryarea)[place=town] ["name" "Santa "];
node(area.boundaryarea)[place=city] ["name" "Santa "];
);
// impress results
out body;
>;
out skel qt;
To search for roads named devil you lot merely involve to alter the discussion 'node' to 'way' inward the inquiry as well as delete the filter to search for towns as well as cities (e.g. delete '[place=town]').