Clear County, Colo., had three roads using the word 'sq—' until May 2024, when officials renamed them. Tom Hellauer/Denver Gazette George Floyd’s murder at the hands of a white Minneapolis police ...

George Floyd’s murder at the hands of a white Minneapolis police officer in 2020 only lent urgency to that challenge. These changes have become flash points of community activism and debate, both in ...

Google Maps data can create confusion in landmark names, like the Bridge to Nowhere and delayed updated Goose Creek street ...

Geography has been part of President Trump’s agenda. His first day on the job, he signed an executive order changing the name of the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America, and Denali, the highest peak ...

Different cultures have their own conventions for naming locations, for example in the United Kingdom there are plenty of places named for monarchs, while in many other countries there are not. An ...

“You want the street name to be something people would be proud to live on,” says one developer. But no bad vibes, please. By Joanne Kaufman Since 1998, Lorrie Parise has come up with the names for ...

Apparently, there are as many questions about street names as there are streets. Readers have sent dozens of queries about street names to What the Wisconsin?, the place where the Journal Sentinel ...

You might think 'Main Street' is the most common street name in the US, but think again! Turns out, 'Second' Street takes the top spot, followed by 'Third,' 'First,' and so on. What is the most common ...

I might not be old enough to remember my parents pulling out a paper map in the car when we got lost, but I’m old enough to remember when Apple Maps was the punchline of the navigational world. I ...