The Alphabetical Place Names Game

[1gemstone]

Utah 

[Qapla]

On 10/28/2017 at 11:18 AM, Qapla said:

Just a thought, not exactly off topic, but not a "place name" .....

 

We now have nearly 500 posts in this thread. We have gone through the alphabet several times. What I have started doing is to search the forum for a place name before I post it so I won't repeat one that has already been used

 

 

So far, I don't think we have repeated, but ........

 

 

This is the fourth time Utah has been used - 

 

• This latest post - 1 Gemstone
• October 27 - 1 Gemstone
• September 28 - mserskine
• May 22 - Friends just call me Ross

 

[Raven]

On 11/20/2017 at 1:27 PM, Qapla said:

 

This is the fourth time Utah has been used - 

 

• This latest post - 1 Gemstone
• October 27 - 1 Gemstone
• September 28 - mserskine
• May 22 - Friends just call me Ross

 

Good work, brother.

 

It's a lot to search through 20 pages of thread.

[Good-O]

Valdosta, GA 

[mserskine]

Walla Walla, Washington

[Alexa]

Alabang, las piñas city

[GeordieGirl]

10 minutes ago, Alexa said:

Alabang, las piñas city

Need X, Y, and Z before A again, Alexa.  

 

Last word: Walla Walla, Washington

 

Xochimilco in  Mexico
 

Edited December 8, 2017 by GeordieGirl

[Alexa]

Thank you sis terri I appreciate you

 

Yen, las piñas

 

 

[GeordieGirl]

Zilzie, Queensland

 

 Zilzie is a town on the Capricorn Coast in Queensland, Australia. The town is located on the Pacific Ocean coast, 685 kilometres (426 mi) north west of the state capital, Brisbane and 46 kilometres (29 mi) east of the city of Rockhampton.  At the 2006 census, Zilzie had a population of 1,153. (Taken from Wikipedia)  The nearest congregation is at Yeppon, 24 klms away.

Edited December 8, 2017 by GeordieGirl

[Alexa]

Alabang, las pinas city 

 

[GeordieGirl]

Basingstoke. 

 

A small country town in Hampshire, England. Beautiful countryside with rolling green hills.  One of the 3 so-called home counties where lots of wealthier people live and the cost of living is higher because of it.

 

There are 4 congregations there - 3 English and 1 Nepali.

[Alexa]

Camia caloocan city

[Qapla]

Douglas, Georgia, USA

 

Douglas is a city in Coffee County, Georgia, United States with a population of 11,589.

 

Douglas was founded in 1855 as the seat of the newly formed Coffee County - it was chartered as a town in 1895 and as a city in 1897. 

 

It was named for Senator Stephen A. Douglas from Illinois, a renowned stump speaker who was the challenger to Abraham Lincoln in the presidential election of 1860.

 

In 1895, the railroad came to Douglas and the community began to boom. In 1909, the Georgia and Florida Railway located its offices in Douglas. During the 1920s and 1930s, Douglas was one of the major tobacco markets in the state. Much of this history is depicted in the Heritage Station Museum, located in the former Georgia and Florida Railway train station on Ward Street in downtown Douglas.

 

Douglas is located near the center of Coffee County 59 miles driving distance northeast of Valdosta, Georgia, 115 miles driving distance northwest of Jacksonville, Florida, and 201 miles driving distance southeast of Atlanta - and a 3 hour drive North of my house

 

There is one KH in Douglas. It is located on Ocilla Highway (GA Hwy 32 E). There are two Congregations sharing the Hall - one English, one Spanish. Our Congregation recently received a letter from Douglas because a former Brother from our Hall, who was D/F while a member of our Congregation, was reinstated

 

There are some nice pictures here.

[Good-O]

Eunice

City in Louisiana

Eunice is a city in Acadia and St. Landry parishes in the U.S. state of Louisiana. The 2010 census placed the population at 10,398, a decrease of 1,101, or 9.5 percent, from the 2000 tabulation of 11,499.Wikipedia

Weather: 68°F (20°C), Wind SW at 7 mph (11 km/h), 37% Humidity

Hotels: 3-star averaging $113. View hotels

Zip code: 70535

Incorporated (town): June 4, 1895

Parishes: Acadia Parish, Louisiana, St. Landry Parish, Louisiana

 

One Kingdom Hall.  

[Good-O]

Ferriday, LA

 

one KH

[njwinans]

Greenmont, WV. 

 

One congregation.

[Good-O]

Hammond, LA

 

(close to New Orleans)

[Alexa]

Ilang ilang st, caloocan city

[Good-O]

Jefferson Island, Louisiana 

[Alexa]

Kingstown subd, ph

[Good-O]

Levonia, LA

[Qapla]

Micanopy, Fl

 

Micanopy is a town in Alachua County, Florida, United States, located south of Gainesville with a population of about 600. The town center is designated as a historic district, listed on the National Register of Historic Places. It contains a number of antique stores, as well as several restaurants. It is also known for being the filming location of the 1991 romantic comedy, Doc Hollywood.

 

The Town of Micanopy (mick-ah-No-pee) encompasses 1.03 square miles near the Alachua-Marion County line between Gainesville (home of the University of Forida) and Ocala (the horse capital of the world) in rural north- central Florida. Micanopy's 605 residents occupy 300 residences. The beautiful southern community was named for Seminole Chief Micanopy (ca.1780-1849).

Micanopy is the oldest inland town in Florida having been included in a land grant made by the King of Spain in 1817 to Don Fernando del la Maza Arrendondo of Havana and St. Augustine. The town center is designated as a historic district, listed on the National Register of Historic Places. It contains a number of antique stores, as well as several restaurants. It is also been used by Hollywood filmmakers for such films as Doc Hollywood, Cross Creek, and most recently, The History Channel's, Top Gear.

 

Micanopy has one English Congregation that meets in a rural Hall down a road on the south end of the town.

 

[Pabo]

Nowhere Else - Tasmania

[Qapla]

Ocklawaha, Florida

 

Ocklawaha is an unincorporated community in Marion County, Florida. The community took its name from the nearby Ocklawaha River and is located between the Ocklawaha River and Lake Weir

 

In 1935, Ocklawaha was the scene of a shootout between federal agents and Barker-Karpis Gang member Fred Barker. The agents fired about 500 bullets into the house, with roughly 250 shots fired in return, according to the after-action report of Special Agent in Charge Earl "E.J." Connelley. The fight ended in the deaths of Fred Barker and his mother Kate "Ma" Barker. Each year, the Ocklawaha Chamber of Commerce puts on a reenactment of the event.

 

There is not a KH in Ocklawaha so the territory is covered by the congregations in nearby Bellview, Fl

[GeordieGirl]

Perth - the capital city  of Western Australia (not the original Scottish one 😉)

Population 2,093,000.