Longest US City names...

[Bob Rasmussen]

Amusing. Reminds me of when I was in college, doing some administrative 
programming. Memory was expensive, and space on a punch card was limited, 
so I had to choose field sizes with care. Someone's earlier efforts had 
branded a friend Margaret as "Margar". I also had a friend from Thailand, 
whose name was Birayudh Chulaluxsiriboon (if I recall the spelling 
correctly). Fortunately, he went by "Lek". 

On Tue, 15 Nov 2011, Mike Schwartz wrote:

>      Since the list has been slow this week, I thought I would pass on this
> bit of trivia, for those of you who always wondered how long to make the
> city fields in your databases:
> 
>  
> 
> The  <http://geonames.usgs.gov/faqs.html#23> US Geological Survey's database
> has these as the longest non-hyphenated community names, with the number of
> characters:
> 
> Mooselookmeguntic, ME (17)
> Kleinfeltersville, PA (17)
> Chickasawhatchee, GA (16)
> Chancellorsville, VA (16)
> Eichelbergertown, PA (16)
> 
> These are the names that include hyphens:
> 
> Winchester-on-the-Severn, MD (24)
> Linstead-on-the-Severn, MD (22)
> Lauderdale-by-the-Sea, FL (21)
> Vermillion-on-the-Lake, OH (21)
> Wymberly-on-the-March, GA (21)
> Kentwood-in-the-Pines, CA (21)
> 
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