Longest US City names...

[Kenneth Brody]

On 11/15/2011 11:11 AM, 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)
[...]
> These are the names that include hyphens:
>
> Winchester-on-the-Severn, MD (24)
[...]
> Kentwood-in-the-Pines, CA (21)

I was wondering why the list didn't include some local cities around here, 
and then I realized that they don't include a "the".  (Such as 
"Hastings-on-Hudson" and "Croton-on-Hudson" rather than "...-on-the-Hudson".)

-- 
Kenneth Brody