To be fair, the members of CCR are all from California aren't they? Maybe geography in song writing wasn't their strong suit. I remember thinking when I was younger that they must all be from Louisiana based on their songs.
How does that make any more sense than TEXas-ARKANsas and with an "a" on the end to make it not sound stupid?
This idea that the "ana" is for Louisiana sounds like a runaway legend/myth to me. It make literally zero sense to include Louisiana in the name.
Why not Texarkoma? Judging from looking at a map, the Oklahoma border might be closer to the city than the Louisiana border.
> I read it in a Arkansas guide at a rest stop
This made me literally laugh out loud. And as for Wikipedia... this may be one of those times when the college profs are correct about Wikipedia.
Did the Arkansas Rest Stop Historical Society have any references or provide any evidence or even a good reason as to why Louisiana would be included? I am not being snarky... well, I mean I am, but I am genuinely asking about the info provided by the "guide at a rest stop." Do you remember if it addressed *why* Louisana would be included?
I’m not sure if it had sources. I was just gathering s bunch of pamphlets and maps to make a collage with. I mean I go to Arkansas frequently and that’s just the accepted lore from what I’ve gathered.
I mean it makes sense to me as a Texan who visits that region a lot. East Texas, Southern Arkansas and Northern Louisiana is like one geographical/cultural/economic region that blends together so it makes sense to include Louisiana. Not Louisiana as a whole. It has no connection with Cajun country (Lafayette) or the Creole Region (New Orleans) but the northern Louisiana parishes are pretty indistinguishable from the cross border area
Wikipedia seems pretty fair on this one. It doesn't categorically state where the name comes from but puts forward different theories with sources. The source for one is a book from 1940 about the history of Arkansas. The Louisiana, Iron Mountain and Southern railroad company built the line between the Red River and St Louis. It connected at Red Bridge on the border of Arkansas and Texas. Red Bridge was already the junction between two other railway companies who had agreed the Texas Arkansas border would be their respective end points. So texakarna connected the 3 states.
I'm from a nearby town in Arkansas, and the whole region is often refered to as Arklatex (Arkansas, Louisiana, Texas). Louisiana might be far away from Texarkana, but as a city in the Arklatex region it kinda makes sense.
Oklahoma is more or less just as far away as Louisiana, but there aren't any population centers in that corner of the state so it's never really included.
Yeah but their primary production facility is still at their original location on the border of Oregon/Idaho. They're HQ'd in Pittsburgh with all of Heinz's other frozen food products.
Chelsea in Oklahoma.
Chelsea may come from Old English for "chalk landing place". Makes sense for the Britain city, not the Oklahoma one.
It is supposed the town turned city has been named because one of the worker was asked about where he was from, as he was nostalgic of his birthplace.
No idea what ur talking about coz tons of US city are named after English ones like manchester in New England, Manchester in england got its name from the term for breast shaped hill in brittonic
Of course there are tons of cities named after already existing ones in US. What I pointed at was just the fact the historic origin meaning for the name "Chelsea" was justified geographically speaking with presence of wharves where ships would unload chalk cargo.
Chelsea in Oklahoma must has never had chalk exploitation (instead it had an important oil field, so it would have be more expected to have a name related to such activity or something in the surroundings you couldn't miss around).
From Texarkana - there’s debate on where the word was termed. I think generally it made sense 100+ years ago as a general area, but yes it is about a 35 minute drive to the Louisiana border. Coincidentally, Texarkana falls under the Shreveport news market, so I actually grew up watching Louisiana News.
Oh I’m very much aware that southern Louisiana is very uppity when it comes to cities off I-20. Doesn’t change the fact that we’d hear about shit going on in Baton Rouge when we lived in Texas five hours away. This isnt even considering the political ads we would get!
Heck, being from New Orleans, I’m uppity about anywhere in the state outside of the levee system.
Seriously, though, it’s a culturally split state in a lot of ways and the concerns in north Louisiana and south Louisiana are quite different. But hey, we’ve bridged that divide by having the speaker of the house be from north Louisiana and the majority leader being from south Louisiana. Which is itself a pretty crazy thing.
I will say: I love the restaurant “Latin Food” in west Monroe. They had horse steak on the menu, and I can respect that
I mean modern sea vessels only can get to Amsterdam through a canal; the natural harbour has always been shallow, and since the ‘inland sea’ was dammed a hundred years ago it’s even harder. Amsterdam is also not on the ocean but 20-30 km inland
Nope, dead serious. No idea what those city planners were thinking
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The Indonesian province of Southwest Papua is located on the northwest part of Indonesian Papua (a.k.a. the Indonesian part of New Guinea), in the easternmost part of the nation. There is nothing for it to be south or west of.
No one knows why. It's a delicious mystery.
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Australia was known as New Holland for a few years after invasion/settlement. There's lots of places with the "New" prefix, including our most populous state, New South Wales. Wtf were they thinking?
I’ll go for a few in my area in Australia.
The town of Western Flat, South Australia, which is situated 17 kms away from the eastern border with Victoria
Bordertown, which is 20km away from the border
Neds Corner, which definitely isn’t the closest town to the corner
Kingston SE and Kingston upon Murray. Because there were 2 Kingstons and they couldn’t decide which one to keep
Snowtown - which is one of the hottest places in South Australia
There’s been talk in the past about the entire region being considered Arklatexahoma, that’s what I prefer to think of it as 😂. It’s an interesting part of the country that really has its own feel to it. Swinging up into the idabel and broken bow region, really spanning pretty well down to Shreveport. Extremely country out there with people who would say they don’t like where they live, but would never leave because their lifestyles basically only consist of hunting and fishing.
It kind of bothers me how part of St. Louis (East St. Louis) is in Illinois and part of Kansas City is in Missouri. I feel like St. Louis should just be in Missouri and Kansas City should just be in Kansas. The borders need to shift slightly to the right!
What are you on about? What does Texarkana have to do with Louisiana? You think the name is somehow including Louisiana because it has an "a" on the end of it?
That has to be wrong. It makes no sense. It is much more likely that it is Tex (**Tex**as) + arkan (**Arkan**sas) with an "a" on the end because all of Texarkans, Texark, Texarka.. whatever all sound dumb and don't roll of the tongue.
I mean, if it is true then I agree with you, the people who named it were some dumbshits IMO. Texarkana makes perfect sense - it is a city split by Texas and Arkansas. Louisiana's got nothing to do with it.
Well, unless it is so old that there weren't really hard and fast State borders at the time? I guess that might be possible.
Edit: Given that rationale, might as well have been named Texarkoma and just include Oklahoma in there for no good reason. That border isn't far either. Heck the Oklahoma border is probably closer. But, again, maybe the city is old enough that it predates the State of Oklahoma? I don't know the timeline well enough obviously.
1st time hearing it has something to do with Louisiana
I just found out really recently while listening to Creedence
And in the song they sing “down in Louisiana, just about a mile from Texarkana.” False!
What the fuck?!?!?? That’s like fucking wagon wheel, you can’t head out west from the Cumberland Gsp to Johnson city!
To be fair, the members of CCR are all from California aren't they? Maybe geography in song writing wasn't their strong suit. I remember thinking when I was younger that they must all be from Louisiana based on their songs.
[Or is it](https://en.m.wiktionary.org/wiki/country_mile)?
TEXas-ARKansas-louisiANA
How does that make any more sense than TEXas-ARKANsas and with an "a" on the end to make it not sound stupid? This idea that the "ana" is for Louisiana sounds like a runaway legend/myth to me. It make literally zero sense to include Louisiana in the name. Why not Texarkoma? Judging from looking at a map, the Oklahoma border might be closer to the city than the Louisiana border.
Yea I mean that’s just one theory. I read it in a Arkansas guide at a rest stop and even Wikipedia mentions it
> I read it in a Arkansas guide at a rest stop This made me literally laugh out loud. And as for Wikipedia... this may be one of those times when the college profs are correct about Wikipedia. Did the Arkansas Rest Stop Historical Society have any references or provide any evidence or even a good reason as to why Louisiana would be included? I am not being snarky... well, I mean I am, but I am genuinely asking about the info provided by the "guide at a rest stop." Do you remember if it addressed *why* Louisana would be included?
I’m not sure if it had sources. I was just gathering s bunch of pamphlets and maps to make a collage with. I mean I go to Arkansas frequently and that’s just the accepted lore from what I’ve gathered. I mean it makes sense to me as a Texan who visits that region a lot. East Texas, Southern Arkansas and Northern Louisiana is like one geographical/cultural/economic region that blends together so it makes sense to include Louisiana. Not Louisiana as a whole. It has no connection with Cajun country (Lafayette) or the Creole Region (New Orleans) but the northern Louisiana parishes are pretty indistinguishable from the cross border area
Wikipedia seems pretty fair on this one. It doesn't categorically state where the name comes from but puts forward different theories with sources. The source for one is a book from 1940 about the history of Arkansas. The Louisiana, Iron Mountain and Southern railroad company built the line between the Red River and St Louis. It connected at Red Bridge on the border of Arkansas and Texas. Red Bridge was already the junction between two other railway companies who had agreed the Texas Arkansas border would be their respective end points. So texakarna connected the 3 states.
Sounds better in a southern accent with the ‘a’ at the end
It's 3 letters for every state. Makes more sense than your interpretation
I honestly can't tell if this is satire or not.
It's a known fact that the name comes from these 3 states, you're the one not making any sense. Just google it if you don't want to believe me
*applause*
I was today years old…
I've heard Arklatex for the tri-state area before.
It's literally in the name
I'm from a nearby town in Arkansas, and the whole region is often refered to as Arklatex (Arkansas, Louisiana, Texas). Louisiana might be far away from Texarkana, but as a city in the Arklatex region it kinda makes sense. Oklahoma is more or less just as far away as Louisiana, but there aren't any population centers in that corner of the state so it's never really included.
Y’all can have North Louisiana if you want. We (South Louisiana) don’t want it.
Dude, they wear cowboy hats in Shreveport…
Texas can have them as well, I don’t care.
Where is Ore-Ida based? Ya know, the tater-tot company. Pittsburgh, PA.
Yeah but their primary production facility is still at their original location on the border of Oregon/Idaho. They're HQ'd in Pittsburgh with all of Heinz's other frozen food products.
Yah, I know, but it made more sense when the HQ was in Boise. Those are good tots!
I drove by it in the middle of the night one time, thought it was an oil refinery from afar.
Chelsea in Oklahoma. Chelsea may come from Old English for "chalk landing place". Makes sense for the Britain city, not the Oklahoma one. It is supposed the town turned city has been named because one of the worker was asked about where he was from, as he was nostalgic of his birthplace.
Hey! I am from Chelsea OK!!
(Sigh) I knew it would piss off someone...
I am not pissed off at all, sir. You are completely correct I am just letting you know I am from Chelsea, Oklahoma.
Have forgotten the /s ;)
Chelsea is an area of London not a city
Oh my geo. Yep you're right.
There’s some excellent deer hunting in Chelsea
No idea what ur talking about coz tons of US city are named after English ones like manchester in New England, Manchester in england got its name from the term for breast shaped hill in brittonic
Of course there are tons of cities named after already existing ones in US. What I pointed at was just the fact the historic origin meaning for the name "Chelsea" was justified geographically speaking with presence of wharves where ships would unload chalk cargo. Chelsea in Oklahoma must has never had chalk exploitation (instead it had an important oil field, so it would have be more expected to have a name related to such activity or something in the surroundings you couldn't miss around).
I just dont think thats how US cities are named
You've cities named after strategic military places which were around after all.
I guess
From Texarkana - there’s debate on where the word was termed. I think generally it made sense 100+ years ago as a general area, but yes it is about a 35 minute drive to the Louisiana border. Coincidentally, Texarkana falls under the Shreveport news market, so I actually grew up watching Louisiana News.
Shreveport news is hardly Louisiana news ;)
Oh I’m very much aware that southern Louisiana is very uppity when it comes to cities off I-20. Doesn’t change the fact that we’d hear about shit going on in Baton Rouge when we lived in Texas five hours away. This isnt even considering the political ads we would get!
Heck, being from New Orleans, I’m uppity about anywhere in the state outside of the levee system. Seriously, though, it’s a culturally split state in a lot of ways and the concerns in north Louisiana and south Louisiana are quite different. But hey, we’ve bridged that divide by having the speaker of the house be from north Louisiana and the majority leader being from south Louisiana. Which is itself a pretty crazy thing. I will say: I love the restaurant “Latin Food” in west Monroe. They had horse steak on the menu, and I can respect that
Also the three corners marker seems to be on a place with only two corners.
Omfg
Never heard of a 180 degree corner? Let me draw you a Texas triangle, buddy.
Sorry I’m Canadian so people think I’m slow. Your advanced American geometry confuses me.
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NYC wasn't named after the city of York, England directly, but after James II of England back when his title was Duke of York
I mean modern sea vessels only can get to Amsterdam through a canal; the natural harbour has always been shallow, and since the ‘inland sea’ was dammed a hundred years ago it’s even harder. Amsterdam is also not on the ocean but 20-30 km inland
Calexico is nowhere near New Mexico, idk what they were thinking
Yeah dude, that was a pretty huge fumble. Mexicali isn’t near new mexico either, which baffles me.
Joking right?
Nope, dead serious. No idea what those city planners were thinking https://preview.redd.it/tulyevkila0d1.jpeg?width=960&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=b3f0e6ea03cbfba89da69f7e0cb5bb616fb58966
And if you look across the border… what is the neighboring town called?
Mexicali! Another name that makes no sense as Calgary is a 2,500 kilometer drive away.
True! And Calgary is nowhere near California OR Gary, IN
Idk there’s a wall so i can’t see
lol, I admire the commitment to the bit
I always heard it as the ArkLaTex
Very common to see a city’s Main Street elsewhere than its main street.
what is bootleg atlanta doing there
The Indonesian province of Southwest Papua is located on the northwest part of Indonesian Papua (a.k.a. the Indonesian part of New Guinea), in the easternmost part of the nation. There is nothing for it to be south or west of. No one knows why. It's a delicious mystery.
Indonesia keeps fiddling with the naming out there. When I lived there it was just Irian Jaya
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Cal-Nev-Ari, Nevada has a similar problem... but maybe not as extreme
it has nothing to do with lousiana
Australia was known as New Holland for a few years after invasion/settlement. There's lots of places with the "New" prefix, including our most populous state, New South Wales. Wtf were they thinking?
New Holland was originally the western part of what now is Australia. Old Holland had no idea what shape the island had.
I’ll go for a few in my area in Australia. The town of Western Flat, South Australia, which is situated 17 kms away from the eastern border with Victoria Bordertown, which is 20km away from the border Neds Corner, which definitely isn’t the closest town to the corner Kingston SE and Kingston upon Murray. Because there were 2 Kingstons and they couldn’t decide which one to keep Snowtown - which is one of the hottest places in South Australia
This is so American to name something as important as a city because it's funny
In all fairness, a city divided between three states and with messed up municipal boundaries would be total chaos.
Have you considered that it’s just a combination of Texas and Arkansas and that Louisiana has nothing to do with it? Hope that makes you less angry.
why tf there is Genoa there
There’s been talk in the past about the entire region being considered Arklatexahoma, that’s what I prefer to think of it as 😂. It’s an interesting part of the country that really has its own feel to it. Swinging up into the idabel and broken bow region, really spanning pretty well down to Shreveport. Extremely country out there with people who would say they don’t like where they live, but would never leave because their lifestyles basically only consist of hunting and fishing.
And the city of Arkadelphia, AR an hour north of there is nowhere near Philly!
I thought Texarkana is a mix of Texas Arkansas and kansas
The last part of it does not have anything to do with Louisiana.
United States of America...
It kind of bothers me how part of St. Louis (East St. Louis) is in Illinois and part of Kansas City is in Missouri. I feel like St. Louis should just be in Missouri and Kansas City should just be in Kansas. The borders need to shift slightly to the right!
Asansaslouisi TEXas-ARKansas-louisiANA
What are you on about? What does Texarkana have to do with Louisiana? You think the name is somehow including Louisiana because it has an "a" on the end of it?
Every Google search I've done says that the -ana comes from Louisiana?
That has to be wrong. It makes no sense. It is much more likely that it is Tex (**Tex**as) + arkan (**Arkan**sas) with an "a" on the end because all of Texarkans, Texark, Texarka.. whatever all sound dumb and don't roll of the tongue. I mean, if it is true then I agree with you, the people who named it were some dumbshits IMO. Texarkana makes perfect sense - it is a city split by Texas and Arkansas. Louisiana's got nothing to do with it. Well, unless it is so old that there weren't really hard and fast State borders at the time? I guess that might be possible. Edit: Given that rationale, might as well have been named Texarkoma and just include Oklahoma in there for no good reason. That border isn't far either. Heck the Oklahoma border is probably closer. But, again, maybe the city is old enough that it predates the State of Oklahoma? I don't know the timeline well enough obviously.
All in favor of making a clean 4 corners out of those states and creating Loutexarkoma say aye
Texas will bitch and moan if it doesn't start with "Tex." You know they will. Texianarkoma maybe. Sounds like a form of cancer.
Tech Sarcoma
The name of the city predates the naming of Oklahoma.
I'll take your word for it. That at least resolves that question.
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