111 - Templeton, California

20mi. N of San Luis Obispo.

110 - Shedd, Oregon

In the Wilammette Valley, between Eugene and Corvalis.

Wikipedia history:

In 1858, a community and gristmill was established about a mile and a half east of the present town of Shedd and called Boston, probably because one of the founders came from Boston, Massachusetts.] Boston was platted in 1861 with a New England-style town square. The town became a stagecoach stop, and Boston Mills post office was established in 1869. Efforts to get the Oregon and California Railroad, which was being built south from Albany, to come through Boston Mills were unsuccessful. When the railroad was instead built through the nearby town of Shedd's Station in 1871, the post office was moved and the name changed to Shedds, after Captain Frank Shedd, on whose land the community was started. All of Boston's buildings, except the mill itself, were also moved west to the railroad. In 1899 the railroad changed the name of the station to Shedd, but the name of the post office didn't change until 1915.

109 - Richfield, Kansas

In the SW corner of the state, on the North Fork of the Cimarron.

108 - Quinn, South Dakota

Just N of Badlands National Monument. Some trivia: Population: 44. Street-wise, Quinn's Quincy St. turns back into Quinn Rd. once you cross Wall Dump Grounds Rd. Google search results returned for "Wall Dump Grounds": 0.

Quinn is home to the Badlands Observatory, a remotely operated telescope that takes advantage of some of the darkest night skies in the continental USA. The town and the local electric company have even cooperated to make sure that the local streetlights were either removed or rendered non-upwardly-polluting. Pretty cool—small-town astronomy.

107 - Pelsor, Arkansas

In the Boston Mountains.

109 - Richfield, Kansas

In the SW corner of the state, on the North Fork of the Cimarron.

106 - Oshkosh, Wisconsin

On Lake Winnebago, b'gosh!

105 - North Miami, Florida

North of Miami.

104 - Millers Falls, Massachusetts

20mi. N of Northampton, in the Connecticut Valley.

103 - Long Island City, New York

Opposite Roosevelt, nee Welfare Island.

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102 - Kingston, Jamaica

Due S of Washington, D.C.

101 - Jolly Lake, Northwest Territories

150mi NE of Yellowknife.


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100 - Ituna, Saskatchewan

175mi. SE of Saskatoon, on the CNR.


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Evidently the town founders also had alphabet geography on their minds:

How did Ituna get its name?

At the time that the railroaders were building the mainline of the Grand Trunk Railroad they had the task of finding names for the little towns along the way. Many of these towns were no more than seven miles apart and an attempt was made as far as possible to name the towns in alphabetical order. As such, there was Fenwood, Goodeve, Hubbard and then a name beginning with the letter "I" was needed.
Perhaps the name was just copied from a town in Oklahoma of the same name, however, it is believed that the name originally came from Rudyard Kipling's story "Puck of Pook's Hill". In this story we read about "The Wall which stretched from Segedunum on the east to Ituna on the west". The Wall is Hadrian's Wall, built by the Romans to keep back the marauding Scots. Ituna was the wide estuary of the River Forth at the end of the wall.
We have a unique name, ancient in origin, and found no where else in Canada.

99 - Harty, Ontario

On the Canadian National Railway, N of Big Beaver Falls.

98 - Grande Grève, Quebec

Easternmost town on the Gaspé Peninsula.

97 - Franklin Strait, Canada

Between Prince of Wales Island and Boothia Peninsula, in the Northwest territories.

96 - La Estrella, Canary Islands

Town on the E coast of Gran Canaria, the roundest of the Isles.

95 - Dabara, Madagascar

Upriver from Morondava, on the west coast.


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94 - Chamais Bay, Namibia

60mi. N of the Orange River's mouth. It's in a huge restricted district called Diamond Area 1, which I at first took for a relic from the not-so-distant days when this was South-West Africa, a South African colony—it certainly has a military-codename ring to it. But now I think it might just be because ... there are diamonds there. Or might be.

Here's a sketch based on a flickr photo of the gost-pump-station at one of the road entrances to Diamond Area 1:

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93 - Buluk, Kenya

Oasis 40mi. E of Lake Turkana. Includes a Miocene fossil site where some of the oldest Old World Monkey remains have been found, as well as some hominids.


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92 - Arusha, Tanzania

On the southern slope of Mt. Meru.


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91 - Zobia, DR Congo

200mi N of Kisangani.


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90 - Yahassi, Cameroon

Big town upriver from Douala.

89 - Xime, Guinea-Bissau

At the end of the country's longest estuary.


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88 - Wadi (Uad) El Jat, Western Sahara

Runs N to El Aaiún.

(c) The Oued el Jat
General: The Saguiat el Hamra cuts through the Drafi Afrafir below the Springs of Messeit,and is joined by the Oued el Jat almost immediately to the east of these hills. This oued flowsfrom south to north, parallel with the line of the hills, joining the Saguiat el Hamra at Edchera(27°02'N/13°05'W). On the floor of this watercourse too, there is a series of marshy areas withmoist sands and small gueltas. The most important are in the Ugranat District and are, fromsouth to north, the Sebkhets Ugranat (26° 11 '-26°16'N/ 13°10'W) and El Jat (26°27'-26°38'N/13°07'W). These sandy pans are saline and subject to fairly frequent, albeit irregular,inundation, and there are some fresh water springs in the gorge walls.Flora & Fauna: Some trees grow along the oued, including Hyphaene thebaica andTamarix africana, and marshy patches support grasses, sedges, rushes and reeds. We haveno details of the fauna.Human Impact & Utilisation: We have no information.Conservation Status: Unprotected

87 - Lake Victoria, Uganda

86 - Umm Bugma, Egypt

In SW Sinai. Site of a manganese mine and, apparently, not much else man-made.


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85 - Tanta, Egypt

In the very center of the Nile delta. A cotton milling town, 36 feet above sea level.


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84 - Stromni, Greece

Near the headwaters of the river Mornos.


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