Biblical Place-Names in the United States

V the latter list adds names of unincorporated places to those of the Census Bureau's list of counties, incorporated places, and small civil divisions: townships, electoral districts, precincts, etc.2 The total number of names-or, rather, of "namings," since many names are replicated-in my sample is 61,742, the number in individual states ranging from 51 in Delaware to 3,361 in Pennsylvania. The number of place-names in official use in a state varies not only with its area and the density of its rural and small-town population, but also with local customs of designating the smallest official districts or precincts. In Texas the administrative divisions of counties are numbered rather than named; as a consequence, my sample includes slightly fewer names from that state than from Kansas or NewYork. Names of post offices in Texas outnumber names of civil divisions. The same practice obtains in