The Daily Yonder has gotten spooky with its Rural Index mapping section this Halloween season. Mapper Sarah Melotte spent some time finding all the rural places with Satan, Lucifer, hell or devil in the name and created an interactive
map from the results.
Melotte reports in
The Daily Yonder newsletter that "there are 26 swamps named after Satan himself. Thirteen Devil Creeks range from Montana to Tennessee. Seven islands in Maine, Wisconsin, Alaska, Montana, and Iowa contain the word 'Devil.' Twenty-two of these devilish places are towns, from Devil Town, Ohio, to Seven Devils, North Carolina."
Data behind the map comes from the
Geographic Names and Information System, "a federal database containing millions of American place names." Melotte "downloaded spreadsheets corresponding to the following search terms – devil, hell, lucifer, satan – then matched their coordinates" to rural counties.
You can see the map — if you dare —
here.
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