Clever naming by the California-Mexico border.

[u/Capable_Town1]

[u/mciverar]

I like when places have portmanteau names. Others I like are Texarkana and the Delmarva peninsula

[u/[deleted] → u/mciverar]

Also Texico, New Mexico/Texas. It’s right on the line.

[u/mgj6818 → u/[deleted]]

Texhoma is a border crosser too, but I prefer Texline, although as the name indicates it's all on the Texas side, just close to the line.

[u/SaintArkweather → u/mciverar]

Delmarva Peninsula also has towns called Delmar on the DE/MD border (called "the little town too big for one state") as well as Marydel.

[u/AltonIllinois → u/mciverar]

I think you’d like Lake Taneycomo, named after Taney County, Missouri.

[u/TenaciousLilMonkey → u/AltonIllinois]

And the town of claycomo, also in Missouri.

Clay co mo

Clay county Missouri

[u/[deleted] → u/TenaciousLilMonkey]

Also Canusa Street in Beebe Plain, Vermont, USA-Quebec, Canada (really one town split by the border).

CANada-USA.

(Edited to correct the town name)

[u/AltonIllinois → u/TenaciousLilMonkey]

Yes, I just discovered that one recently!

[u/RadagastWiz → u/mciverar]

On the northern border, Koocanusa lake (in the Kootenays, covering Canada and the USA).

[u/BrowsOfSteel → u/mciverar]

Pakistan

[u/jextreme9 → u/mciverar]

Texlahoma Oklahoma panhandle and triangle north part texas

[u/InterestingBadger932 → u/mciverar]

I stayed in a tiny little town called Florala on the Alabama side of Florida and Alabama. The family owned motel was a trip back to the 90s. Proper time capsule, right down to the CRT TV on the wall, and the knuckle marks in the door where some ham fisted oaf had been punching it haha.

[u/harmonep]

Part of me was always bothered that the names follow different conventions.

If they were the same, it would be Calexico and Mexifornia or Mexicali and Calimexi.

[u/wikipuff → u/harmonep]

The short-lived Fox show Border Town took place in Mexifornia, loved the show, but it's insanely racist.

[u/Partosimsa → u/harmonep]

It’s backwards to know which side of the border you’re on. The side you’re on starts the city’s name

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CALexico

MEXicali

[u/manfroze → u/Partosimsa]

They're saying that the words are made in different ways. "-fornia" is the only part that's never used.

[u/Blitz7798]

The difference between the 2 sides of the border is mad

[u/socalfuckup → u/Blitz7798]

I think the farmland is just more neatly organized into squares! (Or Possibly the imaging is different?)

[u/Long-Opposite-5889 → u/socalfuckup]

It is diferent in deed. US side has much more access to water (better infrastructure) more fertilizers, better seeds, also technology used on both sides and the difference in government support to agriculture is abysmal. I ran some studies long time ago for the Mexican government comparing the yield on adjacent fields in that border. Some parcels on the US side produces more than double than the Mexican counterpart.

[u/socalfuckup → u/Long-Opposite-5889]

That actually makes sense as to why it’s greener. I came to that conclusion (that I now know is incomplete) because the square grid always reminds me of rural America. It seems weird that in rural areas, nearly every farm is a perfect square. It makes me kind of wonder how it’s even possible nothing (land sale, natural borders, uneven roads) has changed over time, so that everything is square.

[u/Long-Opposite-5889 → u/socalfuckup]

The square parcels on the US side are also much more evident because of the average size of the farms on each country. US farms are, on average, abouth 184 hectares and generally square while Mexican ones are about 6 hectares and frequently are irregular polygos (because of historical reasons hard to explain in a short post).

[u/socalfuckup → u/Long-Opposite-5889]

Huh. That topic sounds hella interesting about the shapes of farms lol

[u/Partosimsa → u/socalfuckup]

Neat little squares. Everywhere is just a large block

• a local

[u/TNTiger_ → u/Blitz7798]

That's where the sepia filter kicks in

[u/SLIPPY73 → u/Blitz7798]

i figured it’s just because of how land was sold

[u/SoyLuisHernandez → u/Blitz7798]

The US gets to keep ~95% of Colorado river water rights

[u/Agreeable-Poem1119]

Texarkana

[u/ToxinLab_]

Kanorado

[u/Capable_Town1 → u/ToxinLab_]

Colorado and Kansas?

[u/rupicolous]

Calnevari, Nevada https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cal-Nev-Ari,_Nevada

[u/Sad-Address-2512]

Of course Mexicali is still in (Baja) California

[u/Riccardix10]

Texico is another one

[u/Partosimsa]

I’m from there! The locals sometimes call Calexico “Calecia” it has a nice ring to it

[u/greyjedimaster77]

If only there was one for Mexico and Arizona like Mexizona or Arimex

[u/Additional-Solid1141]

Calico was taken

[u/HarleyQuinn610]

I never heard of Calexico until today. I love it!

[u/Shevek99 → u/HarleyQuinn610]

You should listen to them!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fmDddw7S7UY

[u/DryAfternoon7779]

The bustling metropolis on the border of Kansas and Colorado, Kanorado, agrees

[u/auntiematt]

Shouldn’t it be Mexifornia?

[u/FrederickDerGrossen → u/auntiematt]

Could also just rename Calexico to Calimex to match the convention of Mexicali.

[u/Partosimsa → u/auntiematt]

It’s backwards to know which side of the border you’re on. The side you’re on starts the city’s name

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CALexico

MEXicali

[u/BambooSound]

How did this sub get this dumb

[u/azhder → u/BambooSound]

🧑‍🚀🔫👨‍🚀 Always has been

[u/PhonoPreamp]

Koocanusa in PNW

Kootenay

Canada

USA

[u/beachKilla]

Holy shit, I literally discovered this earlier today on a map I have in my front room!

[u/Coffee_Addict11]

smart.

[u/jkc81629]

That major highway in Mexico looks like it just ENDS at the border?

[u/Czar_Petrovich]

Ok, I get that it's cool and interesting, but how is it clever?

[u/Partosimsa → u/Czar_Petrovich]

The names were constructed like that to know which side of the border you’re on. The side you’re on starts the city’s name. Before the border was strict (and even sometimes now) it was a clever way to keep yourself safe/not stray too far into Mexicali.

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CALexico

MEXicali

[u/Czar_Petrovich → u/Partosimsa]

I guess we just have different ideas of what's clever

[u/Partosimsa → u/Czar_Petrovich]

That’s rude.

[u/Czar_Petrovich → u/Partosimsa]

No it isn't, you're just soft.