10 Jax neighborhoods with thematic street names
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All cities have street names and no matter what you're into, a Jacksonville neighborhood may have a set of street names themed for you. Here are a few we've come across. Let us know what we've missed.
Read More: http://www.metrojacksonville.com/article/2016-dec-10-jax-neighborhoods-with-thematic-street-names
My favorite is the Arthurian street names in Arlington off Lone Star and Rogero (https://www.google.com/maps/place/King+Arthur+Rd,+Jacksonville,+FL+32211/@30.3369628,-81.5880749,1320m/data=!3m1!1e3!4m5!3m4!1s0x88e5b40dec8109d3:0x1658022f42ca4116!8m2!3d30.337211!4d-81.5866824). There's a King Arthur Road and Arthur Court, and there are streets named Morgana, Camelot, Griflet, Brandemere, Ryance, Ector, Pellias, Orkney, and Domas, which are all Arthurian characters or places. The spellings suggest the names came from Howard Pyle's The Story of King Arthur and His Knights (https://books.google.com/books?id=s6YEAQAAIAAJ&printsec=frontcover&dq=Howard+Pyle+King+Arthur&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjqhcb44d_QAhVCRiYKHfGpApcQ6AEIHDAA#v=onepage&q=Howard%20Pyle%20King%20Arthur&f=false), a popular children's book in the first half of the 20th century. One street is named Aletha, which may be a reference to a character named Aleta in the Prince Valiant comic strip. I'd be interested to know when this area was developed.
One of the more fun statistical studies released last year:
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/01/25/opinion/sunday/the-secrets-of-street-names-and-home-values.html?_r=0
Fun tool in the full article where you can put in your own street name.
QuoteThe Secrets of Street Names and Home Values
IN "Romeo and Juliet," the young Miss Capulet poses one of literature's most famous questions: "What's in a name?"
When it comes to a street name, the answer is: a lot.
Street names tell stories. They tell us if a neighborhood is expensive or affordable, brand-new or decades old. With street names alone, we can uncover all kinds of insights.
This might seem surprising, especially given the relatively random process by which streets get their names. A real-estate developer might come up with a motif that seems relevant to a particular place, or just an arbitrary theme — Caribbean, equestrian, or United States presidents. Some developers hold competitions among employees and then pick the winning names. The local government usually takes a look at the resulting map, just to make sure the names won't confuse mail carriers or ambulance drivers. And that's about it.
But if you look at enough data, patterns start to emerge. Even randomness has an order.
Turning to the same database we use to estimate and analyze home values, we looked at years of data about sales and listings. We learned three things about the relationship between home values and street names: First, names are better than numbers. Second, lanes are better than streets. Third, unusual names are better than common ones.
Imagine that one of us (Spencer) lives on 10th Street and the other (Stan) lives on Elm Street. With only this information, we can guess that Stan's house is probably worth more than Spencer's. On average, homes on named streets are 2 percent more valuable than those on numbered streets. (We looked only at single-family homes, condos and co-ops. Large apartment buildings — especially in New York City — would skew the data.)
For some cities, this named-street premium is higher — greater than 20 percent on average in Los Angeles, Philadelphia, Riverside, Calif., and San Francisco. We found only three cities where named streets don't have the upper hand. In Atlanta and New York, named and numbered streets are roughly equal. Denver is the sole city where numbered streets are more valuable.
Next we looked at street suffixes — the "roads," "drives" and "boulevards" — and found that, for instance, homes on "Washington Street" are usually different from homes on "Washington Court."
For one thing, a house on Washington Street is probably older. Different street suffixes were popular at different moments. "Streets" and "avenues" were stylish in the 1950s, "ways," "circles" and "courts" in the late '80s.
Street suffixes also offer clues about the size of their neighborhood. Boulevards and avenues include the most homes on average, while courts and lanes include the fewest.
Most significant, suffixes have a lot to say about home prices. Homes on "streets" are almost always among the least valuable. If you're looking for a higher-value home, you're much more likely to find it on a "way" or a "place."
Interactive Feature: A Road Map of Home Values and Street Names
Which brings us to our third rule: You should also look at streets with uncommon names.
Nationally, the most common street names tend to have the lowest home values. Look at Main Street. It's by far the most common street name in America. It's also the least valuable. Main Street homes are worth, on average, about 4 percent less than America's median.
On the other side of the spectrum are "Lake" and "Sunset." Homes on "Lake" average 16 percent more than the national median home value, and "Sunset" houses are a close second.
We aren't recommending that you start a petition to rename your street. Correlation is not causation. Homes on "Lake" aren't more valuable because of the name; generally they're more valuable because the descriptive name reflects a truth about the real estate. In this case, they're probably next to — you guessed it — a lake.
And of course, all of these rules reflect broad national trends. There are plenty of exceptions; like politics, all home values, trends and characteristics are local.
No matter where you look, however, street names have meaning. They are artifacts from a neighborhood's genesis, bearing data that we finally can uncover.
Just a few years ago, real estate information was guarded in county courthouses and secret databases. Shopping for a home was like being in a dark room. An agent might shine a flashlight on two or three homes — but all you wanted was to flip the switch and see it all for yourself. Today, real estate information is more transparent and democratized; the connection between street names and home values is only the beginning. Buying, selling, renting, regulating and financing all have been illuminated.
I know the developer of this neighborhood that has streets named after guitar greats. My fav, Page Ct which is named after Jimmy Page. https://www.google.com/maps/place/Page+Ct,+Jacksonville,+FL+32220/@30.3238182,-81.79751,18.39z/data=!4m5!3m4!1s0x88e5bedc51f5cc2d:0x235f96f08ba76ed1!8m2!3d30.3245258!4d-81.7976473
The developer told me that the city rejected his proposal for a Hendrix St. because they were concerned it would be confused with the existing Hendricks Ave.
Jax Heights off of 103rd st. has streets named after cars such as Fiat, Falcon, Rambler, Volvo, Jaguar, and a multitude of others.
FYI - not all of the colleges and universities in Lakewood are private. Clemson is a state school.
What is the name of the neighborhood surrounding Wheat Rd park?
TRIUMPH
LANCIA
AUSTIN
ROVER
RENAULT
TEMPEST
JAGUAR
FALCON
IMPALA
FIAT
CORVAIR
CAPRICE
DART
BARRACUDA
FURY
TOYOTA
CAMARO
RAMBLER
VOLVO
CHEVELLE
GALAXIE
MONZA
PORSCHE
LESABRE
^That neighborhood was platted between 1974 and 1989 as Tree Top Estates. People call the area Jacksonville Heights today.
There's a horse-themed area in Mandarin:
CLYDESDALE
LIPPIZAN
APPALOOSA
THOROUGHBRED
PACER
LARIAT
SPURS
SADDLEBRED
GELDING
JOCKEY
The Pickwick Park subdivision between San Jose Blvd and Beauclerc Rd is entirely British. Most roads are named after British places (such as Picadilly or Beauclerc even), but a few of the roads are British words for people or last names (such as Viceroy, the person who serves as leader of a territory and runs it for the main monarch of the country, mostly used during British control of India). What throws me off about the area though is that some of the roads aren't spelled correctly. For instance. Picadilly should be spelled with 2 Cs, and Queen Ann Lane should have Ann spelled Anne. I couldn't say if the misspellings were intentional or not.
Quote from: Jax-Nole on December 07, 2016, 12:38:44 AM
What throws me off about the area though is that some of the roads aren't spelled correctly. For instance. Picadilly should be spelled with 2 Cs, and Queen Ann Lane should have Ann spelled Anne. I couldn't say if the misspellings were intentional or not.
Sharing Cross? Wilkshire?
I didn't realize there were so many themed neighborhoods in Jax. I knew about the snow white one on the westside, but hadn't ever heard about any of these other ones.
I grew up in a neighborhood with nautical names: Starboard Drive, Portside Drive, Beacon Drive...
Quote from: Adam White on December 07, 2016, 05:11:00 AM
Quote from: Jax-Nole on December 07, 2016, 12:38:44 AM
What throws me off about the area though is that some of the roads aren't spelled correctly. For instance. Picadilly should be spelled with 2 Cs, and Queen Ann Lane should have Ann spelled Anne. I couldn't say if the misspellings were intentional or not.
Sharing Cross? Wilkshire?
I didn't realize there were so many themed neighborhoods in Jax. I knew about the snow white one on the westside, but hadn't ever heard about any of these other ones.
I grew up in a neighborhood with nautical names: Starboard Drive, Portside Drive, Beacon Drive...
It looks like Wilkshire is off by a letter also and should be Wiltshire. I can't figure out what Sharing Cross should be, whether it is spelled correctly or not. Also, I missed this last night, but the road in from San Jose is named after a British cigarette company (Pall Mall). I think that is the only road in the subdivision named after a brand.
Quote from: Jax-Nole on December 07, 2016, 11:00:00 AM
Quote from: Adam White on December 07, 2016, 05:11:00 AM
Quote from: Jax-Nole on December 07, 2016, 12:38:44 AM
What throws me off about the area though is that some of the roads aren't spelled correctly. For instance. Picadilly should be spelled with 2 Cs, and Queen Ann Lane should have Ann spelled Anne. I couldn't say if the misspellings were intentional or not.
Sharing Cross? Wilkshire?
I didn't realize there were so many themed neighborhoods in Jax. I knew about the snow white one on the westside, but hadn't ever heard about any of these other ones.
I grew up in a neighborhood with nautical names: Starboard Drive, Portside Drive, Beacon Drive...
It looks like Wilkshire is off by a letter also and should be Wiltshire. I can't figure out what Sharing Cross should be, whether it is spelled correctly or not. Also, I missed this last night, but the road in from San Jose is named after a British cigarette company (Pall Mall). I think that is the only road in the subdivision named after a brand.
I assumed it was Charing Cross. I wasn't familiar with the neighborhood - I took a brief look on Google maps (checked out the other ones, as well).
I'd imagine Pall Mall is named after the street in London (but it could be named after the cigarettes, too).
Lake Forest on the Northside has Revolutionary War names:
Bunker Hill
Brandywine
Saratoga
Lexington
Concord
Quote from: Scarlettjax on December 06, 2016, 06:41:05 PM
There's a horse-themed area in Mandarin:
CLYDESDALE
LIPPIZAN
APPALOOSA
THOROUGHBRED
PACER
LARIAT
SPURS
SADDLEBRED
GELDING
JOCKEY
That's the Water Creek subdivision, which was developed in the late 1970s. The horse themed street names probably come from the presence of equestrian related private estates in the general area.
Who in their right mind thought that fairy tales and nursery rhymes were a great idea for street names? I would rather live on an unimaginative street with a letter or number (A St. or 45th Ave.) than live on Peter Rabbit Drive. It has to be hard to be taken seriously by any customer service representatives when you give them that address! ::)
Quote from: Redbaron616 on September 13, 2017, 07:55:03 PM
Who in their right mind thought that fairy tales and nursery rhymes were a great idea for street names? I would rather live on an unimaginative street with a letter or number (A St. or 45th Ave.) than live on Peter Rabbit Drive. It has to be hard to be taken seriously by any customer service representatives when you give them that address! ::)
It could be even better - imagine having to say that you live on the corner of Sesame Street / Hemp Street (that's in Middleburg).
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