So theres york, right? And theres new york... but there's a lot of other places called york.
I wanna know which york is truly the newest york:
List of Yorks
Oldest York to Newest York:
1. York - UK, North Yorkshire (53.9615254, -1.0744117)
Named/founded: 71AD
Population: 141,685 (2021)
naturally the original is the oldest york. its the york, its really old.
yorkie bars were invented here.
2. York - US, Pennsylvania
Named/founded: 1741
Population: 44,800 (2020)
the first US capital. the articles of federation were adopted at this particular york.
they had the first thanksgiving here in 1777.
3. New York - US, New York (40.7127281,-74.0060152)
Named/founded: 1664
Population: 8,804,190 (2020)
ah the big apple. its actually 62x bigger than the original apple (york) by population.
4. York - US, Maine (43.1439384,-70.6505274)
Named/founded: 1652
Population: 13,723 (2020)
chartered as the first city in America (I had to look up what this meant.).
It was originally called Agamenticus which is a way cooler name - at least they still have the mountain/monadnock(??) to remember it by.
5. York - US, South Carolina (34.9940654,-81.2421403)
Named/founded: 1785
Population: 8,053 (2020)
nicknamed the White Rose City (as in the white rose of york, further tying its history to the OG York).
6. New York - UK, Tyne and Wear (55.0252998,-1.4869496)
Named/founded: 1777
Population: its only included in the Tyne and Wear census (im not sure this one even counts)
7. New York - UK, Lincolnshire (53.0784049,-0.1396847)
Named/founded: 1800s
Population: <150 (2001)
named for York, not after New York - despite being Newer! sometimes called the little apple.
8. York - US, Ohio
there are literally 10 of these in ohio for some reason so lets just rattle through em:
I know this puts the list out of order but that's fine by me :)
9ish. York - Australia, Western Australia (-31.8889034,116.7691483)
Named/founded: 1835
Population: 2,399
10. York - US, Alabama (32.4862491,-88.2964183)
Named/founded: 1838
Population: 2,538
11. York Township - US, Illinois, DuPage County (41.860556, -87.975556)
Named/founded: 1849
Population: 128,425 (2020)
12. York Township - US, Illinois, Carroll County (41.964722, -90.0625)
Named/founded: 1850
Population: 2,739 (2020)
13. York Township - US, Illinois, Clark County (39.220833, -87.636944)
Named/founded: 1854
Population: 509 (2020)
14. York - US, Minnesota (43.532601,-92.2690996)
Named/founded: 1858
Population: 409
15. York - US, Nebraska (40.8680593,-97.5919166)
Named/founded: 1869
Population: 7,766
uhhh theres a big womens prison? i mean a large building with women prisoners, not a prison for large women.
16. York - US, North Dakota (48.312777,-99.573468)
Named/founded: 1886
Population: 17 (2020)
its a "rural city" (with 17 people living there cmon). theres nothing here except for a forensics lab maybe?
and the newest york of all...
17. York - Canada, Prince Edward Island (46.3160182,-63.0972127)
Named/founded: 1986
Population: 387
1986! 1986! thats pretty damn fresh by city standards. I hereby declare York, Canada, Prince Edward Island the Newest York.
Methodology
I literally just found all of the yorks and then looked at when they were named that
Finding the Yorks
- write some overpass ql (see below) to find places with a given name in the world using overpass-turbo.
- export the json results
- write some python (that I then lost) to map those to a nicer format
- manually check each york for founding/naming dates
- sort that list
- boom
- new york city, baby
Overpass query
here it is:
[out:json];
(
node["place"~"city|town|village"]["name"~"^(York|New York)$"];
way["place"~"city|town|village"]["name"~"^(York|New York)$"];
relation["place"~"city|town|village"]["name"~"^(York|New York)$"];
);
out center;
yeah there's other yorks like yorktown and york charter township and york haven. those aren't close enough.
In conclusion
New York, New York should immediately hand over the title to York, Prince Edward Island and change their name to Newish York, Newish York.