If US districts were given names instead of being assigned by numbers?

[iceman]

i dare any brave soul to attempt this with Ohio.

OH-01 Cincinnati West
OH-02 Cincinnati East
OH-03 Columbus
OH-04 Lima and Elyria
OH-05 Bowling Green and NE Ohio
OH-06 Southeast Ohio
OH-07 Canton
OH-08 Hamilton and Troy
OH-09 Toledo and Lake Erie
OH-10 Dayton
OH-11 Cleveland and Akron
OH-12 Columbus North and Delaware
OH-13 Youngstown and Warren
OH-14 Ashtabula and Mentor
OH-15 Columbus South and Fairfield
OH-16 East Cuyahoga

[President Punxsutawney Phil]

i dare any brave soul to attempt this with Ohio.

OH-01 Cincinnati West
OH-02 Cincinnati East
OH-03 Columbus
OH-04 Lima and Elyria
OH-05 Bowling Green and NE Ohio
OH-06 Southeast Ohio
OH-07 Canton
OH-08 Hamilton and Troy
OH-09 Toledo and Lake Erie
OH-10 Dayton
OH-11 Cleveland and Akron
OH-12 Columbus North and Delaware
OH-13 Youngstown and Warren
OH-14 Ashtabula and Mentor
OH-15 Columbus South and Fairfield
OH-16 East Cuyahoga

Congrats here is your silver medal.
You get a gold medal if you can do Maryland.

[EastAnglianLefty]

This only works well for states with decent districts.

PA-01: Bucks
PA-02: Philadelphia East
PA-03: Philadelphia West
PA-04: Montgomery
PA-05: Philadelphia South and Delaware
PA-06: Chester and Reading
PA-07: Lehigh Valley
PA-08: Wyoming Valley and the Poconos
PA-09: Susquehanna and Lebanon?
PA-10: Harrisburg-York
PA-11: Lancaster-York
PA-12: Northern Tier
PA-13: Allegheny Mountains?
PA-14: Mon Valley
PA-15: Don't have any clue for this district, sorry
PA-16: Erie-Butler
PA-17: Beaver-North Alleghany?
PA-18: Pittsburgh

For PA-15 I'd just go for some counties in the district, like "Elk-Cambria-East Butler." The rest of these seem pretty good

In the UK, it's traditional for the seat that was left over when the boundary commissioners drew the rest to be called "Mid [county name]". That seems very much appropriate in this case.

[Joseph Cao]

i dare any brave soul to attempt this with Ohio.

OH-01 Cincinnati West
OH-02 Cincinnati East
OH-03 Columbus
OH-04 Lima and Elyria
OH-05 Bowling Green and NE Ohio
OH-06 Southeast Ohio
OH-07 Canton
OH-08 Hamilton and Troy
OH-09 Toledo and Lake Erie
OH-10 Dayton
OH-11 Cleveland and Akron
OH-12 Columbus North and Delaware
OH-13 Youngstown and Warren
OH-14 Ashtabula and Mentor
OH-15 Columbus South and Fairfield
OH-16 East Cuyahoga

Congrats here is your silver medal.
You get a gold medal if you can do Maryland.

This would be so much simpler if we used the Australian system instead.

MD-01: Eastern Shore
MD-02: Towson–Lowlands
MD-03: Annapolis, Pikesville, and Olney
MD-04: Severna Park and Outer D.C.
MD-05: St. Charles
MD-06: Cumberland–Frederick
MD-07: Baltimore–Columbia
MD-08: Rockville–Westminster

(I really don't like "Outer D.C." for MD-04, but that part of Maryland seems to defy categorization.)

[iceman]

CO-01 Denver
CO-02 Boulder and Fort Collins
CO-03 Aspen and Grand Junction
CO-04 Greeley and Pueblo
CO-05 Colorado Springs
CO-06 Aurora
CO-07 Arvada and Lakewood

[iceman]

SC-01 Charleston and Beaufort
SC-02 Lexington
SC-03 Anderson
SC-04 Greenville and Spartanburg
SC-05 Rock Hill
SC-06 Columbia and North Charleston
SC-07 Pee Dee

[Corbyn is (no longer) the leader of the Labour Party]

Missouri:
MO - 01: St. Louis Central
MO - 02: St. Louis West and St Charles
MO - 03: Jefferson City and Outer St. Louis
MO - 04: Columbia, Harrisonville, and Lebanon
MO - 05: Kansas City East
MO - 06: St. Jospeh and Northern Missouri
MO - 07: Springfield and the Ozarks
MO - 08: Bootheel, Cape Girardeau, and St Genevieve

[iceman]

MN-01 Blue Earth and Southern Minnesota
MN-02 Shakopee and Eagan
MN-03 Hennnepin West
MN-04 St . Paul
MN-05 Minneapolis
MN-06 Anoka and St. Cloud
MN-07 Western Minnesota
MN-08 Duluth and Iron Range

[Hope For A New Era]

Here's a naming of Missouri's districts:

MO-01: St. Louis Central
MO-02: St. Louis West
MO-03: Fulton
MO-04: Sedalia
MO-05: Kansas City
MO-06: North Missouri
MO-07: Springfield
MO-08: St. Francois

Unfortunate that Lake Of The Ozarks is split between two districts (3 and 4). It would make a good name.

I'll also do Utah, which is very difficult because the districts have odd shapes. Salt Lake City is split into three, for example, and in a way that is very geographically unintuitive. I've tried to use names of natural locations rather than population centers because of this.

UT-01: Cache
UT-02: Sevier
UT-03: Canyonlands
Ut-04: Wasatch

[iceman]

GA-01 Savannah
GA-02 Southeast Georgia
GA-03 ?? (stuck with this)
GA-04 Conyers and East DeKalb
GA-05 Central Atlanta
GA-06 Alpharetta and Roswell
GA-07 Lawrenceville
GA-08 Valdosta and Warner Robins
GA-09 Gainesville and NE
GA-10 Athens-Clarke
GA-11 Marietta
GA-12 East Central Georgia
GA-13 South Atlanta and Clayton
GA-14 Northwest Georgia


I could have named GA-02 as Albany and Macon but the NY-20 district would be appropriately named that. Also for GA-12 with Richmond but VA-04 would be named the same.

[Corbyn is (no longer) the leader of the Labour Party]

Colorado:

CO - 01: Denver
CO - 02: Boulder and the Front Range
CO - 03: Western Colorado
CO - 04: Eastern Colorado
CO - 05: Colorado Springs
CO - 06: Aurora and Centennial
CO - 07: Adams and Jefferson

[Starry Eyed Jagaloon]

(I really don't like "Outer D.C." for MD-04, but that part of Maryland seems to defy categorization.)

Inner Prince Georges might be more appropriate.

[Zaybay]

The MA congressional districts are a bit of a mess, so I tried to form names around major cities and cultural centers.

MA-01: Springfield
MA-02: Worcester
MA-03: Lowell
MA-04: Tauton-Newton
MA-05: Framingham-Cambridge
MA-06: Essex
MA-07: Boston-Somerville
MA-08: Boston-Brockton
MA-09: Plymouth-Cape Cod

[Storr]

North Carolina:

NC-01: Rocky Mount and Greenville
NC-02: Raleigh
NC-03: Outer Banks
NC-04: Durham and Chapel Hill
NC-05: High Country and Gaston (and Foothills could work too, but it doesn't include Catawba the largest foothill county so idgaf)
NC-06: Greensboro and Winston-Salem
NC-07: Cape Fear and Johnston
(Wilmington and Johnston or Southeast and Johnston could work too, but this, the 8th, 9th, and 10th districts are such abominations, it's hard to come up with 'good' names so I'll just go with names that cover the geographic extent of the districts)
NC-08: Concord and Fayetteville
NC-09: South Mecklenburg, Union, and Sandhills
NC-10: Lake Norman and Outer Forsyth
NC-11: Smoky Mountains
NC-12: Charlotte
NC-13: Salisbury, Lexington, and Burlington

[iceman]

MS-01 Northern Mississippi
MS-02 Jackson and West
MS-03 South Central Mississippi
MS-04 Biloxi and Gulfport

not very creative

LA-01 Metairie and River Delta
LA-02 New Orleans
LA-03 Acadiana
LA-04 Shreveport
LA-05 NE and Florida Parishes
LA-06 Baton Rouge

[iceman]

The MA congressional districts are a bit of a mess, so I tried to form names around major cities and cultural centers.

MA-01: Springfield
MA-02: Worcester
MA-03: Lowell
MA-04: Tauton-Newton
MA-05: Framingham-Cambridge
MA-06: Essex
MA-07: Boston-Somerville
MA-08: Boston-Brockton
MA-09: Plymouth-Cape Cod

could be something like this:

MA-01 Berkshires (the the name springfield could be used for IL-13)
MA-02 Worcester
MA-03 Lowell and Lawrence
MA-04 Newton and Fall River
MA-05 Cambridge and Framingham
MA-06 Lynn, Salem and Peabody
MA-07 Boston and Chelsea
MA-08 South Boston and Quincy
MA-09 Cape Cod

[iceman]

NY-01 Eastern Suffolk
NY-02 Massapequa and Mid-suffolk
NY-03 Northern Nassau
NY-04 Mineola and South Nassau
NY-05 Jamaica
NY-06 Flushing
NY-07 Brooklyn Heights and Lower East Side
NY-08 East Flatbush and Coney Island
NY-09 Flatbush and Prospect Heights
NY-10 Tribeca and West Manhattan
NY-11 Staten Island
NY-12 Flatiron and Manhattan East
NY-13 Harlem
NY-14 Astoria and East Bronx
NY-15 South Bronx
NY-16 Yonkers and New Rochelle
NY-17 Rockland
NY-18 Poughkeepsie and Hudson Valley
NY-19 Catskill
NY-20 Albany and Schenectady
NY-21 Adirondacks
NY-22 Utica and Central NY
NY-23 Ithaca and SW
NY-24 Syracuse
NY-25 Rochester and Irondequoit
NY-26 Buffalo and Niagara Falls
NY-27 Western New York

[Sol]

North Carolina:

NC-01: Rocky Mount and Greenville
NC-02: Raleigh
NC-03: Outer Banks
NC-04: Durham and Chapel Hill
NC-05: High Country and Gaston (and Foothills could work too, but it doesn't include Catawba the largest foothill county so idgaf)
NC-06: Greensboro and Winston-Salem
NC-07: Cape Fear and Johnston
(Wilmington and Johnston or Southeast and Johnston could work too, but this, the 8th, 9th, and 10th districts are such abominations, it's hard to come up with 'good' names so I'll just go with names that cover the geographic extent of the districts)
NC-08: Concord and Fayetteville
NC-09: South Mecklenburg, Union, and Sandhills
NC-10: Lake Norman and Outer Forsyth
NC-11: Smoky Mountains
NC-12: Charlotte
NC-13: Salisbury, Lexington, and Burlington

These are great district names for what surely must be difficult map, but I will nitpick and say:
-Outer Banks isn't a great name for NC-03; the actual Outer Banks are pretty sparsely populated. The real population centers are in cities on the mainland, like Jacksonville, Kinston, New Bern, etc. Maybe Eastern North Carolina or Albemarle-Jacksonville? Don't know this area super well.
-You could probably just call NC-09 South Charlotte and Sandhills.

[LimoLiberal]

MT-01: Montana
AK-01: Alaska
DE-01: Delaware

 

My actual contribution:

TX-01: Tyler-Nacogdoches
TX-02: Houston North & East
TX-03: McKinney-Plano
TX-04: Texarkana-Red River
TX-05: Mesquite-Palestine
TX-06: Arlington-Navarro
TX-07: Houston East-Bellaire
TX-08: Houston North-The Woodlands
TX-09: Houston South & West
TX-10: San Angelo-Midland
TX-11: Austin North-Katy
TX-12: Fort Worth West-Weatherford
TX-13: Wichita Falls-Panhandle
TX-14: Brazoria-Galveston-Beaumont
TX-15: McAllen East-Alice
TX-16: El Paso
TX-17: Waco-Bryan-College Station (could also be written Waco & Bryan-College Station for clarity)
TX-18: Houston North & Central
TX-19: Lubbock-Abilene
TX-20: San Antonio Central
TX-21: Austin Central-Hill Country? gerrymandering makes this one difficult
TX-22: Sugar Land-Pearland
TX-23: Socorro-Hill Country? Another tricky one
TX-24: Carrollton-Coppell
TX-25: Austin West-Cleburne
TX-26: Denton
TX-27: Corpus Christi-Victoria
TX-28: Mission-Laredo
TX-29: Houston East & Central
TX-30: Dallas South & Central
TX-31: Round Rock-Temple
TX-32: Dallas North-Garland
TX-33: Dallas East-Fort Worth West
TX-34: Brownsville-Kingsville
TX-35: San Antonio East-Austin East
TX-36: Baytown-Sabine

that was arduous

[Brittain33]

One of the few pleasures of being on Atlas for 10+ years is seeing this thread come up regularly.

[Brittain33]

MD-1: Eastern Shore
MD-2: Chesapeake
MD-3: Baltimore Queensway
MD-4: Crake
MD-5: Screechly Plunge
MD-6: Panhandle-Montgomery
MD-7: Vortex-les-Beans
MD-8: Crake and Nether Screechly

[Cokeland Saxton]

IN-01: Indiana Lakeshore
IN-02: South Bend-Elkhart and Indiana North
IN-03: Fort Wayne
IN-04: Lafayette and Indiana West
IN-05: Carmel-Anderson and Indianapolis North
IN-06: Indiana East
IN-07: Indianapolis Central
IN-08: Evansville, Bloomington, and Indiana Southwest
IN-09: Indiana South

[Tekken_Guy]

i dare any brave soul to attempt this with Ohio.

OH-1: Cincinnati West
OH-2: Cincinnati East
OH-3: Columbus Central
OH-4: Lima
OH-5: Toledo
OH-6: Appalachian Ohio
OH-7: Canton
OH-8: Butler
OH-9: Lake Erie
OH-10: Dayton
OH-11: Cleveland Central
OH-12: Columbus North
OH-13: Mahoning Valley
OH-14: Cleveland East
OH-15: Columbus South
OH-16: Cleveland West

[Cokeland Saxton]

Michigan:

MI-01: Upper Peninsula and Michigan North
MI-02: Muskegon and Michigan West
MI-03: Grand Rapids and Battle Creek
MI-04: Midland and Michigan Central
MI-05: Saginaw Bay and Flint
MI-06: Kalamazoo and Michigan Southwest
MI-07: Jackson and Michigan South
MI-08: Lansing and Livingston
MI-09: Macomb South
MI-10: The Thumb
MI-11: Oakland Southwest and Livonia
MI-12: Ann Arbor and Wayne South
MI-13: Detroit South and Dearborn
MI-14: Detroit North and Oakland South

[Hope For A New Era]

I'll throw in Kansas as well:

KS-01: no idea...maybe just "Kansas Plains" or something
KS-02: Topeka
KS-03: Wyandotte
KS-04: Wichita