Don’t you wish summer could last all year long? Well in these places, it does! This map shows every settlement/ populated place in the contiguous United States that has the word summer in its name. It uses the data from the United States gazetteer. The Gazetteer is a useful cartographic resourcing containing every name location in the United States. Two additional data visualizations were created in Tableau. The first, seen in the bottom left corner of the map, shows the most common summer toponyms. The colours used in this visualization correspond with the colours used in the map labels. The second visualizations depict which States are the most summer loving (which States have the most places with the word summer in them).
When planning your next summer road trip, make it extra special by visiting some of these summer destinations!