How many Towns in the Unites States?

I'm building my Regional directory using the built in regional function of the phpLynx script which has a built in ability to switch from being a general directory to a regional one, from Country, City, or town, even street I suppose, and am just about to hand build a towns database.

Does anyone know how many towns in the USA please? I'm not after an existing database, at least not yet, I'm only wanting to know how many towns there are to see how long it takes me.

 

towns i am unsure of, but there are more than 35,000 cities.

 

I believe this to be one of the best resources:
http://www.city-data.com/
It's more if you count the small ones (pretty sure of that anyway)

 

Good luck with your regional directory and your phplynx script.

Im sure thiers a few million in the USA so you will be busy for a while...

thx
malcolm

 

damn you beat me to it i was just going to post that

any way good luck adding all the towns see ya in around 2yrs when you finish adding them(lol)

 

Funny (my message was too short so adding this line)

 

Plenty! In New Jersey, for example, there are 566 municipalities, but you really should consider adding in those towns with communities within them.

Let us know what you come up with -- there must be 20-30,000 plus communities across the USA.

 

oppps dam sorry i changed it... wrong script

regardless i wish them luck since its unexplored territory..
and should make a very nice catagorized listing..

Ive got the perfect domain for it also... eregion.net

thx
malcolm

 

I think wiki is a nice resource as well, if you search the right term you can get all the results structured

 

Thanks Matt, will be probably revert to importing the majors down to municiples and then go for building the town structures so it will only take me 1 year instead of the 2 choice thinks its gonna take me.

 

here a list just for California towns http://www.totalescape.com/destin/abclist.html and this one is for Cities http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_cities_in_California

 

Thanks very much, two down 50 to go.

 

Pheonix you might do a few searches and find some freely available .csv formatted files that list all the states/cities etc. and just import it into the DB.

If not, there are a several sites that sell that information in just about any format you want (csv/sql/mysql/txt). A year or so ago I did a site that needed all states and cities...I may still ahve that csv file laying around in a folder somewhere if you need it.

tom