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Listener Anne Skove points out there are a lot of cities and counties in Ohio that share a name. "You've got Hamilton County, which doesn't have Hamilton the city in it. There's Montgomery County, but there's a Montgomery here (in Hamilton County). Warren is way off on the other side of the state, and there's a Warren County, but they're nowhere near each other."
Her theory: famous people get things named after them. "Washington State and Washington D.C. are nowhere near each other either, but you know, Washington. Famous," she says.
It's not a bad theory. Steve Lucht is curator at Dayton History. "Pretty much all the major cities in Ohio are not named after places. They're named after people."