Andy Murdock of The Statesider created this nifty map of fonts named after cities and states of the United States of America.
So how many fonts are there that fit the bill? Too many, it turned out. Murdock had to stop at 222 because the more he looked, the more he found and he just had to stop before it got to be too much.
From The Statesider:
Many of these fonts have stories that clearly tie them to a specific time and place. Georgia, one of the more common fonts used today, got its name from a tabloid headline that read “Alien Heads Found in Georgia.” Fayette is based on the handwriting of an accountant who kept detailed records of the now ghost town of the same name on Michigan’s Upper Peninsula. Tahoma is one of the pre-European names for Mt. Rainier, as is Tacoma, which is also a font. Others are less clear. Is Huntington named for the city in West Virginia, or the library in Southern California? Is Hiawatha named for the town in Iowa, or does it belong in Minnesota by the shores of Gitche Gumee?
View the original map (and a list of the fonts used) over at The Statesider.