Minnesota Towns & Streets

Play in Minnesota: 485 real towns from Minneapolis to St. Paul, real streets for your bus stops, and real names for train stations and airports.

Pick the name set "Minnesota (Towns & Streets)" for a new game. Then just build: every new Road Stop and station in a known city gets a real local name a moment after you place it.

Features

• Minnesota towns: a name set with 485 real towns and places, from big cities to small lake, farm, river and Iron Range towns (US Census Bureau data).
• Towns that suit your map: a new game picks its towns by the map's climate. Temperate maps: mostly the southern farm belt, plus the Twin Cities and the lake country. Dry maps: the western prairie (Red River Valley). Subarctic maps: mostly the North Woods (Arrowhead, Iron Range), plus the lake country. Tropical maps: mostly the lake country, plus the Twin Cities. Climates from other mods use the whole state.
• Real street names: new Road Stops in 12 cities (Minneapolis, St. Paul, Rochester, …) are named after their real streets, like Nicollet Avenue or Grand Avenue: 329 streets in all, never twice in the same town.
• Minnesota-style streets everywhere else: other towns draw their stop names from 129 street names in the local style (lakes, pines, river towns, prairie section roads and the Iron Range).
• Real station names: new train stations and airports in 38 cities get real names, like Union Depot, Target Field or Duluth International Airport (11 rail stations, 38 airports).
• Neighbourhood names: new bus and tram stations in 3 cities are named after real neighbourhoods (96 in all).
• Everything else follows: industries, depots and their stations are named after your Minnesota towns by the game itself.

Settings

• Real street names (default On): renames new Road Stops in known cities after their real streets.
• Real station names (default On): renames new train stations, bus and tram stations, airports and harbours in known cities.

Notes

• Unlike a plain name set, this mod also renames the stops and stations you build after real streets, stations and neighbourhoods in their city.
• Street and station names also work with any other name set, in towns that carry a Minnesota city's name (rename a town to Minneapolis and its next stop is on a real Minneapolis street).
• Only renames what you build, right after you build it. Existing stops and stations are never touched, and neither are your own renames.
• Cosmetic only, safe to add to an existing save. A game started with the "Minnesota (Towns & Streets)" name set needs this mod to load; in any other save, removing it keeps the names already given and stops renaming.
• Not affiliated with the "Minnesota Names" mod; all lists here are our own.

Credits

• Towns and populations: US Census Bureau (public domain). Street, station and neighbourhood lists: our own selection of well-known real names.
• State flag on the cover: Wikimedia Commons (public domain, Original: Minnesota State Emblems Redesign Commission Vector: Jamie Eilat, Undertiago).

Changelog

Revision 4 (2026-10-09)

• Clearer description: says up front that the mod renames the stops and stations you build, not just the default name lists.

Revision 3 (2026-10-08)

• Faster in the map editor: the mod no longer reads every mod's settings on every frame.

Revision 2 (2026-10-08)

• Faster: less work on every build and every frame, and a quicker street name check in big towns.

Revision 1 (2026-10-08)

• New: first release.