California Towns & Streets

Play in California: 550 real towns from Los Angeles to San Diego, real streets for your bus stops, and real names for train stations, airports and ports.

Pick the name set "California (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

• California towns: a name set with 550 real towns and places, from big cities to small mountain, desert, farm and beach 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 Bay Area, plus the Central Coast, the North Coast and far north and the Central Valley. Dry maps: mostly the deserts, plus the Central Valley and Southern California. Subarctic maps: mostly the Sierra Nevada and the high mountains, plus the North Coast and far north. Tropical maps: mostly Southern California, plus the Central Coast. Climates from other mods use the whole state.
• Real street names: new Road Stops in 13 cities (Los Angeles, San Diego, San Jose, …) are named after their real streets, like Sunset Boulevard or Market Street: 360 streets in all, never twice in the same town.
• California-style streets everywhere else: other towns draw their stop names from 127 street names in the local style (missions, oaks, palms, redwoods, coast, orchards and counties).
• Real station names: new train stations, airports and ports in 17 cities get real names, like Union Station, Santa Fe Depot or the Ferry Building (79 rail stations, 17 airports, 9 ports).
• Neighbourhood names: new bus and tram stations in 4 cities are named after real neighbourhoods (92 in all).
• Everything else follows: industries, depots and their stations are named after your California 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 California city's name (rename a town to Los Angeles and its next stop is on a real Los Angeles 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 "California (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 "California 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: Donald Graeme Kelley Vectorization: Devin Cook).

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.