Maple Street

1. Maple Street Just Sounds Like Home.
Maple Street always conjures up the picture of the idyllic place to live. Can you see it? Modest,
but well-maintained capes and colonials adorned with window boxes overflowing with
flowering plants of varying hues, the stars and stripes flying proudly from generous porches
sporting tall-back rockers, all tucked behind white-washed, garden fences; and gorgeous shade
trees lining the roadway that bears their name.
One would think Maple Street could easily be in the top five most popular streets in the United
States, since it sounds so much like our ideal of “home”. But, actually it is number twelve on
the list. Someone who thought he was an authority on just about everything, once told me,
Elm Street was the most common named street in the U.S. Strangely, Second Street is the
number one street name in this country. In second place, is Third, followed by First, Fourth,
Park, Fifth, Main, Sixth, Seventh, Oak, Pine and Maple.
New Englanders love Maple anything, so obviously, we have plenty of streets named after a
favorite tree and flavor. Traveling around our local communities, Maple Street can be
discovered in Lowell, Dracut, Tewksbury, Westford, Bedford, Acton, Burlington, Methuen,
Lawrence, Carlisle, Townsend, Pepperell, Reading, Wakefield, Stoneham and Winchester.
Maple Road makes the map in Chelmsford, Tewksbury, Westford, Wilmington and Winchester.
Chelmsford, Tewksbury, Andover, North Andover, Wakefield, Woburn and Groton have a Maple
Avenue, while Andover and Winchester boast a Maple Court. Finally, Wakefield rounds out the
list with a Maple Way.
To that so-called authority, Elm Street is actually found at number 15 on the list of most
popular streets.