In the United States, I’d probably name Oregon City, the famous end of the Oregon Trail and the first city founded west of the Rocky Mountains during the pioneer era. Its population is only 37,000.

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Unfortunately, I would guess that school shooter locations are probably the most easily recognised in the US. Uvalde has a population of ~15,000, for instance.

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OP said famous, not infamous.

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Ah yeah, I was going for instantly recognizable

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Sandy Hook is ~9,000. You may not remember, but Alex Jones does.

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Yeah Alex Jones can rot in hell

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We remember.

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Similar to how more people have heard of Lockerbie than any other Scottish town of 5000 people.

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