Hi. Okay, so Duckburg is located in Calisota. We have another thread discussing whether Mouseville/Mouseton is located there too. But in this thread, I'd like to catalogue the other cities and towns located in Calisota (just like the thread title says).
Besides Duckburg, I know that Goosetown is a thing. (Don't know where it is mentioned though.) In Barks' Dogcatcher Duck, we see a sign mentioning Hentown and Catville as relatively close towns.
From the Taliaferro-strips there is Hickville, Centerville, and Homeville; all of which seems to be either Donald's home town or a neighboring one.
And for the record; if Mouseville/Mouseton is indeed located in Calisota: Silo Center and Hometown are either earlier names for Mickey's home town or nearby locations.
What other settlements does Calisota have to offer?
Post by Scrooge MacDuck on Nov 2, 2020 18:00:44 GMT
There's Joe Torcivia's cutely-named brainchild Goat-Ham City, for one.
As was discussed on another thread, the Paperino Paperotto series places Grandma Duck's farm in “Quacktown”, or “Quack Town”, a rural community on the outskirts of the Duckburg megalopolis.
Barks's Flip Decision has the names of Hogtown and Noplace visible on signs on the motorway when Donald is trying to find his way back to Duckburg.
Jack Bradbury's 1961 story The Trouble Shooters introduced us to Seedyville, the smallest city in the world.
Legend of the Three Caballeros introduced New Quackmore as a bordering city to Duckburg, which, if we also acknowledge St. Canard and Mouseton as bordering cities to Duckburg, certainly poses a challenge to map-makers, but there we are.
Donald mentions Skeetertown, which is "a mile down the river", in Barks' In the Swim. Maybe it's not a separate town, but rather a part of Duckburg, like Quacktown
Donald mentions Skeetertown, which is "a mile down the river", in Barks' In the Swim. Maybe it's not a separate town, but rather a part of Duckburg, like Quacktown
The way Barks portrayed the open, non-built-up land for several miles along the river, between Duckburg and Skeetertown, it's a lot more logical that Skeetertown is a separate town (separate political jurisdictions).
Donald mentions Skeetertown, which is "a mile down the river", in Barks' In the Swim. Maybe it's not a separate town, but rather a part of Duckburg, like Quacktown
The way Barks portrayed the open, non-built-up land for several miles along the river, between Duckburg and Skeetertown, it's a lot more logical that Skeetertown is a separate town (separate political jurisdictions).
First of all, it's not "several miles". As previously stated, Skeetertown is one mile from their starting position. As they never reach Skeetertown, it is fair to say that the forest-area that we see in the story is one mile or less long. Second of all, there could just as likely simply be a relatively large forest in Duckburg, with Donald's house being on one side, and the Skeetertown are being on the other.
Now, we don't know the exact position that the race is starting from, but Skeetertown is just one mile away. Compare this to Grandma's farm, which is said to be 5 miles away from Donald's house in Hobblin' Goblins. Grandma's farm tends to be considered part of Duckburg... But once again, since we don't know the starting point of the race, it's impossible to know how Skeetertown relates to Duckburg's borders...
I'm probably leaning towards guessing Skeetertown is a separate town, even though one mile seems pretty close. I mean, they would basically be twin cities.
The way Barks portrayed the open, non-built-up land for several miles along the river, between Duckburg and Skeetertown, it's a lot more logical that Skeetertown is a separate town (separate political jurisdictions).
First of all, it's not "several miles". As previously stated, Skeetertown is one mile from their starting position. As they never reach Skeetertown, it is fair to say that the forest-area that we see in the story is one mile or less long. Second of all, there could just as likely simply be a relatively large forest in Duckburg, with Donald's house being on one side, and the Skeetertown are being on the other.
Now, we don't know the exact position that the race is starting from, but Skeetertown is just one mile away. Compare this to Grandma's farm, which is said to be 5 miles away from Donald's house in Hobblin' Goblins. Grandma's farm tends to be considered part of Duckburg... But once again, since we don't know the starting point of the race, it's impossible to know how Skeetertown relates to Duckburg's borders...
I'm probably leaning towards guessing Skeetertown is a separate town, even though one mile seems pretty close. I mean, they would basically be twin cities.
On my own map of Duckburg, I had Skeetertown as a suburb of Duckburg just east of it, along The Tulebug River on Duckburg's southeast edge. In the western US, a town with the suffix "town" in its name, is usually a separate town or city (e.g. a separate governmental jurisdiction). Usually districts, burroughs, neighbourhoods in western US cities that have the suffix "town' are only heavily foreign from a single national group (like "Chinatown", "Japantown", "Koreatown", etc.). On the East Coast, it is different. Several older "towns" that had previously been separate towns were gobbled up by a main city that grew outward and annexed them.
On my own map of Duckburg, I had Skeetertown as a suburb of Duckburg just east of it, along The Tulebug River on Duckburg's southeast edge. In the western US, a town with the suffix "town" in its name, is usually a separate town or city (e.g. a separate governmental jurisdiction). Usually districts, burroughs, neighbourhoods in western US cities that have the suffix "town' are only heavily foreign from a single national group (like "Chinatown", "Japantown", "Koreatown", etc.). On the East Coast, it is different. Several older "towns" that had previously been separate towns were gobbled up by a main city that grew outward and annexed them.
I was also thinking that the river featured in In The Swim might be retconned into being Tulebug River. And I believe Skeetertown being southeast of Duckburg fits with the information I've gathered as well!
It seems I'm really interested in maps, family trees, and timelines. Would you be willing to post your map?
Nobody's mentioned Pickleburg yet, from Carl Barks' early hookey story, WDC 72.
I placed Pickleburg on the opposite (eastern) side of the rural farmland surrounding Duckburg's southeastern suburbs, where Grandma Duck's farm lies, because Barks showed Donald traveling through a lot of farmland and undeveloped land to get from Duckburg to Pickleburg.
And then there's Anderville, which (I guess) is relatively close to Mouseville/Mouseton.
Honestly always felt it wasn't. Did we get mention of it even being in Calisota somewhere? Always got the feeling it's meant to be outright a different state, maybe different coast, to enhance the isolation Mickey's thrown into
In WDC42: Kite Weather, Donald is featured in the newspaper, which he reads in his home. However, the paper appears to be printed in "Quackville"... Obviously, the name "Duckburg" hadn't been solidified as Donald's home town yet, but in-universe... Is Quackville a separate town from Duckburg? Or simply an alternate name? Both of these alternatives have their own problems, but maybe those are irrelevant to this thread.
In WDC42: Kite Weather, Donald is featured in the newspaper, which he reads in his home. However, the paper appears to be printed in "Quackville"... Obviously, the name "Duckburg" hadn't been solidified as Donald's home town yet, but in-universe... Is Quackville a separate town from Duckburg? Or simply an alternate name? Both of these alternatives have their own problems, but maybe those are irrelevant to this thread.
We could assume that "Quackville" is a District inside Duckburg, which has its own newspaper. After all, a kid winning an ordinary kite contest is not likely to be placed on the front page of a big city or middle-sized city newspaper, like The Duckburg Daily Blah. It is logical to assume that "Duckville" is the district inside Duckburg that encompasses Donald's neighbourhood on Duckburg's South Side (AKA "South Duckburg"). I don't think Duckburg has an "alternate name". IF it were to have an alternate name, that should be a descriptive term, such as Chicago is termed, "The Windy City", or New York is termed, "Gotham City". Having Duckville as a separate city brings up the problem of Donald and his nephews reading a newspaper from a smaller, nearby town, which has local news about a nearby bigger city. I DO have Duckville as another town inside Duck County, because Bob Gregory used it in a few of his stories.