I don’t know if this is any pleasant answer, but in several stories. For example, in The Olympian Torch Bearer by Carl Barks. It is either mentioned directly in the text or drawn as a very big city.
In The Olympian Torch Bearer, Goosetown is a major enough city to have the Olympian torch be carried through it, but nothing about its size is mentioned. Certainly not anything about it being the second largest in Calisota. What are the other examples?
It always seemed to me that Goosetown should be a big, major city, as it is the rival city to Duckburg, and its mayors and city council are always working hard to out-do Duckburg in their rivalry. I think it should be almost as large, populous, and important as Duckburg, to make their rivalry mean something.
In The Tramp Steamer, Donald and the kids travel south in a little boat. Along the way they reach this little fishing village:
After covering it in soap, they escape. Soon enough, they reach another fishing village; this one:
I was thinking that maybe the first one is Mouseville/Mouseton, as I've seen maps placing it south of Duckburg, and rather close too. We've seen in numerous stories that Mouseville/Mouseton has a harbor, so it should be located on a coast. However, it appears that the people in the panel is wearing sombreros and ponchos, so maybe the intention was that the Ducks had gone all the way to Mexico?
The fishing village in that 1944 story CERTAINLY was meant to be situated in Mexico.
I stumbled upon something while reading The Long Race to Pumpkinburg. The Ducks have an ice skating race to Pumpkinburg, which is located 3 miles down the frozen river. During the race, the Ducks pass Gooseneck Bend. Gooseneck Bend appears again in Boat Buster, where Donald is having a boat race against one of John D. Rockerduck's racers. The race is called Yellowrado River Water Derby, which leads me to assume that the river is named Yellowrado River, and that Gooseneck Bend is a part of this river.
Donald is instructed to take a shortcut "through a tule bog across Gooseneck Bend". While writing this I realized that it says "a tule bog" and not "Tule Bog". Thus, any relation to Tulebug River, Tuleville, or Tuleburg is unlikely... which makes all of this a bit less interesting.
Anyways, we never learn where the goal of the Boat Buster race is located. However Pumpkinburg should be somewhere in between the goal and Duckburg.
That boat race was held on The Yellowrado (mimicking Colorado River), and located in a very dry desert. It looks like Arizona, to me. I wouldn't want such a hot, dry place inside Calisota. Why couldn't Scrooge race his boat in another state? EVERYTHING The Ducks do doesn't have to happen inside Calisota, or in a foreign country.
The fishing village in that 1944 story CERTAINLY was meant to be situated in Mexico.
In retrospect I wholeheartedly agree... especially since, upon re-reading the story, I realized that the guy who sells Donald the boat explicitly tells him to go to Mexico... I really should learn to focus more when reading...
It's not a city and it's not a town, but it is geography-related. Donald runs across several counties until he reaches Squash County, as seen in The Cantankerous Cat. I refuse to believe that Donald ran all the way from Duckburg to another state, so my guess is that Squash County is also in Calisota.
I have mostly forests and mountains in the northern portions of Calisota, and farmland in the southern and southeastern parts of the state. So, I have Squash County in the southeast of Calisota.
That boat race was held on The Yellowrado (mimicking Colorado River), and located in a very dry desert. It looks like Arizona, to me. I wouldn't want such a hot, dry place inside Calisota. Why couldn't Scrooge race his boat in another state? EVERYTHING The Ducks do doesn't have to happen inside Calisota, or in a foreign country.
Well, I guess my only argument for having the race in close proximity to the Duckburg area is that we know that Gooseneck Bend is located there. I guess there could theoretically be two separate Gooseneck Bends in different places.
Anyways, I re-read Boat Buster to see if I missed something. Turns out I did. Does "Palo Toro Irrigation District" mean anything important?
Also, Scrooge's last line implies that the finish line is not located in Duckburg. Because of Gooseneck Bend, I'd say it could still be located in Pumpkinburg. But then again, I might be proven wrong about that.
That boat race was held on The Yellowrado (mimicking Colorado River), and located in a very dry desert. It looks like Arizona, to me. I wouldn't want such a hot, dry place inside Calisota. Why couldn't Scrooge race his boat in another state? EVERYTHING The Ducks do doesn't have to happen inside Calisota, or in a foreign country.
Well, I guess my only argument for having the race in close proximity to the Duckburg area is that we know that Gooseneck Bend is located there. I guess there could theoretically be two separate Gooseneck Bends in different places.
Anyways, I re-read Boat Buster to see if I missed something. Turns out I did. Does "Palo Toro Irrigation District" mean anything important?
Also, Scrooge's last line implies that the finish line is not located in Duckburg. Because of Gooseneck Bend, I'd say it could still be located in Pumpkinburg. But then again, I might be proven wrong about that.
Pumpkinburg is very near to Duckburg, in an area that ts well-watered, having a temperate climate and no Spanish place names. A "gooseneck bend"is a riverine landform that could be located anywhere there is a river or stream, just as a town named "Hillside", or "mountainview". Palo Toro Irrigation District implies that it is in a desert area, as does the background terrain. As most Disney Duck Fans seem to agree, Calisota is located on The US West Coast, and is somewhat like California, its very long coast would be somewhat like Oregon in its northern portion, and like central and perhaps southern California in its southern portion, shown to be a several hours automobile drive from steppeland, and then desert (which is probably in other states, like Nevada and Arizona). Palo Toro and The Yellowrado River (are many hours away from Duckburg and Pumpkinburg, which are near the coast of The Pacific Ocean. There are probably many Gooseneck Bends in The Duck Universe.
Rockhead Rooster from The Double Date is from Chickentown. It's not confirmed to be located in Calisota, but there's a train that goes directly to Duckburg.
Rockhead Rooster from The Double Date is from Chickentown. It's not confirmed to be located in Calisota, but there's a train that goes directly to Duckburg.
Rockhead Rooster knows about local events in Duckburg, so it's a LOT more likely that his town (Chickentown) is located no further than an adjacent county, than he resides in another State. Duckburg is at least a handful of hundred miles from Calisota's border, on every map I've seen, including mine.
In Serum to Codfish Cove, Donald is tasked with delivering a serum to the village Codfish Cove.
Since Donald travels there by skiing, it can't be too far away from Duckburg. Only two panels after leaving home, he says that it is only ten miles left.
Once he arrives, we see that Codfish Cove has a large body of water on Donald's right. Since Duckburg is located on USA's west coast, I assume that Donald has traveled south. In other words, Codfish Cove is located south of Duckburg and the large body of water is the Pacific Ocean.
hi I want to resume this topic because in two recent italian stories (https://inducks.org/story.php?c=I+TL+3405-1P and inducks.org/story.php?c=I+TL+3532-1P) appears a new little city, Farmtown