Manhattan wanted to found a city where men were free to marry their cousins, but Springfield refused to allow it, so Shelbyville was founded as a rival town. There is a strong rivalry between the towns, dating back to the rivalry between their founder - Jebediah Springfield and Shelbyville Manhattan. Springfield's nearest neighboring town is Shelbyville. Its features include one nuclear power plant at least five elementary schools a minor league all-star baseball stadium an airport a harbor a downtown district a large tire yard (burning since 1966) a ghetto a Russian District its own Little Italy several specialized shopping districts, Moe's Tavern, Barney's Bowl-A-Rama and a Chinatown.
Hans Sprungfeld, and a band of fiercely determined pioneers out of Maryland who set off after misinterpreting a passage in The Bible, Springfield seems to be a small city rather than a megalopolis. Springfield's state's capital, Capital City, is inspired by Frankfurt, KY's airport, Capital City Airport.įounded and created in 1796 by Jebediah Springfield, a.k.a. Simpsonville neighbors with Shelbyville, KY. Geographically, the city is based on Simpsonville, KY, and it is possibly where the family name "Simpson" for the show originates. It is one and a half times bigger than Alaska, with West Springfield the shape of Texas. The city has often been dubbed as the, or at a stretch, one of America's worst towns and called "America's Crud Bucket", "The Armpit of America's Butt-Crack", "The Little Town That Can't and Won't, "The World's Meanest City", as well as being the "World's Fattest Town". It is understood as a sister city to Shelbyville, which in real life would be Eugene, Oregon.
It's zip code is 80085, as of Moe Letter Blues. The city population is estimated to be approximately 60,000. This can be questioned however, because during the couch gag at the beginning of the episode " The Ziff Who Came to Dinner", the screen pans out to the map of the United States, and the location over Illinois, and it is stated to be in southern Illinois, and there is no evidence towards it being Oregon.
For many years, the evidence was sufficiently contradictory that it could not be identified with a specific state however, Matt Groening has come forward and admitted that it was based on Springfield, Oregon. It is located east of Shelbyville, south of Capital City,but also near Ogdenville, and North Haverbrook.