The creation of Semoran Boulevard

Semoran Boulevard (State Road 436) is a 25-mile 6+ lane corridor of sprawl connecting Orlando's mid-range suburbs. Although it is named as a portmanteau of Seminole and Orange, the two counties it passes through, the normal pronunciation is more like seh-muh-ron. (As far as I know, Semoran's lesser-known sibling, Oranole Road, does not have this problem.)

Semoran was initially conceived as a bypass around Orlando, combining existing roads into a partial beltway. According to "A Guide to Historic Orlando" (2006), the name was submitted by two people in a 1967 newspaper contest to name the road.