Huntsville has been ranked one of the geekiest cities in the nation by OnlineUniversities.com.

Huntsville is ranked among cities like Silicon Valley, CA; San Diego, CA and Austin, TX for this top honor.

No one seemed more surprised by this ranking than those doing the story for OnlineUniversities.com. Here is what they said about adding Huntsville to their list:

"Call us ignorant, but when we started out with this list, we didn't imagine an Alabama city claiming a spot. But Huntsville, AL, kept popping up as a great place to live and work for computer and information specialists, space engineers, mathematicians and other geeky jobs. It's also the "center of rocket-propulsion research" in the country, whatever that means. And Huntsville's first name was actually Twickenham, named after Alexander Pope's home in England. Geeks across all disciplines."

The full list of the 10 Geekist Cities in the US:

1. Hartford, CT
2. Silicon Valley, CA
3. San Diego, CA
4. Carlisle, MA
5. Austin, TX
6. Conway, AR
7. Washington State's Tri-Cities Area
8. Huntsville, AL
9. Bethesda, MD

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