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There's a few different avenues I take when trying to find a location.
The easiest is if there's obvious information in the image, like a street name, house number, or license plate that shows the state. Ideally you want to find a general region first (license plates help a lot for this), but if you don't have that you'll have to guess the region using context clues like geography. If you've got a street, it's simple enough to plug that into Google Maps/Earth, and find decent candidates based on the geographical region you've thought of. If you're lucky, you'll find it on the 1st/2nd try. House numbers are a similar case, just with more trial and error since there's more results that pop up.
If you don't have any of that, it's time to start internet sleuthing. I first start by finding the source of the image. If I'm lucky, it's geotagged on Flickr (or wherever it's posted), the photographer says where it is or gives a general region to go from like a town or state, or someone else has done my work for me in the comments. If not, the next course of action is to start looking at the rest of stuff the photographer has posted (either photos, social media posts, etc), looking for context clues like similar locations, regions they might live, and that sort of thing. Hopefully you get a general pattern to the area they live and frequent and you can kind of get an idea of a good radius to start looking for the place the photo was taken. Then you just start picking places based on what you can surmise from the photo, quirks like intersections, house and roof colors, nearby features, and that sort of thing. It's a kind of brute-force method of narrowing things down by random dart throws. Eventually you land on a hit.
