Strange/odd names for towns/places I'll start

[Ogandydancer]

In N C we haveHorneytown, Climax, High Point, and on the map if you stretch a string from Climax to Horneytown you will find High Point about half way. Then we also have Frogsboro, Bear Grass Lizard Lick and one from Arkansas is Bald Knob and Toad Suck.

What others do you guys know of?

 

[shouldazagged]

Kentucky has Monkey's Eyebrow and Big Bone Lick, just to name a couple. There are many others here and in my native state, Tennessee, which has Stinking Springs and the French Broad River. In Indiana there's French Lick, and Pennsylvania has a town named Intercourse.

I've often wondered about Dime Box, Texas. Sounds like a drug dealer's term, but I doubt it.

 

[TIMETRIPPER]

In Indiana there's French Lick, and Pennsylvania has a town named Intercourse.

Intercourse in in Lancaster County, and Blue Ball is close by as well.

John

 

[model70hunter]

Missouri, Climax Springs, Devils Elbow, Peculiar.

 

[gmborkovic]

I spent the night in Coinjock, NC. It was at a marina while taking yachts down the ditch.

 

[-db-]

Hell, Michigan.

It freezes over, too:

 

[rusty37874]

Show Low, Arizona-- Named after a card game, Main street in town is " Deuce of Clubs", the low card that won the game.

 

[cass]

Gunsight, Texas
Gun Barrel City, Texas

 

[sceva]

Knockemstiff
Kinnikinnick
Waldo
Wapakoneta
Roaming Shores
Roundhead

All real town names - All in the Glorious State of Ohio

 

[Ogandydancer]

Knockemstiff
Kinnikinnick
Waldo
Wapakoneta
Roaming Shores
Roundhead

All real town names - All in the Glorious State of Ohio

You forgot Galapolis and Washington Courthouse.

 

[kozmic]

Isn't there a place down south Louisiana called "Who Dat"?

 

[Xfuzz]

Point Blank, Texas
Cut and Shoot, Texas

 

[indiandave]

In Pennsylvania:
Beaver
Big beaver
Bath Addition
Eighty Four and Forty Fort
Panic
Mars
Noodle Doosie ( now called Napierville)
Blue Ball
Ball town
Jug town.

 

[Broker50]

A few more from my home state, Kentucky. There's Helechwa, pronounced "Hell each way", as in there's two ways to get there, but, it's Hell each way. Then there's Brightshade & Darkshade, Brodhead, Muddy Gut, Hen Pen & Turkey Pen, Dry Creek, more than a few Elkhorns, & quite a few more, but you get the idea.

 

[indiandave]

Two more names of towns in Pennsylvania. I grew up there so they're normal to me, but my wife found them odd.
Petrolia and Oil City. Petrolia isn't far from Frogtown.

 

[Onomea]

Short Pump, Va.

 

[DaGOOSExyz]

Dime Box, Texas (don't ask me, I don't know)

 

[Maddog 521]

Notrees
Muleshoe
Smiley
Noodle
Paradise
Wink
All these towns are in Texas

 

[TAROMAN]

How about Boring, Oregon?

 

[Comrad]

 

[gmborkovic]

Bumpass, Louisa County, VA. Been there. Mike

 

[A10]

Between the towns of Snow and Flake in Arizona, is a little incorporated piece of property called Bellybutton.

My town, Auburn, was originally the town of Slaughter.

 

[Bkreutz]

A guy I was in the Army with was from Normal Illinois, he didn't resemble the name of his hometown in the least little bit.

 

[THE PILGRIM]

Here in New Mexico we have a town called Truth or Consequences.
It was originally call Hot Springs. Radio show host Ralph Parks offered to do his radio show from the first town that would change its name to Truth or Consequences.
Not only did he do his show from there, he came every year for the next 50 years to ride in the annual celebration parade. In the early ones he rode horseback.
It turns out that Ralph Parks was not just a Hollywood flash in the pan, he was a man of his word.

 

[STCM(SW)]

In WA, Tum Tum (always made me think of the old Laurel & Hardy movie) and Walla Walla.(good onions & prison)

 

[P&R Fan]

Here in Iowa we have a town up North called Fertile.

I would just love to tell people I'm a Fertile native.
Jim

 

[Tom K]

Although it doesn't appear to exist as a town any more, here in Oklahoma east of Bartlesville there used to be a Hogshooter.

And while the town names themselves are not that unusual, you can string together four Oklahoma names to make an interesting sentence:

Salisaw Henryetta Wagoner Catoosa.

Or alternately:
Salisaw Henryetta Wagoner Bowlegs.

 

[arjay]

There was a taxidermist south of Denver years ago that named his little crossroads Hellsville.

 

[mike from st pete]

Strange Town Names; NJ Has Them

Strange Names (New Jersey's Got 'em) - Steve Forbert - YouTube

I cannot find a video of Dave VanRonk singing the Garden State Stomp. So this will have to do

 

[rushbeau]

Arkansas has 56, "Y" City, and Hog Jaw.

Rushbeau