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

[Ben_hutcherson]

my current hometown is called Stamping Ground,town was settled around a big spring and buffalo wallow(or as we say waller),

We have a Stamping Ground in KY too...

Speaking of Kentucky towns, I've been to all the way to Kingdom Come(and back in a day). I did so when I was going to Lynch.

 

[rwsmith]

In SC

Eagle Butte

Gaytown

Sugar Tit

Due West (of what? as the joke goes)

Burns Down

Bee Tree

Happy Bottom

Ketchuptown

Denmark, Norway, Sweden (The 'Dutch Triangle'. My Mom was from Denmark)

Possum Town

Round O

Tickle Hill

Snoddy

Poverty Hill

Prosperity

Polecat Bay

Old Joe

 

[hittman77]

Missouri, Climax Springs, Devils Elbow, Peculiar.

And Auxvasse ..... whatever that means and however you pronounce it!

 

[THEWELSHM]

Ok think I got this

Ill give you a dollar if you can say it

Llanfairpwll - Llanfair PG in Anglesey, North Wales, Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch

thewelshm

 

[slowburninsteve]

In Virginia: Grit, Hurt, Frogpond, Troutville, Eagle Rock
In Tennessee: Bulls Gap, Paris

 

[armadillo]

Close to were I grew up in south TX:

Lull (not much happens there)
Red Gate (just up the road from Lull)

 

[gregintenn]

Here in Tennessee, I lived in Defeated. It was just down the way from Difficult.
Real optimists, here in the ol' Volunteer State.

The area I was in was Bear Wallow Gap, just off of The Devils Elbow.

On the other side of the county, you'll find Seabowisha.

One of my favorite names is Beaver Lick, KY. It's near Big Bone Lick.

 

[deanodog]

In east Ky
Smackey bottom
Lick skillet
Pumpkin center
Greasy creek
Butcher knife
Stinking branch
Lookout
Hellier
Skull

 

[30-30remchester]

In Alaska and parts of Canada and the Yukon, roadhouses are the social centers of a community. Half way between Fairbanks and Nenana Alaska is such a roadhouse. Its name is world famous, "Skinny Dicks Half Way Inn" and a must visit place when in the area.

 

[SmokewagonSD]

Beer Mug and Dull Center Wyoming.

Don't forget Ten Sleep

 

[bricker]

I've been to Nowhere, Oklahoma. Not that far from Gotebo.

 

[loeman]

Floyd's Knob

I grew up in Indiana and my all time favorite is Floyd's Knob.

Also, it's already been mentioned but it's worth repeating just to honor the hometown of Larry Bird........French Lick.

 

[Cyrano]

Tenino WA(?). Named for the numbers on a telephone pole in the town; ten - nine - zero.

 

[LouisianaJoe]

Mississippi has Hot Coffee and Coldwater.

 

[Ranger514]

Beer Mug and Dull Center Wyoming.

Seems to me I've driven past Hell's Half Acre, WY a time or two on my way to Casper.

 

[tndrfttom]

My dad's family was from "Accident" Maryland.

 

[Jim1392]

Town I lived near in NJ. Buttsville.

 

[MOONDAWG]

One must be well versed in "Seminole" to pronouce many of Florida's cities...here's just a few to practice with...

Allapattah
Altoona
Apalachicola
Arredondo
Chassahowitzka
Chololoskee
Chumuckla
Estiffanulga
Eucheeanna
Fakahatchee
Grenelefe
Huypoluxo
Immokalee
Istachatta
Istokpoga
Lacoochee
Loxahatchee
Narcoosee
Nokomis
Oscela
Ocheesee
Ocklawaha
Octahatchee
Okeechobee
Okeelanta
Phokee
Panachoochee
Pensacola
Picolata
Poinciana
Sarasota
Seminole
Sopchoppy
Tallahassee
Tuscannoga
Umatilla
Wabasso
Wacahoota
Wahoo
Wakulla
Wannee
Weeki Wachee
Wetumpka
Yulee

 

[Owen49]

Frog Eye, Michigan--now Montgomery[/CO
Henpeck, Michigan--now Camden
Mudsock, Ohio--now EdonLOR]

 

[Tom K]

One must be well versed in "Seminole" to pronouce many of Florida's cities...here's just a few to practice with...

Allapattah
Altoona
Apalachicola
Arredondo
Chassahowitzka
Chololoskee
Chumuckla
Estiffanulga
Eucheeanna
Fakahatchee
Grenelefe
Huypoluxo
Immokalee
Istachatta
Istokpoga
Lacoochee
Loxahatchee
Narcoosee
Nokomis
Oscela
Ocheesee
Ocklawaha
Octahatchee
Okeechobee
Okeelanta
Phokee
Panachoochee
Pensacola
Picolata
Poinciana
Sarasota
Seminole
Sopchoppy
Tallahassee
Tuscannoga
Umatilla
Wabasso
Wacahoota
Wahoo
Wakulla
Wannee
Weeki Wachee
Wetumpka
Yulee

Will Rogers often said he was from Claremore - well, actually Oologah, but "can't nobody but an Indian pronounce that."