# Bizarre city and town names? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [July 10, 2003, 7:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bizarre-city-and-town-names/187427 "2003-07-10T07:55:16Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 14\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![DogMom](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e9c0ed/32.png) [@DogMom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DogMom)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2003, 8:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bizarre-city-and-town-names/187427/61 "2003-07-11T20:29:59Z")
**Green Bean** , I _live_ about 15 miles away from [Hicksville](http://www.mapquest.com/maps/map.adp?country=US&addtohistory=&address=&city=Hicksville&state=OH&zipcode=&homesubmit=Get+Map) . ---
**Author:** ![Yeticus\_Rex](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/a698b9/32.png) [@Yeticus\_Rex](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yeticus_Rex)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2003, 10:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bizarre-city-and-town-names/187427/62 "2003-07-11T22:35:10Z")
[defining moment] When I found a town called Hell (In Michigan), I used Yahoo to make some directions from a certain person’s (who had far exceeded my tolerance for her) house to Hell, MI… Moments later, I gave that map and the directions as I told her where to go and how to get there… [/defining moment] Dunmovin, CA: a century plus old town just east of the granite block known as the Sierra Nevadas. ---
**Author:** ![fireman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/71c47a/32.png) [@fireman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fireman)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2003, 2:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bizarre-city-and-town-names/187427/63 "2003-07-12T02:12:40Z")
How about Pickle Street, WV. Small town, middle of the state. ---
**Author:** ![tolyri](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/7c8e57/32.png) [@tolyri](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tolyri)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2003, 2:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bizarre-city-and-town-names/187427/64 "2003-07-12T02:40:49Z")
Can’t think of any odd cities here in Ohio, unless Washington Court House counts. Not funny or perverse, just odd. In Loudonville, Ohio, there is a street named Tom Dick and Harry Lane. Not sure if it was named for residents or not, but it is the most often stolen street sign in the county. ---
**Author:** ![KRC](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/45deac/32.png) [@KRC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KRC)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2003, 2:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bizarre-city-and-town-names/187427/65 "2003-07-12T02:40:49Z")
There’s a Hell for Sartin in Kentucky. I heard that at the high school there the authorities put up a sign saying “No drinking, no smoking, and no rock and roll music.” That might explain the name of the town. ---
**Author:** ![Mr.Moto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/9de0a6/32.png) [@Mr.Moto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Moto)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2003, 3:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bizarre-city-and-town-names/187427/66 "2003-07-12T03:05:59Z")
Also in PA: Eighty-Four. Home of 84 Lumber. I bought a car here once. ---
**Author:** ![Suse](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/df705f/32.png) [@Suse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Suse)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2003, 3:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bizarre-city-and-town-names/187427/67 "2003-07-12T03:10:44Z")
Hmmm…in Ohio, we have Brilliant, Excello, Dry Run, and Greasy Ridge. DogMom, I’m not far from that particular Hicksville myself. ---
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2003, 3:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bizarre-city-and-town-names/187427/68 "2003-07-12T03:19:50Z")
Boring, Oregon Drain, Oregon Lots of jokes about Boring man drowns in Drain. ---
**Author:** ![Mama\_Tiger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/6de8d8/32.png) [@Mama\_Tiger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mama_Tiger)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2003, 3:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bizarre-city-and-town-names/187427/69 "2003-07-12T03:29:08Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Chefguy \* > \*\*Oh, almost forgot: Fukuoka, Okinawa \*\* Fukuoka’s not on Okinawa; it’s on Kyushu. Different island, same country (Japan). Very nice city; I even got married there. Except it’s hard to explain the airport code to Americans. FUK. :eek: ---
**Author:** ![dbygawdcapn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dbygawdcapn/32/3995_2.png) [@dbygawdcapn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dbygawdcapn)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2003, 3:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bizarre-city-and-town-names/187427/70 "2003-07-12T03:37:01Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by interface2x \* > \*\* > Humptulips > \*\* I once received a post card from a freind of mine from Humptulips, it said “Greetings from Humptulips, just Keep Off the Grass”. ---
**Author:** ![DadWagonDriver](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/edb3f5/32.png) [@DadWagonDriver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DadWagonDriver)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2003, 3:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bizarre-city-and-town-names/187427/71 "2003-07-12T03:53:35Z")
Hell, Michigan > **[Hell, Michigan](https://www.gotohellmi.com/)** > > Hell, Michigan's Official Website Yep, I’ve been there. My brother went on the “Hayride in Hell” once, too. ---
**Author:** ![Electronic\_Chaos](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/bbe5ce/32.png) [@Electronic\_Chaos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Electronic_Chaos)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2003, 4:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bizarre-city-and-town-names/187427/72 "2003-07-12T04:49:12Z")
I just spent about 5 years in Hermitage…Tennessee that is. Andrew Jackson built his mansion out in the middle of nowhere, and called it The Hermitage…after awhile (several decades), a community sprung up around it. ---
**Author:** ![paperbackwriter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/53a042/32.png) [@paperbackwriter](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/paperbackwriter)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2003, 5:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bizarre-city-and-town-names/187427/73 "2003-07-12T05:08:55Z")
How have we gotten this far without [Belchertown, MA](http://geonames.usgs.gov/pls/gnis/MapServer?f_name=Belchertown+Center+Historic+District&f_state=MA&f_latlong=421650N0722354W&server=TIGER) being mentioned? ---
**Author:** ![paperbackwriter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/53a042/32.png) [@paperbackwriter](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/paperbackwriter)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2003, 5:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bizarre-city-and-town-names/187427/74 "2003-07-12T05:15:09Z")
How have we gotten this far without [Belchertown, MA](http://geonames.usgs.gov/pls/gnis/MapServer?f_name=Belchertown+Center+Historic+District&f_state=MA&f_latlong=421650N0722354W&server=TIGER) being mentioned? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bizarre-city-and-town-names/187427.md?page=3)