Boringly ordinary town names

There is a place near me named Townville. (They hope to someday grow into Cityberg.)

Hungary has a town named Hatvan, which translates to “sixty.” The legend is that it’s sixty km from the capital Budapest, but its name predates the kilometer, and it’s actually more like 50 kn away. At any rate, I always got a chuckle out of a number as a place name.

Another town in PA is named Wayne. It’s a well known stop on the Main Line, named after Gen. “Mad” Anthony Wayne as I’m sure plenty of other places and things are, but out of context in the simplest form of the name it is quite dull and ordinary.

There is an area in Canada called Hull. It’s not really a city or town but it’s a real place that I’ve been to and people there call it by that name like it is a separate city. This is how the wiki describes it:
" Hull is the central business district and oldest neighbourhood of the city of Gatineau, Quebec, Canada."

Nice enough place to visit.

It was probably named after Hull, England. (whose official name is Kingston upon Hull, a fact I just learned from the wiki article)

Probably, though it would have been cooler if it’d been named for Bobby Hull. :smiley:

I live between Orange and Green in Ohio.

Singer Roy Orbison lived in Wink, Texas as a child. Wikipedia says that the town was originally meant to be named Winkler (as it is in Winkler County), but when the town sought to get a post office, they were told that there was already a Winkler, Texas, and thus, they shortened it to the very prosaic Wink.

Both Boring and Oregon City are on Route 212 which leads you to this sign:

File:Boring and Oregon City sign (2367875622).jpg - Wikimedia Commons

Bland, Virginia. Never been there. Unlikely to ever go.

Head up I-55 from Normal and you’ll come to a trio of carbon-related towns: Diamond, Coal City, and Carbon Hill. They now house power plant workers rather than coal miners.

To the southeast of the former coal mining area are former limestone quarries; I don’t recall if Limestone ever had a quarry but Bonfield did.

Hull, Massachusetts, definitely was named after the English one.

There’s a town in Barbados named “A mile and a quarter”. I think that is the distance to the coastal Speightstown (pronounced Spikestown). Since they have gone metric they should change it to " Two Kilometers". Another town there is called Holetown.

On St Martin, there’s a town called Middle Region that is as you might expect on the interior of the island. No beaches, just a neighborhood.

Oh, and @Hari_Seldon did you know Barbados honors Bajans who celebrate their 100th birthday by issuing a stamp with their picture?

I don’t disagree, but I think I can offer a couple of UK entries:

Coalville. Exactly what it says on the tin. Wiki.

Coalville is a product of the Industrial Revolution. As its name indicates, it is a former coal mining town and was a centre of the coal-mining district of north Leicestershire.

Port Sunlight. Uh - forget the image that the name evokes. Wiki.

Port Sunlight is a model village and suburb in the Metropolitan Borough of Wirral, Merseyside. It is located between Lower Bebington and New Ferry, on the Wirral Peninsula. Port Sunlight was built by Lever Brothers to accommodate workers in its soap factory (now part of Unilever); work commenced in 1888. The name is derived from Lever Brothers’ most popular brand of cleaning agent, Sunlight.

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I’ve always though it was kind of boring when a town name is simply a direction plus the name of another nearby city, i.e. West Sacramento or South San Francisco.

There’s an area of Staten Island N.Y. called Port Ivory, located near the confluence of the Kill van Kull and Arthur Kill*. Port Ivory got its name from the nearby Proctor & Gamble plant.

*"Kill is an old Dutch word for body of water, apt in this case because both waterways are so heavily polluted that it’s doubtful any life survives in them.
**not to be confused with the iconic Fresh Kills landfill, which has been turned into an idyllic city park.

The famous city of Bath, England, is named because it was a spa town with lots of baths.

And spa towns are named after Spa, Belgium.

There are at least 2 places in England called Littletown that live up to their name.

The winner in this regard is Baden-Baden, “Bath-Bath”.

Spray, OR, home of the town’s largest chicken-fried steak
Weed, CA, home of oh don’t bother it’s not what you think