Me to, though sorta by accident.
My coworker and I were TDY at Barksdale AFB for a few days in 2019. We got our work done early, looked at a map, and decided to drive up to Caddo Lake. It’s a beautiful lake, especially the western end! We then stumbled upon Uncertain, TX. I took a pic of a sign for the church.
That has to be one of the least successful name changes in history. Virtually no one actually spells the name of the town with the exclamation point. It also would be problematic for some databases to include it. I once tried to search for “Hamilton!” in the GNIS database and got an error. It seems the bang is used as a special search character which I wasn’t using correctly.
A few cities with hot springs have named themselves “Hot Springs”. I always love the story about how Hot Springs, New Mexico changed its name. Truth or Consequences, New Mexico - Wikipedia
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Both Cleveland and Cincinnati have sizable suburban towns called “Highland Heights” (one is in Kentucky).
Well, since we’re on the subject; why does pretty much every state between Chicago and my native Massachusetts have a town named “Lodi” in it? I looked it up:
(Italian ˈlɔːdi) n. (Placename) a town in N Italy, in Lombardy: scene of Napoleon’s defeat of the Austrians in 1796.
Ooooooh, whoop de do!
Even better: Springtown, and it’s cousin, Brookville.
If you’re in Washington, you can visit Ocean Shores, which is at the ocean shore, and Long Beach, whivh gas a beach… There’s also Long Beach Island in New Jersey.
And there’s Bend, North Bend and Sound Bend, all named for a bend in a nearby river.
You don’t want to be stuck in any of them.
The Grand Trunk Railroad in Canada named its stations in alphabetical order. The stations later became communities.
That method of naming stations was not unique to the GTP. There were at least three instances of that in the US. However, they did it more than most. That list has 6 sets of alpha sequences, and since it’s an incomplete list, there could be more. I don’t think any of those in the US even got to Z of one sequence.
I know the alphabetic scheme on the Burlington headed west out of Lincoln, Nebr. (Crete, Dorchester, Exeter, Fairfield . . .) and the one on the Santa Fe in San Bernardino Co., Calif. (Amboy, Bristol, Cadiz, Danby, Edson . . . ), but where are the others?
The other set is in Iowa, going west out of Clinton. According to this page, the stations were Almont, Bryant, Charlotte, Delmar. Looking at a current road atlas, there’s an Elwood in about the right location for the next station, so that may be the next one. Don’t know if it goes on from there.
It says the sequence was on the Midland Railroad. Wikipedia has several lines with that name, but, based on their names, none of those operated in Iowa.
ETA: apparently, it was the Iowa Midland Railway.
The most boringly ordinary town name in Iowa is probably State Center, named for being close to the geographical center of the state (42°00′57″N 93°09′51″W for you geography fans).
Slightly less boringly ordinary is Center, North Dakota, named for being at the center of Oliver County but which actually turns out to be at the center of North America.
Way back in 2001, I wrote an article for Word Ways magazine about the most common place names in the US. You can read it here (hit the Download button). The two most common place names were Fairview and Midway. There were 256 Fairviews and 250 Midways in what I called the extended count.
The extended count included alternate names, places that no longer exist, subdivision names, and those with a space in the middle of the name. These two names were also the most common in the basic count, which did not include all those variants, with 201 Fairviews and 211 Midways.
I submit that these two names are the most boringly ordinary town names in the US.