# Earthy city names **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [July 14, 2008, 2:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/earthy-city-names/456438 "2008-07-14T14:45:49Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![matt\_mcl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/7ab992/32.png) [@matt\_mcl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/matt_mcl)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2008, 2:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/earthy-city-names/456438/41 "2008-07-15T02:13:31Z")
**wolfstu** stole the one I was going to but, but: Grosse-Roche and Normétal, Quebec. ---
**Author:** ![Raguleader](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/258eb7/32.png) [@Raguleader](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Raguleader)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2008, 2:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/earthy-city-names/456438/42 "2008-07-15T02:28:29Z")
Copperas Cove, TX (interesting in that there was never any copper found anywhere near the town; it was named for the flavor of the spring water that could be found there.) The name of Galveston, TX brings forth associates in my mind with galvanized steel, though it is named instead for Bernardo de Gálvez y Madrid, Count of Gálvez (and it was originally known as Saint Louis, but that’s not important). ---
**Author:** ![Squink](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b5e925/32.png) [@Squink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Squink)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2008, 2:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/earthy-city-names/456438/43 "2008-07-15T02:56:53Z")
[Black Earth](http://www.blackearth.org/history.html), Wisconsin. ---
**Author:** ![antechinus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/fbc32d/32.png) [@antechinus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/antechinus)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2008, 3:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/earthy-city-names/456438/44 "2008-07-15T03:15:32Z")
Silverton, NSW Marble Bar, WA Sandstone, WA Broken Hill, NSW has a Sulphide Street. ---
**Author:** ![blondebear](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/blondebear/32/1022_2.png) [@blondebear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/blondebear)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2008, 3:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/earthy-city-names/456438/45 "2008-07-15T03:22:47Z")
Bluff City (TN/TX) ---
**Author:** ![Cheez\_Whia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/d26b3c/32.png) [@Cheez\_Whia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cheez_Whia)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2008, 3:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/earthy-city-names/456438/46 "2008-07-15T03:29:00Z")
[QUOTE=Telemark] Marble, Basalt, Granite, Gypsum, Leadville, Coaldale, Coal Creek, Coalmont, Placerville and Carbondale CO. [/QUOTE] You forgot [Silt](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silt%2C_Colorado). ---
**Author:** ![Galena](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a87d85/32.png) [@Galena](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Galena)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2008, 3:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/earthy-city-names/456438/47 "2008-07-15T03:32:36Z")
There’s also an [Earth City, Missouri](http://maps.google.com/maps?q=earth+city+missouri&ie=UTF-8&oe=utf-8&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a&um=1&sa=X&oi=geocode_result&resnum=1&ct=title). Its highlights include a landfill and an open air amphitheater. Brilliant! ---
**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 15, 2008, 5:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/earthy-city-names/456438/48 "2008-07-15T17:10:02Z")
[Taconite, MN](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taconite,_MN). **Tin City, AK** , which is now just a ghost town with a military radar facility nearby. It was once a thriving tin mine. **Copper Center, AK** : near the river of the same name, at the source of which was the Kennecott Copper Mine, now defunct. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/earthy-city-names/456438.md?page=2)