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Hey, what’s that crater-like thing due Southwest of Earth, TX, just east of Hwy 303?
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Tripler
And come to think of it, what’s the antennas to the West?
There’s also Pipestone County and the city of Pipestone, MN both named after the red rock quarried there (Pipestone is sacred to Native Americans and used to carve peace pipes). Granite Falls, MN also comes to mind.
Yeah, I guess that shouldn’t have been a surprise to me. I think Copperopolis, CA, mentioned upthread, so far wins for fakest-sounding name.
I somehow managed to forget Hematite, MO earlier.
That’s gotta be a crater. See the rays radiating off in all directions? Cool. I’d like to see that.
Wow…what is that? There are only two impact craters in Texas that I know of, and that isn’t either of them. I’ll try to find out.
It appears far too circular to be a crater, plus there are equally spaced spokes going off in straight lines. I don’t think it’s a crater or a stock tank and if you pull back you see it’s right inbetween an upper and lower trend of agriculture. I’m callin’ Earth City Hall.
Terre Haute, Indiana.
Lithopolis, Ohio.
Okay, a wonderfully kind Lori from Earth says those are sand hills south of town and chock full of rattlesnakes and arrowheads, that lots of folks go down there to look for both but handle one. The Water Commisioner looked at it in Google Maps and thought maybe it was an old “pivot point” for a well that’s been overrun by cattle, but couldn’t be sure.
Very agreeable, those Earthlings.
You already mentioned Hematite, MO, which is close to me. Other nearby towns include Chloride, Cobalt City, Iron Mountain, Ironton and Irondale, Syenite, Mineral Point, Steelville, Graniteville, Old Mines and Valles Mines; all in Missouri.
Kentucky has Gravelswitch, Mud Lick, and Quicksand. (Also Krypton, but you specified “earthy”.)
Does Fossil, Oregon count?
Trona, California
Since a bunch of my others were taken, how about:
There’s also a Sulphur Well, Ky., a very tiny place (not that Gravel Switch is your basic booming metropolis). Cave City, Ky., strikes me as “earthy” (it’s near Mammoth Cave).
There’s Blowing Rock, N.C., which sounds like such a violent place; also Flat Rock, N.C.
British Columbia has an “Argenta.”
Last time I went through there I asked a local if there were silver mines around. “Not any more, but Argenta was originally a silver mining town. How did you know about that?” Heh.
Shale City, Oregon
We’ve got Rock Hill, SC, White Rock, NC, and High Rock Lake, also in North Carolina.
Don’t ask me how you go about naming a lake after a rock, though.
Iron County, Utah.