# Make up some real-sounding small town names **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [September 13, 2008, 6:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/make-up-some-real-sounding-small-town-names/463471 "2008-09-13T18:55:47Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 17\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![pravnik](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/8edcca/32.png) [@pravnik](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pravnik)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2008, 10:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/make-up-some-real-sounding-small-town-names/463471/41 "2008-09-15T22:48:04Z")
Gun Barrel City, TX Telephone, TX Bug Tussle, TX Cut-and-Shoot, TX Ding Dong, TX One of those is real. So are the others. ---
**Author:** ![Paul\_in\_Qatar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ccd318/32.png) [@Paul\_in\_Qatar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Paul_in_Qatar)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2008, 1:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/make-up-some-real-sounding-small-town-names/463471/42 "2008-09-16T01:13:57Z")
Arsenal, NY Pope, RI Sidesaddle, UT ---
**Author:** ![Ignatz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/3be4f8/32.png) [@Ignatz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ignatz)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2008, 1:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/make-up-some-real-sounding-small-town-names/463471/43 "2008-09-16T01:34:28Z")
Orzab AL So AK & Ack AK Allthatj AZ Hereyou AR Ka CA Co CO Usufru CT Hi DE Dik DC Truf FL Oo GA Get HI Ego ID Wheresyour ID Aryoo IL Pale IN Phob IA Bolloc KS Stic KY & Haveany KY Oola LA Kissa ME Mynameis MD & Wheresthew MD Look MA Bona MI Sea MN Mrsor MS Keb MO Taxexe MT Tennis NE & Haveyou NE Colossal NV Phnompe NH Gimmea NJ Secretof NM Fd NY Fu NC & Lizard Lick NC (exists) as does Conetoe (Kah nee’ tah) & Blowing Rock Fecu ND Oh OH & D’ OH Im OK Either OR Ohmeinpa PA & Oompah PA Haraki RI Toad SC Bo SD At TN & Oncebit TN Bo TX Sport UT Disabled VT O VA Babbawa WA Whobeyou WV Fi WI Outtamy WY & Not, WY ---
**Author:** ![Beware\_of\_Doug](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/278dde/32.png) [@Beware\_of\_Doug](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beware_of_Doug)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2008, 3:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/make-up-some-real-sounding-small-town-names/463471/44 "2008-09-16T03:13:58Z")
Liverwort Danks Graphoria Deposit Bunt Angle City Desdemona Barefield Spigot Quisp ---
**Author:** ![Balance](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ccd318/32.png) [@Balance](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Balance)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2008, 3:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/make-up-some-real-sounding-small-town-names/463471/45 "2008-09-16T03:39:07Z")
Higgs’ Stake, NV San Myrtle, CA Williwaw, AK Hintuk-on-Baffin, Nunavut, Canada Point Blank, TX Piroux, LA Cavein, AR Muscadine, MS I included a real one on purpose…then found on googling that another one was real, and a third was an actual town name in a different state. ---
**Author:** ![Skylark](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e274bd/32.png) [@Skylark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skylark)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2008, 5:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/make-up-some-real-sounding-small-town-names/463471/46 "2008-09-16T05:18:14Z")
Grover’s Corners NH Hooterville IL Raccoon City KS Castle Rock ME Junebug OK Angel Grove CA 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![elfkin477](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a9a28c/32.png) [@elfkin477](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elfkin477)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2008, 6:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/make-up-some-real-sounding-small-town-names/463471/47 "2008-09-16T06:43:30Z")
As you might know, Northern New England is full of towns named after more exotic locals like Egypt, Poland, Berlin (but we deliberately misprounce it) and Paris. So these ought to fit in nicely… Barcelona, Maine Stockholm, New Hampshire Paraguay, Maine Zurich, New Hampshire Lagos, Maine ---
**Author:** ![jjimm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba8739/32.png) [@jjimm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jjimm)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2008, 6:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/make-up-some-real-sounding-small-town-names/463471/48 "2008-09-16T06:50:06Z")
Democratic Republic of Congo, Vermont ---
**Author:** ![Martini\_Enfield](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/martini_enfield/32/11123_2.png) [@Martini\_Enfield](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Martini_Enfield)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2008, 10:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/make-up-some-real-sounding-small-town-names/463471/49 "2008-09-16T10:30:12Z")
Buggerall, QLD Whakarwi, NZ Little Rutting On The Side, UK Wanker’s Creek, TAS Cat Wibble-Upon-Sea, UK Sand, SA Arsend, NSW Woop Woop, QLD Blank Spot On The Map, W.A. Interesting aside: I believe it was Bill Bryson who once said that most place names in America or Australia are named after the first White person to get there or the last Native Inhabitant to leave. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![TheLoadedDog](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/35a633/32.png) [@TheLoadedDog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TheLoadedDog)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2008, 1:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/make-up-some-real-sounding-small-town-names/463471/50 "2008-09-16T13:14:54Z")
In New South Wales’ far north hippy country: Bringabong Woodenbong Brigabongalong Bong Waters (One is real) ---
**Author:** ![sailor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a587f6/32.png) [@sailor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sailor)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2008, 1:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/make-up-some-real-sounding-small-town-names/463471/51 "2008-09-16T13:50:23Z")
> [@5-HT](#): > > Brotheltown, SD I thought it was in Nevada. > [@Tapioca\_Dextrin](#): > > Ramsbottom, England I thought it was “Pam’s Bottom”. ---
**Author:** ![Spectre\_of\_Pithecanthropus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spectre_of_pithecanthropus/32/12343_2.png) [@Spectre\_of\_Pithecanthropus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spectre_of_Pithecanthropus)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2008, 3:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/make-up-some-real-sounding-small-town-names/463471/52 "2008-09-16T15:27:52Z")
> [@Terrifel](#): > > Apparently small town names have a tendency to sound filthy? Years ago, in fact, decades ago, National Lampoon had a two page map of a made-up version of flyover country. The “states” had names like Minnebraska and Kentockowa, and the majority of the town names were ‘filthy’ as you put it. Still, a lot of them were merely bizarre and funny, such as one small town named “Goiter”. In retrospect, it’s not all that unusual for small German towns to have funny names. One that I remember in particular is Igel (Hedgehog) on the border of Luxembourg. (IIRC ‘hedgehog’ means something different in Britain, on which version of English my standby German/English dictionary was based, but still.) ---
**Author:** ![Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bosda_di_chi_of_tricor/32/16845_2.png) [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosda_Di_Chi_of_Tricor)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2008, 9:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/make-up-some-real-sounding-small-town-names/463471/53 "2008-09-16T21:39:44Z")
Heinlein City, Luna ---
**Author:** ![GorillaMan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/50afbb/32.png) [@GorillaMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GorillaMan)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2008, 9:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/make-up-some-real-sounding-small-town-names/463471/54 "2008-09-16T21:54:54Z")
> [@Martini\_Enfield](#): > > Little Rutting On The Side, UK Near [Ruttingham Farm](http://www.streetmap.co.uk/streetmap.dll?G2M?X=544500&Y=124500&A=Y&Z=3)? ---
**Author:** ![kasuo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/8c91f0/32.png) [@kasuo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kasuo)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2008, 11:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/make-up-some-real-sounding-small-town-names/463471/55 "2008-09-16T23:46:49Z")
How about Onett or Threed? ---
**Author:** ![elmwood](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/elmwood/32/3060_2.png) [@elmwood](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elmwood)\ **Post date:** [September 17, 2008, 2:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/make-up-some-real-sounding-small-town-names/463471/56 "2008-09-17T02:04:00Z")
Texas towns always seem to have a certain ring to them. King of the Hill seems to nail it dead on with the names of its fictional places; Arlen, McMaynerbury, and so on. Here’s some off-the-top-of-my-head Texasy-sounding imaginary town names. Morine Blayloch Culberson McNutt Hereford Lock n’ Load Spur Burnett Buckshot General Reload Angus Gus Schreckenbacker Hoss Ricochet Agua Muerto Hebert Buell Thirty Aught Six Charley Rex Pilsen Caliente Tanks Hawk n’ Spit Arbach Schoop Drip Gap Burdine ---
**Author:** ![elmwood](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/elmwood/32/3060_2.png) [@elmwood](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elmwood)\ **Post date:** [September 17, 2008, 2:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/make-up-some-real-sounding-small-town-names/463471/57 "2008-09-17T02:13:15Z")
The Cleveland imaginary suburb name generator: 1. Take a two syllable word; a 19th century historic figure with an Anglo name, a geographic feature, a type of deciduous tree, or something else that sounds sylvan and quaint. 2. Add “Heights” to it. Cedar Heights? Valley Heights? Fillmore Heights? The possibilities are unlimited. The New Mexico imaginary town name generator: 1. Take a Spanish first name. 2. If it’s a woman’s name, add “Santa” as a prefix. If it’s a man’s name, add “Santo” to the beginning. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/make-up-some-real-sounding-small-town-names/463471.md?page=2)