Slightly off topic, but West, Texas is not in west Texas
That is actually the case in Connecticut as well—I was mistaken before. Towns traditionally have a “town meeting” form of government with a board of selectmen and cities traditionally have mayors, but there is evidently no requirement that this be the case. Instead towns and cities are free to choose their system of government (under rules set by the state), and several towns in Connecticut do in fact have mayors.
Orange NJ is surrounded by East Orange, South Orange and West Orange. Looking at the map, West Orange should more accurately be named Northwest Orange.
There’s Pueblo and Pueblo West, which is separate town West of Pueblo.
Palm Beach, Florida - Population 9,245 (2020 U.S. Census)
West Palm Beach, Florida - Population 117,415 (2020 U.S. Census)
Nor is there a Borough.
Camden and East Camden Arkansas
I went to Southern Arkansas University Tech in East Camden. It’s a branch of Southern Arkansas University.
East Camden was originally built by the US Navy as housing for employees and their families at Shumaker Naval Ammunition Depot. It closed in 1961 and the buildings became SAU Tech.
Camden is approximately 5 to 7 miles away.
Well, color me gobsmacked. I was stationed at South Weymouth air base way back in 1984. I guess my sense of the surrounding area was way off.
Well right at the other end of scale;
In the dairying areas of northern Victoria there was a hamlet called Bamawn. Had a store and a sub-post office with it’s own postcode (zip code) 3561, a footy ground and a netball court. A couple of years later, on the next cross road north about a mile away was established Bamawn Extension postcode 3564 with near identical facilities. The communities competed fiercely for a few decades and then both were abandoned. All that exists now are two sign posts.
Wedged between Houston(671 sq. miles; pop. 2,300,000) and Pasadena(45 sq. miles; pop. 152,000) there is the small City of South Houston. Only about 3 square miles and a population of 16,000.
Meanwhile, about two-thirds of Brooklyn is south of South Brooklyn.
Portland, Maine has the completely different municipality of South Portland, ME to the … let me check … to the south of the city.
Probably a good thing they didn’t try to include “-boro” (Murfrees-) and its variants in that.
They did in a way. Another of the changes they made at that time was to convert all the -borough’s to -boro. This was also the time they got rid of all the diacritics, including apostrophes, and British spellings (e.g. Centre).
Note that they weren’t completely successful at any of these changes. Well, they did get rid of all the diacritics, but not quite all the apostrophes. Couer d’Alene ID lost a circumflex over one of its Es, but as far as I can tell, never lost its apostrophe. Other names have been reverted: D’Lo MS, for example, for a while was Dlo, but is now back to its original form. And Newburgh NY doesn’t seem to have ever lost its H.
That’s a 200 mile mistake (Didn’t know there was a Pittsburg Landing, thanks). Further research says that the folks in South Pittsburg (it’s near Chattanooga) had everything set up to launch their iron and steel empire (keep your jokes about your parents to yourself 
) when, one morning, they all woke up and the train don’t come by here no more, poor, poor pitiful me. There wasn’t much long-range shipping on the Tennessee River, so they were screwed.
Bear with me, here, I may be the victim of mis-information: The Tennessee River was never good for big shipping because it was too shallow, too rocky in places with only sparse stretches of navigable water. However, due to its doubling back on itself a bazillion times, it covered a heaping lot of area of the state (it also passes through northern Alabama and empties into the Ohio up near the Arctic Circle somewhere 
). The TVA couldn’t wait to dam the hell out of it once the idea came to them.
I heartily welcome correction on any or all of this. I’m sure your dad ran his mouth about stuff he didn’t know so well; join the club.
I free-associated from your post to Pittssburg Landing because it’s where the battle of Shiloh occurred in 1862. South Pittsburg is nowhere near it, as you mention, so I thought it was at least somewhat topical.
Riverboat transportation is always a question of “if and when”, but on the upper Tennessee above Florence & Muscle Shoals, AL, it got iffier and whenier. Few boats could make it over the shoals unless the water was very high; cargoes were often transshipped around the shoals to be sent up- or downriver to its destination. Naturally, heavy cargoes like pig iron and steel would make that difficult.
Naturally, all this went away when the TVA dams were built - though it should be noted that the Army Corps of Engineers are tasked with maintaining water levels for flood control and navigation, and the TVA for electrical generation. Plus, canals like the Tennessee-Tombigbee give access to the Gulf Coast without having to go north to the Ohio, so river shipping is more viable today than before.
OK, it’s not remotely a 'city, but still. . .
In my little state, there is an incorporated community South Congaree.. There is not, and has never been a “North Congaree.” And it’s five miles west of the Congaree River. There is a community called “Congaree,” although that name isn’t really used anymore, and it is the slightest whisker north of South Congaree–but you’d not ever notice it because it’s also about 20 miles due east.
In St Louis the Central West End is, in fact NOT the west end of the city… That would be on the Loop, just past Skinker at Delmar and Eastgate.
Ohio has Sandusky and South Sandusky… South Sandusky is indeed South and contagious with Sandusky.
Ohio also has Upper Sandusky… oddly about 45 miles South/Southwest of Sandusky.
Yeah, another example of being UPriver along the Sandusky River which flows north and dumps into Lake Erie.