For a concisely redundant name, there’s also the city of Pueblo in Colorado, whose name simply means “town” in Spanish.
We have a redundant place name near us that is redundant.
There once was a town with a name of the form X Park. Named after a nearby noted park. While it lost its charter in the 30s, the name for the area remains. There is now a park there. It is X Park Park. So when we go to X Park Park we park in the X Park Park parking lot.
I’ve been to Taman Negara National Park in Malaysia, whose name merely means “national park” in Malay.
Germany has a number of place names that are funny in German. It also has UNIX car rental and a bus company called Fucker. You can tell who their drivers are; the ones with a permanent weary smile.
In the Cotswolds in Gloucestershire there are the Slaughters, which are two villages: Upper Slaughter and (natch) Lower Slaughter. Just typical villages, not knee-deep in blood.
How about the Norfolk, England villages of Little Snoring and Great Snoring. Dare anyone stay the night in the latter?
And if you’ve lived anywhere near Peterborough, Ontario, you know about the village of Omemee, on Highway 7 to the west. One of my favourite names. My co-worker’s boyfriend is from there.
I also have a cousin in Oneonta, New York.
I’ve driven past Howey-in-the-Hills (FL). It’s named for Mr. Howey and I suppose there are hills (Florida does have hills; you gotta look for them), but what’s with the hyphens?
Maybe I’m missing something but Oneonta doesn’t seem particularly strange to me. If anything it’s less strange to my ears than any number of other Native American derived names in NY like Canajoharie, Canandaigua, Cheektowaga, Tonawanda, Poughkeepsie, Irondequoit, and a dozen others I could name.
(Solar system stuff.)
If you’re driving on I-84/I-86 in Idaho, you might be disappointed if you take the exit for Craters of the Moon.
Dave Barry covered that one in one of his books. He claims if you call the interpretive centre, they answer the phone with, “Head smashed in, how may I help you?”
I’ve driven past Scaggsvile MD, which has an added bonus in that the villians in Lil Abner were named the Scraggs.
This is the first thing I think of when I think of a place named The Vilage:
I used to do my Laundry at a laundromat called, simply, The Laundry. I thought that The Village must be franchising.
Driven past Humptulips, Washington.
Spent a week at Dead Swede Campground in Wyoming.
Been to the Grand Tetons, which translates to “Large Mammaries”, “Big Tits”, “Huge Tracts Of Land” and any number of less polite euphemisms.
Driven past Molly’s Nipple, a distinctly shaped hill in Mohave Desert. Not too far from Zyzzyx Road.
Hicksville, Ohio a little to literal for you?
There are a few funny names around where I live, such as:
Faulebutter(rancid butter)
Kuckuck(cuckoo)
There’s also a small river calledNeger (negro) running through the Neger valley with the three villages of: Oberneger (overnegro), Mittelneger (middlenegro) and Unterneger (undernegro)
And finally, there’s an autobahn rest stop nearby called Sterbecke, which means “dying corner”, a very unfortunate name for a highway stop.
Too. Blech.
I have been to Weir, (pronounced “Where”) Mississippi
Could be part of an “Abbott and Costello” - esque bit.
In Ross county Ohio we have Kinnikinnick, Knockemstiff, and Lickskillet.
Crazy Woman Canyon (and creek), Wyoming. Pretty place. The link has photos and the story of how it got its name.