Quaker Street, NY (two for one. Interestingly, there is no Quaker Street in Quaker Street).
Shelter Island, NY (two for one)
Orient, NY
Burnt Hills, NY
Long Island City, NY (three for one)
One of my all-time favorite place names in the U.S. is Toad Suck, Arkansas. I always have to wonder about the back-story for that one.
Around the country are numerous towns ending in “Lick”, with some dubious combinations such as French Lick IN.
In Oregon, you can take hwy 20 successively through Sisters, Bend, Brothers and Burns. And if you continue thence, not terribly far into Idaho, you might find yourself on a road that leads to a town with a most unfortunate name.
[del]New Jersey.[/del]
Edit - Wait, city names not place names.
In my area of Maine:
Freedom
Unity
Liberty
Also …
Wells
Gray
Jay
China
Mechanic Falls (then he gets up again)
both Limerick and New Limerick
Blue Hill
both Union and Unity
Limestone
Long Island
Hope
Owls Head
Porter
both Friendship and Amity
Garland
Harmony
Industry
Freedom
Temple
Stow
Wade
Cooper
In New Hampshire:
Concord
Orange
Bow
Rye
Warner
both Unity (town) and Union (unincorporated village with its own post office)
Freedom
Mason
Temple
Sandwich
Hill
Bath
Warren
Stark
Hell MI has a funny web site: gotohellmi.com
Don’t forget Park Forest and Forest Park!
Silver Spring MD, my current abode.
It was named for an actual spring which was located in a rocky area with a lot of the mineral mica. Mica has a silvery sheen, hence the name. I guess “Mica Spring” didn’t sound as good, even though it’s more accurate.
Just from Calvert County and the southern part of Anne Arundel County, MD:
Bay Ridge
Mayo
Birdsville
West River
Shady Side
Churchton
Tracy’s Landing
Fair Haven
Rose Haven
Friendship
North Beach
Mount Harmony
Willow Beach Colony
Breezy Point
Plum Point
Dares Beach
Scientists Cliffs
Governors Run
Port Republic
Island Creek
Calvert Beach
Long Beach
Cove Point
Drum Point
ETA: Not sure if Tracy’s Landing and Calvert Beach count, since each employs a proper name.
Also in Maine, these current or defunct post offices:
Abbot
Auburn
Aurora
Bath
Birch Harbor
Brooks
Cape Rosier
Cranberry Isles
Dead River
Eagle Lake
Five Islands
Grand Isle
Grand Lake Stream
Grove
Mainstream
New Harbor
New Vineyard
Old Town
Orient
Otter Creek
Oxbow
Portage Lake
Prentiss
Seal Cove
Seal Harbor
Southwest Harbor
Sunset
Turner
West Forks
Winter Harbor
Winterport
White Settlement, TX.
I don’t know, but some say that Salt Lake City is actually Piute for “This beer is fucking weak-assed pisswater, let’s finish these suckers and drive to Evanston, bitches!”
All of these places are within 15 miles of St. Louis
Bridgeton
Champ (yes, it was actually named by an athlete)
Concord
Cool Valley
Country Club Hills
Country Life Acres
Crystal Lake Park
Lakeshire
Pine Lawn
Riverview
Rock Hill
Sunset Hills
Sycamore Hills
Town and Country
Twin Oaks
University City
Uplands Park
Valley Park
Westwood
Wildwood
Washington has no shortage of regular names in that area, though. Chinook, Forks, Hurricane Ridge, Discovery Bay, Gig Harbor, Grand Mound, the notorious Home, and of course, over by the big river, George.
Just to answer your question, buffalo (bison) were found as far east as the Chesapeake Bay. Europeans were just really, really good at killing them. George Washington killed them in the Kanawha Valley in 1769 and they lived in West Virginia as late as 1825. It is theorized based on reports that Native Americans kept their numbers artificially reduced prior to European colonization and that after the disease epidemics numbers rebounded until European settlement destroyed habitat and hunting finished them off. They are currently one of only three mammals that have been extirpated in my state (WV) that have not been reintroduced. I’d love to see them back in my lifetime, but I don’t know if it’s even possible at this point.
Back to the original question in my state you have Bath, Aurora, Belle, Buffalo, Hundred, Junior, Lost Creek, Hurricane, Fort Gay, Elk Garden, Green Bank, East Bank, Clay, Man, White Hall, Union, West Union, West Liberty, Star City, Sand Fork, Piedmont, Paw Paw, North Fork, Oak Hill, Point Pleasant, Pleasant Valley, Quiet Dell, White Sulphur Springs, Mount Hope, War. I’m sure I’m missing others. If you get into unincorporated towns, all sorts of possibilities open up.
Big Ugly. Supposedly there was once a newspaper headline reading “Big Ugly Woman Wins Beauty Pageant”
I grew up in Silver Spring not far from the spring in the name. It is called Acorn Park now. Located at East West Highway and Newell Street. When I was a kid it was an actual spring near the Post Office
Didn’t mean to hijack, just thought the poster might be interested.
More likely a personal name; “ing” in English placenames means “people of [chief’s name]”
Also a Red Oak, White Springs, Laurel Hill, Gay, and Bath. Morehead City, too, although that’s probably more aspirational.
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