Wierd City Names

I love cities that have strange or odd names, like:

Oblong, Illinois

Opossum Trot, Kentucky

Cut and Shoot, Texas

You guys have wierd city names in your state you’d like to share?

Little Rock is derived from an Indian name, as is Arkansas.
An Ouachita Chief of the Oskaola clan was named “He Whose Enemies Testicles Shrink at His Approach”.

Washington has as many as anyone. Everyone has heard of Walla Walla. We also have Humptulips, Sequim, Washtucna, Klickatat, Forks, Pe Ell, and of couse a state named Washington needs a town named George.

The city of Puyallup was named after chief in the Duwamish tribe. His name was Allup and was known for his great fishing skill. When the white man came to his area it was decided to name the new settlement after a local chief in honor of the hospitality offered to the new settlers. The leader of the settlers approached the chief and ask his name. He replied in his native tongue. The leader asked his interpretor what the chief said just as a breeze blew in from the local tide flats. The interpretor said: Pew Allup. The name stuck.

Smelterville, Idaho is high-class society, as you might imagine.

I’ve always avoided ** Truth or Consequences**, New Mexico, just based on the name

Tripler
Oh, it helps that there’s nothing there.

I beg your pardon. Ther is a VOR there.

There’s a Knob Lick in Missouri, and apparently, Kentucky.

What about Alberta’s famous Head-Smashed-In-Buffalo-Jump?

French Lick, Indiana
Red Hook, Connecticut
King of Prussia, Pennsylvania

St. Louis du Ha! Ha! in Quebec.

There’s a Loco Hills and a Wagon Mound in New Mexico. The latter is named after an oddly shaped rock formation, as is the town of Shiprock. The NM/AZ border town of Window Rock also owes its name to an unusual looking rock.

There’s a Sedan in New Mexico and I think there’s a Pietown, although I can’t find that one on the map.

Kentucky has a Hell For Sartin. Michigan apparently has a Hell; I occasionally read newspaper articles claiming it has frozen over.

Let us not forget the poetic town-naming of the Pennsylvania Dutch. Who doesn’t want to visit Blue Ball, Bird in Hand, and Intercourse ?

There are a pair of towns in Somerset (in the UK) where I grew up called West and East Camel. Come to think of it, they might be in Dorset. Anyway, no camel has been within four thousand miles of Dorset or Somerset except as a zoo attraction at least since the last Ice Age.

Then there was Shepton Mallet, which always made me think of some kind of sheep-braining device.

Then there’s always LLANFAIRPWLLGWYNGYLLGOGERYCHWYRNDROBWLLLLANTYSILIOGOGOGOCH in Wales.

Let’s see:
Elbow, Saskatchewan
Eyebrow, Saskatchewan
Biggar, Saskatchewan (town’s motto is “New York is big, but this is Biggar”)
Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan (my birthplace)
Climax, Saskatchewan
Dog Pound, Alberta
Vulcan, Alberta
and of course
Dildo, Newfoundland (do some googling on this name for some cheap laughs)

(Everyone knows the old joke about the American couple vacationing in Saskatchewan, who stop for gas just outside of Saskatoon. The guy gets out and asks the attendant where they are, and he replies, “Saskatoon, Saskatchewan.” The guy gets back in the car and tells his wife, “They don’t speak English here.”)

Lizard Lick, NC
Bat Cave, NC
6, VA
Lazbuddie, TX

My personal favorite is Braintree, Massachusettes. I want a shirt that says “Braintree” on it.

And then there’s always Peculiar, MO.

Well from my small area of the globe I know:
Hot Coffee, Mississippi
Two Egg, Florida

Oswaldtwistle, very near to where I used to live (Accrington)

Oooh, I almost forgot about

Voorhees, NJ [sub]ch ch ch ch, ah ah ah ah . . .[/sub]. Which, by the way, isn’t too far from the Jersey Devil’s Pine Barrens.

Tripler
I went to No-Be-Bos-Co where they filmed the first Friday the Thirteenth.

On Highway 7B northeast of Toronto is the crossroads hamlet of Yelverton. That’s always been my favourite small-town name. It just rolls off the tongue so well.

In Ontario, there are also Omemee, Wawa, Summer Beaver, Central Patricia, Woman River, and Batchawana Bay. :slight_smile:

Then again, someone might think that Mississauga or Sault Ste. Marie, both sizable cities, are odd.

I thought the Sault Ste. Marie was a canal…