Strangest town names

[KitchenWitch]

Cosmos Minnesota.

[fertilizeonarbusto]

1. Intercourse, Pa.

Yes, really.

[IrateCitizen]

4. You beat me to it. Nothing else tops it. Nothing. (nt)

[B Calm]

106. French Lick, Indiana

[lenidog]

17. Blue Ball and Bird in Hand are also in Lancaster County PA

[RPM]

25. not to mention Gap, Paradise and Pleasant Unity

must be the water...

[meow2u3]

103. Slow down the hurry

Town motto of Intercourse, PA

[u4ic]

2. Dildo, Newfoundland

or maybe that's the funniest?

[ghostsofgiants]

13. Come By Chance, Newfoundland

Reason enough for me to love this province.

[ewagner]

3. All-time favorite

Two Egg, Florida....

[UncleSepp]

29. I thought that was in Alabama, near Dothan

Maybe I missed a state line somewhere, or sneezed, or something :-D

[proud2BlibKansan]

90. Peculiar, MO

Bizarre, KS

[flvegan]

5. Here in Hillsborough County, there's a subdivision called "Swastika"

and on the Plat, there's...you guessed it, a swastika.

Of course, it was platted long before it was a symbol of hate.

[KamaAina]

51. There is a Swastika town in northern Ontario

also, needless to say, named before the rise of the Third Reich.

[TheCentepedeShoes]

77. Used to live in Tampa

I think I remember that one.

[Sanity Claws]

6. Flushing, Queens, NY

[tjwmason]

7. The Slaughters

I think that there's about 2 or 3 of them in the West Country (England) Upper Slaughter, Middle Slaughter.

[hippiechick]

8. French Lick and Gas City Indiana ....

wtf ? :wtf:

[TimeChaser]

9. Moon, Mars, Cranberry...

... all in PA. And Scotrun, which always makes me do a double take at the sign :eyes:

I've also encountered an "Elk Lick" county.

[RPM]

26. you're not the only one

Scrotum PA - must be santorum's hometown...

[Mizmoon]

63. If you know Scotrun, you must know Buttsville

Yep, someone out there was born and raised in Buttsville. :)

[tigereye]

92. I grew up

near Mars and Cranberry. we have the strangest town names in PA.

[Sanity Claws]

10. Box Springs, AZ

I remember seeing a sign for it when driving in AZ. It's near Hot Springs and other towns with "Springs" in its name.

[meow2u3]

102. Is Mattresses, AZ right on top of Box Springs?

Just asking :silly:

[indy_azcat]

11. hell and bad axe, MI

not to mention why, AZ :D

[GOPisEvil]

12. Cut 'n' Shoot, TX

[OnionPatch]

14. Weed

Weed, California. :smoke:

Sadly, I've been told the town does not live up to its name.

[indy_azcat]

20. sometimes ya gotta make choices

:dilemma:

[Trigger Hippie]

15. Dry Prong, Louisiana

A truly wretched place...

[Bluzmann57]

16. What Cheer, Iowa

Must be a gloomy place. And of course there's Lost Nation, Iowa. How does anyone ever find the place?

[flvegan]

18. Gobblers Knob, KY and Long Dong in Guangxi, China

[Burma Jones]

19. Climax Colorado, Beaver Oklahoma

Monkey's Elbow, KY
Boring and Scaggsville Maryland

To name a few

[xultar]

100. There's also a Climax, MI

[lenidog]

21. Moose Jaw Canada

[Dr Batsen D Belfry]

22. Climax, MI

Right near I-69

http://www.mapquest.com/maps/map.adp?ovi=1&zoom=4&mapdata=gKjPFHVvy1%2b1%2f2VXKuTcG%2f2kr42E4lG7X6%2f26vNdCbXpJYR0E7XOoP%2bce7UDg7cndwlcSZxq%2f%2fYWXo9jTAICchMJH%2fu29Qu8fRtBojnCB3MAyvE4HRGX6TK1Pu%2bz%2bNFEhvo3hETguF8ItoO63V6kA24ygF5WaC38kvg%2bkPnpeXfXFOW6%2bmXvtJwSyqdiNJpyODfF4h1Y9e%2frrVFdfJlmyqZojr3S0UV1UH%2b1bUW4CIKORfhpUXYmotcSuA5HYMecjkksZM8kA%2brBBCt3HufBKKKaFmeIyaYXKOFDFF12M6ATRLa%2fvZ3wjjA0h1djcC%2fhAPj6y9XhvN9H1Z1tlIB5Yt%2blsi9uMvXv7wXYdVxniGDyV8aZ8t%2bnc0a1IYk24ZJlgR6maepGJtWqXr97q6nJ6Uay4edh6o%2be

DBDB

[Blue Diadem]

23. You beat me to it! We used to drive by it on our way

down here. Always wondered what the town was like..

[Dr Batsen D Belfry]

24. Beaver, PA (plus Eaton Corp. as an added bonus)

I used to be in sales, and had the pleasure of calling on Westinghouse's Beaver, PA facility the first day it was owned by Eaton Corp.

When the receptionist picked up the phone and greeted me with her most cheerful voice, I burst out laughing and had to hand up.

"Good afternoon, Eaton Beaver..."

I kid you not

DBDB

[war on errorism]

28. Mayor's Income, TN

[ceile]

27. Truth or Consequences, NM

[WhollyHeretic]

30. Fishkill, NY

[Sanity Claws]

31. Sheepshead Bay, Brooklyn

[ceile]

32. Priddy, TX

[xmas74]

33. Tightwad, MO

[dubyaD40web]

34. Tightwad, MO

and...

No Name, CO

[Sanity Claws]

40. It's so funny. Both of you came up with the same

name at the same time. Great minds think alike.

[spinbaby]

35. 84

Pennsylvania

[Karmageddon]

36. Peculiar, MO

Not only a strange name, but also a strange place.

[Karmageddon]

37. Possum Trot, MS

[izzie]

38. Kennebunk Maine. You will not find many of that name.

There is also a Chicken, Alaska.

[Karmageddon]

39. Monkey's Eyebrow, KY

[Double T]

41. Bugtussle, Ky and OK

[Kraklen]

42. Humptulips, Washington.

It's a several hour drive from Chuckanut Bay.

[Zomby Woof]

70. Humptulips is my favorite place name

My best friend and his family live there... he teaches at a nearby high school.

[Aristus]

97. Of course! How ELSE would you get little tulips?

:-)

[AllegroRondo]

43. Ballylikey, Ireland

had to take a picture next to the sign when I visited.

[swag]

44. Three from Oregon

Boring, Oregon
The Dalles, Oregon (The?)
Wanker's Corner, Oregon

[Mizmoon]

61. In Jersey there's a place called "The Caldwells"

I think that's where Tony Soprano is supposed to live on the show ...

[auburngrad82]

45. Stem, NC

Social Circle, GA
The Hub, GA

[Lex]

46. Lizard Lick, NC.

[auburngrad82]

52. Ah, yes. Lizard Lick

We tried so hard to get a Lizard Lick PO box when we moved here but they aren't an official town and don't have a post office.

[Lex]

53. Read this

http://www.planetgamecube.com/news.cfm?action=item&id=3477

Weird.

[sasquatch]

47. Knock'em stiff, Ohio

Actual town name, has about 50 people in it.

[marions ghost]

48. Tightsqueeze, VA

How Tightsqueeze got its name:

http://www.victorianvilla.com/sims-mitchell/local/tightsq/

[Gormy Cuss]

49. Cheesequake, NJ

Thanks to the late Dave van Ronk for immortalizing it in a song composed of odd Jersey town names.

[Trailrider1951]

50. My three favorites are

Dime Box, Texas
Arkadelphia, Arkansas
and Bucksnort, Tennessee

[Lumily]

54. Cumming, Georgia

I lived there for three years.

[auburngrad82]

56. Just down the road from Throbbing

Well, Alpharetta, but the joke is they're going to rename it to Throbbing...

Oh well. I guess you had to live there...

[melv]

55. Slaughterville, OK

[JitterbugPerfume]

57. Wartburg Tenn

and South Bend ---in NORTHERN Indiana

[dean_dem]

58. Bumpass, VA

Heh heh, bump-ass.

[Atlas Mugged]

59. Toad Suck, Arkansas

In the event no one believes it:

http://www.toadsuck.org/

I used to have a "Toad Suck University" t-shirt. No such thing exists in Toad Suck, but it was a great ice breaker.

[Mizmoon]

60. Hicksville, NY

and it's near the city, not upstate either.

[Kathleen04]

105. I have a friend from there

and go to school nearby, fun to watch him tell people where he's from. :+ It's like the next town over but alot of the students are from out-of-state so they've never heard of it before. :)

[Lorien]

62. Truth or Consequences, NM, Yeehaw Junction, FL. n/t

[greekspeak]

64. Piggott, Arkansas

Sopchoppy, FL; Boaz, MO;

[sniffa]

65. dot zero

[MrSandman]

66. Duck, WV

[GoddessOfGuinness]

67. Athol, MD

Lottha Athols there...

[hyphenate]

85. There's an Athol in Massachusetts

as well.

One interesting thing about Massachusetts is that so many of the cities and towns are named after their British counterparts. It's not so "strange" as amusing considering how we felt about the British a 100 years after they helped settle the country.

Thus, we end up with unlikely pronunciations of some places:

Worcester is pronounced "Wuster."
Gloucester is pronounced "Gloster"
Leicester is pronounced "Lester"
Leominster is "Leminster"
etc.

There is a Lake here in Massachusetts which is Lake Chargoggagoggmanchauggagoggchaubunagungamaugg

It's an Indian word that essentially means "You fish on your side, I fish on my side and no one fish in the middle."

[GoddessOfGuinness]

89. There's another one in

the White House... :evilgrin:

So what do the locals call Lake Chargoggagoggmanchauggagoggchaubunagungamaugg?

[hyphenate]

95. Webster Lake :-) eom

[sakabatou]

68. I have a list

Aces of Diamonds, Florida
Fearnot, Pennsylvania
Normal, Illinois
Assawoman, Virginia
Fifty-Six, Arkansas
Odd, West Virginia
Bald Head, Maine
Forks of Salmon, California
Ogle, Kentucky
Beetown, Wisconsin
Fort Dick, California
Okay, Oklahoma
Belcher, New York
Frankenstein, Missouri
Panic, Pennsylvania
Ben Hur, Texas
Footville, Wisconsin
Peculiar, Missouri
Big Foot, Illinois
Gaylordsville, Connecticut
Plain City, Utah
Big Sandy, Wyoming
Gay Mills, Wisconsin
Porkey, Pennsylvanania
Blueballs, Pennsylvania
Gun Barrel City, Texas
Quiggleville, Pennsylvania
Boring, Maryland
Hell, Michigan
Rambo Riviera, Arkansas
Boring, Oregon
Hicksville, Ohio
River Styx, Ohio
Buddha, Indiana
Hooker, Arkansas
Roachtown, Illinois
Chestnut, Illinois
Hooker, Oklahoma
Romance, Arkansas
Chicken, Alaska
Hornytown, North Carolina
Rough and Ready, California
Chocalate Bayou, Texas
Hot Coffee, Mississippi
Sand Draw, Wyoming
Chugwater, Wyoming
Hot Water, Mississippi
Sandwich, Illinois
Climax, North Carolina
Intercourse, Pennsylvania
Smackover, Arkansas
Climax, Pennsylvania
It, Mississippi
Spread Eagle, Wisconsin
Climax, Saskatchewan
Jupiter, Florida
Toad Suck, Arkansas
Cold Foot, Alaska
Kill Devil Hills, North Carolina
Umpire, Arkansas
Cold Water, Mississippi
King Arthur's Court, Michigan
Uncertain, Texas
Cut-Off, Louisiana
Koopa, Colorado
Yazoo, Mississippi
Dickeyville, Wisconsin
Lawyersville, New York
Yeehaw Junction, Florida
Ding Dong, Texas
Lollipop, Texas
Disco, Tennessee
Love Ladies, New Jersey
Dismal, Tennessee
Magazine, Arkansas
Dry Fork, Wyoming
Mars, Pennsylvania
Eclectic, Alabama
Monkey's Elbow, Kentucky
Eek, Alaska
Muck City, Alabama
Embarrass, Minnesota
No Name, Colorado

[KitchenWitch]

69. Oh gods, I forgot Embarrass MN!

[Skinner]

71. Bad Axe, Michigan (nt)

[obxhead]

72. Friend just went to "Weed"

Oregon I think.

[norml]

73. Wahoo Nebraska

http://www.wahoo.ne.us/

[Redstone]

74. Dime Box, Texas.

I think it might even be in Deaf Smith County.

Redstone

[TheCentepedeShoes]

75. Two Egg, FL n/t

[In_The_Wind]

76. Climax, N Y

[Fridays Child]

78. Slapout, Oklahoma

"Scuse me huh, we are just Slapout."

-snip-

According to the "History (of) Beaver County, Vol. II", pg 242-244, the small town of Nye began serving the community September 6, 1932 from a couple of old frame buildings that were moved to a plowed field beside a dusty road where the Lemmons family began selling groceries, buying cream and selling gas in five gallon cans after (they) acquired a fifty-five gallon barrel for a gas storage space.

-snip-

It goes on to tell how that same year the state department contracted the road building of highway 270, which would be a sand and gravel road.

-snip-

Artie Lemmmons, helped in the grocery store. When an item was sold out, she'd usually say, "We're slapout of that." It wasn't too long afterwards that the highway crew began dubbing the town "Slapout" and everyone, except Tom, started calling it "Slapout."

More at http://okielegacy.org/beaver/slapout.html

[CatholicEdHead]

79. Climax, MN, and Fertile, MN

And so goes the old joke in NW MN, Newspaper Headline: "Fertile Woman dies in Climax" (as the towns are pretty close to each other).

[vogonjiltz]

80. my favorites include Dead Horse AK...

Liberal, KS
Erie Temperance, MI
Hot Coffee, CO

[dajoki]

81. jersey shore, pa

in the mountains of central pa. i always wandered about that.:shrug:

[Kat45]

82. Elepant Butte, New Mexico

[NinetySix]

83. A little town in Austria called...

[KitchenWitch]

84. We have a winner!!!!!

That is just great! :evilgrin:

[sakabatou]

87. Don't forget Little Snoring in England

[Quagmire05]

86. .

Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwyll-llantysiliogogogoch

Town in Wales, UK

[spacelady]

88. Smackover, Arkansas n/t

[rstlne]

91. Beaver Lick, Kentucky

Did anyone mention it? It's just down the road from Big Bone Lick.

[Bluerthanblue]

93. my sons think Bangkok Thailand is pretty funny-

but i've always been partial to Paradise Pa. just over the line from Intercourse- actually stayed at a little motel there for a week.

[snickersnee]

94. as a child i had a hard time picturing...

..."salmon arm" (at least mooses HAVE jaws!)

also, "spuzzum" is a humourous name.

then again, i once lived in "kamloops".

[Mutley]

96. Zzyzx, Texas

:wtf: Texans: Now how do you pronounce that again?

[yellowdogintexas]

98. Dot, Kentucky; Tiny Town, Kentucky & Lickskillet, Kentucky

[datasuspect]

99. bumfuck egypt

[RayOfHope]

101. Knob Lick, MO. Also Frankenstein, MO n/t

[tarkus]

104. What's up with King of Prussia, PA? And Leonardo, NJ? NM

[u4ic]

107. Seven Persons, Alberta

what happens if somebody dies? :shrug:

[Lydia Leftcoast]

108. Zeze, Japan

And yes, It's a weird name in Japanese, too, as is Shinshimashima or "new island island," which oddly enough, is located in the mountains.