In western New York, you can find the following: Vestal Ninevah Horse Head And for the opposite of weird, how about City of Industry, California?
crappy towns if I've ever seen one.... Hancock was named after Gen. Hancock and Deposit was a military depot. There's also... Kerry Siding, NY Peas Eddy, NY Flowers, NY Triangle, NY Price Home, NY Autumn Leaves, PA Starlight, PA Damn there are a lot of towns with weird names around here...
Alabama * Aimwell * Allgood * Arab(pronounced A-rab) * Black * Brilliant * Burnt Corn * Carbon Hill * Chalkville * Coffee * Coffeeville * Crumley Chapel * Dear Head Cove * Eclectic * Empire * Evergreen * Excel * Harvest * Hornyhead Branch * Intercourse * Magazine Point * Muck City * Opp * Reform * Section * Skyline * Valley Head * Warrior * Whistler * Wing
more from AL Cuba Gu-win(Gu-Win is positioned 33.95 degrees north of the equator and 87.87 degrees west of the prime meridian.) & Guin(Guin is positioned 33.96 degrees north of the equator and 87.91 degrees west of the prime meridian.).........they're right next to each other! Nectar Paint Rock Shorter Skyline(which has no skyline)
Texas Flatonia Dime Box Old Dime Box Palestine Marathon Carl's Corner Kilgore Boys Ranch Cut and Shoot Dripping Springs Sour Lake Lickskillet Frognot Gun Barrel City Point Blank Spur Washbra Lovewink Waxahachie Earth
Somebody took a photo of an exit sign and sent it into FIFA. Was on the front page for a few weeks in the lead up to WC94. I was alway amused when I passed by Pittsburg, CA (that's right, no "h")
Hel, Poland The travel book I was reading said... "there is only one road to Hel." ahahah.... oh nevermind...
There's a Hell, Michigan. And Intercourse, Pennsylvania. The Keystone State also has Bareville and Blue Ball, as well as the more prosaic Bird-In-Hand: http://www.geocities.com/mapguygk07/Lancaster/ (it's geocities, cut and paste into your URL bar if you need to) In addition to Cut and Shoot, Texas also has Gun Barrel City. Not to mention that a trip down Highway 19 will not only take you through East Texas, but Paris, Canton, Athens, Palestine and then Elkhart (for you Indiana fans). The state of Washington has plenty of interesting place names -- oooooo boy, do we have a lot of them. Just off the top of my head: Nooksack, Sumas, Anacortes, Orcas, Joyce, Neah Bay, Forks, Quilcene (not to be confused with Queets or Quinault), Hoquiam, Elma, Oysterville, Pe Ell, Mossyrock, Morton, Ilwaco, Naselle, Kalama (my hometown, which should not be confused with Cathlamet, Camas or even Oregon's Klamath Falls), Toutle, Goldendale, Bickleton (which is, like, beyond the middle of nowhere), Klickitat (not to be confused with Kittitas or Kahlotus -- I mean, you're just stupid to confuse it with Kahlotus), Zillah, Toppenish, Yakima, Pasco, Kennewick, Walla Walla, Starbuck (no, they do not have a Starbucks in Starbuck), Asotin (not to be confused with Anatone), Touchet, Washtucna, Hay, Colfax, St. John, Endicott, Palouse, Tekoa, Ritzville, Schrag, Batum, Spokane, Elk, Otis Orchards, Cusick (not to be confused with Usk, although they're right next to each other, so that's understandable), Ione, Chewelah, Wellpinit, Elmer City, Wauconda, Oroville, Tonasket, Omak, Okanogan, Twisp, Wenatchee (and East Wenatchee, which actually is east of Wenatchee), Chelan (not to be confused with Cashmere or Cle Elum), Skykomish, Index, Sultan, Snohomish, Mukilteo (right across the water from Whidbey Island), Beaux Arts Village, Clyde Hill, Seattle, Issaquah, Sammamish, Poulsbo, Bremerton, Olalla (not to be confused with Oregon's Molalla), Olympia, Tumwater, Lacey (home of Kasey Keller), Federal Way, Enumclaw, Steilacoom, Tacoma, Gig Harbor, and of course, I really must mention Puyallup. Let's see you pronounce Puyallup.
I find it ironic that towns with names like Intercourse and Bird-In-Hand house some of the most radical Amish people.
Re: Re: Alabama Most people have no idea how this is pronounced so I didn't bother. It's embarrasing really.
Re: Re: Re: Alabama My brother once had his car break down in San Jose, Illinois. Pronounced to rhyme with "banjos." And there's no need to go into what happens to towns with French names in Illinois, indeed most of the country, outside Louisiana.
Some of those towns in Maine The countries: Poland Wales Norway China Denmark Peru Sweden Cities unlikely to have produced any of the settlers who chose the name: Lisbon Nashville Smyrna Paris Belgrade Rome Vienna Detroit Warsaw Berlin Carthage Madrid Palermo Just plain odd: Strong Cranberry Isles Ducktrap Misery Township Hope Industry
Don't know if this has been mentioned yet, and it's another one close to Dante's heart: Johnson City- everyone who lives there is a dick.
My ex is from Puyallup, but I'm sure there are some nice people there. You forgot my favorite town in WA: George. As in, "I live in George, Washington." In PA, in amongst Blue Ball, Intercourse, Bird In Hand, and Paradise is Climax. Can't beat those wacky Pennsylvania Dutch! Other PA towns include Gas City, Beaver, and Wyoming. I did a paper on cities, states & how their names came to be. Most people don't know that Idaho, when translated into the correct Native American tongue, means "eater of feces".