Best City Names

[RickB]

level land texas

only reason i know is, james mcmurtry has a song by that name.

in the song he wonders....why in the world would anyone ever even stop there....he said....the wagon must have lost a wheel or they lost ambition, one

Great song. Love his work.
“Floydada didn’t fit the meter”

 

[JethroB]

Climax, Virginia...

Climax, GA & Cumming, Ga.

 

[bullbreaker]

Spread Eagle Wisconsin ....................

 

[dirttoys]

I just read on TBN a guy was from Gun Barrel City, TX.

Around here we have names like Defiance, MO and Battlefield, MO.

Got me thinking about city names. Some are quite interesting.

What is your favorite city name?

MoKelly

In your state, just up the road from me:

 

[dodge man]

I live not to far from Disco Illinois. I’d forgotten about it until a couple of weeks ago when they had a flood and you got it, there was panic at the Disco.

 

[Cougsfan]

Then there is George, Washington. It has one restaurant and it is called "Martha's Inn".

 

[71bronco]

Center of the World in Northeast Ohio

Jeff

 

[k0ua]

Interesting names in Missouri

Peculiar, Turtle, Licking, Bacon, Tightwad, Vulcan, Bland, Elmo, Humansville, and Clever.
Knob Noster, Knob Lick, Bourbon, Kissee Mills, Conception Junction, Blue Eye, Devil's Elbow, Goodnight, Halfway, Pittsville, Braggadocio, Cooter There are more, but that should do it for today.

 

[Oaktree]

Isn't there a town in Texas called Dime Box or something similar?

Here in N.H. we have a town named Henniker. Not that odd of a name, but supposedly it's the only Henniker on earth. Maybe 30 years ago Rite Aid wanted to build a drugstore in town, you should have seen the fuss everyone in town made over that...imagine the indignity of a town with a unique name having a chain drugstore in it! Haven't been thru there in 20-odd years, but last I knew the store never got built.

 

[Oaktree]

A tourist goes into a fast food restaurant in Puyallup,WA.

"How do you say the name of this place?"

"Tah-co-Bell."

Could be a whole 'nother discussion on town names that aren't pronounced the way they look.
In N.H. we have Berlin and Milan, neither of which are pronounced like the European cities...they're BURR-lin and MY-lin. Then there's Boscawen, where even the locals can't agree on how to pronounce it...some say BOSC-win, others BOSC-wine.
Even our state capitol, Concord gets misprounounced by people from away (it's "conquered"). People from outside New England pronounce it like the airplane.

 

[Richard]

Byesville (Ohio)

Where I live 'Greenback' (Tn)

 

[jpolcyn]

Interstate exit in Kentucky just south of cincinnati is "Big Bone Lick" They also have a state park "big bone lick state park". They also have Big bone road, Big bone creek!

 

[MAX-24-Dean]

"Humptulips" Washington, Not to far away from "Tokeland" Washington.

 

[dirttoys]

Not towns, but inspired by a couple of the above. On the way to Springfield from my house, you are bless to cross both the dry sac and small sac rivers

 

[japody]

Onancock VA

 

[3 Horse Ranch]

Nowhere, Oklahoma.
When I moved to Tonasket WA my cousin in Torrance CA said I had moved to the middle of nowhere. I had to prove her wrong and found Nowhere. I told her I was nowhere
near the middle of Nowhere.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nowhere%2C_Oklahoma

"Where are you from?"
"Nowhere,"
Then, where are you going?"
"Why."

 

[Cougsfan]

Coeur d'Alene, Idaho (most people say it; core-doe-lane) may not be the weirdest name, but is certainly one of the hardest to spell right (You get extra credit if you get the capital letters in the right place).

 

[Frankenkubota]

Could be a whole 'nother discussion on town names that aren't pronounced the way they look.
In N.H. we have Berlin and Milan, neither of which are pronounced like the European cities...they're BURR-lin and MY-lin. Then there's Boscawen, where even the locals can't agree on how to pronounce it...some say BOSC-win, others BOSC-wine.
Even our state capitol, Concord gets misprounounced by people from away (it's "conquered"). People from outside New England pronounce it like the airplane.

both north and south carolina have a town named beuford (sp?)

don't sound the same

 

[kthompson]

Not really a city but there's a little cross roads with a store. The area and store are called Park and Blow.

Know it very well. Back from the days of Drive in Restaurants where you did park you car and blow the horn for service. Does it show on the map by that name for I really thought it was the name of the now store there.

 

[kenmbz]

I used to pass a place on way to uncle's in MA, that had a huge sign:
Eat Here-Get Gas!

More PA crazy names:
Balls Mills
Burning Well
California (!)
Coon Hunter
Free Love Valley
Jersey Shore
Normalville
Two lick valley

From MA, my favorite on the way to my uncle's house was Florida, see snow piled up to the sign in winter was funny to us as kids.