Unique Place Names

[Redneck in training]

We have Moscow in Iowa. There are three Ladysmith towns in BC, WI, VA.

 

[Wagtail]

Walla Walla Washington, the town so nice, they named it twice.

In the same vein... Wagga Wagga, NSW. There's even a country song called, "Don't Call Wagga Wagga 'Wagga'!"

I swear that all of these local aboriginal language names all mean 'Meeting Place'. :laughing:

 

[PJSprog]

I seem to recall a place close to Kitchener, Ontario called Punky Doodle Corner? Supposedly named for a German speaking bloke who always sang the words to a song wrong.

Not sure there's anywhere on the planet with better town names than central and western Canada. Moosejaw and Tuktoyaktuk are two of my favorites.

 

[dmccarty]

****,MI and Climax,MI

The remains of Harvey rolled through yesterday with quite a bit of heavy rain and some softball sized hale in some areas. Thankfully not ours. I was watching the squall line go through on radar and I went to a different radar that provide more detail when I noticed there is a township called Climax here in NC.

Had to look it up.

Wikipedia says it is named Climax because they are the high point on a railroad line. However, JP Morgan had a large quail hunting preserve there so I wonder if that is where the name is from since his company that owned different quail land was named Climax. Climax also had a Cricket field which is odd. There is a Cricket league that plays in Climax so it sounds like a big deal. Have to wonder if the Cricket is related to people hunting on JP Morgans quail land...

Later,
Dan

 

[Redneck in training]

The country I am originally from has also many funny place names. 斬bovřesky = screaming frogs, Horn Police = Top Shelf, Suchdol = Dry Hole, Hustopeče = Thick Baking, Trhov Sviny = Swine Market And I donｧt want to start about last names.

 

[mark in portugal]

I live in a village called Odeceixe in Portugal.
A google search turns up only 1 such place; there is no Odeceixe Ohio or Wisconsin.

Even the locals dispute how to pronounce it!

The county seat and shopping town is Aljezur, also a unique name as far as I know.

 

[sseelhoff]

Cut and Shoot, Texas
Muleshoe, Texas
Gun Barrel City, Texas
Jot 'em Down, Texas
Dime Box, Texas
White Settlement, Texas
Ding Dong, Texas
Nameless, Texas

We also have Woman Hollering Creek outside of San Antonio (near Schertz)

 

[nybirdman]

Near us is the "Lost Village"road;it must really be lost because it doesn't show on any maps back to 1865.

 

[shaeff]

I work in a town called Coxsackie, NY, less than ten minutes away is Climax, NY.

 

[scdeerslayer]

I forgot to mention that North, South Carolina is southeast of Due West, South Carolina.

Steve

Never heard of Due West, SC. That's pretty neat.

A story about Denmark, SC. An older girl in my church dated and then married a guy who had hunting land near Denmark, and they always talked about going to Denmark, so I knew about the town. In my college major, the Master's program is only a year, and most that go through it basically treat it as their 5th year of college, and I did the same thing. First day of class I go into a class with a girl I knew from undergrad. There's a girl in there that we don't know who graduated from another college. The girl I already knew asked her where she was from and she said Denmark, to which the reply was an emphatic "OH WOW!" (she thought the girl was talking about the country). I leaned over and told her "She's talking about Denmark South Carolina" and basically all she could say was "Oh, I didn't know there was such a place."