Interesting and Unusual Place Names

[Heraclid]

These are real places...

ALASKA
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EEK
UNALASKA


ALABAMA
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BURNT CORN
NEEDMORE (5 separate towns in AL bear this name)


ARIZONA
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GUNSIGHT
MANY FARMS
MEXICAN WATER (don’t drink the water)
MONKEYS EYEBROW (huh?!)
TWO GUNS
WHY (as in WHY do we have to be right next to GUNSIGHT)


ARKANSAS
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ACCIDENT (oops, we didn’t really mean to have a town here)
WEINER


CALIFORNIA (is it holy or just a hellhole?)
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DEVILS DEN
HELLHOLE PALMS
HOLY CITY


COLORADO
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DI*K
HYGIENE
LAST CHANCE
MIRAGE (they want you to think it’s not really there?)


DELAWARE
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BLUE BALL


FLORIDA
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CHRISTMAS
FROSTPROOF
HOWEY IN THE HILLS
MOSQUITO GROVE
PANACEA (where all your troubles go away)
SPUDS
TWO EGG
WALDO (now you know where WALDO is)
YEEHAW JUNCTION


GEORGIA
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BUTTS
CLIMAX
CUMMING
ENIGMA
EXPERIMENT (we’ll try making a new town just for kicks)
IDEAL


HAWAII
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POOPOO (I hear this place is a dump)
VOLCANO


IDAHO
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FUBAR PEAK (climb at your own risk)


IOWA
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HOLY CROSS
WHAT CHEER (are they being sarcastic?)


ILLINOIS
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ENERGY
GRAND DETOUR
NORMAL (so I guess the rest of the state isn’t?)


INDIANA
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BALLSTOWN
BIRDS EYE
FLOYDS KNOBS
FRENCH LICK
GNAW BONE
HOOKER CORNER
SANTA CLAUS


KANSAS
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FLUSH
GAS
PROTECTION (from what?)
SMILEYBERG
SPEED


KENTUCKY
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BIG BONE
BLACK GNAT (if the best you can do for a town namesake is this…)
BREEDING
HAZARD
MUD LICK
ORDINARY
QUICKSAND (the town’s disappearing)
READY
RELIEF


LOUISIANA
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EROS
FORT NECESSITY (sounds like it was a spontaneous decision)
VIXEN
WATERPROOF


MAINE
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MAINE (they wanted to be big-time and it worked for New York, right?)
PURGATORY
SLAUGHTER
SUCKERVILLE


MARYLAND
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CRAPO
SEAT PLEASANT


MICHIGAN (you either love it or you hate it)
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HELL
NIRVANA
PARADISE


MINNESOTA
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DINKYTOWN
FERTILE


MISSISSIPPI
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ASKEW
CHUNKY


MISSOURI
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CONCEPTION JUNCTION (it had a better name before they got all PC)
HUMANSVILLE
PECULIAR
TIGHTWAD


NEVADA
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SHAFTER (well it is the state where they screw you one way or another)


NEW HAMPSHIRE
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SANDWICH


NEW JERSEY
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BUTTZVILLE
RUDEVILLE


NEW MEXICO
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TRUTH OR CONSEQUENCES
WEED


NEW YORK
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BATH
FLUSHING
HOOKER
HORSEHEADS (the mafia runs the place)


NORTH CAROLINA
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BATCAVE
BOOGERTOWN
HOOKERTOWN
HORNEYTOWN
KILL DEVIL HILLS
MOREHEAD CITY


NORTH DAKOTA
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BEACH
FLASHER
ZAP


OHIO
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BUSINESSBURG
DEVIL TOWN
FLEATOWN
HICKSVILLE
KNOCKEMSTIFF (it's a rough town)
ROUND BOTTOM


OKLAHOMA (where the license plates proudly proclaim that Oklahoma is OK)
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BOWLEGS
OKAY


OREGON
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BEAVER
POOP CREEK
RIDDLE
TIMBUKTU
ZIGZAG


PENNSYLVANIA
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BIRD IN HAND
BLUE BALL
BONERS HILL
BURNING WELL
INTERCOURSE
KING OF PRUSSIA
LITTLE HOPE
MARS
NORTH EAST
VIRGINVILLE


SOUTH CAROLINA
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COWARD
NINETY SIX
NORTH
PEE DEE


TENNESSEE
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GASSAWAY (they relaxed their emissions standards)
SWEET LIPS


TEXAS
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BOSTON
BUSHLAND
CUT AND SHOOT (lots of crime here)
EARTH
FLAT
GUN BARREL CITY (once upon a time, they kicked TWO GUNS, AZ’s a**)
HAPPY
LAWN (there’s nothing to do here except watch the grass grow)
NEW BOSTON
OLD BOSTON
PROGRESS (must be near Old Boston, Boston, and New Boston)


UTAH
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VIRGIN


VERMONT
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BREAD LOAF
MOSQUITOVILLE
NOTOWN
SATANS KINGDOM (the place just went all to hell)


VIRGINIA
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BLAND
GOOSE PIMPLE JUNCTION


WASHINGTON
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BONER LAKE
CONCRETE
DUSTY
HUMPTULIPS
MEDICAL LAKE
PLAIN
VADER (there is a great disturbance in the Force here)


WEST VIRGINIA
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BURNING SPRINGS (what’s in that water?)
FANNY
LOONEYVILLE
ODD
SOD


WISCONSIN
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IMALONE (such a lonely place to be)
SPREAD EAGLE


WYOMING
-------
POINT OF ROCKS

[thebear54]

I guess the people of Connecticut and Rhode Island missed out on all the good names and stayed on the straight and narrow.
John

[mbeach]

I actually took a picture of the "Virginville, PA" exit sign a few years ago.
Thanks for nothing ladies!

[Heraclid]

I guess the people of Connecticut and Rhode Island missed out on all the good names and stayed on the straight and narrow.

Well Connecticut did have Gaylordsville. And obviously Happyland, CT is a pretty gay place (if you're sticking to the original definition of gay). There were actually lots of them along those lines that I omitted.

I did see a Big Rock Candy Mountain listed for VT, but apparently its really some where else (MT, I think). But VT already has some pretty good (or bad) ones.

AK had all these places like Terror Cove, Terror Creek, Surprise Bay, Danger this and Murder that... I pretty much stayed away from the names for bodies of water though since there are lots and lots of those that are weird and they aren't settlements. But there was a Potty Brown Creek in CO, Idiot Creek in OR, etc. Also a lot of Dead Horses (AK again for one) but apparently none are actual settlements (same for lots of Dead Mans this and that) so I didn't include them. Same goes for mountains, like AK's Threesome Mountain, WV's Ugly Mountain, etc. I did toss in Poop Creek and Fubar Peak, though.

I actually took a picture of the "Virginville, PA" exit sign a few years ago.
Thanks for nothing ladies!

My brother has a picture of himself in front of the one for Climax, GA as well.

[MachineVX]

Bong Recreational Park, Wisconsin

[Rooster]

You forgot one in massechusetts - Athol....

[johnnyapollo]

You didn't mentiong Between, GA - it's an area between Loganville and Monroe: http://maps.google.com/maps?oi=map&q=Between,+GA

-- John

[Heraclid]

You didn't mentiong Between, GA - it's an area between Loganville and Monroe

Halfway between Daytona and Orlando, we have Deltona and Deland. Deltona appears to be a mixing of the words Deland and Daytona, but then Deland may be a mix of Deltona and Orlando. Someone must have been flexing their brain to come up with those. LOL!

Bong Recreational Park, Wisconsin

Oh yeah? Well if you want to include parks and stuff, about halfway between here and St. Augustine we have Faver Dykes State Park! :-)

http://www.abfla.com/parks/FaverDykes/faverdykes.html

[V-Twin hiCROSS]

I once passed the "Full House Bar and Grill". The sign said below the name, "Liquor in the front, poker in the rear".
Just say it out loud, you will get it.

[nater]

How about
Bad Axe, Michigan

[mbeach]

Located exactly half way between Fairbanks and Nenana in interior Alaska is:
"Skinny Dick's Halfway Inn" -Say THAT outloud.

I bought a bottle opener from there.

[coachreed]

Dang... thats quite the list of names... when I read the thread title, I was going to mention two... both of which you mentioned! lol Peculiar (rumored to have started as a town with no name, which was quite Peculiar) and Tightwad (no clue, just different)! There are definitely some strange town names in this country. I wonder if other countries have the same "problem"?

Coach... I mean Randy (I often forget who I really am)

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[coachreed]

Located exactly half way between Fairbanks and Nenana in interior Alaska is:
"Skinny Dick's Halfway Inn" -Say THAT outloud.

I bought a bottle opener from there.

Down at The Lake of the Ozarks in southern Missouri, there is a place called Big Dicks Halfway Inn... their signature thing there is "Shooting the minnow"... you pop a minnow (live) and chase it with a shot of whatever makes ya happy... actually, I think we dropped the minnow in the shot and then shot it... anyway... Like he said, say Big Dicks Halfway Inn out loud and people stop... lmao

[Ruflyf]

Mississippi has a town called Hot Coffee

[shoota77]

We also have a little town called Chicken up north.