Funny US town names

[blackbettie 0]

For all of you who still don't know where to settle after moving to the US... I recommend the following:

Chicken, Deadhorse, Eek (Alaska)

Burnt Corn, Intercourse, Muck City, Rooster (Alabama)

Bagdad, Boneyard, Floss, Goobertown, Nothing, Why (Arizona)

Fannie, Greasy Corner, Grubbs, Hooker, Okay, Possum Grape, Smackover, Toad Suck, Turkey Scratch, Weiner, Yellville (Arkansas)

Blunt, Bummerville, Deadwood, Doghouse Junction, Frying Pan, Hellhole Palms, Hells Kitchen, Hooker, Last Chance, Mormon Bar, Needles, Ono, Prunedale, Rescue, Relief, Scarface, Squabbletown, Sucker Flat, Timbuctoo, Toad Town, Volcano, Weedpatch, Wimp, You Bet, Yreka Zzyzx (California)

Climax, Last Chance, No Name, Parachute, Purgatory (Colorado)

Giants Neck, Mianus, Moosup (Connecticut)

Howey-in-the-Hills, Kissimmee, Okahumpka, Sopchoppy, Two Egg, Weeki Wachee, Yeehaw Junction (Florida)

Between, Chickasawhatchee, Climax, Enigma, Hopeulikit, Talking Rock (Georgia)

Good Grief, Beer Bottle Crossing (Idaho)

Bald Knob, Devil's Backbone, Grand Detour, Kickapoo, Paw Paw, Roachtown (Illinois)

French Lick, Gnaw Bone, Loogootee, Naked City, Roachdale, Toad Hop (Indiana)

Diagonal, Gravity, What Cheer (Iowa)

Perdition, Ransom (Kansas)

Beaver Lick, Bugtussle, Chicken Gizzard, Crummies, Do Stop, Monkeys Elbow, Mousie, Mud Lick, Oddville, Ogle, Spring Lick, Rabbit Hash, Typo (Kentucky)

Belcher, Cut-Off, Fort Necessity, Grosse Tete, Mudville, Tickfaw, Waterproof (Louisana)

Bald Head, Dickey, Beans Corner Bingo (Maine)

Accident, Assawoman Bay, Boring, Crapo, Cockeysville (Maryland)

Belchertown, Cow Yard, Mashpee, Sandwich, Swampscott (Massachusetts)

Bad Axe, Climax, Hell, Jugville, Kalamazoo, Podunk, Slapneck (Michigan)

Climax, Embarass, Nimrod, Nowthen, Savage, Sleepy Eye (Minnesota)

Bobo, Chunky, Dragon, Possumneck, Sanatorium, Soso, Yazoo (Mississippi)

Conception, Cooter, Enough, Frankenstein, Licking, Peculiar, Roach, Sleeper, Tightwad (Missouri)

Bitter Root, Elmo, Hungry Horse, Rocky Boy, Square Butt, Two-Dot, Yaak (Montana)

Colon, Fort Crook, Road, Wahoo, Weeping Water, Worms (Nebraska)

Bunkerville, Incline Village, Lovelock, Owyhee, Pahrump, Searchlight, Verdi-Mogul, Weed Heights, Winnemucca (Nevada)

Bungy, Contoocook, Hell Hollow, Lost Nation, Sandwich Landing (New Hampshire)

Bivalve, Brick, Ho-Ho Kus, Little Egg Harbor, Love Ladies, Succasuna (New Jersey)

Elephant Butte, Tingle, Truth or Consequences (New Mexico)

Cat Elbow Corner, Climax, Coxsackie, Hicksville, Horseheads, Peekskill, Neversink, Yaphank Yonkers (New York)

Climax, Gum Neck, Horneytown, Lizard Lick, Meat Camp, Tick Bite, Toast, Whynot (North Carolina)

Concrete, Hoople, Voltaire, Zap (North Dakota)

Blue Ball, Climax, Fly, Knockemstiff, Three Legs Town (Ohio)

Bowlegs, Frogville, Hooker, Okay, Pumpkin Center, Slapout, Slaughterville (Oklahoma)

Boring, Drain, Halfcom, Idiotville, Whorehouse Meadows, Zig Zag (Oregon)

Balltown, Bird-in-Hand, Blue Ball, Climax, Drab, Experiment, Fear Not, Gobbler's Knob, Hempfield, Intercourse, Loyalsockville, Panic, Porkey, Scalp Level, Uno, Virginville (Pennsylvania)

Mooseup Valley, Quidnick, Quonochontaug, Woonsocket (Rhode Island)

Coward, Due West, Ninetimes, Sugar ####### (South Carolina)

Bath, Igloo, Lemmon, Peever, Red Shirt (South Dakota)

Bugscuffle, Bucksnort, Defeated, Difficult, Duck Town, Finger, Nameless, Only, Smartt, Sweet Lips, Static, Yum Yum (Tennessee)

Cut-n-Shoot, Dime Box, Ding Dong, Frognot, Gun Barrel City, Hoop and Holler, Leaky, Loco, Looneyville, Muleshoe, Notrees, Pointblank, Possum Kingdom, Run and Shoot, Tarzan, Trophy Club, Turkey, Twitty, Uncertain, (Texas)

Bald Knob, Hurricane, Lovelock, Orderville (Utah)

Bread Loaf, Mosquitoville, Notown, Satans Kingdom (Vermont)

Bumpass, Croaker, Frogtown, Goochland, Goosepimple Junction, Mutt, Nuttsville, Ordinary (Virginia)

Enumclaw, Humptulips, Klickitat, Kooskooskie, Tumtum, Tumwater (Washington)

Big Ugly, Crum, HooHoo, Looneyville, Lost City, Nitro, Odd, Paw, Pinch, War (West Virginia)

Embarrass, Footville, Imalone, Spread Eagle, Ubet, Wanderoos (Wisconsin)

Bill, Camel Hump, Meeteetse, Muddy Gap (Wyoming)

[source: http://www.legendsofamerica.com/LA-OddPlaceNames.html ]

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I SO want to move to Ding Dong, Texas. Really, I do.

[Welshcookie 17]

and my bloke says WE have funny place names.....

[Miranda&James 8]

Ah, my personal favorite is Wetumpka, AL

[eau_xplain 2]

Just down the road from me are....

Welcome, NC

Climax, NC

I also know of a Cumming, GA

[Fuzzness 2]

I've been to Between, GA. There is also a Homer, GA (doh!) and another funny name... i can't remember it though.

[faith 0]

There's a Knob Lick, Missouri that I didn't see listed.

[Miranda&James 8]

There's a Knob Lick, Missouri that I didn't see listed.

[Mr. Big Dog 10,747]

Bugscuffle, Bucksnort, Defeated, Difficult, Duck Town, Finger, Nameless, Only, Smartt, Sweet Lips, Static, Yum Yum (Tennessee)

I always liked these cities in my old home state as well:

Algood

Boring

Flippin

Goat City (reminds one of another thread )

Nameless

Nutbush

Ozone

Scullbone

Soddy Daisy

Stinking Creek

Wahoo

[ktun 0]

Well, they're not in the U.S. but back home in the UK the villages of Piddletown and Puddletown always made me smile

[Octa 0]

Normal, Illinois not funny but normal

[ktun 0]

Oh I just remembered Lickey End, Prickwillow, Great ####### and Little #######

[MaryandMian 1]

Ah, my personal favorite is Wetumpka, AL

Alabama

Fungo Hollow

[Marilyn. 340]

I am from Chilliwack, British Columbia... hubby always pronounced it Chilly-Wacky

[meddykomp 0]

When I was little I lived in What Cheer, Iowa ... but I dont remember it.

I am a bit surprised that none of the strange Indian names that Ohio has for cities/towns were mentioned also.

[ILIKEALLCAPS 0]

My aunt and uncle live in Salt Lake....when they came over to Washington to visit, my aunt always made my uncle get a motel room in Bliss, ID. So she could say she spent a night in Bliss.