Strangest town names in your country
- Thread starter GranTurNismo
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- Columbus, Ohio
There's also:
Broken Sword
Risingsun (yes, all one word)
Crystal Rock
Charm
Assumption
River Styx
Acme
Fleatown
I used to travel all over Ohio as part of my old delivery job, and small town names were always a source of amusement on long boring drives.
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- Bratvegas
- GTP_Liquid
Wait, when did they rename Cleveland?
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- Columbus, Ohio
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- Columbus, Ohio
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- Hoboken, New Jersey
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- Michigan
- Rallywgn81
I recently drove past this place. 
Named after a sawmill owner, Howard Mesick. The township started life as a train station Howard Mesick built.
Positioned not so far south of Traverse City, it has become known as "Mushroom City USA" as morel mushroom hunters gather there annually for Mushroom Fest.
And to that end, not a fan of morel mushrooms... they make Mesick....
Named after a sawmill owner, Howard Mesick. The township started life as a train station Howard Mesick built.
Positioned not so far south of Traverse City, it has become known as "Mushroom City USA" as morel mushroom hunters gather there annually for Mushroom Fest.
And to that end, not a fan of morel mushrooms... they make Mesick....
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- Anoka, MN
I remember seeing Wall Drug bumper stickers everywhere as a kid, you don't really see them (or bumper stickers in general) anymore though.
That's not really that surprising since Joel is from Wisconsin and went to college in Minnesota.
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- Hoboken, New Jersey
- Happy, Texas
- Murderkill, Delaware
- Ugly, Michigan
- Yeehaw Junction, Florida
- Devil's Washtub, Wyoming
- Yo, Pennsylvania
- Monkey's Eyebrow, Kentucky
- Jot-Em-Down, Texas
- Gnaw Bone, Indiana
- Hornytown, North Carolina
- Bird-In-Hand, Pennsylvania
- Social Circle, Georgia
- Love Ladies, New Jersey
- Toad Suck, Arkansas
- Knockemstiff, Ohio
- Zzyzx, California
- Erect, North Carolina
- Gay, North Carolina
- Gay Lord, Michigan
- Big Bone Lick, Kentucky
- Oatmeal, Texas
- Tarzan, Texas
- Hot Coffee, Missouri
- Odd, West Virginia
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- Columbus, Ohio
This one is actually just one word. Granted, that doesn't make it less funny to dumb junior high kids growing up in the backwoods of Michigan (er, not that I would know anything about that... no, not at all).
- Jeuk (Belgium). Jeuk means itch
- Jezus-Eik (Belgium). Jesus-oak
- Wortel (Belgium). wortel means carrot
Other strange names from all over the world.
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- Alabamamania
Heh, been to a few of those. There's also a Hot Coffee, Mississippi; next to Mount Olive (which isn't that unusual a town name, but they're food).
I can't believe I don't have a good photo of Yeehaw Junction - I've only stopped there about 20 times between Miami and Orlando. The story goes that it was originally called Jackass Junction along with just Yeehaw, because it's a ranching area of the state, but there's not a lot of official claim to the first notion (just "Yeehaw" appears on old maps). When they built the Turnpike, apparently they wanted a more family-friendly name for the tiny town.
Stupid factoid abut Yeehaw Junction...apparently the 2000 US Census data messed up the numbers and merged the data with another town; so the town with 22,000 people and the one with about 200 or so were swapped in official data. It was corrected in 2010. And then there was all the US Government defoliant testing in the 1960s...but I don't want to sound like too much of a wacko.
Seriously, Medina...what the Hell?
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In case anybody missed the news, on new year's day this year the town of ****ing in Austria changed its name to Fugging. It reflects another town in Austria that changed its name from ****ing to Fugging in 1824.
For what it's worth, both towns' names come from a Bavarian noble called Focko (c. 9th century, I think).
For what it's worth, both towns' names come from a Bavarian noble called Focko (c. 9th century, I think).
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It's right near Greenwood and State Road 69 runs through it.
Ironically, the Beef Unit is located in the other direction.
