Oddest town name?

[Big IV]

I've been to Cummings Ga. It makes me laugh when I see the sign.

What do ya'll think the strangest city name in ya'lls' states are?
Dirty Ankle, NC is probably my fav odd city name from NC.  I've seen lists of odd town names and Dirty Ankle has made the list before. Real place, right across the NC/SC line.

What odd named towns do ya'll states have?

[BigAlOfMD]

Intercourse, PA
http://maps.google.com/maps?sourceid=navclient&rlz=1T4GFRC_enUS208US208&q=intercourse+pa+map&um=1&ie=UTF-8&split=0&gl=us&ei=ZROyScPIMougtwfT_-27Bw&sa=X&oi=geocode_result&resnum=1&ct=title
Bird In Hand, Pennsylvania
http://maps.google.com/maps?sourceid=navclient&rlz=1T4GFRC_enUS208US208&q=Bird+In+Hand,+Pennsylvania&um=1&ie=UTF-8&split=0&gl=us&ei=7ROySe2pB4_Htge28fCsCQ&sa=X&oi=geocode_result&resnum=1&ct=title

[judd]

Dildo, Come by Chance, Blow Me Down, Conception Bay, Pothead and others..........Ya gotta love Newfoundland 

http://www.canadacool.com/COOLFACTS/NEWFOUNDLAND/NewfoundlandNames.html  

[SgtBunny]

Looneyville, WV

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Looneyville,_West_Virginia

[RDKLL]

Climax, MI

[flatsixrider]

Always been a fan of Boring, Oregon

[Jabba]

I was gonna say Intercourse PA too, but ther's French Lick Indiana as well.

Jabba

[flatsixrider]

I was gonna say Intercourse PA too, but ther's French Lick Indiana as well.

Jabba

Good one Jabba!

[Big IV]

Climax really should be the name of a mountain town.

[Ms Old Skool]

Big Ugly WV

[3fan4life]

This exit sign is on US 220 just south of Greensboro, NC.

Climax and High Point are two seperate towns.

But everytime I see this sign I have to laugh,

Because afterall aren't Climax and High Point the same thing?

[Jack]

Booger Hollow, Chigger Hollow, Hog Scald Hollow, Little Flock, Cow Lake, Possum Trot, Toad Suck, Y City, Pencil Bluff, and Snowball, Arkansas.
But, the neatest place I've stopped is Lum and Abner's Museum.

[Black Pearl's Captain]

Climax Kansas. I made it there once.

Raymond

[amazngrace]

Assawoman Virginia!

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[NY TAZ]

Isn't there a 'Dull' Texas?

[fiddle mike]

Cut And Shoot, Dime Box, Old Dime Box, Uncertain.

[R J]

These are in Iowa, some might sound funny, but they are all under 500 population.

Beaver, Balltown, Buck Grove, Center Junction (no Junction close), Cleghorn, Coin, Deep River, Fertile, Frytown, Joetown, to name a few.

[Hog Killer DS0048]

Compared to all those, Why Arizona seems kinda tame!

[Jack]

Oil Trough, Arkansas
The town is believed to have acquired its name in the early 1800s from a trough used to render bear fat, which was sold to customers in New Orleans.

[chrise2469]

I've been to Cummings Ga. It makes me laugh when I see the sign.

In Saskatchewan we have Climax, Biggar ,Moose Jaw, Elbow, Oxbow, Big Beaver.

My favorite town names are those that are people names- like Frank and Charles BC.  I always wondered if the train conductors decided on the name of the town when the railroad first passed through- 
Conductor: What's the name of the coal pusher?
Engineer- It's frank. Hey Frank want a town named after ya?
Frank- That'd be good.
Conductor: Well welcome to Frank 

[Dag]

HELL in Norway

[Curmudgeon]

Here is some from Nevada:

Arabia
Battle Mountain
Beowawe 
Bolivia
Cape Horn Overland
Clan Alpine
Cornucopia
Deadhorse Wells
Devils Throat
Falais
Genoa
Hercules
Jungo
Last Chance
Lucky Boy
Lucky Nugget
Metropolis (one more home for superman)
Montezuma
Pahrump (kind of sounds like an elephant fart, don't it)
Rabbithole
Sod House
Talapoosa
Winnemucca (What did you win?)
Yankee Blade
Yomba

[FLAVALK]

Intercourse, PA
http://maps.google.com/maps?sourceid=navclient&rlz=1T4GFRC_enUS208US208&q=intercourse+pa+map&um=1&ie=UTF-8&split=0&gl=us&ei=ZROyScPIMougtwfT_-27Bw&sa=X&oi=geocode_result&resnum=1&ct=title
Bird In Hand, Pennsylvania
http://maps.google.com/maps?sourceid=navclient&rlz=1T4GFRC_enUS208US208&q=Bird+In+Hand,+Pennsylvania&um=1&ie=UTF-8&split=0&gl=us&ei=7ROySe2pB4_Htge28fCsCQ&sa=X&oi=geocode_result&resnum=1&ct=title

There's also an Intercourse Alabama....although, the people that live there deny anything like that really goes on 

[X Ring]

Hot Coffee, MS was named for a sign outside a store advertising, of all things, coffee to travelers.

[SgtBunny]

Prosperity, WV

Odd name for a little town in the middle of nowhere.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prosperity,_West_Virginia

[Kaz]

And don't forget Gay, MI.  Home of the famous Gay Bar.

[Madmike]

gotta add Spuzzum in BC

[Doc Moose]

There is an actual  "Fu**ing, Austria.  Had to put cameras out to catch people stealing the town ID signs. 
Must be a family name.....   

[Momz]

North of Ann Arbor and just south of Pinkney. One of the nations biggest biker destinations for a day ride. Not much there but the "Damn Site Inn", "Screams" ice cream parlor, the General Store/Deli/Post Office. A bit out of town there is the "Hell Creek Ranch", the home of the Scorpions M/C. Hell is famous for several Bike Blessings each year and a destination for several charity rides. And for about 8 or 9 years there was an ABATE rally held in thecenter of town.   

[Doc Moose]

 

[Big IV]

I've been to Hell in the Grand Cayman Islands (british island). I sent my mother a postcard. Nice to see one in Norway too Dag.


Conductors naming towns? Garibaldi NC was  a town with a train station and the town was called Garibaldi's Crossing after the drunk that ran the station.  The monastery had it changed to Belmont because they didn't like the association.  Belmont means beautiful mountain, must have been about the view.

[fudgie]

This is in Kentucky.

[GreenLantern57]

Used to work for Xcel Energy here in the Texas Panhandle.  Here is the way I traveled to Plant X.
Leave Amarillo and head to Canyon. Watch the sun rise in my rearview mirror as I pass through Dawn. At Hereford I turn south and head to the community of Easter. After passing through Earth, it is just a few more miles till I turn left into Plant X yard.  

Don't think engineers have a sense of humor? After reviewing several parcels of land the company owned, they finaly decided on a site. Where? asked the owner. And another marked an X on the map.  After several discussions of what to name it, they just decided to name it later and just call it Plant X.  The design team took the name and built the cooling tower in the shape of an X.  The original cooling towers were blown down in a tornado, but the shape of an X can still be seen in Google Earth.

[Tropic traveler]

Two Egg, Florida.
No clue as to the origin.

[CISE]

How about "Come By Chance" Newfoundland, Canada

[stormrider]

[Dag]

I've been to Hell in the Grand Cayman Islands (british island). I sent my mother a postcard. Nice to see one in Norway too Dag.


Conductors naming towns? Garibaldi NC was  a town with a train station and the town was called Garibaldi's Crossing after the drunk that ran the station.  The monastery had it changed to Belmont because they didn't like the association.  Belmont means beautiful mountain, must have been about the view.

Hell means LUCK in Norwegian.

[RedValk]

....all the following around me......

just to my East is Seamon, AL

just to my West is Slapout (but also called Holtville....the town has TWO NAMES?)

Lots of Indian names around me. Socapatoy, Wetumpka, Weogufka, Notasulga, Loachapoka...

i live in the country, near a wide spot in the road called BUYCK....but pronounced like BIKE.

just north of me is Goodwater....

i get my mail from Titus......

[Wingman]

The name of the town is "Cumming"

We also have a Climax here in Georgia. It is at the highest point between Savannah and Dothan (I think). It was named by the railroad and I wouldn't guess the elevation to be more than 300 feet.

We also have some interesting road names; "Hardup" and "Lonesome" intersect just south of Albany.

[Rattler]

 I think the town of tensleeps is cool. It took some Indians ten sleeps to get to this location. So when a town was founded there they named it tensleeps.