I was listening to the radio this am and it gave me the idea for this thread.

What are some funny, strange, or just off the wall names of towns in your state. Here in Michigan I can think of 2, Hell and Climax.

Memphrica

Weed, CA

The classics are in PA.

Intercourse and Blue Ball

My town, Early, named for a judge, D, Car Early.

Wabigoon , Ontario. Native name, Lillie's on the water.

Another classic, and a kinda nice little town.

Lots in MO.
Tightwad, Conception Junction, Knob Noster, Cooter...............

Toad Suck, Arkansas

Bird In Hand is also in PA

Here in VA we have Lickinghole.

Frog Pond, N.C.

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Frostproof, FL...ain’t.

Mayo, Christmas, Two Egg and YEEHAW Junction

Climax GA is just down the road from me.

It's mostly funny if you are not familiar with the name.

There's a small town not far from me whose original name was Clark, but they changed the name of the town to DISH. The residents received free basic satellite television from DISH Network for ten years in exchange.

Also not far from me is a town called New Fairview. Not a funny name by any means, but up until about ten years ago it was just called "Fairview." When it was discovered that there is a town called "Fairview" just over in the next county, they changed it to New Fairview. I guess some folks just never got out and around much.

[bleep], Newfoundland is a classic. GD

Bug Tussle, TX

Must be near D.C.

Apparently, the name of a stimulating appliance for women cannot be spoken here. Tough if a resident is wanting to relate his address. GD

Buttzville, New Jersey! Don't ask why!

Gay in michigans upper also Christmas .,.Got dinner at Foggys in Christmas and had a beer at bar in Gay..,.,.took the barg acrossst Kit cee keepi spring east of Garden City

Embarrass, Minnesota.

Hit -60F back in the 90s. That's cold.

Salmon-No-Negro, Idaho

Idaho has a town Fruitland. But they have torn down the pink bowling alley at Gayway Junction in Fruitland. Named "Gayway Bowl" of course.

True story.

Athol, SD

Virginia!!!!

Nimrod, MN

what cheer iowa

Tititlik, AK

There are a few amuzing names which come across my desk via bills of lading.
Boring Oregon
Walla Walla Washinton (home of our most infamous gospel singer/insurance salesman, and my sister)
Oconomowoc Wisconsin

You’re never really aware of the totality of stupid town names until the weather girl puts up that projected storm path of the approaching tornado.
Frog stomp 8:53, Lickskillet 8:57, Gray Beaver 9:01, Woodcock 9:02, StringTown .......

Chicken and Woodchopper in Alaska. When Wien Air was still flying there was a morning announcement in the FBKS terminal that never failed to crack me up - "Wien Consolidated announces Flight 95 to Chicken, Eagle, and Woodchopper". Very nasal-voiced lady made it even funnier.

Chicken supposedly got it's name because no-one there could spell Ptarmigan.

Carpio, ND got it's name in pioneer time. No town within many miles of miles with PO, so the railroad parked a car on a siding to use as a post office - hence Car PO.

My favorite sign is on International Airport Rd in Fairbanks. It reads :
State Jail
Pioneers Home
<--------


Probably some truth in that!

Swear I went by Big Beaver Lick trucking somewhere.

Yep we got some of the best you forgot Bird in Hand.

Goobertown AR
Beaver AR
Weiner AR
Bald Knob AR
Blue Ball AR
Threeway AR
Monkey Run AR
Cherry Valley AR
Stinking Bay AR
Smack Over AR

Yep, also have Anutt, Climax Springs, Cabool

Monkey Run...lol.

Uwchlan PA. You write it down to give directions
Like Zzyxz in Ca
Pahrump Nv

The 3rd grade humor joke around here is "did ya hear about the Fertile girl who died in Climax on her way to Moorhead?"

Tarzan, Texas

Cut & Shoot, Texas

Truth or Consequences, NM

No Trees, TX

Gun Barrel City, TX

What about Possum Trot?

We have Pray and Fishtrap MT.

Cumming, Ga.

I always liked the sound of Dime Box, Texas. It’s real town I just don’t know where it is.

In Wyoming:

Ten Sleep

Chugwater

Jay Em

Crowheart

West Thumb

Medicine Bow

Recluse

Meeteetse

Story

Wamsutter

Also, a former stage coach stop, now a recreation area , is called "Johnny-Behind-the-Rocks"

I forgot all about Zzyxz.

Pahrump never seemed strange to me growing up out west. There's In Ko Pah, Tonopah, and a few other "Pah"s around. If not mistaken, it might be a Paiute word for "water" or "spring" or some such.

There's Big Bone Lick and Beaver Lick.

In Arizona: Grasshopper (where my mom was raised), Two Guns, Why, Tortilla Flat, Happy Jack, Punkin Center, Jake's Corner, The Blue.

Zip, North Dakota

Charming, CA

Humptulips, WA

Diagonal, Iowa

blanket beat me to What Cheer, Iowa

Wahoo, Ne

Zyzzx CA

And speaking of Chicken, my dad in his work would get around the entire state of AK, he take me with a lot. I was just a kid when he took me to visit a miner with a small claim near Chicken. The old guy made his own clothes out of gunny sacks. He was extremely gross. His shack had his dinner plate nailed to the table so that his dog could lick the plate clean. He was quite the character that my dad thought I should meet. It’s my understanding also that whoever named the town couldn’t agree how to spell ‘Ptarmigan’ so they settled for Chicken.

Truth or Consequences, NM

I know a guy from Hell, Mi, also know a guy that lives in Two Egg, Fl that DD mentioned. I always get a kick out of Climax, Ga which is not far from Cumming, Ga

Colo. also has a Climax.

My home town at one time was called Tootleville. Got renamed to Miltonvale many years ago.

OK Alaska guys. A question for you all.

I know there's a "Tok" AK

Is there also a "Tic" somewhere nearby?


(Oh, I know the proper pronunciation of "Tok", it just looks funny)

My home town made it!!! Bald Knob

Also for AR:
Possum Grape
Cooter

Mutual Consent, MD
Another Place, MD

Both are right next to each other.

Ione Oregon. pronounced I own.

Gaysville, Vermont

There's always that Peculiar town in Missouri.

Paul Harvey once did a bit on how they picked that name.

HERE IN KENTUCKY I LIVE WITHIN 10 MILE OF BEAVERLICK,RABBITHASH,DUCKHEAD AND BIG BONE LICK.I KID YOU NOT!!!!

I used to work with a guy from Lickskillet, Alabama. But I'm not sure it was big enough to qualify as a town.

Monkey's Eyebrow, KY.

Rabbit Hash, KY.

Fort Gay, WV

Tillicum WA

French Lick, Indiana...

Urine, WI just East of Green Bay. When you enter the town there's a sign that says "You're in Urine".

Was called Tokyo before but they just dropped the yo during WWII.

I served in Vietnam with a guy from Muleshoe, TX.

Thanks, that's a part of the story I'd never heard.

I mailed a scope to a guy in Left Hand WV..

Over in Lee County, maybe 25 miles from the house here.

Coon Neck is just around the corner here!

And Hogeye is up the road another 5 miles.

Tickbite, a wonderful community.

And then the famous
Lizard Lick, NC

Yur in urine?

Sleepy Eye,Mn.


mike r

Uranus Missouri.
They have a fudge factory there.
No schitt !
The company motto is 'the best fudge comes from Uranus"

Named for an Indian chief.

Tenstrike, Minnesota, I've bought fenceposts from Land-o Lakes Wood treatment.

Hayfork, CA
Liberal, KS
Success, MO

I believe you're thinking of Zap, North Dakota.

Have an Athol here in Idaho also.........actually quite a few of them.

They have the same sign on all the seats at Lambeau Field as well.

Strawberry Point Iowa

There's an Ione in California too.

Rough and Ready, CA
Hangtown, CA
Jackpot, NV

Fla,--Sopchoppy, Wimauma, Yulee

Tenn. Skillet Lick (near Dollywood)

Penn. Coon Ridge (Aunt from there)

Moo-Na-Key It’s in New Jersey...

Ask and Greek guy what that means.

Probably most of them moving in from Kalifornia?

The Zip to Zap.

Dean, that is Euren, Wisconsin. We do have a Frog Station, WI. over that way.

Skidmore, Missouri - from the news that comes out of there from time to time, it sounds like it's really appropriate.

I live in Climax NC. Sex capital of the world!

Here in Oklahoma we have:

Slapout
Hooker
Bowlegs
Slaughterville
Cookietown
Bushyhead

I remember Rough and Ready from "Death Valley Days" TV show!

And next to Andy Jackson, General Taylor is another hero of mine!

Hump Town idaho

A favorite spot..

Jayco👍

Cut and Shoot texas.

Middlesex nj
Likely, ca

Elsie Gundo, California

Catpissaway, N.J.

No, little further east in Algoma.

I stand corrected! Should have Googled it to make sure...

Monkey's Eyebrow, Kentucky

Baggs Wyo.

Had a Mennonite on my mail route who used the Bank of Blue Ball for his banking.

There's no Zip, ND that I'm aware of. There is a "Zap" ND and back in the late 60's they tried to make a Woodstock-esque gathering by calling it the "Zip to Zap".

My hometown Winterset, Iowa

If ever they had their own school in What Cheer, the athletic teams should have been called the "Names". It would have been even better if they had an outstanding wrestler going up against a wrestler from Indiana who had fathered a child. It could have been advertised as "What Cheer Name" - "Hoosier Daddy".

Worms, Nebraska

Assrape Arkansas.

Punkeydoodles Corners.

Fairhope Pa. Probably a story there.

Grew up between a place called Breastworks and the town of Mann's Choice.


Used to stop at the truck stop in Bucksnort Th.

Lackawanna Ny. An indian name no doubt. Reason for a lot of divorces also.

My brother owns deer hunting land just outside of Winterset. John Wayne's hometown too.

Fixed it for ya!

Soso, Ms.
Zylks, La.
Frog Level, La (Actually the names been changed, but it was originally name this)

Left Hand WV
Looneyville WV
Jump Gut WV
Strange Creek WV
Big Ugly WV
Bugger Hole WV
Wallow Hole WV
Dog Run WV
Blown Timber WV

I have been in Awe, Ky.

And Oddville.

Oil Trough Arkansas

Ink, Arkansas

Story has it that when they voted, by ballot, to name the town. Underneath the line to write your pick in was printed "write in ink". So guess what! miles

Cowpens, SC

Sounds like the sort of place that would host a battle.

Athol, Id

Not the name of a town but in massachusetts there is an all girls school named Hyman Fine.

Dean

Ding Dong, Texas

Lizard Lick, NC

Intercourse, PA

Felch, Mi.

Look up the definition of felch

sick.

North Hero Vermont

Ky. has a G spot.

Graffenburg, Ky.

Sacul and Reklaw in East Texas, they are right next to each other and are Lucas and Walker spelled backwards. Looneyville isn’t too far away as the crow flies.

Goobertown AR (it's real) and Toad Suck AR. Been to both.

got family there.

I used to live up near Cumming....

Slickpoo, ID

Possum Grape AR
Don't know possum trot

I Keep thinking of more:

Cotton Plant
Booger Hollow - Home of the 2 story outhouse.

We like names that aren’t even close to being phonetically correct:

Gepp is pronounced Jeep
Gameliel is pronounced Guhmelya

Possum Grape AR
Don't know possum trot
It's actually Zzyzx. Know the area well. It's off 15n just south of Baker CA

I live in Yass, New South Wales. Not that funny in and of itself but makes for some good signage.

Tightsqueese is near Climax VA

Oil Trough
Flippin

Kiester, MN - Preparation H did a commercial there.

How about
Mooselookmeguntic, Maine

Hopeulikit, Ga

I'm disturbed that you knew this and even more disturbed that I know it now.

nothin funny abot gilbertvili

Slickpoo and Dick shooter Idaho

Not incorporated but there is a place in SC called Sweet Tits

Bloody Dick MT

I always think of Mel Brooks in Blazing saddles........”I didn’t get a Pahrump over there”

Funk, Nebraska
Wynot, Nebraska (pronounced "why not")

Hot Coffee, Mississippi! memtb

Washington DC, should be named Corruption Junction

Not familiar with Zip, but Zap was 40 miles west of where I grew up in Stanton. Hazen, Beulah, then Zap.

With an interesting background story:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Truth_or_Consequences,_New_Mexico

There is a small town in Germany in the Teutoburger Wald area not far away from the place where the Romans were beaten up. The town's name: Hilter. Often misunderstood at the first glance.

Went there many times when I was single..

That must be where I saw those Licks.

Never heard of Runs and Licks being from out west.


Enjoyed this thread as I go through the same dozen places repeatedly as of late....





A bit of cheating results in...

Idiotville Oregon. Fairly crowded I imagine. Was a remote logging camp.

Ding Dong Texas. Two bell families and a sign that had the words ding dong on it...


Knockemstiff Ohio.

Fuucking Austria

Cobblers Knob PA

Diiiildo Canada

Twat Scotland

Middlefart Denmark

Muff Ireland complete with the annual Muff Festival


PeePee Township Ohio

Titty Hill England

Booty Illinois

Pie Town NM

Imalone Wisconsin

Oblong Illinois

Colon Michigan

Pink Oklahoma

Hooker Oklahoma

Help me out here. I have heard that there is a place call Bumfuch, TN. I was told it was over by Albany. However, I have never been able to find it.

Between my farm and Cynthiana, KY there is a place on the map called Hells Half-Acre. I once made a special drive over that way just to find it. There are a few houses, but no signs and no sign that the place actually exists.

I almost forgot, we have Sausagetuk too!

Been there.

We have Wahoo and Colon.

I passed through this town in Maryland last year:






I'm sure nobody ever goes there on purpose...


FC

Speaking of mispronouncing town names: Near Rochester NY there is a town called Chili. Chi lie. A neighborhood on the Genesee River at Lake Ontario called Charlotte prounced shar-LOT

Upper Black Eddy, PA

Beaver, WV

West of Chambersburg PA, there's Dot. Appropriate, since it's not much more than a dot on a map any more. Up north, there's Jersey Shore - too bad it's about 3 hours from the seashore...

We've got Nevada and Madrid, both of which 99.9% of people pronounce "incorrectly".

Flintstone, MD

Frostburg, MD - It's on top of a mountain and lives up to it's name in the Winter.

Painted Post... in NYS Southern Tier.

Letcher SD

cardiovascular short term goal

My hometown Biggar Saskatchewan

The "New York Is Big But This Is Biggar" slogan came about in 1909 according to local legend. A survey crew had a bit too much to drink one night and wrote the phrase on a sign as a prank.

We also have a Elbow,, Moose Jaw , Cut knife, Indian Head,Outlook, Oxbow, as well as Climax and Love Saskatchewan though they are no where close to each other.

You are correct; I misspoke. Thanks for straightening me out. :0)

Western Canada has some cool Indian names on towns.

Rat Portage, Kenora, Ontario.

We have Two Dot Montana. A thriving metropolis... Not too far away is Checkerboard MT. I guess because it's so spread out, land parcels are still a checkerboard of sections.

Blue Knob Pa.



Dubois Pa.
Ain't French here, so the joke was it's Michael Jackson's favorite town.
Do Boys.

Peculiar

Toast, North Carolina

Blacklick, Virginia

memtb

Spots, Wyoming......well, I think it’s a town! It’s mentioned in darn near every weather report, “Slick in Spots”! memtb

Big Bone Lick State Park............

Gnaw Bone Indiana. Not too far from the previously mentioned home of Larry Bird: French Lick.

Arizona also has Valentine and Christmas, and Wolf Hole and Bundyville.

I knew a gal that was supposedly from Climax, but I couldn't find it if you gave me a map.

That's because you have to go through G-Spot in order to get there.

Arizona also has Snowflake AZ....

Reading thru this I have to admit having been to more of those towns that I would have thought....

I can say that one night in Humptulips in Washington, when I was stationed at Ft Lewis, had a female class mate with me, when we were over on the Peninsula..
we spent the night in Humptulips on Beach.... that night I ended up Humping two lips, in Humptulips WA.....wonder how many can say that...

I've also Climaxed in Climax PA....

I've been at [bleep] Lake Idaho, when it was US 10 going thru there, and I 90 wasn't complete....yes, I did take a dump out in the woods there...

After I 90 was put thru all the way, the evidently got changed to 4th of July Pass, and 4th of July Lake...late 70s...

Shot gophers in Two Dot Montana....with a one dot rifle scope...



The State with a lot of really weird named mud hole towns is West Virginia...

I've got relatives in Buzzard's Run and Buzzards Holler in West VA.... and an aunt, who has passed at 90 y/o in Bozoo WVa...

Been thru a lot of other weird towns names in my travels..

not weird, there is a town called Florida in western Massachusetts on RT 2, in the Berkshires.....its at the top of a mountain..
but I've had pictures I've taken of the sign entering town.... Welcome to Florida, with 3 feet of snow on the ground...

I've been to Mexico Maine, and went out with a gal in college from Texas New York..... IIRC, there is also a Texas in Maine....

a lot more... fun thread....a vacation from F'd Up Politics

Nipomo CA

Huasna CA

Oxnard CA

Plush in SE Oregon. Late 1800s poker game. Old Indian was excited about his hand and exclaimed, "I got a plush," That's the story...

Winnemuca NV.

Old Indian that had hopes for the benefits of white man's prosperity coming to his poor people, that, upon hearing about a group of whites coming, ran and lept (for an old Indian quite an accomplishment) onto his horse losing half his footware, thereafter to be known as Wannamucca, one moccasin. That's the story.

My town used to be named Sheep Dip. I plan on seeing if we can get the name changed back to it when they decide to [bleep]-can all of the towns in the US named after Christopher Columbus! It;s an indigenous thing you know!

Pelican and Platinum, both in Alaska.

What is known now as Brinkley Arkansas was called Lick Skillet until about 1870.
Cotton Plant Arkansas grew a lot of Cotton !
Forrest City Arkansas was named after Nathan Bedford Forrest.
Turkey Scratch Arkansas
Hunter Arkansas
Des Arc Arkansas

All old stomping grounds when I grew up.

You got Tititlik and Kwathwuck (sp) and Tok, and Chicken, Yakutat and the village where the caribou chit, but, you go Pelican?

Come'on Man.

I'm sure one of your buddy's located it. 😁

Santa Claus, IN

Dudleyville, too.

Just curious - how did you manage to get down off that cross where Blondie left you?

To the north of me, the town of Assawoman, and to the south; Onancock...

He shot the rope and I tumbled onto the broken bag of gold coins, remember?

Good grief, yes! Talk about senior moments; they are more and more like senior hours! How did you manage to get the gold out of there with the bag broken? I assume that you reburied it and came back later. Did you retire to the French Riviera, quietly set up a general store in some out of the way place, or what?

Look up the definition of felch

sick.

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I'm disturbed that you knew this and even more disturbed that I know it now.


Knowing the UP of Michigan, must've been named after a local custom.

Ha

The flip side to this thread is cool town names. If I were from a town in northern Minnesota I would have no choice but to get a plain black business card with gold printing:

Lol, I'm moving!

Greasy Corner, AR.
We used to have a county road called Possum Trot Rd. But some lib changed it to Pettit Rd. A few years ago.
I used to go to Toad Suck to a seafood buffet when I was in college nearby.

I regularly drive past "Buck Donic" in the boothell of Missouri.

Married a girl from
Shafter Ca

Grew up on the nanticoke river in Maryland, in a town named bivalve.

Sometimes they are funnier together than alone. Years ago a newspaper in MN announced "Manley boy weds Fertile girl".

There is a farm town just west of here named Buttonwillow. Had a job there and and instead of using a numbered PO at the supply house my foreman just used the town name because it was the only job in that vicinity. Got the billing in the mail and it the kid at the counter had labeled the job “Butt and Willow” he had grown up thinking that was the town name and never seen it spelled.

We bought a house on Possum Hollow Road in Blowing Rock, NC. I know my friends back in Texas got a kick out of seeing our return address on correspondence.

I got married in a small Presbyterian church in Hooker, Pa!

Ong's Hat, in the Pine Barrens of south Jersey.

I’ve hunted in Smuteye AL. It’s south of Montgomery

Virgin Utah

Beaver Utah

Tensleep, Wyoming. Hell's half acre, Wyoming, Crowheart, Wyoming, Coon Valley, Wisconsin.

North Pole, Alaska

These are towns in Missouri:
Devil's Elbow
Blue Eye
Bourbon
Ballknob
Knob Lick
Bois D' Arc
Butts
Huzzah
Zig
Enough
Goodnight
Kissee Mills
Halfway

There is a Crazy Women Canyon, Crazy Women Creek, and Crazy Women Canyon Road in WY.

Rifle, CO.

There is Joe ,Montana It used to be Ismay MT.

Once drove through a town in PA - it was Shickshinney - or something close to that.

Bug Scuffle, TN (Bedford County)
Bucksnort, TN ( Hickman or Humphreys County)

Possum Kingdom, SC

LuckNow, SC

Sugartit, SC

Climax, NC

Newaukum, WA
George, WA

No Zig or Zag in Oregon, but we got a Zigzag.

Zuzax, NM
Carizozo, NM

drover

Cabool, MO
Puxico, MO

Slap Out, Alabama. Then you have all the American Indian names like Opelika (Big swamp in English), Tuskegee, Tuscumbia, Tuscaloosa, Tallassee.

I have seen some weird street signs in Alabama as well like: Moccasin Slide Road, Hog Waller Holler, Possum Trot Lane.

Hustler, WI

Between, GA. It would be sort of fun to tell people I live in Between.

Waugh and Shorter AL have been fun for my kids when headed down I 85. Lots of interesting pronunciations of Waugh. Anything from a guttural hack to ninja noises.

Then there’s “Take that exit. It’s Shorter.”

Dickshooter, ID is a personal favourite.

Shorter is where the John Bobbit man moved to if you remember the story after his wife, Lorena took a knife to him.

Don't forget Bad axe!

Opp, AL





Shickshinney is famous!

There is/was a children's book called "The Little Boy from Shickshinney"

It's down the river from Berwick, as I recall.