Towns with strange names.

[RichieB16]

Here are 2 in my state:

Boring, Oregon, USA
Talent, Oregon, USA.

I've been to both-there's not much there.

[bozotheclown338]

Another Monkeys Eyebrow in KY
Monkey Run AR, MO
Banana, Queensland
Cat Elbow Corner, NY
Cow Town, KS
Micro, NC
Moose Junction, WI
Hobo Station, MS
Oz, KY

[farmerdave]

Fannie Bay...  I especially like that the main road in Fannie Bay is Dickward Dve ...  (i took that off ebay)

There was a CVE by the name of Fanshaw Bay that had the nickname Fannie B.... Probably no relation though.

[Wing Nut]

There's a town in Iowa called 'What Cheer'  :P

[loomex]

Where I live is more of towns named after places
Ulysses
Ithaca (Greece)
Romulus
Ovid
podunk

Go to http://www.epodunk.com/ to find out info about some odd named towns in the US

Put in some of the odd names into the search at Epodunk and see why they have such odd names

Waterproof, LA

Town
Population 2000: 834
Latitude: 31.804N
Longitude: -91.383W
Time zone: Central Daylight Saving


On the Mississippi River

Named for the hill to which the community moved to escape flooding

Truth or Consequences, NM

City
Population 2000: 7,289
Latitude: 33.128N
Longitude: -107.252W
Time zone: Mountain Daylight Saving

Resort and retirement community

On the Rio Grande

Formerly called Hot Springs; residents renamed the city after the radio and TV game show moderated by Ralph Edwards

[DougC-3]

Another one:  

Red Bay, Alabama, is about 300 miles inland and not near a river.  Maybe it was named after a bay (reddish-brown) horse, but then the name would be a bit redundant:  a red reddish-brown horse

[Meyekul]

These aren't really strange, but I noticed a few other posts of foreign-named US cities, sooo..

Paris, Ky
London, Ky

(remember "The People vs. Larry Flint" ... "These two lovely girls are from Paris and London....... Kentucky")

Frankfort, Ky (our capital city, spelled a bit different than Frankfurt, Germany, but still..)
Manchester, Ky
Glasgow, Ky
Lebanon, Ky
Versailles,

[ATI_7500]

A lot of american town have names of german origin. The capital of one state (don't know exactly which one. North Carolina?) is called "Bismarck".

[loomex]

That would be the capital of North Dakota

[ATI_7500]

Ah,alright,thanks.

[bm]

No mans Land - Cornwall UK

(Got a little lost and drove through it once )

[jimclarke]

There is a town called Buck Snort in Tennessee and a town called Nowhere in Arizona.

Jim

[Woodlouse2002]

No mans Land - Cornwall UK

(Got a little lost and drove through it once )

Cornwall is the capital for strange names.

Flushing - Cornwall
Looe - Cornwall

I think there might be a place called Sheepdip round here too...

[Hagar]

We have our fair share of strange names in Sussex. I found these within a 20 mile radius of where I live.

Bushy Bottom
Lickfold
Fulking
Devil's Dyke
Hooker's Farm
Loose Bottom
Balls Cross
Knob Hill
Titty Hill
Lower Dicker
Littlehampton

There are also the Wallops in Hampshire
Over Wallop
Middle Wallop <- CraigL knows this one
Nether Wallop

Old Sodbury in Gloucestershire
Bag Enderby in Lincolnshire
Upperthong in Yorkshire  
Great Snoring and Little Snoring in Norfolk

[Pinchaser...]

Strawberry, Arizona