Wierd Local Names

[Ravenvalles]

I don't think anybody has come up with Idiotville, OR

[Pope Joan]

PA Dutch country boasts Intercourse and Blue Ball (recently renamed by cowards, as Blue Bell).

Also Bird In Hand.

We also have Little Hope.

I did legal transactions in Happy Town, Warren County.

I only read the first page, so these have prolly already been mentioned.

Also, on the lake Superior Shores of Minnesota there is the Temperance River, so named because its mouth is dry.

[Nanatsu no Tsuki]

Chicken, Alaska
Deadhorse, Alaska
Bumble Bee, Arizona
Surf, Arkansas
Wimp, Arkansas
You Bet, Arkansas
No Name, Colorado


Sources: [1]

Don't forget Fifty Six and "Y" City (both in Arkansas). In Tennessee we have Bell Buckle, Bugscuffle, Finger, Three Way, Only, not one but TWO places called Frog Jump, and probably many others I can't think of right this minute.

EDIT: I thought of some more places.
Ooltewah (don't ask me how to pronounce it); Gift; and Jimtown, Tennessee;
Palestine, Arkansas (and all this time you thought Palestine was in the Middle East, didn't you? lol);
Big Bone Lick State Park and Golgotha Family Fun Park in Kentucky (IIRC i THINK Big Bone Lick is a state park)

Missouri has more borrowed names than any other state I've been to. There's Cabool, MO, Mexico, MO, I think there's also Texas, MO.

[Greater Rhodes]

Funny and weird place names? Manitoba's got every other province beat, except for maybe Saskatchewan. Some of the best:

-Bagot
-Red Sucker Lake
-Bird
-Birdtail
-Blumenort
-Bacon Ridge
-Brokenhead
-Bield
-Ebb and Flow
-Finger
-Miami
-Pilot Mound
-The Pas
-Hone
-Jackhead
-Lizard Point
-Five Fingers
-Cork
-Snowflake
-Starbuck
-Optic Lake
-Flin Flon
-Wampum

Maybe. But there's also Newfoundland:

Oh Newfoundland, oh Newfoundland, ya island in the sea
I love you oh so very much, I joined the Ministry
To show you people 'round the rock when tourist season's here
Although in my opinion it' s a gem throughout the year
Well if you're one for swimming, don't think it's outta reach
You can go and take a dip along Groswater Beach
I know the name's misleading, that's quite a problem here
Instead let's go to Goobies and have ourselves a beer

From Woody Point to Come-By-Chance to good ol' Ferryland
Come take a look at Gander, Blackhead's mighty grand
Don't let the names deceive you, Newfoundland's mighty fine
So spend a night on Dildo if you think you've got the time

Well you can go to Blow-Me-Down before it get's to dark (GASP)
Oh sorry ma'am, I should have said, that's our provincial park
There's also Whippet Harbour, or maybe Butter Pot
Or maybe I'll just hit the pub I'm feeling like a shot
Well you can sail on Quidi Vidi, or look at Joe Batt's Arm
There's Placentia and there's Cow Head (MOOO!), they're so full of charm
Get married down in Kilbride, have a party in Hate Bay
Or have some screech in Fogo and forget about the day

From Woody Point to Come-By-Chance to good ol' Ferryland
Come take a look at Gander, Blackhead's mighty grand
Don't let the names deceive you, Newfoundland's mighty fine
So spend a night on Dildo if you think you've got the time
Okay, the Drinkin' Verse

*sing drunkenly here*

From Woody Point to Come-By-Chance to good ol' Ferryland
Come take a look at Gander, Blackhead's mighty grand
Don't let the names deceive you, Newfoundland's mighty fine
So spend a night on Dildo if you think you've got the time
So spend a night on Dildo if you think you've got the time
So spend a night on Dildo if you think you've got the time
COD!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vpycgIlhJXs

Ah the Arrogant Worms; what would our country be without them.

[The Archregimancy]

Coincidentally, I came across this article on the Guardian's website today (it's not their April Fools joke, which is based on the Royal Wedding):

http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2011/apr/0 ... tain-guide

Apparently the National Trust wants us to get to Booby's Bay and Scrubby Bottom - as well as pick our way to the Nostrils - without having to ask.

[Futurephilosostan]

We have here the river and town named Ogre.

In soviet times, there was a type of souvenir - a pin with a city's name and Lenin's picture. For a reason unknown to most locals, Ogre pins with Lenin's picture were very popular souvenir for foreigners.

[Brutland and Norden]

We also have a Mexico here. Contrary to what Wikipedia says and to what is obvious, Mexico's name comes from the native Kampampangan term masicu, which was then corrupted by the Spaniards into Mexico.

And, who would forget Sexmoan, also in the same province, which, like Mexico, comes from the Spaniards' butchering of native place names.

[Sdaeriji]

My aunt and uncle live on the shore of Lake Chargoggagoggmanchauggagoggchaubunagungamaugg.

[SaintB]

Most of the odd names are either German (colloquially known as Dutch around here for some reason) or native American, especially from the Iroquois tribes.

In Pennsylvania we have Kinzua (Kin-zoo) is an Iriquois word for Turkey is the name of a creek, a damn, and a now destroyed bridge.

There is a local lake named Tamarack (Tam - marr - ack) which as far as I can tell is an Algonquian name for a type of evergreen.

Then there are some fun Amish communities... Blue Balls and Intercourse and similar names.

One of my favorite geographical oddities in this state is where Penn State plays football; At Beaver Stadium in Happy Valley

[Aurensia]

Henniker, New Hampshire - where paintball was first played, and currently, the only Henniker on Earth (hence the motto).

[Miasto Lodz]

One of my favorite geographical oddities in this state is where Penn State plays football; At Beaver Stadium in Happy Valley

OOOOhhh, beautiful piece of architecture even though there is no roof.

[Pancakes Wrath]

You want weird names, come to northeast North Carolina.

Coinjock. What the fuck is a coin-jock? Spot. Waterlily. Morse. Kitty Hawk. Kill Devil Hills. Nags Head. Duck. Those are in Currituck and Dare counties alone.

for the rest of NC, there's Half Moon, Foxfire (Firefox?!?), Pine Top, Sea Level, and Oriental.

[Angleter]

From what Detroit, Des Moines, and St. Louis tell me, I don't think Americans are concerned with pronouncing place names as they're meant to anyway.

[Rambhutan]

I suspect someone from wikipedia has been reading this thread - their featured article (and April Fool's gag) today is this

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cock_Lane_ghost

[Alien Space Bats]

Rzeszów in Poland has quite opposite landmark.

What about Budapest: http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5001/521 ... e2c4dd.jpg

Our towns should get together sometime soon...

[Miklesia]

Missouri has more borrowed names than any other state I've been to. There's Cabool, MO, Mexico, MO, I think there's also Texas, MO.

Never heard of Cabool or Texas, but there's Lebanon, MO.

[Voerdeland]

From Poland:
Niemyje Stare - the old unwashed
Złe Mięso - evil meat
Stolec - stool
Moszna - scrotum
Leśne Odpadki - garbage in the woods
Stare Rumunki - old Romanian women
Oszczywilk - wolf pissed here

...and of course Łódź - the boat

Poland has many other weird place names. Others:
Zimna Wódka - Cold Vodka
Żebrak - Beggar
Sieroty - Orphans
Jęczydół - Groaning Hole
Stary Łom - Old Crowbar
Szwaby - (it's a derogatory term for Germans)
Piekło - Hell
Niebo - Heaven
Nałogi - Addictions

[Muslim Christians]

I've been to Toad Suck! also
Athole, ID. (Uh-thole)
The Willamette River in OR (will-AM-it)
Beavertown, OH
Paris, KY
Persia, TN
Kissimmee, FL (kiss-EM-ee)

Persia, TN? I've never heard of Persia, Tennessee, and I've lived in Tennessee all my life.

http://www.google.com/#sclient=psy&hl=e ... 0fe339f87d

[Element lovers]

I know of a city nearby named Boring (sounds like boring)

[Horsefish]

How about Marlborough (mawl-bruh), Althorpe (awl-trop), Bicester (bister), Ruislip (rice-lip), Beaulieu (bew-lee), Belvoir (beaver), Frome (froom) and Kilconquhar (kin-yuuk-uh) for starters? God, I love Britain

I live there!

[Forsakia]

I suspect someone from wikipedia has been reading this thread - their featured article (and April Fool's gag) today is this

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cock_Lane_ghost

The list of places in Britain with the word cock in them is very long.

Likewise plenty of Welsh names that are terrifying to foreigners.

[Mushet]

This is fictional.

My girlfriend Oksana and I took a trip around the world back in 2006 when times where better. We first went up north to Canada. Then we went to Europe. Once we got to England, she tells me she forgot her dildo in Dildo. I freaked out. I said you fucking twat! Why do you even have a dildo? She dumped me and ran away to Twatt, Scotland. Since I was single again I had some fun in England. I got my wang wet in Wetwang and fondled some titties in Titty Hill. Then I went to Austria and did some fucking in Fucking. From Austria I went to Australia. I met a pothead and went to his house in Bong Bong to do some bong hits. Oksana and I made up and came back to the US. We were out west in Washington. I was so happy to be back in the US and with Oksana I got wasted. She wanted to get it on but I had whiskey dick. We happened to be on Whiskey Dick Mountain. From there we went south to California and smoked some weed in Weed. We went to Virginia. Luckily this time I was able to get it up in New Erection, Virginia. We got hot and heavy in Romance, Arkansas. But then she got mad cuz I fucked a prostitute in Hooker, Oklahoma. She really turned me on in Vixen, Louisiana. I made some money in Cash, Texas. We went to Pennsylvania and had sex in Intercourse. The crazy chick stole some books in Library. We went to Ohio, and she left me hanging in Blue Ball. Then we went to Wisconsin, and I won $200 from some guy playing pool in Hustler. Oksana and I then went dancing in Disco. It was the holiday season and getting cold so we head south to Georgia. She told me she wanted to experiment with women when we were in Gay. We went south from there and exchanged some cool gifts in Christmas.

Did you do that yourself or is that a copypasta?

[Muslim Christians]

Theres a town called SANTA CLAUSE, IN
they used to have a company where parents could send their address name of child and sometimes a few generalities about the child and they would get back a 'personalized' letter from SAnta Clause, including a unique and proper santa claus post mark.

its really cool...idk if they do it still/.

[Coccygia]

And then there's a town in Arizona named Pahrump. It's where Art Bell lived, IIRC.

[Nanatsu no Tsuki]

Missouri has more borrowed names than any other state I've been to. There's Cabool, MO, Mexico, MO, I think there's also Texas, MO.

Never heard of Cabool or Texas, but there's Lebanon, MO.

Neither had I, until I passed by them on a trip to Rolla, MO.

Cabool, MO
Texas, MO