Odd/Funny/Interesting City Names

[luokou]

In Oregon:
Yachats
Netarts
Zigzag
Yoder
Tygh Valley
Scio
Hebo
Christmas Valley
Idiotville
Wankers Corner
Brothers
Sisters
Halfway (which was changed to Half.com for a couple years)
Whorehouse Meadow (not a town, but an actual meadow)

[Ed T.]

Buttzville, NJ

[hm insulators]

Bagdad, LA

(Yes, it's spelled that way)

There are also Bagdads in California and Arizona.

Two little towns in northern California are Igo and Ono (just down the road from each other).

I was born in Glendora, California (not really an odd or unusual name but a melodious and pretty one--say it out loud) and raised in La Canada (Can-YAH-dah) Flintridge, about 25 miles to the west of Glendora. (Yes, La Canada Flintridge is the name of one city.) There is also Tujunga (Tuh-HUNG-gah). All three of these communities are suburbs of Los Angeles; technically,Tujunga is within the City of Los Angeles.)

Pearl City, Hawaii, a suburb of Honolulu. The name itself otherwise wouldn't be unusual, but it stands out as one of the few English-language place names in a state full of Hawaiian place names. If you're looking for unusual place names, especially with unusual letter combinations, look no farther than Hawaii:

Kauai has Haena, Kapaa, Hanamaulu and Kukuiula.

Oahu has Waianae, Kaneohe, Laie and Kahaluu. There are also two place names that are probably unique: a Honolulu suburb called Aiea (if anybody knows of another US four-letter place name that's all vowels, sing out!) and a small town called Kaaawa. (No, that's not a mis-type; there are three A's in a row: Kah-ah-AH-vah.)

On Maui, you'll find Maalaea, Haliimaile and Ulupalakua; Molokai has Kualapuu.

And the Island of Hawaii (aka The Big Island) has Naalehu, Honokaa and Puu Waawaa, plus one of the few non-Hawaiian place names in the whole state: Captain Cook.

[Hellfighter]

[i-95]

Reddick, FL (TOO SIMILIAR TO A CUSS WORD)
North Pole, AK (NOT EVEN THERE)
Sleepy Hollow, NY (EVERYONE'S SLEEPY THERE???)
Interlachen, FL (SILLY NAME)
Fort Drum, FL (WHAT??? THAT'S PROBABLY WHERE NEIL PEART GOES WHEN HE VISITS FL!!!)
Okahumpka, FL (Sounds like dogs hump each other there)

[Scott5114]

Who is Neil Peart?

[njroadhorse]

Who is Neil Peart?

The drummer from Rush

[SSOWorld]

The Home Office in Wahoo, Nebraska (David Letterman)

[simguy228]

****, Austria (Not a real city name. But would be funny S, Austria...)
Erwin, TN (Where I live)
Mt. Hood, Oregon
San Diego, CA
Winter Garden, FL (Winter? As far as I knew as a child (born near Winter Garden), they barely have a winter...
)
Hollywood, FL (Wait, I thought Hollywood was in Los Angeles...)

Who is Neil Peart?

I think Neil Peart was a drummer from the Civil War

[City]

Want odd city names? One place for you to go. Nunavut. Just to name a few...

Iqaluit
Killiniq (it's an island)
Igloolik
Kugaaruk
Kugluktuk
Pangnirtung
Qikiqtarjuaq

See what I mean?

(there is another little outpost in northern Quebec/Laborador that has a really hard-to-pronounce name; sadly, I forgot what that one was called. Also, I had to get the town names that I have listed from Wikipedia, they were so hard to spell that I had to copy+paste them!)

[agentsteel53]

(there is another little outpost in northern Quebec/Laborador that has a really hard-to-pronounce name; sadly, I forgot what that one was called. Also, I had to get the town names that I have listed from Wikipedia, they were so hard to spell that I had to copy+paste them!)

Dildo.

[yanksfan6129]

Qaanaaq, Greenland
Qernertuarssuit, Greenland
Kangerlussuaq, Greenland

Yay for awesome Native American/somewhat-Scandinavian-influenced Place names!

[agentsteel53]

speaking of that general area: Eaštoroaivi - a Lapp name for a mountain pass in northern Norway; latitude 68 degrees.

[yanksfan6129]

Combing through the list, I realized we were lacking in the mythical 1-letter place names.

Y, Alaska (there is also a Y, France)
The many "Ã..."s of Norway
Ø, Denmark
U, Panama

There are too many 2-letter place names to name, but perhaps the most interesting is Pu, China.

Also in Alaska...
Tanana
Talkeetna

We also have the "curse word towns"...
Shit, Iran
Pussy, France
Dick, Mozambique
Cockburn Town, Turks and Caicos
Cockermouth, UK
Ass, Denmark
Bastard, Albania
Crap, Albania

and the legendary
Fucking, Austria

[Scott5114]

Pennsylvania has quite a few towns named similarly to states, such as Indiana (in Indiana County), and Oklahoma (in Westmoreland County).

And because the people building the railroad through south-central OK were from PA, a lot of towns in that area were named after towns in PA. Among them are Ardmore and Wynnewood (though the OK version is pronounced win-e-wood, while the PA version is just win-wood)

[joseph1723]

In Ontario:

Assiginack
Moosonee
Emo
Mono
Newmarket
Middlesex Centre
Spanish
and a lot more place with names that's really hard to pronounce

Alert, Nunavut

[oscar]

Dildo, Newfoundland, Canada

That's not the only Dildo place name in Newfoundland.  Next door is South Dildo.  And in another part of the province is the Dildo Run waterway, branching from Virgin Arm.

[Bickendan]

Bummerville, CA

[mightyace]

Bat Cave, NC!


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[PAHighways]

SNPJ, PA