Family/genus/species names, not human-like names of pets or famous animals. (No Garfield.)
Caribou, ME
Bear, DE
Buffalo, NY
Penguin, Tasmania, Australia
Chihuahua, Mexico
Buffalony is a type of horse.
How could anyone miss Beaver, PA (http://goo.gl/maps/47gJd)?
Quote from: PHLBOS on December 29, 2014, 10:54:58 AM
How could anyone miss Beaver, PA (http://goo.gl/maps/47gJd)?
I thought that was named after a female body part. :bigass:
Whole animals, or...?
Because otherwise, Horseheads, NY and Moose Jaw, SK.
Phoenix.
& Beaver Falls, PA
Deerland, FL
Elk Mtn, WY
Fishkill, NY
Eagle River, AK
Beaverton, OR
Boston Terriers are named after Boston, MA.
Quote from: empirestate on December 29, 2014, 06:17:41 PM
Whole animals, or...?
Because otherwise, Horseheads, NY and Moose Jaw, SK.
Also, Antlers, OK.
In California, the only one I can think of offhand is Big Bear Lake, which is really named after the lake which is named after the animal.
If non-English names are allowed, though, then Los Gatos.
Alligator, MS
Toad Suck, AR
Cooter, MO
Monkeys Eyebrow, KY
As far as strictly an animal geographical name (and not something built off one, like Foxborough, or Cape Cod) there aren't any used for municipalities in Massachusetts. "Alewife," after the anadromous herring, is an informal name for the neighborhood around the Alewife Station on the Alewife Brook (and Alewife Brook Parkway) in Cambridge. "Wellfleet" is often used as shorthand for an oyster of the variety named for that town, but it's a weak answer to this question.
Chevy Chase, MD
Elkton, MD
Lizard Lick (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lizard_Lick,_North_Carolina), North Carolina? :-)
Quote from: DTComposer on December 30, 2014, 07:46:01 PM
In California, the only one I can think of offhand is Big Bear Lake, which is really named after the lake which is named after the animal.
If non-English names are allowed, though, then Los Gatos.
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Another non-English name: Koloa, Hawaii--
koloa is Hawaiian for duck.
Getting away from "town names that have animal[ name]s in them" and back to the original question of "town names that are animal[ name]s"...
Moose, Wyoming.
Red Deer, Alberta (or is it Manitoba?)
Lame Deer, Montana would seem to fit.
Quote from: hm insulators on December 31, 2014, 04:50:57 PM
Quote from: DTComposer on December 30, 2014, 07:46:01 PM
In California, the only one I can think of offhand is Big Bear Lake, which is really named after the lake which is named after the animal.
If non-English names are allowed, though, then Los Gatos.
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Another non-English name: Koloa, Hawaii--koloa is Hawaiian for duck.
In the same vein: Jaca, Spain. 'Jaca' is one of two Spanish words for a female horse, the other being 'yegua'.
Quote from: golden eagle on December 31, 2014, 08:43:28 PM
Red Deer, Alberta (or is it Manitoba?)
Red Deer, Alberta is correct.
Quote from: The Nature Boy on December 31, 2014, 08:54:54 PM
Lame Deer, Montana would seem to fit.
And Deer Lodge. Montana is all about those deer.
Bass, WV
Some in Michigan:
Pigeon (and White Pigeon**)
Bovine
Grayling
Wolverine
And then some names that include animals:
Trout Creek
Trout Lake
Eagle River
Eagle Harbor
Carp Lake
Wolf Lake
Fawn River
Otter Lake
Swan Creek
And a number of natural features named after animals, but which are not towns:
Porcupine Mountains
Whitefish Point
Hog Island
N and S Fox Island
Beaver Island
Sturgeon Pt
Sturgeon River
** White Pigeon was actually named after an Indian of that name.
Trout,LA
How could I have forgotten Duck, N.C.?
Quote from: Pete from Boston on January 02, 2015, 06:44:34 AM
How could I have forgotten Duck, N.C.?
Yeah...can't believe I overlooked that either.
Nebraska has cities named Bee, Eagle, and Gibbon. There's also Beaver City and Beaver Crossing. Papillion is said to be the French word for butterfly, which explains why the high school calls itself the Monarchs. Nebraska could also get credit for Holstein, which is also a city in Iowa.
Unincorporated but possessed of an animal name is Fly, Ohio, home of the only ferry between Ohio and W. Va. and not much else when I drove through.
L'Orignal, Ontario (The Moose)
Maskinongé, Québec (Muskellunge)
Elkton, Virginia
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Sturgeon, Missouri
Beaver UT wins. They're the county seat for Beaver County and their HS is the Beaver Beavers.
x4 is something!
Rick
Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan. Saskatchewan (and Canada in general) has a lot of towns named after a particular animal.
Bald Eagle, PA along everybody's favorite interstate. :bigass:
Squirrel Hill is not a town per se, but a section of Pittsburgh. A highway tunnel bears its name. (Parkway East/I-376/US 22-30)
Ohio has both Beavercreek and Beaverdam.
For a fictitious example, who remembers a movie that makes a parenthetical reference to "Pig's Knuckle, AR"?
Quote from: lepidopteran on February 05, 2015, 02:03:59 PM
Squirrel Hill is not a town per se, but a section of Pittsburgh. A highway tunnel bears its name. (Parkway East/I-376/US 22-30)
In addition to which, there is no such animal as a "squirrel hill". ;-)
Illinois (incorporated municipalities only):
Buffalo
Buffalo Grove
Beaverville
Deer Creek
Deer Park
Deerfield
Fox Lake
Fox River Grove
Trout Valley
There's a lot more municipalities named after plants.