What is the strangest name of a town, or city that you have visited in North America?

My wife was born in Flat Lick, Kentucky.

I like it^^

I don’t know what others consider strange, but I’ve been to Weed, Puyallup, and Sandwich.

Well, there’s Meddybemps, in Maine. And the road does (or did) have many bumps. Settled 1740; pop. 157 (2010).

On trips northward from the Boston area, bound for Canada, we used to watch for Cat Mousam Road in Kennebunk and cheer when we passed it, but we were never on it.

A lot of the Native American names might sound funny, but they’re just names in a non-English language.

If you look closely at the maps showing the many little and offbeat places, especially in remote areas, there are lots of names that make you smile or make you wonder. One I remember is What Cheer, Iowa. I spent three years in Iowa, but I never visited What Cheer, sorry to say.

Blue Balls – - Intercourse both in Pennsylvania

Massachusetts Lake Chaubunagungamaug in Nipmuc language that means ‘lake divided by islands”

Big Ugly, WV.

Miami (Beach)

Cut N Shoot Texas

Slave Lake.

Truth or Consequences N!M.

Burden, Kansas.
Also Moscow, Kansas.
(I just came in last place. I know this!)

There is a town in California named Manteca which is Spanish for Lard.. It isn’t too far from Los Banos which is The Bathrooms.

Megaton, a small settlement built around an unexploded nuclear bomb, that was worshipped by its inhabitants.
Until I detonated the bomb.

So @ragingloli you visited “Capital Wasteland in 2277” ? ?

;>0)

@Tropical_Willie
You know it.
It, too, was so satisfying to fire the deathray at the planet from the alien mothership.

Badwater Basin in Death Valley https://www.nps.gov/places/badwater-basin.htm

Rough and Ready
Bummerville

Both small towns in the Sierra foothills region of California

@zenvelo Yeah, the Spanish names of California towns don’t always translate well. Like “Los Altos Hills” (literally “The Heights Hills”).

We have a Lickinghole Creek in Virginia. There’s a craft brewery with the namesake—pretty good beer too.

Intercourse Pennsylvania always makes me smile.

Lizard Lick, NC https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lizard_Lick,_North_Carolina

I do some work with GIS and you would be surprised with some of the things that you’ll find:
Bacon Level, Alabama
Booger Branch, Kentucky
Big Beaver Lick, Kentucky
Hell for certain, Kentucky
Big bone lick state park…

I need to take a road trip to big bone lick and then big beaver lick :)
Adventure level:Bacon.

Normal, Illinois

Friendship, Wisconsin

Skull Valley, Utah

Shivwits, Utah

Gnawbone, Indiana

@SQUEEKY2 Dildo Newfoundland? And I thought Canadians were polite. ; )

I drove through Blue Ball Ohio one time. I also saw a sign for Climax NC which was, amusingly, just east of High Point.

Smallest towns I have ever been to were Olive Ohio which officially has a population of about 5000 but when I went through consisted of about 3 houses, a store that doubled as a gas station and a Post Office, and another 2 houses. Not sure where they put all the people. The other really small town I went to was Bone Idaho…population 2. I had no reason to go there other than I got curious when I passed a sign that said “Now Entering Bone Idaho” and about 500 yds up the road and across the tracks was a sign saying “Now Leaving Bone Idaho”. I saw no buildings at all. There as a small road, mainly dirt, in between the signs so I took it. Nothing there, really.

@Blackwater_Park….it’s supposed to be a town that you’ve visited. All of us know how to Google.

Boring Oregon.

And I camped in Whorehouse Meadow, just for the karma ;)

:D

I’ve been to Intercourse PA. Very charming town in the heart of Amish country. Right next to Intercourse is Bird-in-Hand. Also a great town.

Who is in charge of naming these towns?

@jca2 PA also has a town called “King of Prussia”.

I’ve been to King of Prussia.

Eight Mile in Alabama.

Bucksnort, Tennessee

Howie-in-the-Hills, Florida
Three Way, TN
Soddy-Daisy, TN
Bucksnort, AL

And what is funny about Soddy-daisy?

<<shrugs>> sounds funny to me.

LOL, I call it something different: “home”

Very cool! I meant no offense; that’s just the only time I’ve ever heard the word “Soddy”. I lived in a number of places in TN for over 20 years. So….howdy stranger!

@zenvelo We also like to joke that Los Banos means The Bathrooms. But I think it actually means The Baths.

@Demosthenes I think altos just means tall. Los Altos Hills meaning The Tall Hills.

Palo Alto is interesting. Because I think Palo is stick? Tall timber?

EDIT: Oh wait…there’s a history of lumber in that area, right? So that actually makes sense.

@raum Yeah, I guess if you take it as a combination of the two languages it works better. But the town’s name derives from nearby Los Altos, which simply means “the heights”.

El Palo Alto is the name of an ancient redwood tree that gave the city its name. :)

Oh…in which case, I probably wouldn’t translate as a phrase. It’s more Hills of Los Altos. Like Oakland Hills or Hollywood Hills.

Wait…alto meaning ancient? I know that alt means old in German. But didn’t realize that alto can mean old in Spanish.

EDIT: Just did a Google search. That’s pretty neat!

“In 1955, an increment boring of the tree was taken and the tree’s age was accurately determined to be 1,015 years by George Hood, arborist.”

Los Altos means the hills. Alto as in altitude. There is the town named Los Altos, and next to it, up on the ridge, is Los Altos Hills.

Lake Char­gogg­a­gogg­man­chaugg­a­gogg­chau­bun­a­gung­a­maugg near Webster Mass.

@Forever_Free Are you sure about that spelling?
Of Webster Mass.

@rebbel yup @Forever_Free got is right; that is the long form of the lake I mentioned at the beginning of the thread located in Massachusetts. It also known as Webster Lake.

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