Towns With Funny Names

[Milt]

If know of various towns around the world with a funny, weird, strange or unusual names list it here. I will start.

Toad Hop, Indiana, USA

 

[StephieNorthCo]

Pennsylvania has a bunch, but I won’t list any.

I’ll contribute Zigzag, OR

 

[midori]

Tarzan, Texas!

 

[0Scarlett_nidiyilii]

Intercourse PA, Bird-in-Hand PA, Blue Ball PA, Mars PA

 

[StephieNorthCo]

That’s the ones I was thinking of but didn’t want to name.

Boring, OR

 

[upant]

accident, maryland

 

[Entwhistler]

Possum Poot, Arkansas

 

[Jeanne_S]

accident, maryland

I lived in a town outside of Wichita called Derby,I always thought that was a funny name for a town

 

[Kathleen18]

I was born in Wichita!
There is a Rock, Kansas

 

[Milt]

French Lick, and Santa Claus Indiana

 

[Entwhistler]

Well, there is a Little Rock, Arkansas.

 

[0Scarlett_nidiyilii]

French Lick,

They mentioned this town on “The Middle” and I was sure they were making it up…
I know better now.

 

[christofirst]

Manteca (which is Spanish for lard), California.

 

[christofirst]

We also have a town called Little Rock in our desert east of Los Angeles.

 

[pianistclare]

Truth or Consequences New Mexico

 

[Kathleen18]

I love that name!!!

 

[Kathleen18]

We have a Bird Song, Kansas!
I think that is a pretty name!

 

[Tis_Bearself]

Don’t forget Moon, PA

My personal favorite is Why, AZ

 

[Tis_Bearself]

I also am amused by Weed, California.

Not a town but along the same lines: I was attending a stoner rock festival in Wisconsin a couple years ago and while driving down the highway on a side trip, discovered the “Richard Bong State Recreation Area” there.

 

[Talitha712]

Town of Surprise, New York.

It really is a “town of surprise.” It comes up out of nowhere and it’s so tiny that by the time you realize you’re driven into it you’re driving out of it again.