More Small Towns With Strange Names
By Alice Henry
@IreneVincent (15962)
United States
March 12, 2016 11:03pm CST
Thanks to all of you who contributed to our ongoing list of Strange Town Names. This has been really FUN. I appreciate everyone’s input. Our list is getting longer and longer.
Here are a few more that I found today.
Burnt Corn, Alabama
Dime Box, Texas
Battiest, Oklahoma
Pie, West Virginia
Hoop and Holler, Texas
Tick Bite, North Carolina
Mosquitoville, Vermont
Join the fun and tell us some strange town names that are near where you live.
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23 responses
@IreneVincent (15962)
• United States
13 Mar 16
This is really fun and so interesting when everyone contributes. I am thoroughly enjoying this activity.
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@Jessicalynnt (50525)
• Centralia, Missouri
13 Mar 16
@jstory07 everyone likes pie lol
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@GrannyGee (3517)
• Louisburg, North Carolina
13 Mar 16
I can't believe some of the names!
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@IreneVincent (15962)
• United States
14 Mar 16
I KNOW! Isn't it crazy? I'm so enjoying this. So many people have added to the list.
@louievill (28851)
• Philippines
13 Mar 16
There's " Pulang lupa" (red soil) in my city, it was so named because a superior force of Chinese pirates led by Limahong who was about to invade Manila was slaughtered there by a rag tag force of Filipino boat men led by a Spanish mestizo named Don Galo
The slaughter was so great it turned the soil red, so there's also a Don Galo street on that place
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@IreneVincent (15962)
• United States
13 Mar 16
Thanks for that interesting although gruesome bit of history.
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@Shavkat (137212)
• Philippines
13 Mar 16
@IreneVincent I will give some weird street names in my country.
1. Lamayan Street: The root word "lamay" means wake.
2. Pantihan Street: Undies.
3. Calle Pogi: Street of handsome
4. Teka Street: Wait
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@IreneVincent (15962)
• United States
13 Mar 16
@Shavkat Those are strange names for streets. Thanks for adding to our FUN.
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@FourWalls (62090)
• United States
13 Mar 16
There's a town in Alabama called Phil Campbell. Every year they host a convention for people named Phil Campbell.
Maybe I should buy a small town and name it "John Smith." 
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@FourWalls (62090)
• United States
15 Mar 16
@IreneVincent -- the original Phil Campbell was a railroad worker and engineer who built a railroad depot in the town, and it was named after him.
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@IreneVincent (15962)
• United States
14 Mar 16
Now, that IS interesting. I wonder how many people show up? And I wonder who the original Phil Campbell, after which they named the town, was?
@IreneVincent (15962)
• United States
17 Mar 16
@FourWalls Ah! So now we know who Phil Campbell is. Thanks for that information.
Here in our area recently, there was a protest raised about the name of an elementary school which had been named after a person who was a supporter of segregation of public schools. So now, there is a campaign to have the school renamed and several names have been submitted. It will be interesting to see for whom they will eventually rename it.
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@Tampa_girl7 (48908)
• United States
13 Mar 16
Sebastopol, Mississippi, it is of Russian origin,
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@Tampa_girl7 (48908)
• United States
13 Mar 16
@IreneVincent no, I guess that I should look it up.
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@IreneVincent (15962)
• United States
14 Mar 16
@Tampa_girl7 If you find anything, let us know.
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@IreneVincent (15962)
• United States
13 Mar 16
Do you know what the word means? Or any of the history behind it?
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@IreneVincent (15962)
• United States
14 Mar 16
That's a town name I really want to know more about. Why would anyone want to live in Mosquitoville? I'm going to do some research on that town and see if I can find out anything about it and how it got it's name.
@Porcospino (31366)
• Denmark
31 Mar 16
In Denmark we have
Sengelose - no beds
Benlose - no legs
Hormested - the place that smells bad
Lunken - lukewarm
Tarm - bowel
Taendpipe - light the pipe
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@IreneVincent (15962)
• United States
29 Jun 16
These are really strange names. Thanks for adding to our list.
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@pgiblett (6524)
• Canada
13 Mar 16
Okay this time I have gone looking for some English one near where I used to live as a child.
Lower Uphan
Abbots Worthy - Have you ever seen a worthy abbot?
When I went to New Milton I always wondered where Old Milton was.
Crow
St Ives - as in the song "As I was going to St Ives, I met a man with seven wives..."
Bere Regis and Bere Heath, where you will not see a bare person.
Plumber, yesi it is a town name.
West Orchard, which is to the south of East Orchard
Guys Marsh - I am convinced Guy doesn't want a marsh.
Bugley
There is even a Camelot Down.
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@pgiblett (6524)
• Canada
14 Mar 16
@IreneVincent That should be good to read the results.
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@IreneVincent (15962)
• United States
14 Mar 16
@pgiblett Yes, I'm going to see if I can find any history on some of these town names. I may or may not be successful.
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@IreneVincent (15962)
• United States
14 Mar 16
OH wow! Those are some really interesting names and I like the way you added the humor. This is so much fun. Everyone contributing. I'm enjoying this immensely. This post is the first one I come to, when I log in. And I'm writing down all the strange names. I hope to do some research on the names later.
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@LeaPea2417 (36434)
• Toccoa, Georgia
13 Mar 16
Vesuvius, Virginia,,, It is pretty far away from me because I live in north east Georgia, but seriously, we did drive through it in 2002 when we were on our way to see my husband's family in Pennsylvania.
When I saw the sign for it, I immediately thought of Mt Vesuvius that erupted long ago over in Italy.
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@IreneVincent (15962)
• United States
14 Mar 16
Yes, I know where Vesuvius is. I live in Virginia.
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@IreneVincent (15962)
• United States
14 Mar 16
I've heard of Truth of Consequences, but not Elephant Butte Dam or Whiskey Creek. Thanks for the information. We have a really long list now.
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@nanette64 (20364)
• Fairfield, Texas
13 Mar 16
Since I'm in Texas @IreneVincent , there is also: Bacon, Tool, Nimrod and Twitty.
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@IreneVincent (15962)
• United States
14 Mar 16
Yes, I saw Bacon on the map, but not the others you mentioned, yet. I'm still looking.
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@IreneVincent (15962)
• United States
14 Mar 16
Yes, several people have contributed to all the strange town names list. It's been FUN, with everyone adding to the list.
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@IreneVincent (15962)
• United States
17 Mar 16
@just4him Yes, I've heard of that town, I'm fairly sure. And there's another one, I'm trying to think of the name of the town, but thousands of people want their Valentine Day's card postmarked from there. Who knows what that one is. I just can't think of it.
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@just4him (305965)
• Green Bay, Wisconsin
14 Mar 16
@IreneVincent I've seen some that are names of holidays like Christmas, Michigan. I've been there. They have decorations up year round.
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@Marcyaz (35316)
• United States
14 Mar 16
@IreneVincent
Yes i am living in MN now but have also lived in AZ, CA, OK and Ohio.
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@IreneVincent (15962)
• United States
14 Mar 16
Nice ones. Isn't it interesting? My list is getting longer and longer. There has to be some interesting stories to go with these strange names. You must live in MN???
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@IreneVincent (15962)
• United States
14 Mar 16
@Marcyaz You moved around a bit, like me. I've lived WV, Colorado, Maine, NC and Virginia.
@Rosekitty (19368)
• San Marcos, Texas
31 Mar 16
I live in Texas and we have very strange towns here besides the ones you mentioned..might be the strange people too..hahah
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@IreneVincent (15962)
• United States
31 Mar 16
Tell me more strange named Texas towns. I know I didn't get all of them listed, so help me out.
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@ptrikha_2 (45463)
• India
29 Mar 16
Burnt Corn and Mosquitoville are the funniest sounding to me. How can one come up with such names?
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@IreneVincent (15962)
• United States
29 Jun 16
I've been doing some research on some of the strange town names and I need to start putting the information up here for everyone to read. I've just gotten sidetracked lately.
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@yalul070 (1713)
• Manila, Philippines
14 Mar 16
@IreneVincent yeah. we have weird names of places in our country, too. but there's usually something in their history that led to their being named that way. My province is Bulacan. They said it's because once upon a time the place was filled with cotton (bulak) trees.
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@IreneVincent (15962)
• United States
14 Mar 16
@yalul070 You are correct. There is usually a reason that a town has a certain name. I didn't know that there were cotton TREES. Virginia, where I live, has many cotton fields, where cotton grows in small plants near the ground, but I've never seen a cotton TREE. That's very interesting.
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@IreneVincent (15962)
• United States
14 Mar 16
I sure hope not. But isn't that a strange name for a town?
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@Sheilamarie78 (2586)
• Canada
14 Mar 16
When my husband and I were first married, I delighted in some of the names of places from where he grew up: Medicine Hat, Alberta, Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan, Head Smashed In, Alberta (?)
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@Sheilamarie78 (2586)
• Canada
16 Mar 16
@IreneVincent Although when I first heard the names they sounded hilarious, they now sound normal because I'm used to them. Funny how that works.
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@IreneVincent (15962)
• United States
17 Mar 16
@Sheilamarie78 Yes, that's true. You can get used to them, especially if they're in your area. We have Bumpass here in Virginia, not that far from where I live and I never thought about putting it on the list, until someone in another state mentioned it to me. It's pronounced BUMP-us.
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@IreneVincent (15962)
• United States
14 Mar 16
Yes, I've heard of few of those. Isn't it crazy? Definitely heard of Moose Jaw.
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@IreneVincent (15962)
• United States
14 Mar 16
@cacay1 I have a friend who speaks Tagalog and he has taught me a few words. I'd like to learn more, but I don't live near him. He lives in another state.
@IreneVincent (15962)
• United States
14 Mar 16
Yes, you should do that. Just write the word in Tagalog and then translate. Someone else did that, too.
Natutuwa akong makausap ka. Gandang buhay. Kumusta ka?
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@cacay1 (83223)
• Cagayan De Oro, Philippines
14 Mar 16
@IreneVincent , Mabuti naman, ( I'm fine)
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