Strange town names

[Luap McKeever]

Places like Peculiar Missouri and Toad Suck Arkansas came to mind immediately.

[Zenermaniac]

I live near here and some of my in-laws grew up there. Notorious subject of a book and many local stories.

[lucian]

[Guzzistajohn]

I just came from picking up a check for a elevator I sold in GALMEY, Mo. No weird "meaning" but still an odd name.

[cloudbase]

England


Scotland

Don't even start on Wales.

[jcctx]

Years ago there was a sign south of Dallas denoting a community called "Tote Water"; guess there is no mystery how it came by the name!!!

SE of Dallas there is a town named "Gun Barrel" which got it's name from the road leading to it from Mabank, TX. Supposedly the road was as straight as a gun barrel leading south out of Mabank!!

[vintage53]

I can add:

  TOAD SUCK , ARKANSAS

[Tom]

Went to all the towns that have my last name in Bavaria, Austria & Switzerland.  (Au) About 6 of them.  Common thing for all of them.  Beer distributorships.      It's also on the periodic table for gold.     The signs on the autobahn would get a grin from me "Ausfarht".     Yes, I do with the right food.   I didn't know we were German.  https://www.houseofnames.com/au-family-crest

[Ncdan]

Town on the outer banks in NC.

[PJPR01]

Went to all the towns that have my last name in Bavaria, Austria & Switzerland.  (Au) About 6 of them.  Common thing for all of them.  Beer distributorships.      It's also on the periodic table for gold.     The signs on the autobahn would get a grin from me "Ausfarht".     Yes, I do with the right food.   I didn't know we were German.  https://www.houseofnames.com/au-family-crest

If you were in Austria, you'd probably chuckle then when going thru this town:

https://www.dw.com/en/austrian-village-of-f***ing-decides-to-change-its-name/a-55740967

[Tom]

I bet they have beer there.  Have to look at a map to see where exactly it's at.  Didn't go through there.     I definitely would have taken some pix.    

[Phil/TX]

Texas towns, Ace, bugtussell, pancake.

[Scott of the Sahara]

Mill Iron Montana. That is my last name. I have never been there but I want to go.

[leroysch]

Nice find..and just realized the town is in the land of 10,000 lakes. Self stifling....and corrected my post.

[Caffeineo]

How about DickShooter ID. 
https://www.ktvb.com/article/news/local/208/history-of-dickshooter-idaho/277-50246cd8-6b8b-4cb5-ad17-7327052e031c

It has turned into a destination so you can claim to have been to DickShooter. 

[twowheeladdict]

Stopped here 3 or 4 years ago when riding in NM.

[Moparnut72]

There is a Weed in California, north of Redding. They just had or going to have a marijuana celebration.
kk

[AJ Huff]

We have What Cheer, IA.

-AJ

[wymple]

Talk about sowing oats...... (MN)



I just had to get off...and take a pic.

On the South end of Ft. Madison Iowa we have a molybdenum factory named Climax, and across the road a windmill blade plant where my wife works named Siemens.

[9fingers]

I have of course been through Intercourse........ .and if I recall, also in PA there is a Woodcock and Cherry town very near each other. And I did recently pass a dirt road named 4wheeldrive, which I thought was pretty humorous. I think that was PA or NY state.
Scott

[sdcr]

I would guess that most of us have been through intercourse, some more than once.

I have of course been through Intercourse........ .and if I recall, also in PA there is a Woodcock and Cherry town very near each other. And I did recently pass a dirt road named 4wheeldrive, which I thought was pretty humorous. I think that was PA or NY state.
Scott

[e.cleven]

My wife and I spent the night in Ten Sleep Wyoming a few years ago. Very scenic area.

[kballowe]

Flippin, Arkansas







Licking, Missouri 

[rocker59]

[sdcr]

Rode through Gas Kansas, but didn’t stop, I was full.




I did stop in Flushing, left empty.

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When I came upon this sign I went straight. Just couldn’t decide.

[Guzzistajohn]

Flippin, Arkansas







Licking, Missouri 







I stayed in a hotel in licking while installing some equipment in the local Rawlings baseball equipment factory. The sing in front said "free radio" what it really meant was NO TELEVISIONS!

But I did get to embroider the name on Ozzie Smith's new glove

[Guzzistajohn]

Needmore, Mo.? not far from me

[rocker59]

Needmore, Mo.? not far from me

Arkansas.  US-71 between Waldron and Y-City.

[Texas Turnip]

This is an enjoyable thread.
Have to brag as the Guzzi rides in Texas have a town named Grit.
Also Cuthand, Tx
Bird in Hand, PA
Left Hand, WV

Ken Hand aka texas turnip

[John Croucher]

We went to a town in Ok called Nowhere. True.

We have a Speed, Indiana right in my back yard.  Named after J.B. Speed, and industrial engineer and owner of the Speed-Portland Cement factory.  The best cement made in the World.  There is a School of Science and other buildings named after Him in Louisville, KY.