Thursday, November 3, 2016

The weirdest, funniest, and most downright bizarre town names in America

What are the weirdest, funniest, and most downright bizarre town names in America? We’ve assembled a comprehensive list of the most unusual names of cities, towns, villages and communities across the country. Believe it or not, these are all real and on official maps.

So what are the best town names here in California (Rough and Ready has my vote) or the entire U.S. (Bald Head, Maine is pretty funny!)?

Check out these best town names in from sea to shining sea, and let us know which ones jump out at you!

Alabama
Allgood, Ballplay, Boar Tush, Bucks, Burnt Corn, Choccolocco, Chunchula, Coffee Springs, Dogtown, Eclectic, Excel, Fort Deposit, Frog Eye, Gordo, Grimes, Lick Skillet, Locust Fork, Muscle Shoals, Normal, Scratch Ankle, Screamer, Shorter, Smut Eye, The Bottle, Warrior

Alaska
Ambler, Badger, Beaver, Chicken, Clam Gulch, Cold Foot, College, Covenant Life, Dead Horse, Eek, Funny River, Goodnews Bay, Lazy Mountain, Livengood, Manley Hot Springs, Mary’s Igloo, Nightmute, North Pole,  Red Devil, Russian Mission, Sleetmute, Unalaska, Woodchopper

Arizona
Anthem, Carefree, Catfish Paradise, Cowlic, Cyclopic, Kaka, Many Farms, Nothing, Oatman, Parker Strip, Santa Claus, Show Low, So-Hi, Surprise, Three Way, Tombstone, Top-of-the-World, Why

Arkansas
Alligator, Bald Knob, Barber, Biggers, Blue Ball, Boeuf, Bono, Booger Hollow, De Queen, Delight, Flippin, Goobertown, Greasy Corner, Gum Springs, Hasty, Magazine, Marmaduke, Mist, Monkey Run, Nimrod, Okay, Possum Grape, Romance, Self, Smackover, Stamps, Success, Toad Suck, Waldo, Weiner, Whiskerville, Y City

California
Aromas, Bieber, Caribou, Chowchilla, Chubbuck, Concow, Devil’s Elbow, Dogtown, East Yolo, Gorda, Grimes, Happy Camp, Helltown, Hercules, Hooker, Likely, Linda Rural, Manteca, Mormon Bar, Needles, Nice, Old Dale, Old Fig Garden, Peters, Prunedale, Raisin City, Ragged Point, Ragtown, Rescue, Roads End, Romoland, Rough and Ready, Sand City, Shafter, Skidoo, Skyhigh, Slab City, Spreckels, Tarzana, Trimmer, Weed, Weedpatch, Yolo

Colorado
Craig, Crook, Dinosaur, Fearnowville, Fink, Gunbarrel, Hot Sulphur Springs, Hotchkiss, Hygiene, Last Chance, Loveland, Mead, Meeker, Mumper Corner, Old Roach, Plastic, Parachute, Punkin Center, Rifle, Sawpit, Scarface, Slagger, Swink, Troublesome, Wondervu

Connecticut
Happyland, Moosup, Mystic, Old Lyme, Terramuggus

Delaware
Airport Villa, Bacon, Blades, Blue Ball, Bunting, Cave Colony, Cocked Hat, Cowgills Corner, Flea Hill, Hoars Addition, Midnight Thicket, Slaughter Beach, Swallow Hill

Florida
Briny Breezes, Bunker Donation, Cabana Colony, Christmas, Cocoa, Cooks Hammock, Couch, Dundee, Early Bird, Feather Sound, Floridatown, Frostproof, Golf, Hill ‘n Dale, Howey-in-the-Hills, Leisure City, Lulu, Mayo, Needmore, Pass-a-Grille, Plant City, Sopchoppy, Spuds, Two Egg, Waldo, Watergate, Whisper Walk, Yeehaw Junction

Georgia
Balls Ferry, Bonanza, Box Springs, Butts, Cash, Climax, County Line, Dixie Union, Elder, Empress, Enigma, Experiment, Faceville, Five Forks, Flippen, Gumlog, Hardup, Hopeulikit, Jekyll Island, Lumpkin, Pyles Marsh, The Rock, Sixes, Social Circle, Thunderbolt, Ty Ty, Young Harris, Zebulon

Hawaii
Cod Fish Village, Haiku, Volcano

Idaho
Atomic City, Beer Bottle Crossing, Best Corner, Bone, Cabinet, Chilly, Coolin, Cream Can Junction, Crouch, Dickshooter, Dingle, Good Grief, Hand Place, Headquarters, Hell Hole, Player Place, Santa, Slickpoo, Squirrel, Sublett, Sweet, Wickahoney

Illinois
Allright, Assumption, Beardstown, Big Foot Prairie, Birds, Bobtown, Bone Gap, Boody, Boos, Breeds, Chicken Bristle, Chittyville, Clank, Disco, Embarrass, Fancy Prairie, Ficklin, Frogtown, Future City, Goofy Ridge, Golf, Gross, Hometown, Ivanhoe, Lick Creek, Limerick, Lost Nation, Love, Moonshine, Mooseheart, Muddy, Munster, Normal, Oblong, Passport, Polo, Ransom, Red Bud, Roaches, Roodhouse, Sandwich

Indiana
Bean Blossom, Beard, Beaver City, Bono, Bud, French Lick, Friendswood, Gnaw Bone, Gosport, Munster, Onward, Pigeon, Ragsdale, Rocky Ripple, Santa Claus, Solitude, Speedway, Spurgeon, Tell City, Toad Hop

Iowa
Balltown, Beaverdale, Carl, Confidence, Cool, Correctionville, Diagonal, Fertile, Hard Scratch, Hicks, Hull, Little Turkey, Manly, Toddville, What Cheer

Kansas
Bazaar, Deerhead, Dry Wood, Dundee, Good Intent, Neutral, Protection, Ransomville, Red Onion, Skiddy

Kentucky
Bald Knob, Beaver Dam, Bigtussle, Broad Bottom, Chicken Bristle, Co-Operative, Dice, Disappointment, Do Stop, Eminence, Fancy Farm, Fearsville, Girdler, Hippo, Horse Cave, Knob Lick, Krypton, Mud Lick, Monkeys Eyebrow, Nobob, Oil Springs, Paint Creek, Paint Lick, Pig, Possum Trot, Rabbit Hash, Raccoon

Louisiana
Bunkie, Cow Island, Cranky Corner, Cut Off, Dry Prong, Grosse Tete, Keithville, Iota, Lucky, Pollock, Quitman, Waterproof

Maine
Bald Head, Bath, Friendship, Griswold, Industry, Owls Head, Shady Nook, Strong, Topsham

Maryland
Aberdeen Proving Ground, Accident, American Corner, Benson, Big Pool, Blue Ball Village, Boring, Cabin John, Choptank, Crapo, Crumpton, Dames Quarter, Fairplay, Finksburg, Issue, Pomonkey, Shady Side

Massachusetts
Belchertown, Bliss Corner, Braggyville, Braintree, Felchville, Mashpee, Old Furnace, Satans Kingdom, Teaticket, Whately

Michigan
Bad Axe, Bath, Bete Grist (“Gray Beast” in French), Cement City, Climax, Colon, Dollar Settlement, Free Soil, Hell, Manistique, Mesick, Mosherville, Napoleon, Paw Paw, Pigeon, Romeo, Rust, Sac Bay, Schoolcraft

Minnesota
Ball Club, Blue Earth, Castle Danger, Clappers, Climax, Embarrass, Fertile, Good Thunder, Ham Lake, Houpt, Kiester, Little Canada, Luck, Motley, Mound, Nowthen, Ottertail, Nimrod, Pillager, Sleepy Eye, Staples, Taconite, Twig, Winner

Mississippi
Alligator, Biggersville, Buckatunna, Chunky, Eggville, Fame, Guntown, Hot Coffee, Itta Bena, Leakesville, Learned, Money, Possumneck, Quitman, Shivers, Sweatman, Whynot

Missouri
Bland, Bragg City, Conception, Conception Junction, Cooter, Corning, Fidelity, Florida, Frankenstein, Ginger Blue, Gums, Halfway, Humansville, Kidder, Kissee Mills, Knob Noster, Licking, Lingo, Lone Jack, Lupus, Novelty, Number Eight, Otterville, Peculiar, Pilot Knob, Polo, Possumneck, Quitman, Speed, Strain, Tiff, Tightwad, Wide Ford, Wood, Zig

Montana
Big Sag, Hungry Joe, Joe, Molt, Pompey’s Pillar, Pray, Sourdough, Two Dot, Zero
Assumption, Falter Place, Gross, Hazard, Hire, McCool Junction, Mumper, Opportunity, Ough, Purple Cane, Rackett, Valentine, Wahoo, Wee Town, Worms, Wynot

Nebraska
Assumption, Falter Place, Gross, Hazard, Hire, McCool Junction, Mumper, Opportunity, Ough, Purple Cane, Rackett, Valentine, Wahoo, Wee Town, Worms, Wynot

Nevada
Andy’s Place, Carp, Contact, Coyote Hole, Jackpot, Lovelock, Pahrump, Pine Nut, Pyramid, Searchlight, Shantytown, Sugar Bunker, Weed Heights, Welcome, Winnemucca

New Hampshire
Bath, Dummer, Freedom, Stark, Tinkerville

New Jersey
Brick, Buttzville, Cheesequake, Cinnaminson, Deal, Egg Harbor City, Foul Rift, Great Meadows, Hackensack, Ho-Ho-Kus, Leisure Village, Loveladies, Manahawkin, Mantoloking, Nutley, Oldmans, Ramtown, Scullville, Seagirt, Six Mile Run, Skillman, Spotswood, Succasunna, Teaneck

New Mexico
Angel Fire, Dulce, Elephant Butte, Holy Ghost, Lingo, Loving, Mouser Place, Pie Town, Progresso, Quemado, Sunspot, Truth or Consequences

New York
Baiting Hollow, Beakmantown, Butternuts, Calcium, Candor, Catatonk, Chazy, Conewango, Conquest, Coxsackie, Dadville, Fishkill, Gang Mills, Gowanda, Handsome Eddy, Handsome Eddy, Hoosick, Krumville, Lawyersville, Lonelyville, Model City, Mosherville, Neversink, Pitcher, Rathbone, Rush, Shady, Sheds, Spackenkill, Surprise, Wallkill, Wirt, Yaphank

North Carolina
Apex, Aquadale, Bolton, Butters, Coinjock, Cricket, Duck, Flea Hill, Lizard Lick, Loafers Glory, Locust, Micro, Mocksville, Nags Head, Northwest, Old Hundred, Pinnacle, Pumpkin Center, Skippers Corner, Toast, Troutman, Whynot

North Dakota 
Bounty, Daily, Four Bears Village, Killdeer, Rugby, Trotters, Zap

Ohio
Ballville, Brilliant, Chagrin Falls, Deadman Crossing, Deadman Crossing, Devil Town, Dry Run, Dull, Fleatown, Florida, Hooven, Jerry City, Kunkle, Knockemstiff, Licking View, Pee Pee Township, Pottery Addition, Seaman, Shadyside, Spunky Puddle, Trotwood

Oklahoma
Bowlegs, Bugtussle, Bushyhead, Corn, Dibble, Dead Women Crossing, Frogville, Greasy, Happyland, Hooker, Jumbo, Leach, Loving, Okay, Slaughterville

Oregon
Aloha, Boring, Bridal Veil, Climax, Dead Ox Flat, Drain, Idiotville, Merlin, Paisley, Plush, Progress, Rainbow, Remote, Riddle, Ruggs, Shedd, Starvation Heights, Sublimity, Tangent, Voltage, Wankers Corner, Wonder, Zigzag

Pennsylvania
Big Beaver, Bird-in-Hand, Blue Ball, Coupon, Frackville, Grill, Halfway House, Hop Bottom, Husband, Jerkwater, Pillow, Spry, The Hideout, Virginville

Rhode Island
Little Compton, Moosup Valley, Woonsocket

South Carolina
Bear Swamp, Cheddar, Coward, Cowpens, Fingerville, Lake Swamp (which is it?), Mayo, Ninety Six, Old House, Pumpkintown, Spiderweb, Sugar Tit, Welcome, Wide Awake

South Dakota
Bad Wound, Big Stone City, Blunt, Bonesteel, Crooks, Lead, Plenty Bears, Porcupine, Rumpus Ridge, Swett, Two Strike, Winner

Tennessee
Bean Station, Bell Buckle, Bitter End, Boring, Bucksnort, Bumpus Mills, Campaign, Crab Orchard, Defeated, Difficult, Disco, Dismal, Finger, Flippin, Goat City, Guys, Lick Skillet, Mascot, Nutbush, Only, Pickwick, Shackle Island, Smartt, Static, Spot, Sweet Lips, Wartburg


Texas
Bacon, Bangs, Beans, Bee Cave, Best, Bigfoot, Blackjack, Bluntzer, Bobo, Bootleg, Bugtussle, Cat Spring, Coyote Acres, Cut and Shoot, Dime Box, Ding Dong, El Gato, Earth, Goodnight, Gun Barrel City, Happy, Humble, Hoop and Holler, Hornbeak, Jot-Em-Down, Knickerbocker, Latex, Log Cabin, Looneyville, Lovelady, Muleshoe, Nada, Noodle, Oatmeal, Personville, Point Blank, Raisin, Scissors, Scurry, Smiley, Snook, Spearman, Tarzan, Uncertain, Wealthy, Whiteface, Who’d Thought It (ghost town), Zipperlandville

Utah
Beaver Dam, Bullfrog, Eggnog, Gunlock, Hurricane, Mount Olympus, Nibley, Shivwits, Virgin

Vermont
Bread Loaf, Cozy Corner, Mosquitoville, Satans Kingdom, South Hero

Virginia
Adwolf, Backbone, Bats Bridge, Bland, Bloxom, Bumpass, Chilhowie, Coke, Cuckoo, Dragonville, Dumfries, Fancy Gap, Fries, Frog Level, Hurt, Meadows of Dan, Painter, Parrott, Prices Fork, Pound, Rustburg, Locustville, Office Hall, Skippers, Rustic, Short Pump, Tightsqueeze, Wise

Washington
Big Bottom
 Acme, Bacon, Beaver Homes, Berryman, Big Bottom, Bunk Foss, Bunker, Cactus, Cashup, Chumstick, Dollar Corner, Dot, Dynamite, Electron, Gorst, Home, Humorist, Humptulips, Kooskooskie, Mock City, Novelty, Opportunity, Pysht, Shreck, Snowden, Startup, Swede Heaven, Touchet

West Virginia
Acme, Amigo, Bald Knob, Battleship, Beard, Beartown, Beech Bottom, Big Chimney, Booger Hole, Brohard, Bud, Crumpler, Cucumber, Droop, Fame, Hoohoo, Man, Lost City, Paw Paw, Pie, Pinch, Tornado, War, Wood

Wisconsin
Beaver Dam, Beetown, Black Earth, Blue Mounds, Butternut, Cheat Lake, Chili, Clam Falls, Egg Harbor, Embarrass, Fond du Lac, Friesland, Hacker Valley, How, Imalone, Luck, Mentor, Mole Lake, New Diggings, Pray, Rolling, Spooner, Thornapple, Spread Eagle, Winter

Wyoming
Bar Nunn, Chugwater, McNutt, Miner’s Delight, Recluse, Ten Sleep


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