Towns with odd names, Texas

[hemibee]

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great stuff Rocky
And dont go giving me a hard time about nz place names and then throw Musquodoboit at us.

got me to thinking, everyone but Texas has some odd sounding, weird spelt or just down right impossible for some of us that speak with a Southern and/or Texas accent to pronounce. Our neighbors to the north have Musquodoboit, down south (way down south) there is Kaikoura or Paraparaumu then a little west of there is Gulargambone or Warumungu. If we skip over to the the Dark Continent we find in South Africa such places as Bloemfontein or Groblershoop. Not to be out done, to the north is such locations as Cirencester, Shipston-on-Stour or Cloongownagh. Us in the Southern States don't stand a chance when traveling, we will stay lost the whole time if we should actually stop and ask for directions. Why can't Texas have some real tongue twisters or funny named towns? All we have is. . .

Tarzan
Squeeze Penny
Arneckeville
Quarterway
Halfway
Three-Quarterway
Welfare
Cut-N-Shoot
Raisin
Uncertain
Sour Lake
Concrete
Telephone
Telegraph
Ding Dong
Dime Box
Reklaw
Sacul
Looneyville
Old Dime Box
Happy
Bug Tussle
Gun Barrel City
Smilie
Leakey (LAKE EE)
Stranger
Turkey
Needville
Needmore
Pep
Earth
Noodle
Jollyville
Paradise
Yuppers
Oatmeal
Honey Island
Chocolate Bayou
Quail
Grit
Muleshoe
Dumas
Desert
Tom Bean
Frognot
Drop
Krum
Phlugerville
Hogeye
Concepcion
Eulogy
Little Hope
Fairy
Hico
Eden
Corpus Christi
Buda
Round Top
Snook
Novice
Whitt
Lipan
Zulch
North Zulch
East Zulch
West Zulch
Notrees
Who-da-thought-it
Nonesuch Place
Nimrod
Necessity
Gay Hill
Yuppers
Levelland
Ginny Slipper
Blanket
Early
Bexar
Flower Mound
Blossum
Paris
Detroit
Bohnam
Lazbuddie
Twitty
Utopia
Mexia
Quitaque
Goodnight
Groom
Queen City
Zabcikville
Ben Hur
Red Ranger
Uhland
Mulldoon
Waxahatchie
Iraan
Jot Em Down
Tool
Styx
Little Hope
Canton
Ben Wheeler




Bovine
GaGa
Tokio
Egypt (high schooler keep add B.F. to the sign)
Kamay
Bovina
Waco
Bigfoot
Baby Head
Big Lump
Big Square
Black Ankle
Byspot
Zipperlandville
Marquez
Endstate
Coyote Flats
Nacogdoches
Refuge
Greune
Boerne
Pedernales
Pest
Tiger Town
Self
Wink
Kermit
Nameless

See what I mean, we have just regular everyday names for our towns.

 

[shanered6]

some from uk


Funny London Street and Place Names
■Back Passage, London
■Mincing Lane, London
■Mudchute, London
■Percy Passage, London
■Swallow Passage, London
■Trump Street, London
■Cumming Street, London
■Cockfoster, London
■Dick Turpin Lane, London
■Cock Hill, London
■Titley Close, London
■Cockbush Avenue, London

Funny English Village and Place Names in England
■Acock’s Green, Worcestershire, UK
■Babes Well, Durham, UK
■Bachelors Bump, Essex, UK
■Backside Lane, Oxfordshire
■Balls Green, Kent, England
■Balls Cross, WestSussex
■Bareleg Hill, Staffordshire, UK
■Barking, Essex
■Beaver Close, Surrey
■Bedlam Bottom, Hampshire, UK
■Beef Lane, Oxfordshire
■Beer, Devon, UK
■Beggars Bush, Sussex passed her prime
■Bell End near Lickey End
■Bishops Itchington, Staffs, UK
■Bitchfield, Lincolnshire
■Boggy Bottom, Abbots Langley, Herts, UK
■Booty Lane, NorthYorkshire
■Bottoms Fold, Lancashire
■Broadbottom, Cheshire, UK
■Brown Willy, Cornwall,UK
■Bushygap, Northumberland, UK
■Catholes, Cumbria
■Catsgore, Somerset, UK
■Charles Bottom, Devon, UK
■Clap Hill, village in Kent, UK
■Clay Bottom, Bristol, UK
■Cock Alley, Calow, UK
■Cock Bridge, Hope, Derbyshire, UK
■Cock Green, nr Braintree
■Cock Lane, Tutts Clump, Berkshire, UK
■Cock Law, Northumberland, UK
■Cock and Bell Lane, Suffolk
■Cockermouth, Cumbria
■Cockernhoe, nr Luton, UK
■Cocking, Midhurst, West Sussex, UK
■Cockintake, Staffordshire, UK
■Cockpit Hill, Derbyshire, UK
■Cockplay, Northumberland, UK
■Cocks, Cornwall
■Cockshoot Close, Oxfordshire
■Cockshot, Northumberland, UK
■Cockshutt Wood, Sheffield, UK
■Cockup Lake District, Cumbria. UK
■Coldwind, Cornwall, UK
■Crackington Haven, Cornwall, UK
■Crackpot, North Yorkshire, UK
■Crapstone, Devon
■Crotch Crescent, Oxford
■Deans Bottom, Kent, UK
■Devil’s Lapful, Northumberland, UK
■Dicks Mount, Suffolk
■Drinkstone, Suffolk, UK
■Faggot, Northumberland, UK
■Fanny Barks, Durham, UK
■Fanny Avenue, Derbyshire
■Fanny Hands Lane, Lincolnshire
■Feltham Close, Hampshire
■Feltwell, Norfolk
■Fingringhoe, Essex
■Flesh Shank, Northumberland, UK
■Friars Entry, Oxfordshire
■Fruitfall Cove, Cornwall, UK
■Fudgepack upon Humber, Humberside
■Gay Street, Sussex. UK
■Gays Hill, Cornwall, UK
■Giggleswick, Staincliffe, Nth. Yorkshire, UK
■Golden Balls, Oxfordshire, UK
■Gravelly Bottom Road, nr Langley Heath, Kent, UK
■Great Cockup & Little Cockup, hills in The Lake District, UK
■Great Horwood, Bucks, UK
■Great Tosson, Northumberland
■Grope Lane, Shropshire
■Hampton Gay, Oxfordshire, UK
■Happy Bottom, Dorset
■Helstone, Cornwall, UK
■Hole Bottom, Yorkshire, UK
■Hole of Horcum, North Yorkshire
■Holly Bush, Ledbury, Herefordshire, UK
■Honey Knob Hill, Wiltshire
■Honeypot Lane, Leicestershire
■Hooker Road, Norwich
■Horncastle, Linconshire
■Horneyman, Kent, UK
■Hornyold Road, Malvern Wells, UK
■Horwood, Devon, UK
■Jeffries Passage, Surrey
■Jolly’s Bottom, Cornwall, UK
■Juggs Close, EastSussex
■Knockerdown, Derbyshire, UK
■Letch Lane, Bourton-on-the-Water, The Cotswolds, UK
■Lickar Moor, Northumberland, UK
■Lickers Lane, Merseyside
■Lickey End, Worcestershire, UK
■Lickfold, West Sussex
■Little Horwood, Bucks, UK
■Little Bushey Lane, Hertfordshire
■Long Lover Lane, Halifax
■Lower Swell, Gloucestershire
■Menlove Avenue, Liverpool
■Minge Lane, Worcestershire
■Moisty Lane, Staffordshire
■Nether Wallop, Hampshire
■Nob End, South Lancashire, UK
■Nork Rise, Surrey
■North Piddle, Worcestershire
■Ogle Close, Merseyside
■Old Sodbury, Gloucestershire
■Old Sodom Lane, Wiltshire
■Over Peover, Cheshire, UK
■Pant, Shropshire
■Penistone, Sth Yorkshire, UK
■Piddle River, Dorset, UK
■Pork Lane, Essex
■Pratt’s Bottom, Kent
■Prickwillow, Cambridgeshire
■Pump Alley, Middlesex
■Ram Alley, Wiltshire, UK
■Ramsbottom, Lancs, UK
■Rimswell, East Riding of Yorkshire
■Sandy Balls, Hampshire
■Scratchy Bottom, Dorset, UK
■Shaggs, Dorset, UK
■Shingaycum Wendy, Buckinghamshire
■Shitlingthorpe, Yorkshire, UK
■Shitterton, Dorset
■Shittington,, Bedfordshire, UK
■Six Mile Bottom, Cambridge, UK
■Slackbottom, Yorkshire, UK
■Slag Lane, Merseyside
■Slip End, Beds, UK
■Slippery Lane, Staffordshire
■Snatchup, Hertfordshire
■Spanker Lane, Derbyshire.
■Spitalin the Street, Lincolnshire
■Splatt, Cornwall, UK
■Staines, Surrey
■Stow cum Quy, Cambridgeshire, UK
■Swell, Somerset
■The Blind Fiddler, Cornwall, UK
■The Bush, Buckinghamshire
■The Furry, Cornwall
■The Knob, Oxfordshire
■Thong, Kent
■Tinkerbush Lane, Oxfordshire
■Titcomb, near Inkpen, Berkshire, UK
■Titlington Mount, Northumberland
■Titty Hill, Sussex, UK
■Titty Ho, Northamptonshire
■Tosside, Lancashire
■Turkey Cock Lane, Colchester, Essex, UK
■Ugley, Essex
■Upper Bleeding, Sussex, UK
■Upper Chute, Hampshire, UK
■Upper Dicker & Lower Dicker, East Sussex, UK
■Upperthong, West Riding, Yorkshire, UK
■Wash Dyke, Norfolk, UK
■Weedon Lois, Northampton
■Weedon, in the Parish of Hardwick, Buckinghamshire, UK
■Weeford, Staffordshire, UK
■Wet Rain, Yorkshire, UK
■Wetwang, East Yorkshire
■WhamBottomLane, Lancashire
■Wideopen, Newcastle, UK
■Willey, Warwickshire
■Winkle Street, Southampton
■Wormegay, Norfolk, UK

Funny Place Names in Scotland
■Ardfork, Aberdeenshire
■Ardgay, Ross & Cromarty, UK
■Assloss, Ayrshire, Scotland
■Backside, Aberdeenshire, Scotland
■Backside, Banffshire, Scotland
■Ballownie, Angus, UK
■Blackdikes, Angus
■Bladda, Paisley
■Forest Dyke Road, Lanarkshire
■Boghead, Ayrshire
■Boysack, Angus, Scot.
■Brokenwind, Aberdeenshire
■Butt of Lewis, Hebrides, Scotland, UK
■Cock of Arran, Isle of Arran, Scotland, UK
■Cumloden Court, Dumfries and Galloway
■Dick Court, Lanarkshire
■East Breast, Inverclyde
■Fannyfield, Ross and Cromarty, UK
■Fattiehead, Banffshire, Scotland
■Hillo’ManyStanes, Scotland
■Inchbare, Angus, uk
■Inchinnan Drive, Renfrewshire
■Inchmore, Aberdeenshire
■Merkins Avenue, West Dumbartonshire
■Stripeside, Banffshire, UK
■Tarty, Aberdeenshire, Scotland, UK
■The Bastard, a mountain in Scotland, uk
■Twatt, Orkney

Funny Welsh Place Names
■Bullyhole Bottom, Monmouthshire, Wales, UK
■Cat’s Ash, Monmouthshire, Wales
■Pant-y-Felin Road, Swansea
■Penisarwaen, village in Gwynedd, UK
■Sodom, Flintshire, Wales, UK
■Splott, Cardiff, Wales
■St.Mellons, Cardiff
■Stop-and-Call, Pembrokeshire, UK
■Tarts Hill, Flintshire, Wales, UK
■Three Cocks, Breconshire, Wales, UK

Funny Place Names in Northern Ireland
■Muff, Northern Ireland

 

[The Seeker]

Pennsylvania has a town named for every planet in the solar system.......like Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, etc...

We've also got some weird ones named by the Amish like: Bird-In-Hand, Ephrata, and Intercourse. The funny thing about Intercourse, PA is that the name used to be Confluence and they actually changed it to Intercourse.

 

[hemibee]

Good ones Shane & AJ

 

[Gromit]

Talk about a side-splitter!! Some of these are hilarious!

 

[DaveM]

Wow I think i will rather stick to our funny names in SA thanks

How Hankey got its Name
How Vredendal got its Name
The Witch of Hex River
How Misverstand Got Its Name
How Kommetjie Got Its Name
How Die Hel Got Its Name
How Kokstad Got its Name
How Kakamas Got its Name
How Coffee Bay Got its Name
How Tweebuffelsmeteenskootmorsdoodgeskietfontein Got its Name

 

[Rocky]

those names are a riot!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[hemibee]

How Cut and Shoot or Cut-N-Shoot got its name.

Cut and Shoot is a city in eastern Montgomery County, Texas, United States, about 6 miles east of Conroe and 40 miles north of Houston. The population was 1,158 at the 2000 census, at which time it was a town; the community only became a city in August 2006.

According to one local legend, Cut and Shoot was named after a 1912 community confrontation that almost led to violence. According to differing versions of the story, the dispute was either over:

The design of a new steeple for the town's only church,
The issue of who should be allowed to preach there, or
The conflicting land claims among church members.
Whatever the circumstances were, a small boy at the scene reportedly declared "I'm going to cut around the corner and shoot through the bushes in a minute!" This statement apparently stayed in the residents' minds and was eventually adopted as the town's name.

The town of Cut and Shoot gained fame when local boxer Roy Harris, a heavyweight contender, fought Floyd Patterson for the heavyweight title in 1958. Harris appeared on the cover of Sports Illustrated and was featured in Life Magazine. So much mail was addressed to "Roy Harris, Cut and Shoot, Texas" that the U. S. Postal Service granted a franchise post office to the town.



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[hemibee]

What is Bedias best known for?

The general store sells a T-Shirt. . . "Where The Hell is Bedias Texas?"


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[CarlS]

AJ, you left out Bird-in-Hand.

We have

Two Egg
Wewahitchka
Thonotosassa
Okahumpka
Yalaha
Okeechobee
Kissimmee
Astatula
Homosassa Springs
Trilochochee
Lachochee
Econlockhatchee
Ochopee
Chokoloskee
Immokalee
Wimauma
Weekiwachee
Chassahowitzka
Wakasassa
Steinhatchee
Tallahassee
Wachitokha
Topkegaiga
Ohathlockhouchy

 

[shanered6]

thats in my bucket ! ......Weekiwachee

 

[devo]

Good post Tony
I see you have the TT hometown listed where most of us originated from
LOONEYVILLE

 

[hemibee]

Good post Tony
I see you have the TT hometown listed where most of us originated from
LOONEYVILLE

Yeah, I thought I recognized a few of my fellow LOONEYVILLE brethren.

 

[The Seeker]

Some of the weird ones in Pennsylvania:

Bird-In-Hand
Slippery Rock
Burnt Cabins
Burning Well
Coon Hunter
Egypt
Jersey Shore
Gravity
Glenn Campbell
Jim Thorpe
Indiana
California
Oregon
King of Prussia
Lititz
Moon
Mars
Jupiter
Saturn
Venus
Pancake
Ono
Paint
Overshot
Panic
Paradise
Pigeon
Pillow
Prosperity
Punxsutawney
Rough and Ready
Shickshinny
Snow Shoe
Virginville
Versailles
Ligonier
DuBois
St Mary's
Yellow House
Burnt Mills
Fertility
Noodle Doosie
Athens
Moscow
Milwaukee
Rome
Nazareth
Normalville
North East
Eighty Four
Crackersport
Forty Fort
Conshokockton
Blue Ball
Bump
Bath Addition
Asylum
Hop Bottom
Free Love Valley
St Petersburg
Scotland
Upper Darby
Washington's Crossing
Washington's Landing
Bala Cynwyd
Bryn Mawr
Echo
Hazard
Frizzleburg
Lover
Two Lick Valley
Desire
Fear Not
Experiment
Laboratory
Loyalsockville
Nanty Glo
Possom Hollow
Transfer
Telescope
Quiggleville
Scalp Level
Torpedo
Climax
Skullkill Haven
Peach Bottom
Pillow
Porkey
Pottstown
Peniston
Pottsville
Pitston

 

[CarlS]

thats in my bucket ! ......Weekiwachee

Some fine looking ladies there.