1 Funny Town Name From Each State
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- America is full of some strange, ridiculous, hilarious town names. Ranging from a town called Two Egg, to the Porcupine Islands, we're covering 50 of the funniest town names in the country. What's your favorite?
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The word "nimrod" didn't become an insult until Bugs Bunny used it sarcastically when referring to Elmer Fudd in "A Wild Hare"👈. Few enough people knew the reference (even in 1940) that they assumed it was another word for "idiot".
Thats Truth or consiquences
Nimrod refers to a great hunter, which is what Fudd was playing in that particular cartoon.
Here are a few Canadian ones:
Stoner, British Columbia
Balzac, Alberta
Forget, Saskatchewan
Flin Flon, Manitoba
Crotch Lake, Ontario
Saint-Louis-du-Ha! Ha!, Québec
Peekaboo Corner, New Brunswick
Meat Cove, Nova Scotia
Crapaud, Prince Edward Island
Dildo, Newfoundland
Pug Wash Nova Scotia.
In your list of snicker worthy names you should have included Humptulips, WA. The name is based on a local native word...but when you let juvenile frontiersmen get hold of words, you know what will happen.
Possibly the most amazing thing about What Cheer, Iowa is that a town of 1000 population actually HAS an opera house.
I grew up in Pink, OK but lived for several years down the road in Slaughterville. We also have towns named Romulus, Remus, and Wolf, as well as Broken Bow and Broken Arrow.
There's a Maybee Michigan that that I think goes nicely with the towns Why and Whynot.
The perfect trifecta.
Arkansas Town Names: Weiner, Goobertown, Fifty-six, Booger Hollow, and Possum Grape. We also have: Blue Ball and Nimrod
Hogeye
Bacon Level Alabama may come from the three tiered crates hogs were raised in in Appalachia before WW2. The upper crate contained a hog that would be fed corn. Of the three crates, this is the only one that receives food. The top hog (yes, the term comes from this) would be butchered for tenderloins, chops and non-cured or ground meats. The middle crate, or the "bacon level" contained a hog that would feed on the waste from the hog above it. This hog would be used for cured meats; bacon and ham. The bottom crate contained a hog that would feed on the waste of the middle hog. This hog would be used for sausages and other ground, precooked products. Thank God for the FDA.
I was expecting Boring, Maryland to be paired with Boring, Oregon.
Boring, Oregon is pared with Dull in the United Kingdom.
I’d love to see Bend, Oregon paired with Dover, Delaware.
I went to high school in Romeoville. We had a nearby town that was called Juliet, but is now Joliet.
I go up to Zigzag fairly regularly; it's surrounded by old growth natural forest and a great place to hunt for all sorts of mushrooms. Porcini, chanterelles, and the elusive but delicious matsutake.
How far is the area from Doover? Yes, I know it’s an F not a V my phone won’t let me fix it
T or C in New Mexico... So named because the town was out of money and the network game show was not.
Full name Truth or Consequences. Knew about the place for a while, but I read a fantasy novel series that takes place around T or C and Hatch makes me want to visit that part of NM.
@@bakomusha it is a very wonderful place. If you are in southern NM try to time it so you can see the duck racing.
Used to be called Hot Springs, NM. That's one of the most common town names in America, so changing it to T or C was a good idea.
@@reesejabs1895 and the money didnt hurt either
@@reesejabs1895, there used to be FIVE towns named "Upper Sandusky" (all on the Sandusky River), which used be terribly confusing. Four of then changed their minds & town name. Only 1 Upper Sandusky left.
I’m from Paw Paw, VA and we are adjacent to Paw Paw, KY. I love your narration, btw. You have a beautiful voice and not using AI is also a plus! Thank you!
There is also a Paw Paw Michigan too.
Thank you, Metal Floss! You’ll pulled me away from a video that wasn’t helping my mood. *This one will help!* Thanks again for all you do! You’re appreciated! 💗🙏🏼🇨🇦
Lol same here
Surprised that Big Bone Lick Kentucky didn't make the list.
Love driving thru big bone lick!
Flashback to Jackass visiting Mianus, Conneticut.
"There's a water treatment plant in Mianus." lol
Except it’s a soft “a” in Mianus; it’s not pronounced “my anus”.
I thought for sure that Tennessee’s would be Buck Snort.
Personally I would’ve thought the city of Middlesex would up here
That would have been my guess, too. I worked with a guy from there and the origin of the name had nothing to do with a deer.
Tarantula crossing.
Hole n wal
I believe there's a Soddy Daisy, Tn
Until recent times a part of Spartanburg county SC was known as "Sugar Tit" and it actually once had a US Post Office branch with that as it's official name. I actually bought some stuff from the now-closed Sugar Tit Hardware Store back in the 80's. For those who don't know, a 'sugar tit' was where you put sugar in a scrap of cloth, tied it shut, and gave it to kids to suck on in lieu of candy. The area went from rural to developed and the new residents didn't like the name so they took down any signs using it. At least we still have the community of "Possum Kingdom"!
I grew up in rough and ready. it’s unofficial slogan was “where the women are rough and the men are ready”. needless to say, i’ve moved far away.
So many in Minnesota you could have used: Fertile, Embarrass, Ball Club, BlackBerry, Climax, Thief River Falls, Blue Earth
Arctic Cat snowmobiles are headquartered in Thief River Falls.
Minnesota has a number of oddly named towns such as Starbuck, Embarrass, Climax and Fertile to name a few, but that close proximity of the latter two resulted in a very "interesting" headline in a local paper: Fertile Woman Dies In Climax". It took outsiders to find it hilarious for locals to be Embarrassed, by it.
I remember that headline it heard about it in orientation at Bemidji State.
There's a Coin, MN and a Crown MN - both CDP's - unincorporated.
Do you have a link to the article, Nowthen? (also a Minnesota town)
I just went to a town in Colorado called Hasty.
There's also Whynot, Nebraska and Boring, Oregon. Other gems include: Surprise, Arizona. Truth and Consequences, New Mexico. Humptulip, Washington.
Yeah. Humptulip! 😂
Arkansas native, and we're lousy with stupid town names. Smackover is a great choice, but there's also Romance, Bald Knob, Toad Suck, and (my personal favorite) Flippin.
Bald Knob and Flippin are S tier
You passed on Toad Suck! 😮😮😂😂
Possum grape, AR. Really.
POSSOM GRAPE, AR.
I live about 10 miles from Knockemstiff Ohio. Glad to see it make the list! It is always a fave story to tell people about that are not from around here.
I almost read, Knockermuffin.
We have a Woonsocket in SD, along with Gayville, (named after an early postmaster, Elkanah Gay) to go along with Mud Butte.
Neighboring towns in Minnesota, Fertile and Climax. Hence the joke headline, Fertile woman dies at Climax.
I grew up near there and now live near Hell, Michigan.
Fertile, Iowa, is near Manly. Their residents sometimes marry each other, leading to interesting headlines.
If they included Canada, Newfoundland has Come-By-Chance and Dildo.
@@What_Makes_Climate_Tick, been to Hell & back. There was a big party there on 06-06-06.
@@Cricket2731 I spent '06 on a temporary assignment in Colorado, so I missed that.
Without watching, I'm hoping for Belchertown MA, and Unalaska AK.
Please do one on the UK. We have such gems as Shitterton, No Place, Cockermouth, Bitchfield and many more 😂
A video for the funny UK town names could be 2 hours long. 🤣
Oh hey, I grew up a town over from Hazardville. Wasn't expecting that. The funny CT town on these lists is usually Mianus. There's also a small community called Happyland. And the slightly amusingly named town of Killingworth features my favorite street name, Roast Meat Hill Road.
I knew an elderly couple that would go to Why, Arizona every winter
There is a Peculiar, Mo. because the residents wanted a peculiar name
Why?
@@johnjohnson8575 because
If you ask them, "Why Arizona?" They just say, "Yep."
Nebraska also has Worms.
Used to drive past there all the time!
Mexican Hat was named in the late 1800s. I would guess that probably has something to do with why it is not called sombrero. 😂
Hooray old-timey racism!
the first 3 entries already have me laughing my ass off, sorry for the swear but it's true
Bucksnort TN. Derivation? A local brewer of hooch was named Buck. His product was so popular, people would go to Buck’s for a snort, thus shortening to Bucksnort. Bell Buckle, TN.
Monkey's Eyebrow, Kentucky. Weed and Zzyzx, California. Poy Sippi and Embarrass, Wisconsin.
I like Moxahala, Ohio. Sounds like an exotic Hawaiian paradise.
Ding Dong is a funny town name, but what about Cut and Shoot, Texas? I've had relatives who lived there.
Interesting information cleverly presented. This is why I love your videos.
Also in Minnesota, the town Gay Lord has a lake called Tit Low
I'm surprised that Zzyzx, California didn't make the list. Maybe there's a good reason the town got names that.....🤔
Apparently there is a fudge factory in a town named Uranus Missouri. Their ads play into the obvious joke.
This was a good one
In North Carolina, it is a ~40 minute drive from Erect to Climax.
Please tell me erect is in the mountains
Here in Alabama, about the same from Intercourse (southeastern Sumter County) to Climax (a former community in north-central Choctaw County). Pity you won't see the latter on a map these days.
40 minutes is pretty good endurance
Onancock, Virginia
Bruh why do early southerners love choosing sexual sounding names?
At 10:46, the host, Erin McCarthy, is talking about the Porcupine Islands (an archipelago of five islands that lie in the Mount Desert Narrows of Frenchman Bay in Bar Harbor, ME), but the graphic (No. 32) is titled "Porcupine Islands, Michigan. There is a Porcupine Mountains Wilderness State Park in Michigan, so perhaps that is where the error was made in the graphics. (The image displayed is correct for Porcupine Islands, Maine.)
Also the porcupine islands aren't a town, and are all uninhabited. They could have gone with Friendship, Unity, Liberty, Freedom, Union, Hope (which are all near each other). Or the Cranberry Islands which have towns...well, one town on two islands technically.
Thank you. As a Michigan native I was confused. We have a number of islands in the Great Lakes, but yeah, not that. It's nice to know where they actually are.
2:29 The letter "Y" can be spelled "wye," which would have made things a bit clearer.
4:03 The Eastern Shore of Virginia also has Onancock which, given the biblical tale of Onan, brings up a raft of questions. Virginia also has a Frog Level.
10:35 Uneedus, LA: Anyone remember Uneeda Biscuits? Wonder if they're still even made.
Cumming, GA always makes me laugh. There is also a gas station between Screven and Odum, GA that is called Scodum. Not an official town name yet, but people in the county know when you say, “I live in Scrodum.”
Greetings from someone in the same county as Knockemstiff, Ohio
Rough & Ready was a good choice for CA.... you could also have included Weed. Named for.... Abner Weed. And yes, they sell T-shirt that say.......
I ❤ Weed
Or Zzyxx, Boron, Needles, Daggett,
Good to hear you mention Abner Weed. He was owner of a lumber business and responsible for growing Weed as a “ company town” where workers and their families lived in company housing. When International Paper bought the lumber business in the 50’s, the housing I believe was mostly sold to the residents in it at the time and the company town was transformed into a real town. I am aware of this because my dad grew up there and graduated high school in 1943 before going into the Marines…..
@@laurelcosten1012 Perhaps one of the first people "responsible for growing Weed". 🤣
Carl, What I always loved when visiting my grandma there was looking up at Mount Shasta. Amazing beauty!!!!!!
I was born in Redding, so close, but not quite as high as Weed.
I've always loved Bill, Wyoming. Bill was the fire chief, police chief, school principal, post master, Mayor, everything. He owned the general store/post office. Bill was in the middle of nowhere with land all around, yet he had a parking meter in front of his store. The bumper stickers he sold said " I been to Bill Wyoming ". And no, I didn't make any mistakes in the grammar.
I thought you'd go with Boring for Oregon. Didn't know there was another Boring elsewhere. Oregon's Boring is partnered with Dull, Scotland and Bland, Australia, and every year it holds a festival known as Boring and Dull Days. I went last year. It was pretty fun. Apparently the parade route is the world's shortest. The parade itself had plenty of entries, though.
Froid, Montana --- derived from a french word that means cold. also Fanlulu, MT was a station on the "Jawbone" railroad.
7:39 Damn, I was hoping Accident, Maryland was gonna be on here. That’s one of my personal favorites!
Just an Accident that it wasn't.....
Place names near where I grew up in Indiana: Bono, Buddha, Gooseneck, Devil's Backbone and the well known hometown of Larry Bird, French Lick. I grew up in a town called Medora, which I personally believe is just a nonsense word but the lore is that it's a play on Do-Re-Mi, like the music scale, and the unofficial motto is "The Town of Harmony". There is also a sister city with the same name in North Dakota and I have no idea how that happened.
How about Gnawbone, Indiana?
@@chuckinhouston9952 we've got a lot of good ones lol
Having lived in PA for several years, I knew about Blue Ball and Intercourse. But there's also another town in that same general area called Paradise. Put it together...
Let’s not forget Shartlesville.
And Slippery Rock
A+ video!
LOVE IT! A total masterpiece!
Indiana also has Knaw Bone, and Toad Hop, although Toad Hop is unincorporated.
Peculiar Missouri. The founding fathers submitted several names to the Postmaster, but all were rejected. They asked for assistance. He said just think of a peculiar name. So they did! 😊😂❤
Santa Claus Indiana also has a theme park called Holiday World. Each section of the park is based on a different holiday, lol
What Cheer, Iowa could have been named for the song of the Northern Cardinal, which, quite clearly says “What cheer! What cheer!”
Something I learned while doing my family tree during lockdown: It is claimed that everyone in the USA who has the last name of Bumpass (or Bumpus or Bump) is the descendant of one guy: a Pilgrim who arrived on the boat just after the Mayflower. One of his descendants lent his name to Bumpass Hell in Lassen Volcanic Park, in California.
New Jersey used to have the country’s 2 dirtiest town names but now have some dirty sounding names. In 1820 a beach Town was named Dolphin Sex until 1906, it is now called Shark Town. In 1840 there was a town called Big Breast, it is now gone and replaced with one of the state’s major highways.
Currently there are 4 funny sounding name towns: Cox Corner, Imlaystown, BigSallow, and creekass.
Honorable Mentions for Florida: Howey-in-the-Hills, Sopchoppy, Christmas, Niceville, Sneeds, Balm, Harmony, Tradition, Celebration, Fort Lonesome, Boca Raton (the literal translation is "rat mouth").
I think frostproof is kind of funny too
Lived in Niceville, but drove through Two Egg.
@@kayleeriley3591, it will occasionally get cold enough for frost to form in Frostproof.
Oklahoma has a town in the panhandle called "Slapout". My dad told me that there was a store there that when anyone would ask if something or other was there and the store owner would reply "Nope. Slapout of it". Also if you read the next sentence aloud you'll hear something my dad taught me in the 60s. "Sallisaw Henrietta Wagoner Bowlegs."----all Oklahoma towns.
Bug tussle tenn got mentioned in the Beverly hill billies
Then there's Pahrump, Nevada, which isn't all that weird but it is fun to say. Nevada also has a ghost town called Sod House. Its exact location is uncertain and is, today, known mainly by pilots due to the Sod House VORTAC (SDO, 111.45 MHz).
In Oregon, there's Boring, Drain, and Apiary.
In Washington, there's Sedro-Woolley.
I once competed in a wrestling tournament that included schools from the following towns, Normal, Plano, and Sandwich. All 3 in Illinois.
Too funny. An older brother of mine lived in Plano before moving to Sandwich.
Pennsylvania is full of funny town names besides Blue Ball and Intercourse. There’s Bird-in-Hand, Slippery Rock, Big Beaver, Mars, Moon, Wampum, Punxsutawney, and Jersey Shore (which is nowhere near Jersey or the shore)!
5:25 There's also Plankton, Ohio. We pass through it every so often on the way to Tiffin.
All I can think of is spongebob.
The origin of the word “hell” is not nearly as ghoulish as we think. The term was merely an adjective to describe how intense a metaphorical fire was. A hell fire just meant a bright fire. Taken without that context, hell just meant bright, and generally had positive connotations.
I understand that each winter Hell freezes over.
@@BigD53 The one in Michigan does.
@@brianarbenz1329 that's the one I meant. 😀
"Intercourse" always seems to be ten miles from "Blue Ball".
My dad grew up in Michigan, and told me about a time when Hell froze over when he was young.
I was waiting for Chicken Alaska but it never came. They wanted to name the town Ptarmigan after a local bird of the same name, but couldn't spell it. They new it was a type of wild chicken so...
Thought I was losing it when I looked up without having been listening to find that number 1 and 32 were both supposedly in Michigan, but then went back to listen and find that 32 is actually Maine.
I was born and raised in Louisville , Kentucky and when the television program "THE DUKES OF HAZZARD" came on in
the 1970's , one of our TV news stations did a report on HAZARD , KENTUCKY which , of course is in HAZARD COUNTY .
Thanks for sharing. I was laughing at the names
There is a town in Montana called Two Dot, and my high school choir director used to insult members by saying "You're not in Two Dot anymore!".
Hell is nice. I've been there. But if want some juvenile town names in Michigan, here's some of them:
Cummings
Dick(Small ghost town, size doesn't matter to them)
Climax
Dickson
Peacock
Hancock
Jugville
Podunk(Actually name of 3 towns)
Tittabawassee
There are plenty of other funny sounding names in the UP.
I grew up near Hell, MI, and the story I always heard was that it was named for a river in Germany. Maybe that wasn't true, but it sounds more likely to me than the reasons given here.
A town official in Arkansas filled out the government form wrong when it was formed. They didn't get the name they wanted because the person who filled out the form saw an instruction above the line where you list the name that read on the form, "Write in ink", thus the town of Ink Arkansas was born. True Story
There is also a Boring, Oregon. I was surprised to see Boring in an eastern state. But I should not be surprised, why? People named a lot of new western towns after places they were from.
This is not the town's name but a community name...my mother grew up in Horsepasture. It is part of Martinsville, Virginia in Henry County.
Bugtussle Oklahoma is the hometown of Carl Albert a former speaker of the House of Representatives.
The story goes that before Prosperity SC got its name it was called Frog Level. A politician is said to have had too much to drink at local tavern and fell off his horse into a ditch. When asked how far he fell he replied he was down to frog level. A few years ago there were still sign on the country roads in that area identifying it as Frog Level.
Before getting to Climax, GA, from Intercourse, PA, you may need to go through Erect, NC, first.
Other funny names: In Iowa there's Lost Nation (every one from there that I have asked have no idea where the name came from) and in Montana there's Two Dot. Being a Montanan I have no idea where the name came from, but I have heard that the town has two bars and one church so....
Interesting that you were able to come up with a New Mexico one that wasn't Truth or Consequences.
You may like the song "I Want to Polka", which has all kinds of double entendre names, including Intercourse and Blueball, but also has "More Head", and if sung a certain way, "Bangor" and "Tampa."
Outside the "nifty fifty" but still in the USA, Puerto Rico has "Loquillo", "little crazy", actually. And American Samoa does have a village spelled "Auto." No sure if there are any car dealerships there.
Go North of the Lower 48, find places such as Medicine Hat, Alberta, and Dildo, Newfoundland.
There is a town named Lovelady in the state of Texas.
Come by Chance in Newfoundland is still my favorite
I've lived in NM for almost 50 years and I never heard of Candy Kitchen. It looks like it's just a closed restaurant on Googlemaps. I can't find anything about population, but it looks like there is one house there. (The wild wolf sanctuary is actually located on Candy Kitchen Road in Ramah, NM.)
I’ve been quietly amused by the town of Bumpass, VA for quite some time, but I thank you for answering the lingering question, is it “Bum Pass” or “Bump Ass?”
Going along with the theme of Climax and other "suggestive" names, there is also a Hooker, Oklahoma.
I live about 2 hours from Uranus, Missouri, we also have gas stations called Kum and Go.
Bland, Va
Out near the panhandle in OK is a town called Slapout. Couldn't find a reference as to how the name came to be.
Vauxhall New Jersey, means Opel, also a district in London. Near a town I lived in in the 1970's. Thank you for this very fun and informative video. I love it.
There’s also a Wynot in Nebraska…sounds the same anyway. There’s also “Norfolk”, legendarily misnamed by a cartographer who thought the unrefined accent of the prairie was saying a relatively common English town name when they were really talking about the “Nor-fork” (north fork) of a nearby landmark. So yes, “Norfolk, NE” is pronounced “Nor-fork”
I chuckle every time I drive by a Nimrod sign! What about Sleepy Eye, Minnesota??? My Mom's folks were from there!
Try Horseheads, NY - right down the road to Big Flats, NY