A friend of mine from out of state recently visited and he remarked that Washington State sure has a lot of strange sounding, funny town names. Here are just a few...

Aloha, WA
Humptulips, WA
La Push, WA
Pysht, WA
Ruff Starbuck, WA
Zillah, WA
Humptulips, WA
Snoqualmie, WA
Wellpinit, WA
Skookumchuck River
Snohomish River
Puyallup, WA
Sequim, WA
Dosewallups ,WA
Tillicum, WA
Kooskooskie, WA
Enumclaw, WA

Growing up here I guess I'm just used to them...but I can see how people might find them funny sounding. What are some of the stranger names in other states?

 

We have a few here in Nebraska like Wahoo, Waterloo, La Platte, Grand Island, and Valentine

 

In California we have Igo, Ono, Hat Creek, Smartville, Rough and Ready, Fish Camp, to name a few. A lot of prople get mixed up between Ukiah, Eureka, and Yreka. More later, as I think of them. -TD

 

Hell, Ishpeming, Ithaca, Kalamazoo, Pinckney ,Kalkaska ,
Reading, Romeo, Zilwaukee ,Vermontville ,Evart ,Ontanogan.
the funny thing is i know ware these cities are and i have been to them

got to love michigan

 

Cucamonga, CA.
Ball Ground, GA
Social Circle, GA
Waycross, GA
Young Harris, GA
Walla Walla, WA

 

In Okla: Rubbottom, Bowlegs, Broken Bow, Nowata, Lottawata, Tailholt, Beggs, Peggs, Oolagah, and you got to hold your nose for this one: Depew. Funny town names? It would be harder to find normal town names here.

 

Kwob, You aren't the only one that thinks of this stuff.

These are from way back.
There are so many in the US I had to make 4 threads.

Enjoy the Read

The US of A


https://www.ford-trucks.com/forums/s...ead.php?t=2093

https://www.ford-trucks.com/forums/s...ead.php?t=2177

https://www.ford-trucks.com/forums/s...ead.php?t=2143

https://www.ford-trucks.com/forums/s...ead.php?t=2186

Canada

https://www.ford-trucks.com/forums/s...ead.php?t=2190

https://www.ford-trucks.com/forums/s...ead.php?t=2184

 

I always kinda liked Spuzzum, BC.
*****, Newfoundland is another good one.
Just north of where I live in the Nass Valley are some native Indian villages with native names. There are Gingolx, Gitwinksihlkw, Lax Galts'ap and Gitlakdamix.
Also in the Nass Valley is the Tillicum Lodge.

 

NH has Dummer & Effingham and Weare (pronounced where)

 

And in Colorful Colorado there is the little town of "No Name". Get a good map to find it though!

 

There's a place here called Half.com Oregon. Used to be called Halfway, but everyone there decided to change it a few years ago.

http://town.half.com/

 

Dennis, in the first thread you have listed, I couldn't help but notice Boonville, Ca. was listed. I used to live there, it's only about 50 miles from where I live now. Not spelled with an "E" in the middle, though. Sometimes people call it "Boonsville" as well. It famous for having its own language, "Boontling".

http://www2.sjsu.edu/depts/linguisti.../boontling.htm
http://www.connectedtraveler.com/zeese.html

Another thing I thought was interesting was the list of Spanish translations of California towns, although one of my favorites was missing; Los Banos, which can be translated as "The Toilets"! -TD

 

You forgot a couple,

*******,Mi
Flushing,Mi
Flat Rock,Mi
Acme,Mi (beep-beep)
Mount Pleasant,Mi
But best of all there is Ford rd,and the Edsel Ford freeway!

 

How could you forget Disco, rangersvt?? It's pretty close to Romeo, which is just south of where I grew up. We've got lots of weird street names too... Gratiot, Dequindre, Livernois... oh yeah, we've got it all. Heck, we've got potholes with their own zip codes! Maybe we should start naming the potholes too!

 

pa has one called intercourse in dutch country part