Jim Thorpe, Pennsylvania has a wacky story. Though I grew up in West Virginia and would like to point out Odd, Pickle Street, Booger Hole, Hurricane (pronounced Hurrakin), Paw Paw (a fruit tree), and Scrabble
I love geography & discovering the hilarious place names that exist around the world is such a fun aspect of the field. Here's another one: there's a suburb of the crudhole known as Fort Worth, with the name of "White Settlement". The name definitely raises eyebrows amongst those unfamiliar, including the tourists who visit (for whatever odd reason) & see the 'burb & the eponymous major thoroughfare running from there to downtown FW... but its origin is actually non-bigoted & innocent - it's simply the spot where the first white settlers in the region arrived &... well, settled. The local indigenous tribes started calling the place "the white settlement" - & the name simply stuck. 🤷🏿♂ Love the flow, humor, & info of the video - would indeed love to see this become a li'l bit of a series. :)
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Btw, I'm sure there are many others, but for another example of a town named after a country- Lebanon, KY (and it got the name way before Lebanon as it currently exists as a country existed)
Salsipuedes freeway exit (get out if you can) which looks ominous at 1am after 4 hours on the 101 freeway from San Francisco to Los Angeles. Las Pulgas Road (the fleas road). A study of the use of Spanish in California municipal life would yield a plethora of funny, colorful and imaginary usage of the language.
Same goes for Pennsylvania. Makes me wonder how there have been some really horny Amish back a couple of centuries ago when you consider how many towns in Dutch Country have sexually charged names.
To add to the oddity of towns named after foreign countries or major foreign cities, some of those towns use some rather interesting pronunciations of those places. My experience from this comes from Indiana, where Peru is pronounced "pee'-roo" and Versailles is pronounced "ver-sail's".
8:15 Did you know that 15 minutes away from Intercourse, there is a town named Blue Balls? And they are not alone, because there are actually a bunch of towns in Pennsylvania with sexually explicit names such as Virginville, Pleasureville, Bird-in-Hand, Colon and Mount Joy.
It's Blue Ball, singular... You can travel from Bird-in-Hand to Intercourse to Mt. Joy, but if you make a wrong turn you'll end up in Blue Ball. In Michigan, Hell is in the Lower Peninsula, but appropriately, Paradise is in the Upper Peninsula.
Man, how do you have a Florida one and a whole bunch of inappropriate-sounding ones while sleeping on Yeehaw Junction, FL? I know that one doesn't sound any kind of wrong, but that's the re-name. The little "town" with a couple houses, a saloon, and a general store, used to be a common stop for farmers taking their produce to be sold, often on the backs of donkeys. Yeehaw Junction is the replacement name for Jackass Junction.
Going from Hot Spring to Truth or Consequence is insane but after driving through it makes sense
Jim Thorpe, Pennsylvania has a wacky story.
Though I grew up in West Virginia and would like to point out Odd, Pickle Street, Booger Hole, Hurricane (pronounced Hurrakin), Paw Paw (a fruit tree), and Scrabble
I love geography & discovering the hilarious place names that exist around the world is such a fun aspect of the field.
Here's another one: there's a suburb of the crudhole known as Fort Worth, with the name of "White Settlement".
The name definitely raises eyebrows amongst those unfamiliar, including the tourists who visit (for whatever odd reason) & see the 'burb & the eponymous major thoroughfare running from there to downtown FW... but its origin is actually non-bigoted & innocent - it's simply the spot where the first white settlers in the region arrived &... well, settled. The local indigenous tribes started calling the place "the white settlement" - & the name simply stuck. 🤷🏿♂
Love the flow, humor, & info of the video - would indeed love to see this become a li'l bit of a series. :)
There are plenty of towns in California that are hilariously named in Spanish: Los Baños (the bathrooms), Salida (exit), and more.
Manteca and Vacaville too
I automatically think of the street "Chorro" in San Luis Obispo. lol. Diarrhea. Well done!
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Here's one. Climax, Georgia. It was called that because it was built up on a very high elevation.
There is also a Cumming, GA.
Ketchuptown south carolina. Also an area in south carolina where the cities are named norway sweden denmark and so on lol
Cut and Shoot, TX 🤠
Btw, I'm sure there are many others, but for another example of a town named after a country- Lebanon, KY (and it got the name way before Lebanon as it currently exists as a country existed)
Salsipuedes freeway exit (get out if you can) which looks ominous at 1am after 4 hours on the 101 freeway from San Francisco to Los Angeles. Las Pulgas Road (the fleas road). A study of the use of Spanish in California municipal life would yield a plethora of funny, colorful and imaginary usage of the language.
Arizona has so many good ones
Why?
Same goes for Pennsylvania. Makes me wonder how there have been some really horny Amish back a couple of centuries ago when you consider how many towns in Dutch Country have sexually charged names.
@@GPSdotGlitch Not sure why but thats why id like to see a video about Top-Of-The-World, Dudeville, and Chistmas AZ
@@tjjones33 I was making a joke because one of the town was Why
How about Peabody, MA, or Glocester, NJ vs Gloucester, MA, which have different pronunciations?
so fun!
To add to the oddity of towns named after foreign countries or major foreign cities, some of those towns use some rather interesting pronunciations of those places. My experience from this comes from Indiana, where Peru is pronounced "pee'-roo" and Versailles is pronounced "ver-sail's".
Accident, Maryland
8:15 Did you know that 15 minutes away from Intercourse, there is a town named Blue Balls? And they are not alone, because there are actually a bunch of towns in Pennsylvania with sexually explicit names such as Virginville, Pleasureville, Bird-in-Hand, Colon and Mount Joy.
It's Blue Ball, singular... You can travel from Bird-in-Hand to Intercourse to Mt. Joy, but if you make a wrong turn you'll end up in Blue Ball.
In Michigan, Hell is in the Lower Peninsula, but appropriately, Paradise is in the Upper Peninsula.
I nominate the unincorporated town of Blue Ball, in Scott County, Arkansas.
You talked about Milan,Tennessee, but skipped Milan, Ohio where Thomas Edison was born. And there's also a Milan, Michigan.
Poopitty Poopy Poopville, IN
Population: your mom!
Jk
Cool video!
Man, how do you have a Florida one and a whole bunch of inappropriate-sounding ones while sleeping on Yeehaw Junction, FL? I know that one doesn't sound any kind of wrong, but that's the re-name. The little "town" with a couple houses, a saloon, and a general store, used to be a common stop for farmers taking their produce to be sold, often on the backs of donkeys. Yeehaw Junction is the replacement name for Jackass Junction.
Drain OR
Little Rock isn’t that strange of a name
Starbase isn’t a strange name