Cool Place Names

[wainzoid]

I was going over my list of places to hunt (if spring ever gets here) and chuckled to myself about some of the places names.
On my list to do... or places Ive done :

1. old log house at 'Leather Cracker'
2. RR station near 'Shy Beaver'
3. steampump dam at 'Scratchtown'
4. uncle Bucks farm at 'Sheepskin Flats'
5. Deans yard and LL field on 'Hogback'
6. old foundations at 'Aitch'
7. swimming hole at 'Paradise'

Before they built Raystown dam we always 'went thru Aitch to get to Paradise'.... now we have to go around

 

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[Wyomingmedic]

Round here, we have some official names that are unique.

"Hell Hole"
"Chicken Creek"
"Dead Indian"
"Rattlesnake Ridge"
"Muddy Mtn"
"Hogsback"
"Boars Tusk"
"Virgin Hill"
"Oyster Ridge" <---- We're 2000 miles from any ocean

Those are some of the sites I go to for work all the time. There are other less PC sites, but we'll just keep those off the forum.

WM

 

[Citiboy289]

Here in Georgia ------ 5 Forks Tricken Rd------------------------- Beaver Ruin Road

5 Forks Tricken Road ----- Was a junction of 5 roads during the WAR OF NORTHERN AGRESSION The locals at the junction turned the signs around daily to confuse the Northern Troops , Hence the name 5 forks Tricken Road

Beaver Ruin Road --- Guess that explains itself

There is also a town named CUMMING

 

[Moonrover]

We travel most of the year, so strange place names do catch us by surprise sometimes.

Coonpath Rd (near Lancaster, OH)
Purgatory Rd (near Canyon Lake, TX)
Toad Suck, AR
Flytown (near Columbus, OH)
Cut and Shoot, TX

The list would be larger if my memory was better. <lol>

M

 

[wainzoid]

Not on my list to hunt, but nearby is 'Dumb Hundred'. When my sisters family built there I thought they should have changed it to 'Dumb Hundred and four' lol

 

[Gold Maven]

The small town I grew up in had a hill called "rip", after most of my childhood calling it that and not knowing what it meant, I asked an old timer.

He said years ago a team of horses ripped their gut trying to pull an over loaded wagon up the hill. It was "rip-gut hill", then got shortened to "rip".

 

[BosnMate]

The gold country of California had some really colorful names, lonesome men far from any females if you know what I mean, but as far back as the 60's the Forest Service went through the country and cleaned everything up into PC names and removed a lot of history off the maps. There are still names that give a person an idea of the past, Roaring Camp, Rough and Ready, Nellies N -- oops. There is a meadow in the high country above Bass Lake, with a large granite boulder shaped just like the part of a horse that makes him a man, and of course the name of the meadow was "Jackass Balls," but I'm sure that name has been changed by the Forest Service and not on the maps now.

 

[TerryC]

How about Lick skillet, VA, near Tazewell. TTC

 

[racer117]

Wanderoos,Wi.

Spread Eagle ,Wi.

Gays Mills,Wi.

Embarrass,wi.

Spooner,Wi

Ubet,Wi

 

[rickn1]

Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan

Climax, Sask.

Ghoultown, Sask.

Beaver Flat, Sask.

Urine, Sask.

 

[Gold Maven]

There is a Big Bottom State Memorial in Ohio, I took a picture of my wife by the sign, and when she turned around I snapped another one.
Plan on putting it in the paper with birthday wishes one of these years.....

 

[Moonrover]

There is a Big Bottom State Memorial in Ohio, I took a picture of my wife by the sign, and when she turned around I snapped another one.
Plan on putting it in the paper with birthday wishes one of these years.....

Same paper where your obituary will be? <lol>

M

 

[lookindown]

We have a town here in Fl. thats named "Two eggs"...real town name. There is a town in Pa. named "Intercourse"...right in the middle of Amish country.

 

[TerryC]

There is a Road (Drive) called Shinarump, near Kingman, AZ

 

[Goldwasher]

Cool, Ca. Pig Turd Alley, in the Motherlode Deadman Creek Eastern Sierra Ca. I pass widowmaker road twice a day.At the top of my daily 9% grade.

 

[66hotel]

In Mississippi we have; Red Lick, SoSo, Whynot, It, Chunky, Ball Ground, Alligator, Midnight, Hot Coffee, D'Lo, and Ecru.

 

[Landlord Jim]

I have detected in Hell, MI and drove thru Climax one time. Have detected many times in Bad Axe, MI

 

[blaylock]

We have some names here for places that if your not in my family , your probaly noy going to know where we are talking about. (1) Rattlesnake Ridge -never saw one there (2) The Jews Place-actually owned by an irish family for 150 years (3)Whiskey Still Holler-our families place..lol (4) Dance Hall Hill-not a single trace of anything for 6 miles (5) and my favorite-Peters Cutoff

 

[TerryC]

Cool, Ca. Pig Turd Alley, in the Motherlode Deadman Creek Eastern Sierra Ca. I pass widowmaker road twice a day.At the top of my daily 9% grade.

Pville, you missed Drytown (but I don't know if that meant alcohol or the dry creekbed nearby). TTC

 

[liftloop]

I was going over my list of places to hunt (if spring ever gets here) and chuckled to myself about some of the places names.
On my list to do... or places Ive done :

1. old log house at 'Leather Cracker'
2. RR station near 'Shy Beaver'
3. steampump dam at 'Scratchtown'
4. uncle Bucks farm at 'Sheepskin Flats'
5. Deans yard and LL field on 'Hogback'
6. old foundations at 'Aitch'
7. swimming hole at 'Paradise'

Before they built Raystown dam we always 'went thru Aitch to get to Paradise'.... now we have to go around

what is this American diggers or sum-then