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I don't know how much this actually qualifies as a town as much as an oversized neighborhood, but I live in an area of Douglas County, GA in a settlement known as Chapel Hill.

It is a rather big settlement, as it has its own high, middle, and elementary school.

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Oregon either swiped names of cities/other areas like:

Portland

Salem

Dallas

Ontario

Detroit

Madras (mad-dress NOT muh-draw-ss)

Milwaukie (spelled wrong on purpose)

Lebanon

Or it has names that are random

Aloha (uh-low-uh NOT uh-low-hah)

The Dalles ('the' is part of the name)

Boring (a very descriptive name for the town btw)

Bend (say Bend, Oregon fast... it sounds funny :rofl: )

North Bend (which btw is SW of Bend by 240 miles)

Sisters

Brothers

La Pine (French for "The Pine")

La Grande (French for "The Big")

Biggs

Troutdale

Beaverton

Maupin (moppin')

Dufur (dew-fir)

Burns

Burns Junction (90 miles east of course)

Tigard (Tigered)

Happy Valley

Sweet Home

and my personal fav: Zigzag

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Mars, PA

Moon, PA

California, Pennsylvania

Wyoming, Pennsylvania

Indiana, Pennsylvania

Ohio, Pennsylvania

Washington, Pennsylvania

Oil City, PA

Straw Pump, PA

Large, PA

Bird in Hand, PA

Intercourse, PA

;)

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Stoner, Colorado

Weed, California (Both are popular with giggling teenagers)

Volcano, California

Zzyzx. California (it's somewhere out in the Mojave Desert)

Talent, Oregon (Unlike Boring, OR this town name proves to be a misnomer)

Cosmopolis, Washington

Half.com, Oregon

On the town website it states, "This is Halfway Oregon, population 337, which officially changed it's name to Half.com during the dot-com boom of the late 90's. Half.com made many promises. Some of which were honored and others not."

www.halfwayoregon.com

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Half.com, Oregon

On the town website it states, "This is Halfway Oregon, population 337, which officially changed it's name to Half.com during the dot-com boom of the late 90's. Half.com made many promises. Some of which were honored and others not."

www.halfwayoregon.com

THAT is really a town name!?

Wow...I'm gonna visit the website.

Try These:

Lucile, Idaho

White Settlement, Texas

Arkansas City in Sothern Kansas (Below Wichita quite a ways)

In Sumner County, Kansas, there are several settlements with the names of several world cities:

Rome

Perth

Milan

--And the seat, Wellington.

There is a Medicine Lodge in Barber County, Kansas.

And a place that is just as odd as it sounds:

Bazaar, Kansas.

(Or maybe it IS just a little store, after all)

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There's a Climax in Michigan too. It's by Kalamazoo, another not-so-normal-name. Kalamazoo means bubbling water.

Saugatuck is Michigan's "Art Shore"...a popular artist colony is here, near Holland (not Europe).

Michigan Center is a town that's not quite in the center of the state at all. It's near the Ohio/Indiana border.

Paw Paw is near Watervliet and Dowagiac.

Wyoming and Alaska are both suburbs of Grand Rapids.

Fouch is near Traverse City. Not quite sure the pronunciation... :whistling: North of that is Peshawbestown. Dang.

White Cloud (at least it's not yellow)

Lyons-Muir always struck me as odd.

Grand Ledge and Grand Blanc. Never understood what was so grand about a ledge and a blanc nothing. It's even spelled wrong.

Okemos

Birch Run is near Flint...and you wonder why it's running. ;)

Maybee is near Toledo.

Luna Pier is one of the first exits in Michigan coming in from Toledo.

Sans Souci...what?

Zilwaukee...not to be confused with Milwaukee.

It's Ubly not Ugly...near Bad Axe. These are in the same county as Sebewaing. lol

If you're not from the area, everyone always laughs at Gaylord. In the UP there is also Gay, home of the strait Gay Bar.

Topinabee is on the shores of Mullett Lake.

The Upper Peninsula has some fun names like

Munuscong

Naomikong

Millecoquins

De Tour Village

Sault Ste. Marie pronounced Soo Saint Marie

Rudyard and Kipling

Pine Stump Junction

Germfask

Christmas

Ishpeming/Negaunee

Ontonagon

L'Anse

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Birch Run is what it is, meaning as "a run of trees," as in rows or a long clumped area of Birch trees. Don't forget nearby Frankenmuth, or FrAHnkinmooth as I think it's pronounced german.

Ann Arbor makes really no sense either. Named after the wives of the two founders and the fact that the city had lots of trees, and still does.

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How about this one:

Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch, Wales.

Seriously. I didn't make it up.

It means "The church of St. Mary in the hollow of white hazel trees near the rapid whirlpool by St. Tysilio's of the red cave"

The locals just call it Llanfair.

http://www.llanfair.com

There is a station in Wales called Gorsafawddachaidraigodanheddogleddollonpenrhynareurdraethceredigion but this is well less known.

There is also Tetaumatawhakatangihangakoauaotamateaurehaeaturipukapihimaungahoronukupokaiwhenu

aakitanarahu in New Zealand.

And finally Krungthepmahanakornamornratanakosinmahintarayutthayamahadilokphopnopparatrajatha

niburiromudomrajaniwesmahasatharnamornphimarnavatarnsathitsakkattiyavisanukampra

sit in Thailand

All of this was gathered from: http://www.Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyr...liogogogoch.com

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