Strange & Silly Place Names in U.S. and Canada

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  • @sknowman1424
    @sknowman1424 3 роки тому +42

    Big Ugly is a place close to where I grew up in WV. I remember a wedding announcement in the local newspaper I used to deliver as a kid. On the social page page it said '' Beauty man to wed Big Ugly woman" . Beauty was a town in nearby Kentucky.

    • @mindymorgan7684
      @mindymorgan7684 2 роки тому +9

      That's so funny, thank you for making my day. I know it's silly but I am laughing so hard I am crying.

    • @geoffroi-le-Hook
      @geoffroi-le-Hook 2 роки тому +4

      In northern Iowa they have Fertile and Manly.

    • @XVeganDaveGodFreeX
      @XVeganDaveGodFreeX 2 роки тому +1

      Surprised I never saw that on Leno!

    • @TheLordOfNothing
      @TheLordOfNothing 11 місяців тому

      This needs to be on Weekend Update.

    • @Moonshinedave1
      @Moonshinedave1 6 місяців тому

      I think I had mentioned Big Ugly WV to this guy before. I was once driving listening to a radio talk show when the host said "We have a Big Ugly woman on line one" about that time he realized what he said and cracked up as did I and probably a lot of other listeners.

  • @davidtardio9804
    @davidtardio9804 3 роки тому +213

    Greatly appreciate and respect your decision to avoid the town names that everyone else has talked about for years. Well done.

    • @somaahismail2698
      @somaahismail2698 3 роки тому +13

      Talking about intercourses Pa?

    • @nunyabusiness8538
      @nunyabusiness8538 3 роки тому +11

      Mianus Connecticut?

    • @klawiehr
      @klawiehr 3 роки тому +5

      I wasn't going to click on this video because I had heard it all before, but then I saw that the thumbnail had new interesting places.

    • @DonnaChamberson
      @DonnaChamberson 3 роки тому +5

      How dare he not even mention Truth or Consequences (T or C) New Mexico. I’m so pissed.

    • @timwolfers7880
      @timwolfers7880 3 роки тому +12

      @@somaahismail2698 there was a bakery in Intercourse, and their slogan was "I got my sticky buns from Intercourse" (available on T shirts back then). Sadly, it closed over 10 years ago.

  • @onebackzach
    @onebackzach 3 роки тому +100

    Two weird names in Louisiana are "Waterproof" and "Dry Prong". Waterproof got it's name because of the fact that it never flooded and Dry Prong got it's name because there was a prong of a creek that ran through that dried up seasonally. However, the best part of these two places is that some time in the 30's there was allegedly a newspaper article with the headline "Waterproof man drowns in Dry Prong Creek". Another interesting one is that there's a swamp called "Coochie Brake" which gets it's name from Ft. Coutier which was built there in the 1700's and brake being an old term for an overgrown swampy area.

  • @JW-vi2nh
    @JW-vi2nh 2 роки тому +10

    I find it hilarious that you also noticed the high number of silly place names in Kentucky. Every time I look at a map of KY I find another place to chuckle at. I grew up really close to "Tater Knob Tower" and "Twin Knobs." One of my high school friends, after telling me that he was gay, explained that he'd made plans to meet his online boyfriend for the first time at "Twin Knobs." We got a laugh out of that.

  • @LaceC21
    @LaceC21 2 роки тому +4

    I’m not sure if anyone knows about this. But in Michigan we have a town named Hell. It was named that because George Reeves was asked what he thought the town he helped settle should be called and replied "I don't care. You can name it Hell for all I care." The name became official on October 13, 1841.

  • @spencerclements3005
    @spencerclements3005 Рік тому +2

    A tickle is a narrow entrance to a harbour. You go "out through the tickle" to get into the bay from Glovertown, NL. Leading Tickles is like a town built at the outmost tickle of a series of narrow openings to a more protected harbour.

  • @mharmi4
    @mharmi4 3 роки тому +89

    The town name of Ixonia, WI was decided by pulling letters at random until they could be arranged them into a name. I think that’s pretty interesting and fun.

    • @GeographyKing
      @GeographyKing  3 роки тому +23

      That's one I did not know. And it's a pretty cool word

    • @snoopy1837
      @snoopy1837 3 роки тому +14

      That’s my theory about how they make medicine names

    • @LukeSlocum23
      @LukeSlocum23 3 роки тому +11

      @@GeographyKing Not far too far from Ixonia, there's Vinnie Ha Ha. I have no idea how its name came about, but the Canadian town you mentioned reminded me of it.

    • @JB-qt4hp
      @JB-qt4hp 3 роки тому +8

      I always heard that's what they named Canada. "C-eh?-N-eh?-D-eh?"

    • @lauren9004
      @lauren9004 3 роки тому +1

      @@snoopy1837 EXACTLY

  • @paulburley7993
    @paulburley7993 9 місяців тому +3

    There's a town in Ontario called Buckhorn. The B was easily changed to an F and a Y was added to the end. It was skilfully done.

    • @timothyball3144
      @timothyball3144 11 днів тому +1

      @@paulburley7993 That reminds me of FLICKER lane.

  • @kathleenhudson8429
    @kathleenhudson8429 3 роки тому +62

    I don’t know if this is on the other lists you mentioned, but I always liked No Name, Colorado, just east of Glenwood Springs. In 1900, the state wanted to formalize place names, so they devised a form to be filled out by every town. This town couldn’t agree on a name, so they put “No Name” in the appropriate blank, meaning to make the decision at a later time. So that became the town’s official name.

  • @butler-macdonald8351
    @butler-macdonald8351 3 роки тому +33

    Howdy Kyle,
    Much appreciation for the shout out on some of Newfoundland's funny names. Others include Conception Bay (where I was born), Witless Bay, and even a Placentia Bay (like in California). We also have names like Come-by-Chance, Dildo, Port-au-Port, and a series of three communities all within a 10 minute drive called Heart's Desire, Heart's Content, and Heart's Delight.
    Also, extra kudos to you for using the proper pronunciation of Newfoundland. Very few people who live outside of this island say it correctly. Newfoundlanders are very rarely offended if someone pronounces it incorrectly, but every Newfoundlander would be proud to hear it pronounced the Newfoundland way by a CFA (Come From Away).
    Now you just need to come up here to drink a shot of our "Screech" rum, kiss a cod fish on the lips, recite the inauguration speech, and then you're an honourary one of us lol (Look up "screeched in" sometime to understand our initiation process haha)
    Cheers!

    • @HelheimMudkip
      @HelheimMudkip 2 роки тому

      That first ones a bit ironic

    • @Rancid-Jane
      @Rancid-Jane 2 роки тому

      Newfoundland Labrador have the best odd names.
      There are several more tickles I believe, I understood it to be a nautical term for a small cove.

  • @markfischer1778
    @markfischer1778 3 роки тому +95

    There’s a small community in Northern Ontario called Swastika. It was founded in 1908, long before the symbol became forever tarnished by Nazis.

    • @bigbabado8296
      @bigbabado8296 3 роки тому +20

      I feel bad for the people and cultures that used that symbol for centuries which will now be forever marred by the Nazis.

    • @NeonYukon
      @NeonYukon 3 роки тому +11

      Or asbestos Quebec, Shame lol

    • @UserName-ts3sp
      @UserName-ts3sp 3 роки тому +3

      you'd think they would've changed the name tbh

    • @isabelledrolet4297
      @isabelledrolet4297 3 роки тому +8

      Asbestos changed their name to Val-des-Sources in December 2020. It means "Valley of the Springs". Much better, I think.

    • @mikematson6323
      @mikematson6323 3 роки тому +8

      @@UserName-ts3sp The Government wanted to change the name of Swastika during WWII, but the residents fought it. As is, the Government was successful in getting some other places changed. Kitchener was originally known as Berlin.

  • @jimj4583
    @jimj4583 3 роки тому +37

    From time to time, I check the map for Yreka, California, to see if anyone has opened a bakery there. Yreka Bakery is a palindrome.

    • @ThirdEngr
      @ThirdEngr 3 роки тому +5

      That would be very cool!

    • @gus473
      @gus473 3 роки тому +3

      👍🏼 Had forgotten about that one! Wish we could have done this on 12/21/21! 😅😉✌🏼

    • @stevedietrich8936
      @stevedietrich8936 3 роки тому +3

      Jim J, That is an excellent palindrome. a man a plan a canal panama.

    • @tootsiequilt
      @tootsiequilt Рік тому +1

      RADAR........they got you coming and going!

    • @diane1390
      @diane1390 Рік тому +1

      I've been through that little town. It's been many years for me now. I live in Fresno California. I love seeing the sights in my home state.

  • @bill.godwin-austen
    @bill.godwin-austen 3 роки тому +14

    One of my favorites since a friend visited it about 25 years ago (but is probably too "famous" for this particular list) is Toad Suck, Arkansas.

  • @joeyjamison5772
    @joeyjamison5772 2 роки тому +1

    I spent 3 weeks at North, South Carolina in 1969, courtesy of the US Air Force during a training exercise. There's an abandoned WWII air field there.

  • @dennisyerger84
    @dennisyerger84 3 роки тому +35

    Some larger cities have strange names even though we've gotten used to them. Mobile, Wheeling, Newport News, and Flagstaff are odd names for a city when you really think about them.

    • @mindi.m
      @mindi.m 3 роки тому +5

      🖐🏼I'm a native of Newport News VA. My Granddaddy was very active in the community as well as being a firefighter. He told me that it originated as the place where Captain Christopher Newport delivered news of boats bringing replenishments and supplies after The Starving Time - winter of 1609 - 10. There is documentation that shows the original name as Newport's News. It's one theory.
      It is the location of Cristopher Newport University, Newport News Shipbuilding and Drydock, and the coal terminal at the end of the Chesapeake & Ohio Railway.

    • @JayBagwell
      @JayBagwell 3 роки тому +1

      Mobile, Alabama is from the Mobilian Tribe of the Choctaw Indians. It was coined by some of the early French and Spanish settlers of the Gulf region near Mobile bay. Unknown but most historians believe it’s was originally Mabilla or Mauvilla.

    • @dennisyerger84
      @dennisyerger84 3 роки тому +1

      @@JayBagwell Thanks for that piece of history. With a name like Mobile you'd think it got its name from being a transportation hub.

    • @wizardgrape7821
      @wizardgrape7821 3 роки тому +3

      I remember thinking Newport News was an error on google maps when I first came across it.

    • @geoffroi-le-Hook
      @geoffroi-le-Hook 2 роки тому +1

      Chicago means the place of the smelly onions or something like that

  • @outbackigloo6489
    @outbackigloo6489 3 роки тому +34

    A tickle is a small narrow inlet or strait. So Leading Tickles seems to imply a few such inlets leading to several more.
    My favorite Newfoundland place names include Cow Head, Joe Batt’s Arm, Witless Bay, Come By Chance, and of course, Dildo.

    • @dennisyerger84
      @dennisyerger84 3 роки тому +4

      Happy Valley-Goose Bay

    • @butler-macdonald8351
      @butler-macdonald8351 3 роки тому +6

      I was born in Conception Bay in Newfoundland lol
      There's also a Placentia in Newfoundland, similar to California.

    • @MHep-qy9yv
      @MHep-qy9yv 3 роки тому

      Ferryland will always by dear to my heart

    • @geoffroi-le-Hook
      @geoffroi-le-Hook 2 роки тому +1

      there is also Conception Bay South

    • @Ea-Nasir_Copper_Co
      @Ea-Nasir_Copper_Co 2 роки тому

      @@butler-macdonald8351 Placentia in Newfoundland is old enough to have been named after the Palace of Placentia, known later on as Greenwich Palace in England.

  • @jeffreydeeds9225
    @jeffreydeeds9225 3 роки тому +19

    Interesting and entertaining video. There is a town in NW Oklahoma called Slapout. The story is that it started as a general store in the days of cattle drives and if someone inquired about a good that he did not have, the owner would tell them that he was slap out of that.

    • @jasonjohnson4028
      @jasonjohnson4028 3 роки тому +2

      I went to school in Alva. I remember meeting people from Slap- out.

    • @johnsyler8580
      @johnsyler8580 3 роки тому

      I have there. I lived in Alva Ok.

    • @johnsyler8580
      @johnsyler8580 3 роки тому

      @@jasonjohnson4028 Did you go to Northwestern Oklahoma State?

    • @fishingthelist4017
      @fishingthelist4017 2 роки тому

      The first settlers obviously came from Slapout Alabama.

  • @krash66
    @krash66 2 роки тому +1

    In NYS, if you are driving east from Greenville, go through Surprise to get to Climax on your way to Coxsackie.

  • @algonquin91
    @algonquin91 3 роки тому +12

    Some other contenders from Newfoundland & Labrador:
    -Black Tickle
    -Happy Valley-Goose Bay
    -Blow Me Down
    -Dildo
    -Come By Chance
    -Conception Bay
    -Muddy Hole
    -Heart‘s Desire
    -Man Point

  • @tippytoes2358
    @tippytoes2358 3 роки тому +12

    Some of the safest places to live (Scoring an "A" in Area Vibes) are War, West Virginia and Hurricane, West Virginia and Tornado, West Virginia. Hurricane and Tornado are only about 17 miles away from each other.
    I always find that New River's name is interesting in that it is the oldest river in N. America and the world's second oldest behind the Nile.

    • @craighenry9512
      @craighenry9512 2 роки тому

      We used to travel by Hurricane) Pronounced Hurr uh Kin)by the locals). When we went through Charleston to take my sister to college in Grayson (Eastern) Kentucky.

  • @travelingwithrick
    @travelingwithrick 3 роки тому +13

    I got Bird-in-Hand, PA. Two Egg, FL. Mauch Chunk, PA ( now called Jim Thorpe)Always liked Moosejaw. Lynyrd Skynyrd recorded most of their music on Muscle Shoals. Always informative Mr Kyle.

    • @bradthehighwayman9956
      @bradthehighwayman9956 3 роки тому +1

      Even sing about the Muscle Shoals Swampers in Sweet Home Alabama!

    • @Whats-It-To-Ya
      @Whats-It-To-Ya 3 роки тому +1

      I went to school in Jim Thorpe. The locals hate when you call it Mauch Chunk, it's Native American for Big Rock. Some people will say otherwise, but that's what it really means.

  • @bjdon99
    @bjdon99 3 роки тому +15

    Moose Jaw Saskatchewan should be on the list. I had 3 people in my college dorm in Montreal that were from there and learned all about it. Apparently it's the 'friendly city' and pretty big. Also Pigeon Forge TN near you deserves a mention.

    • @wordawakeningny
      @wordawakeningny 2 роки тому +1

      Yep, I always thought Moose Jaw was funny and Pigeon Forge is my favorite place to vacation :)

    • @misterandersson5645
      @misterandersson5645 2 роки тому +1

      I always liked Moose Factory, Ontario. Wish I get the chance to visit some day.

    • @jpsned
      @jpsned 2 роки тому +1

      I listened to the comedians Bob and Ray on WOR-AM radio out out NYC back in the mid-1970s.... they had a tape they would play of a sports announcer (who seemed to be somewhat tipsy) announcing the baseball scores from the "Moose Jaw League." Years later, as part of a cross-country trip I aimed to drive to Moose Jaw from Vermont. When I got to the border, I was asked by the guards why I was coming into Canada. I told them the story about hearing about Moose Jaw on the radio and how I've wanted to go there ever since. After they pondered my information for a few minutes, they let me cross. But I never made it--after camping in Yellow Grass, SK, a huge thunderstorm sprung up in front of me on Rte. 39 and I had to turn around and high-tail it out of there before it caught up to me!

    • @larryellisreed280
      @larryellisreed280 11 днів тому

      A popular pizza place and brewpub in Lake Delton, WI (part of the Wisconsin Dells resort area) is named "Moose Jaw Brewpub and Pizzeria," paying homage to the Saskatchewan community.

  • @timothynelson8330
    @timothynelson8330 3 роки тому +17

    Hey Kyle! I recall a few years ago looking at more detailed maps of North Carolina and West Virginia. The funniest and oddest names. Those towns always sound like a place I would love to visit. Especially as they are primarily in the beautiful hilly and mountainous areas of the states...interesting video as usual.

  • @michaelmathews295
    @michaelmathews295 3 роки тому +14

    Two that I've been through that are the exact opposites of their names are Scenic, S. Dakota and Sucess, Saskatchewan. One is in the badlands and the other is almost a ghost town.

    • @jag92949
      @jag92949 3 роки тому +1

      I guess that ghost town in Saskatchewan wasn’t a success.

    • @DerekWitt
      @DerekWitt 2 роки тому

      There's a town in southeast Kansas named Gas.

  • @areagh13
    @areagh13 3 роки тому +20

    There's a town called "Poca" in West Virginia and their high school mascot is "the dots" so it sounds like "Polka Dots"

    • @timmmahhhh
      @timmmahhhh 3 роки тому +4

      Almost as bad as Frankfort, Indiana where the high school mascot is the hot dogs.

  • @sinjin6219
    @sinjin6219 3 роки тому

    Cowlick AZ. I don't think it's on the maps anymore, but was there about 25 years ago in a DeLorme Gazetteer published in the early 1990's. It was near the southern border and west of Tucson.

  • @splitman1129
    @splitman1129 3 роки тому +5

    4:33 I grew up in nanty glo!! The towns next to it are Twin rocks (twin rock formation) and Vintondale. All old coal mining towns. Vintondale has the Eliza Furnace, one of the old smelters. There's also a biking/hiking trail that runs through the aforementioned towns and a few more. Awesome you added my small area. Nanty glo has about 2,000 people. Vintondale has about 200.

  • @wcguy2002
    @wcguy2002 2 роки тому

    I grew up not far from Pig, Kentucky, and I just knew it would be on this list!
    I really enjoy your videos!

  • @hgman3920
    @hgman3920 3 роки тому +29

    One of my favorite strange place names is not a town or city, but instead the Frank Church River of No Return Wilderness in Idaho. It's a pretty ominous name, especially for anyone who wants to partake in water activities

    • @kevinglazier8950
      @kevinglazier8950 3 роки тому +2

      A lot of backcountry flying takes place there too

    • @jathas1
      @jathas1 3 роки тому +2

      What a great name

    • @wintonhudelson2252
      @wintonhudelson2252 3 роки тому +1

      If you knew Frank Church, you'd know placing his name on "The river of no return" was appropriate

    • @robthetraveler1099
      @robthetraveler1099 3 роки тому +3

      In California there's a Salsipuedes Creek - Spanish for "Get out if you can."

    • @joeldavis5815
      @joeldavis5815 3 роки тому +2

      Apparently, according to my uncle, there are some pretty knarly rapids along that section of the Salmon. One aspect in particular that makes rafting along this stretch potentially dangerous is due to it's geographical remoteness. With virtually no basic cellphone service in the vast majority of the region and the fact that you might be 60 miles or more from the nearest habitation if you're trip turns ugly you're probably going to be in for a tough time.
      My uncle had a story from his one excursion rafting in this area about a fellow rafter from another party who had run into misfortune on the river, who had gotten himself critically injured when his raft hit a snag and actually died as a result of before help could arrive. According to my uncle, his group, upon investigation, had found some of the lost supplies that fell out of the deceased man's raft including a bottle of rum. My uncle's party then romantically dubbed the newly salvaged bottle the "Dead Man's Rum" and that night it was put on display in a prominent position in the camp they had set up. Although my uncle and his companions have been notorious and vigorous partiers during (probably) all of their decades of rafting excursions, that night nobody in the group decided to imbibe of the glass of spirits salvaged from the scattered debris that the previous ill-fated explorers had left behind. Of course, knowing my uncle and how many of his type operate, the story could be an embellishment...

  • @harrisonf7
    @harrisonf7 3 роки тому +1

    We have so many weird town names near Scranton, PA. To list a few: Forty Fort, Dupont, Moosic, Nanticoke, Exeter, Chinchilla, Sugar Notch, Meshoppen, Clarks Summit (it's in a valley)

    • @Whats-It-To-Ya
      @Whats-It-To-Ya 3 роки тому +1

      Don't forget Throop, Jessup, Shickshinney, Wommels Dorf, Bushkill, Bird-In-Hand, Punxsatawney, Wyoming, Loyalsock, Steamtown, Plymouth, Ormrod, Jersey Shore, Dallas, Falls, Tunkhannock, Dushore, Noxen (inbred heaven 😂), even Wilkes-Barre sounds demented (because it is). Atleast Scranton sounds normal even though it's a rundown Hellhole.

  • @JB-qt4hp
    @JB-qt4hp 3 роки тому +5

    I enjoy the name and story of Zzyzx, California. It was Soda Springs before, but a resort bought it, or a good part of it, and they named it Zzyzx. The story I heard was that they wanted to be the last name listed in the phone book, so they made up the name as it is spelled now.

  • @scottdowney4865
    @scottdowney4865 2 роки тому

    Bumpass, VA, was named for John T Bumpass, one of the first Postmasters in the area. The name is derived from the French bonpass, which means Happy Place.

  • @americansmark
    @americansmark 3 роки тому +30

    Knockemstiff has a lot of dumb and wrong answers on the wiki page. It is actually named for a word the Shawnee people used to describe the early attempts at moonshine which took place in Ross and Scioto counties during those days. Settlers were trying to find ways to make corn whiskey and the methanol that sometimes resulted tended to "Knockemstiff"

    • @craighenry9512
      @craighenry9512 2 роки тому +2

      That makes sense as Chillicothe is about 40 miles straight south of Columbus, dead in the middle of Ross county along the Scioto river ( Which also runs through the middle of Scioto county. Just to the north of Chillicothe off of state route 23 (Which runs through Columbus through Chillicothe, clear to Portsmouth.) is a group of Indian Mounds. So the Native American influence is obvious. Incidentally, the mounds are not far from Adena, the home of Thomas Worthington, where he looked north over his property and saw the valley that became the artwork on the seal of the state of Ohio.

  • @WarriorofSunlight
    @WarriorofSunlight 2 роки тому

    Here in Northeastern Arkansas there is a tiny community in between the towns of Paragould and Brooklyn off of highway 49 called “Goobertown.” It always gave me and my dad a good laugh.

  • @LearnwithJanice
    @LearnwithJanice 3 роки тому +5

    Best viseo on UA-cam dedicated to geography. Hello from Kansas 🇺🇸

  • @douglasmoen2658
    @douglasmoen2658 2 роки тому

    In Minnesota, there are quite a few: Sleepy Eye, Little Canada, Lac Qui Parle (in French: The Lake that Laughs), Yellow Medicine, Fertile, Temperance River, Castle Danger, Nimrod, Pillager, Embarrass, and so on.

  • @slayer_starswirl
    @slayer_starswirl 3 роки тому +72

    what's funny is I found other funny names in this video thru neighboring towns mentioned in the maps:
    1:45 lower left "Finger" (TN), top left "Three Way" (TN)
    2:10 lower right "California" (MO)
    4:13 top left "Ajo" (AZ) means Garlic in Spanish
    4:50 top right "Gore" (MI), mid left "Pigeon" (MI)
    6:46 far left "Grassy Butte" (ND)
    7:09 top far left "Moosic" (PA),
    - far left "Drums" (PA)
    7:32 lower middle "Knob Lick" (KY),
    - far right "Pippa Passes" (KY),
    - farthest right "Paw Paw" (KY/VA),
    - far left "Slaughters" (KY) (I know it's hard to see, have patience)
    9:07 mid left "Little Canada" (MN)
    9:59 top mid left "Ninety Six" (SC)

    • @chairmanlmao4482
      @chairmanlmao4482 3 роки тому +6

      There is the town of Dildo in Newfoundland and Labrador as well

    • @jag92949
      @jag92949 3 роки тому +9

      @@chairmanlmao4482 Dildo (Newfoundland) is pretty Gay (Michigan). If one can’t have Intercourse (Pennsylvania), then Dildo (Newfoundland) can be an alternative. But, this lust of sinful behavior will send one to Hell (Michigan). It won’t be Boring (Oregon) like purgatory. That’s the Truth & Consequences (New Mexico). However, a Liberal (Kansas) would disagree with this.

    • @slayer_starswirl
      @slayer_starswirl 3 роки тому +2

      @@jag92949 why (AZ)? or maybe the question is, whynot? (NC, MS)

    • @Whats-It-To-Ya
      @Whats-It-To-Ya 3 роки тому +1

      Moosic PA is just a Suburb of Scranton, it's where they film that awful show called the office. I live about an hour from there.

    • @GeoHuman.
      @GeoHuman. 3 роки тому +2

      @@slayer_starswirl If all goes wonky, you will have a Newborn (GA)

  • @davidk7324
    @davidk7324 2 роки тому

    Picabo, Idaho. Yes, the former Olympic skier, Picabo Street, was named after this small farming community near Sun Valley.

  • @Silverliningwhere
    @Silverliningwhere 3 роки тому +18

    You sir, make amazing content. Don’t stop

  • @TropTop_24
    @TropTop_24 Рік тому

    There is a Frostproof, FL and a Christmas, FL
    There is also Fivay, FL, which has since been absorbed by surrounding localities. Five men whose last name began with the letter “A” settled there and built a sawmill about 45 minutes north of Tampa in the early 1900s.

  • @timothyball3144
    @timothyball3144 3 роки тому +9

    I gotta throw in Zigzag, Oregon. The 420 crowd kept stealing the sign so they just quit putting it back up.

    • @larryellisreed280
      @larryellisreed280 11 днів тому

      Presumbaly the town's name has nothing to do with the brand of cigarette rolling paper, whose name came from the way the individual leaves were folded for easy removal from the packet they came in.

  • @tommycscat
    @tommycscat Рік тому +1

    GOOBIES!!! I had a flat tire in Goobies once. It's between the big city St. John's, NF and my aunt's home in Briggus, NF. Funny thing is, there's two other towns with odd names less than an hour from Goobies. Come By Chance, NF (named after nearby Chance Cove) and Dildo, NF.

  • @theeclecticlifewithsam
    @theeclecticlifewithsam 3 роки тому +23

    In an era of constant bad news, Geography King videos are a reminder that all hope isn't lost. It's nice to watch informative videos that are generally positive and humorous. Keep up the good work Kyle!

  • @skakirask
    @skakirask 11 місяців тому

    I grew up near Buttzville, NJ and have also driven past SHartlesville, PA on the way to moving to Tennessee.

  • @CaeserOct
    @CaeserOct 3 роки тому +6

    Would love to see more of these strange place name videos. Some I found near me - Friday, Arizona, Beans, Gun Barrel City, and Italy, all in NE Texas.

    • @bryanlasermagiktyler3132
      @bryanlasermagiktyler3132 3 роки тому +1

      I live right outside of gun barrel City there's another town close to here called tool originally it was called hogs fork

    • @craighenry9512
      @craighenry9512 2 роки тому +1

      We have Africa just north of Columbus, Ohio!

  • @diane1390
    @diane1390 Рік тому

    There was a water park in Fresno California, on North Blackstone Ave called Zap's Park, that was there when my father was growing up.

  • @todddaniels1812
    @todddaniels1812 3 роки тому +8

    I have been to Meat Cove, Nova Scotia. The lore I was told is that the bay was used for the processing of whales after they were hunted and killed. This was back in the old days when that was a thing of course.

  • @wadeoden8464
    @wadeoden8464 2 роки тому

    I'm guessing Embarrass, MN is one of those on the main lists? As a MN resident I was happy to see Dinkytown!

  • @matthewgarrison-perkins5377
    @matthewgarrison-perkins5377 3 роки тому +9

    Back in 1991, a friend of mine and I took a 150 mile roundtrip drive to Lost Nation, Iowa, with a miniature Spanish flag. We parked in the middle of their Main St area, got out of the car, stuck the flag into a broken piece of pavement and loudly declared that we were claiming this lost nation for Spain. Got a couple of funny looks from some old timers in rocking chairs in front of a laundromat. Wish we had phone cameras back then.

    • @steve2515
      @steve2515 3 роки тому

      hahaha . . . awesome!

    • @mindymorgan7684
      @mindymorgan7684 2 роки тому

      this is two funny! thank you

    • @jpsned
      @jpsned 2 роки тому +1

      Lost Nation is the hometown of Jim McAndrew, a pitcher for the 1969 World Champion New York Mets.

  • @renroxhrd
    @renroxhrd 2 роки тому

    In my state of New York, we have a lot of funny town names. Almond, chili (pronounced chie-lie), coxsackie, canajoharie just because it means "the pot that washes itself," big flats, which is right next to horseheads, calcium, and my favorite: butternuts. Yes, there's a town called butternuts. There's one that's abandoned called neversink, too, but it got flooded and it was abandoned. So neversink did in fact sink.

  • @jamesbranum1062
    @jamesbranum1062 3 роки тому +10

    Great video Kyle!!! My mail says Soddy Daisy, but I live in Lakesite!! Great names I could mention are Suck creek, TN; Chuckey Doak, TN, and the Calfkiller River in middle Tn. I’ve been to all of them.Happy New Year to you and your family!

    • @83Nipper
      @83Nipper 3 роки тому +4

      Same here except I live in Bakewell with a soddy daisy address. The most interesting thing about soddy daisy to me is that one end of town is commonly referred to as soddy and the other end is known as daisy. Even the elementary schools are named soddy elementary and daisy elementary.

    • @BlackfingerGarage
      @BlackfingerGarage 3 роки тому +2

      I always find it funny how people ask if you’re from Soddy or Daisy.

    • @eddieh9248
      @eddieh9248 3 роки тому +1

      In the west part of the state is Frog Jump

    • @niveknanorc7316
      @niveknanorc7316 3 роки тому

      @@83Nipper i went to Daisy Elem. and Soddy Daisy High School and Hixson Jr High.

  • @bigcahuna42366
    @bigcahuna42366 Рік тому

    Here's another one - Good Grief, ID sits a few miles from the U.S./Canada border. It's an unincorporated "town", but is recognized with a Google marker as though it is an actual town.

  • @Gray-gj8xu
    @Gray-gj8xu 3 роки тому +12

    This might be the only UA-cam channel where I actually drop whatever I am doing when a new video is uploaded, fantastic as always Kyle!

  • @danielmoore7332
    @danielmoore7332 3 роки тому +1

    Nice! I don't believe I've ever mentioned your obviously diverse taste in music. Just about every time we watch one of your presentations, I'm tempted to check & see if any of my LP's are missing. And today, it's Iron Butterfly. Awesome!

    • @paulyeazel4668
      @paulyeazel4668 3 роки тому +1

      Thanks, that was bugging the crap outta me cause I couldn't see it clearly enough to tell who it was.

    • @danielmoore7332
      @danielmoore7332 3 роки тому

      @@paulyeazel4668 And ya know, I find this to be one of the most entertaining channels on UA-cam. Always something to 😃jar yer brain into thinking!

  • @Hodaggium
    @Hodaggium 3 роки тому +6

    One of my favorites in Wisconsin is called Jim Falls. I hope he's alright.

  • @Padoinky
    @Padoinky 2 роки тому

    I used to live in Chattanooga - lived in Mountain Shadows… my chiropractor was located in Soddy Daisy and then in Red Bank

  • @brucesmith9144
    @brucesmith9144 3 роки тому +8

    Kyle, this subject must be continued. I’ve been to a couple of the places mentioned: Nanty Glo and Mexican Hat. But my all-time favorite obscure name is _Truth or Consequences, New Mexico_ . There is a generation of us which remember a TV gameshow for which this town adopted that name in 1949.

    • @danielmoore7332
      @danielmoore7332 3 роки тому +1

      If I remember right, Bob Barker was the host

    • @larryellisreed280
      @larryellisreed280 11 днів тому

      Actually, Truth or Consequences originated on radio in 1940 and Ralph Edwards created, hosted and produced the show. The name change from Hot Springs to Truth or Consequences, NM came about with an eye to calling attention to the local hot mineral springs, and their medicinal properties, without being confused with towns named Hot Springs in Arkansas, South Dakota, Virginia, North Carolina, Montana and at least 30 California communities incorporating "Hot Springs" into their name.
      The original prime time TV version of "Truth or Consequences" debuted over CBS in the fall of 1950; at one point, Jack "Queen for a Day" Bailey hosted the TV version to allow Ralph Edwards to host "This Is Your Life." The daytime version many of us are acquainted with debuted over NBC on New Year's Eve 1956, continuing there for about ten years until moving to first-run syndication, whence it continued until 1982.
      Ralph Edwards would, in later years following the name change, lead contingents of emerging Hollywood stars to Truth or Consequences, NM for the annual Fiesta celebrations commemorating the name change; obviously a publicity exercise for both the show and the community. Declining health forced Edwards to end the custom in 1994, and passed away in 2000.
      On a Hanna-Barbera fan tribute site I have in Tumblr, I did an extended story arc as imagined a contingent of many of the more celebrated characters from the famed Saturday-morning television animators celebrating Fiesta there in homage to Ralph Edwards in a mix of meet-and-greet and cross-character bonding.

  • @ArcticHokie
    @ArcticHokie Рік тому

    Lick Skillet, VA is actually in Smyth County, VA right outside of Saltville, VA.
    Lick Skillet's name comes from how the roads are laid out that make it look like a Iron Skillet.
    Virginia also has Goose Pimple Junction. Dante isn't pronounced like you'd think. It's called Dant sounds like can't but with a "D".

  • @marksmith9566
    @marksmith9566 3 роки тому +6

    There was a list on a tshirt of all the Lancaster, PA area weird names I always liked (e.g. Blue Ball along with Intercourse & others.)

    • @Miami7
      @Miami7 2 роки тому

      Pennsylvania has some really funny names. What makes them even funnier is the demographic that lives in them. They just don't seem to go together!

  • @cdjhyoung
    @cdjhyoung 2 роки тому

    I live less than 20 miles from Hell, MI. It's a nice swamp to visit, but it's tough to hang around there in mosquito season.

  • @ralphs3012
    @ralphs3012 3 роки тому +10

    You are my favorite geography nerd!

  • @livejay9062
    @livejay9062 2 роки тому

    I recently drove out of the way to visit Ballplay, TN. Not terribly far from Chattanooga!

  • @billputt3855
    @billputt3855 3 роки тому +3

    The area around Intercourse, PA has other great names and the order you should visit them in is as follows: Blue Ball, then Bird-In-Hand, followed by Intercourse, and ending with Paradise 😊😊😊

    • @bobs182
      @bobs182 Рік тому

      What is a four letter word ending in K that means intercourse. Talk

    • @larryellisreed280
      @larryellisreed280 11 днів тому

      @@bobs182 "Intercourse," incidentally, is a now-archaic term for "trade" or "commerce."
      Ralph Ginsburg, when he published the controversial Eros magazine in the early 1960's, tried to procure Second-Class Mail privileges (so such could be sent through the mails) at Intercourse, Bird-in-Hand and Blue Ball, all in Pennsylvania; such was cited among the charges the United States Government filed against Ginsburg for Producing Obscene Matter and Sending Obscene Matter Through the Mails.

  • @tedcombs3046
    @tedcombs3046 2 роки тому

    In Indiana you have Toad Hop, In Arizona there are Avenue B and C, Scenic, Six Shooter Canyon, Peeples Valley, and Top-of-the-World. If you add weird street names Holbrook, AZ has Bucket of Blood Street.

  • @checkflag
    @checkflag 3 роки тому +3

    Are residents of Yuma known as Yumans? Are inhabitants of Santa Barbara referred to as Santa Barbarians?

  • @llic0307
    @llic0307 3 роки тому +1

    I watched this while on a road trip from Los Angeles to Arkansas and it was dope. Keep up the good work.

  • @jimc.goodfellas
    @jimc.goodfellas 3 роки тому +14

    I've always thought the coolest name was Head-Smashed-In-Buffalo-Jump

  • @EndTheSimpademic
    @EndTheSimpademic Рік тому

    Yes there was a festival in Zap, North Dakota advertised as the Zip to Zap..an alternative music festival for college students on spring break.

  • @kieferrichardson8324
    @kieferrichardson8324 3 роки тому +5

    If you make a part two to this video, you have to include Sugartit, KY! Though it’s now technically part of Florence, I’ve heard some urban legends about the history of this community and its name. Everyone today still lovingly refers to the area as Sugartit, especially now with the recent opening of Shorty’s Sugartit Pub!

    • @robertpasquini4097
      @robertpasquini4097 2 роки тому +2

      Whenever I post on Facebook from there, the app adds the location as sugartit.

    • @P_RO_
      @P_RO_ 2 роки тому +2

      The name comes from the old poor south, where in lieu of candy they couldn't afford, Mom's put some sugar on a piece of cloth gathering it together and tying it shut for their kid's to sick on.There is (or rather was) a Sugar Tit, SC located west of Duncan. Till the 90's it was mostly just the name of the hardware store on the highway, but back when the area had a general store that handled mail for the Post Office, it was the official name of the community.

    • @newtoncooper4085
      @newtoncooper4085 Рік тому

      I here the people there suck.

  • @LeftoverPat
    @LeftoverPat 3 роки тому

    I am so happy you mentioned Mexican Hat!
    Shoutout to 29 Palms, CA and Cool, CA

  • @maccamaniac1263
    @maccamaniac1263 3 роки тому +5

    Awhile back my family drove through Gas, Kansas. The kids asked where we were. Told them we just passed Gas. 😂

    • @DerekWitt
      @DerekWitt 2 роки тому

      Lol! I immediately thought of that town too. We also have Moscow in western Kansas. I think that's west of Dodge City.

  • @LauraCandow
    @LauraCandow 10 місяців тому

    I very much enjoy your videos. I see you featured Leading Tickles of Newfoundland in this one. You mentioned your uncertainty as to why a place would have 'tickle' in it. Well, Newfoundland is a unique place with a rich culture. Isolation allowed the retention of much 'old English.' We even have our own Dictionary. And in that dictionary we get the following definition of a tickle.
    tickle n OED ~ sb1 Nfld 'narrow difficult strait' (1770-); DC 1 a, b esp Nfld (1770-); see SEARY 141-2; cp TICKLE a. A narrow salt-water strait, as in an entrance to a harbour or between islands or other land masses, often difficult or treacherous to navigate because of narrowness, tides, etc; a 'settlement' adjoining such a passage.
    Thanks for your podcasts. Brian and Laura

  • @edjdoran
    @edjdoran 3 роки тому +3

    I always wondered why there is a King of Prussia, Pennsylvania

  • @johnbrumbaugh83
    @johnbrumbaugh83 Рік тому

    In VA: Bumpass, Cuckoo, Wingina
    In NC: Bat Cave, Lizard Lick, Climax, High Point - a sign at an exit off U.S. 220 shows one way to Climax and the other way to High Point

  • @johnliberty3647
    @johnliberty3647 3 роки тому +8

    I just moved to the Chattanooga Area early this year and Soddy-Daisy just makes me burst out laughing. Not at any of the local because this is the best area I have ever lived in.

    • @TNBuckeye1617
      @TNBuckeye1617 3 роки тому

      It was actually two different towns before they incorporated as a single city. I think that the northern part of the city was the town “Soddy” and the southern part of the city was the town “Daisy”, but that’s conjecture based on where the Soddy and Daisy Elementary schools are located.

    • @johnliberty3647
      @johnliberty3647 3 роки тому

      @@TNBuckeye1617 that's. cool, I like learning stuff like that. It just doesn't roll off the tongue very well so its funny to someone not accustomed to it. In a few years I will get accustomed to it.

  • @mj2495
    @mj2495 Рік тому

    Left Hand, West Virginia.
    Still on the map, but very small.
    Had a neighbor in the '70s, moved from Spokane to Left Hand.

  • @DataJuggler
    @DataJuggler 3 роки тому +7

    You could do a whole video just on Texas. Here a few (some might be municipalities):
    1. Cut and Shoot Texas
    2. East Bernard (only funny, because there is not a Bernard)
    3. Kyle (name of a UA-camr I know)
    4. Happy and Smily
    5. Maypearle
    6. Moran, Morgon, Morgon's Point City, Morgon's Point City Resort (all in different counties)
    7. Muleshoe
    8. New Home, New Hope
    9. Noonday
    10. Reno in Parker County, Reno in Lamar County
    11. Sunset Valley and Sun Valley
    12. Thornton & Thorntonville
    13. West, Texas is in the Eastern side of the state

    • @kmin3434
      @kmin3434 2 роки тому +1

      there's also a Ding Dong TX

    • @craighenry9512
      @craighenry9512 2 роки тому +2

      In Ohio, we have Upper Sandusky, which is about 40 miles south of Sandusky.

    • @Craspic
      @Craspic 2 роки тому +1

      Also Prosper, Ponder, Drop, Stony, Krum, Frognot, Dimebox, Notrees, and Telephone.

    • @bobbybates5273
      @bobbybates5273 Рік тому +1

      Don't forget Old Dime Box, Texas. Just a few miles from Dime Box.

    • @larryellisreed280
      @larryellisreed280 11 днів тому

      Lest we forget about Hart (whose gazetta is The Hart Beat), Spur (their factsheet called The Texas Spur) and Ferris (The Ferris Wheel being the local factsheet).
      Oh, and Wink, which was hometown of the late Roy Orbison.

  • @Gregory_McIntosh
    @Gregory_McIntosh 3 роки тому +1

    'Tickle' is a geographical term in Newfoundland for a narrow strait. There are several Tickles there.

  • @craigputnam2978
    @craigputnam2978 3 роки тому +5

    How about this one Kyle: Old Crow ,Yukon. sounds like a micro brew but aptly named; huge ravens and crows that reside in the Yukon Territory. Name I suspect has been covered by others. Or not? loved your vid something different.

  • @grvan434
    @grvan434 2 роки тому +1

    I remember Knob Noster. If you do a sequel, here are a few more.
    Tightwad, MO
    Y City, AR
    What Cheer, IA
    Devils Elbow, MO
    George, WA
    Deadhorse, AK

  • @alexilonopoulos3165
    @alexilonopoulos3165 3 роки тому +4

    Some others I like, Medicine Hat and Moose Jaw, Canada

  • @texasyojimbo
    @texasyojimbo 3 роки тому +1

    There's also a Boring, Tennessee. I think it's named after the real-life Boring family (which is I think a variant of "Boren").

  • @buckeyes71077
    @buckeyes71077 3 роки тому +5

    Stab is where Ray Lewis lives lol

  • @joelpeebles4157
    @joelpeebles4157 3 роки тому

    Luck, Wisconsin. A road race I ran in was called “In and out of luck”

  • @IdliAmin_TheLastKingofSambar
    @IdliAmin_TheLastKingofSambar 3 роки тому +10

    Is there a joke to be made involving a trip from Knob Noster to Knockemstiff that was supposed to end in Intercourse, but unintentionally continued all the way to Placentia? Perhaps-but I’m not that childish.
    (womp womp womp woooooomp)

    • @kevineakman8586
      @kevineakman8586 2 роки тому

      There is a similar joke involving 4 towns in northern Minnesota. “If you’re taking EMILY to an OUTING, you’ll get to AITKIN before you get to REMER.”

  • @rickhaller3328
    @rickhaller3328 3 роки тому +2

    Tightwad ,MO, When a KC weatherman relocated here, he was tickled pink to find out he could get a checking acct from The Bank of Tightwad. He was quite a character and loved joking around when the weather stories weren’t too serious.

    • @DerekWitt
      @DerekWitt 2 роки тому +1

      I think that was Don Harmon from Fox 4. I remember watching that on Fox 4 News at the time.
      I wish Harmon was still with us. His passing hit much of us hard in the KC metro.

  • @edibbl5970
    @edibbl5970 3 роки тому +6

    I wonder if there’s any towns out their where the founders purposefully just gave it a really weird meaningless name to confuse future inhabitants and anyone who happens to pass through it

    • @mindi.m
      @mindi.m 3 роки тому +1

      Lizard Lick NC

    • @psymar
      @psymar 3 роки тому +1

      Hell, MI

    • @geoffroi-le-Hook
      @geoffroi-le-Hook 2 роки тому

      Ink, Arkansas -- the instructions on the form said write in ink

    • @larryellisreed280
      @larryellisreed280 11 днів тому

      Ixonia, WI (which got its name from a random selection of letters drawn at random by a daughter of early settlers to resolve disputes over what to name the township).

  • @robertcartier5088
    @robertcartier5088 2 роки тому

    I once drove through St-Louis-du-Ha! Ha!, Quebec, on my way back from northern New Brunswick... Unfortunately, it was in the wee hours of the morning and there was so much fog, I only ever saw the road sign, which was enough for me to chuckle about all the way to Montreal!

  • @Citizenspress
    @Citizenspress 3 роки тому +4

    Now this is content!!!!

  • @mournblade1066
    @mournblade1066 2 роки тому

    I got my very first speeding ticket in Nanty Glo, PA, driving home to Altoona from an Iron Maiden concert in Pittsburgh.

  • @dpeff
    @dpeff 3 роки тому +3

    I don't know where, but I heard that "Why" couldn't be called "Y" becuase there was a law banned town names shorter than 3 letters.

    • @larryellisreed280
      @larryellisreed280 11 днів тому

      But then again, Why, AZ is a popular gateway to Puerto Pensasco, Mexico (via the Lukeville/Sonoyta border crossing and Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument).

  • @jmax3245
    @jmax3245 Рік тому

    In Georgia we have : Social Circle and Flowery Branch ...which sound very sweet ..and they ARE both nice little small towns

  • @marklittle8805
    @marklittle8805 3 роки тому +4

    You could have done an hour on Newfoundland....half the outports have goofy names. And Nova Scotia isn't far off. Shubenacadie, Antigonish....plus all the goofy names in Western Canada that are out there.....

    • @Peglegkickboxer
      @Peglegkickboxer 3 роки тому

      Not sure about how many silly names there are in western Canada. Many towns in western Canada are named after explorers or indians.

    • @marklittle8805
      @marklittle8805 3 роки тому

      @@Peglegkickboxer Medicine Hat? Flin Flon, Moose Jaw? Those are not weird names? They don't seem that way to Canadians....but I know people outside of Canada find them weird and amusing

    • @Peglegkickboxer
      @Peglegkickboxer 3 роки тому

      @@marklittle8805 I can seen flin Flon since it's named after a comic book character from like 100 years ago but medicine hat and moose jaw are translated indian names. I guess from an outsider with no context it makes sense ( like Red Deer, Yellowknife, Whitehorse, etc).

    • @marklittle8805
      @marklittle8805 3 роки тому

      @@PeglegkickboxerNative name or not they are unusual names. And neither is just some little crossroads village or outport. Both are decent sized towns.
      Most of the wacky names are a lot smaller

    • @Peglegkickboxer
      @Peglegkickboxer 3 роки тому

      @@marklittle8805 I think maybe it's because the towns I mentioned are a national and cultural thing that's consistent across the country. Most cities in Canada are just named after an explorer, an Indian term, or a rename of a European city. A lot of the names of towns in America mentioned in the video seem out of place and random. Just my perspective as a Canadian.

  • @katykwasny1951
    @katykwasny1951 3 роки тому

    I always got a chuckle at Bland, VA. It's right along I77 in the mountains a bit north of Wytheville, and the name suits it pretty well. Love the vids!

    • @OriginalCaliKitty
      @OriginalCaliKitty 11 місяців тому

      That goes along with Boring, OR and its sister city, Dull, Scotland.

  • @admirals818
    @admirals818 3 роки тому +6

    When you mentioned all of the names on Newfoundland, I thought Dildo would definitely be on the list.

    • @GeographyKing
      @GeographyKing  3 роки тому +7

      I tried to avoid the ones that might be vulgar or sexual, but yes Dildo is a classic.

    • @Taeolas
      @Taeolas 3 роки тому +2

      I figured it was skipped because it is on just about every "Funny Place Name" list there is, and I appreciated that it was skipped for a change.
      And I drove past/through St Louis de Ha!-Ha! many times, and always found it a funny name. Glad to see it called out here and so high on the Canadian side of the list.

  • @neverhomepnw
    @neverhomepnw 2 роки тому +1

    In the Eastern Sierras of California there is a intersection that reads "Inyo Butte".

  • @jonathanmartin3767
    @jonathanmartin3767 3 роки тому +2

    I always liked the town named Farmland, Indiana.
    Isn't it all of Indiana farmland?

    • @slayer_starswirl
      @slayer_starswirl 3 роки тому

      at 7:32 if you look at the far bottom left you'll see a town called "Fancy Farms" Kentucky

    • @larryellisreed280
      @larryellisreed280 11 днів тому

      Popcorn Indiana brand bagged popcorn is actually named for that particular hamlet.
      In the 1990's, Indiana Beach amusement park in Monticello had commercials on WGN television (via cable, know) which had their mascot, I. B. Crow, proclaim at the end "Indiana Beach--proving there's more to Indiana than corn!" (Let alone high school basketball on winter Friday nights and cartoonist Jim Davis' comic-strip feline Garfield.)

  • @Slickusso
    @Slickusso 2 роки тому

    There s a place near me called Sargent's Purchase. The name was a typo of Seargents Purchase, and its been that way ever since

  • @Mark-Dibble
    @Mark-Dibble 3 роки тому +4

    Truth or Consequences, New Mexico and Dinosaur, Colorado are some fun ones too

  • @allanrichardson9081
    @allanrichardson9081 2 роки тому

    Re Knob Noster: “Noster” (pr. NŌS-tair) is the masculine singular nominative case of the Latin word for “our” (as in “Pater Noster,” the opening of the Lord’s Prayer), so they may have been going for “Our Knob.”
    The capital of Arkansas can be translated into Latin as “calculus.”
    Medicine Hat is also in Alberta, Canada.
    To go along with North, there is a small town in Texas named West, known for a tragic oil refinery explosion in the 1990s.