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Harrodsburg is often considered the oldest city in Kentucky and was made official in 1836. The more interesting results are below.
83 - Parrot Kentucky USA 84 - Peculiar Missouri USA A place to go when living in 79 just isnt odd enough.
Funny city names kentucky. Kentucky has a large number of interesting and odd place names. There are places seemingly named after animals. Monkeys Eyebrow Possum Trot Mousie Bugtussle Hippo Wildcat Turkey Viper Lamb Wolverine Wolf Sunfish Raccoon and Rabbit Hash.
There sure is no shortage of oddly named places in Kentucky. Last week we looked at ones from A to K. This week its L to Z.
So where does all this creativity come from. I kind of like the theory proposed by the book Weird Kentucky. Kentuckys town names can obtuse the best of them.
In fact the people who named these places must be bold surrealists possibly hallucinating on squirrel. Harrodsburg is often considered the oldest city in Kentucky and was made official in 1836. With a population of about 8377 its considered one of Kentuckys most charming small towns.
The name of this tiny hamlet on the Kentucky-Tennessee border is an homage to you guessed it the local bug population. The towns oldest residents say. City-Data Forum US.
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Some forums can only be seen by registered members. After you create your account youll be able to customize options and access all. 83 - Parrot Kentucky USA 84 - Peculiar Missouri USA A place to go when living in 79 just isnt odd enough.
85 - Picnic Florida USA 86 - Pie Town New Mexico USA 87 - Plain City Utah USA 88 - Possum Trot Kentucky USA 89 - Presidente Prudente Sao Paulo Brazil Named after Prudente de Morais 3rd President of Brazil. The Worlds Most Funny City Names. I suppose its possible that weve forgotten one or two of the worlds most funny city names.
If you know this to be true please leave a hint at what were missing in the comments below. And if you see one or many funny city names that are just dying for a tank top design let us know that too. Since January 1 2015 Kentucky cities have been divided into two classes based on their form of government.
First class Mayor-alderman governmentHome rule class All other forms including Mayor-Council Commission and City Manager. This system went into effect on January 1 2015 following the 2014 passage of House Bill 331 by the Kentucky General Assembly and the bills. Funny Town Names in the USA Ireland UK more.
Funny Town Names in Kentucky KY Bear Wallow Kentucky. Big Beaver Lick Kentucky. Today here we will share top 25 funny interesting facts about Kentucky which make you more interest about this state.
In this list including basketball state people location famous place also for kids. So Lets begin No1 Kentucky got its Nickname literally. How did Kentucky get its Name.
Theres no shortage of funky names in Arkansas. We had a lot to choose from but something about Goobertown just struck us as funny. Just think Goobertown beat out such illustrious names as Blue Ball Bald Knob Greasy Corner Nimrod.
Mar 23 2015 - Explore Wayne Kostermans board Funny city names on Pinterest. See more ideas about funny city funny funny signs. Funny town names that have to do with food like this Alabama town are the coolest.
There are a few legends about how Burnt Corn got its name. In the South never judge a town name by the way its spelled. These town names in Kentucky are no exceptionitsasouthernthing.
This fun-to-say town name is probably related to a variant of the name Philip. 20 of 68 View All. Save FB Tweet More.
Pinterest Email Send Text Message Print. While first glance would tell you this spot was named for the doctor in Mary Shelleys classic novel Frankenstein it was actually named for the area. This got me thinking that there must be plenty of other cities throughout the world with equally strange names.
So I did some research with some maps and came up with plenty of weird names for cities bodies of water and mountains. The more interesting results are below. Just keep in mind that these are in fact -real- places in the world although not all of them are cities.
Some of the. A All but two of Kentuckys county seats are cities. The ones that are not are Whitley City seat of McCreary County and Burlington seat of Boone CountyTwo Kentucky counties have two seats each – the seats of Campbell County are Alexandria and Newport and the seats of Kenton County are Covington and Independence.
B Population and area are as of 2010.