Most towns earn their names through careful planning, but some get stuck with something strange because of a joke, a mistake, ...

In Delaware, you don’t need to travel far to find a place with a name that raises an eyebrow or piques curiosity. While some states boast straightforward town or city names like Springfield or ...

NEW MEXICO (KRQE) – With hundreds of cities, small towns, villages, and unincorporated territories, New Mexico is home to plenty of places with unique names. The stories behind those names are often ...

What’s in a name? Well, for a town, a lot—as it can shape first impressions, spark curiosity, and even tell a story about the place’s personality or the people who founded it. A town’s name often ...

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. Some say settlers burned the Indians’ corn fields; ...

Vacationers seeking a double thrill can go whitewater rafting on the Colorado River and then zip line over a canyon. Further east, in North Carolina, travelers are after a different goal – fine dining ...

NIMROD, Minn. — There are a lot of quirky town names in Minnesota: Embarrass, Nowthen, Clontarff, Kiester. But the people of Nimrod believe their name stands out from the rest. "Either the city sign ...

One of the many ways Native American influence shines through the United States is in our place names. In more cases than one may think, geographic names were derived from a Native American word or ...

Tennessee is among the most difficult state names to spell. See where it ranks. This one's a doozy. Language website Preply recently named the most difficult city names to pronounce in each state.

Perhaps through a combination of sheer size and pioneer spirit, Texas, of all the states, seems to feature the highest concentration of truly absurd town names. About a year ago, I made a categorized ...