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Oklahoma. Dead Women Crossing. This town just east of Oklahoma City gets its ominous name from a supposed haunted bridge in the area. In the early 1900s a woman named Katie Dewitt James was ...
A city in Missouri. "Cooter" is a slang term for vagina. Cork: The clearly "always-drunk" Irish city with a fitting name - founded as a trading port in 915 AD by the Vikings. Also check out a couple other Corks stateside! Cornville: A town in Maine. You can clearly see what these guys like to eat. Cornwall: Not actually a giant wall of corn ...
Bartlesville – City of Legends. [3] Beaver – Cow Chip Capital of the World. [4] [5] [6] Drumright – Town of Oil Repute. [6] El Reno – The Onion Fried Burger Capital of the World [5] Enid – "E-town" or Etown. [7] Glenpool – The Town that Made Tulsa Famous [8] Inola – Hay Capital of the World [9] Krebs – Oklahoma's Little Italy
Reno, Nevada proudly displays its nickname as "The Biggest Little City in the World" on a large sign above a downtown street.. This partial list of city nicknames in the United States compiles the aliases, sobriquets and slogans that cities are known by (or have been known by historically), officially and unofficially, to municipal governments, local people, outsiders or their tourism boards ...
The town's name stems from the Rough and Ready mining company, whose leader served under President Zachary Taylor, known as "Old Rough and Ready." Related: Top 20 Old Western Towns You Can Still Visit
By Kerri Fivecoat-Campbell Most of the more than 30,000 incorporated towns and cities in the U.S. listed by the Census Bureau have names that wouldn't get a second glance. But there are more than ...
This is a list of the most common U.S. place names (cities, towns, villages, boroughs and census-designated places [CDP]), with the number of times that name occurs (in parentheses). [1] Some states have more than one occurrence of the same name.
The Athens of Missouri [7] CoMo [8] Cuba – Mural City [9] Hannibal. America's Hometown [10] The Bluff City [11] Independence – Where the Trails Start and the Buck Stops [12] Jefferson City. City of Thomas Jefferson [13] J.C. Jeff; Kansas City. BBQ Capital of the World [14] City of Fountains [15] Cowtown [14] Jazz Capital of the World [14]