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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
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 town in Johnson County, Missouri. Another town name in Missouri with the word "knob" in it. "Knob" doesn't have the same meaning in the US as it does in the UK, but it's stil a weird name nonetheless. Knock: A village in Ireland. The name is an anglicised form of the Irish Gaelic word "Cnoc" ("Hill".) Knockemstiff
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.
Gu-Win, Alabama. Faced with annexation by the nearby town of Guin, the community of about 150 known as Ear Gap decided to incorporate in 1956. Residents adopted their new name from the Gu-Win ...
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 ...
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]
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 ...