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From Eek, Alaska, to Christmas, Florida, American towns have taken on some unusual names over the years. Is your hometown in this list? Towns With Oddball Names in Every State
This is a list of lists of ghost towns in the United States by state. ... Ghost towns of the American West; Ghost town Gallery; Lost America; Monument Gallery;
The new name came about in 1950 when, for the 10th anniversary of NBC radio's Truth or Consequences game show, host Ralph Edwards suggested there might be a town willing to adopt the name as their ...
A town with a Native American name in Washington, United States. Humpty Doo: A town 40 kilometres (25 mi) from Darwin, Northern Territory, Australia. Hundeluft: A village in Germany. Means "dog's air" in German. Hundred: Deep in this West Virginia town, where Christopher Robin plays. Actually, it is a 300 populated town. Hungry Horse
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. Cities with populations over 100,000 are in bold.
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 ...
Avshalom, Dikla, Nahal Yam, Netiv HaAsara, Sufa, Talmei Yosef, Yamit, and Pri'el were Israeli settlements in the Sinai built after the Six-Day War in 1967. They were dismantled by the Israeli government after the Camp David Accords in 1978 and the Egypt-Israel peace treaty of 1979 and are today abandoned.
This former mining town was once the home to about 2,500 people and 75 businesses. Once the gold and silver mines were depleted, residents slowly abandoned the town, leaving behind many vacant but ...