Real Ohio Town Names

June 25, 2003

A funny road trip through Ohio: Punchy names? Ohio towns have enough to Knockemstiff (By Aaron Keirns for the Dayton Daily News).

Some of my favorites: Delightful, Eden, Freedom, Friendship, Purity, Honesty and Paradise, Greasy Ridge, Pigtown, Spanker, Hardscrabble, Worstville, Dull, Tick Ridge, Fleatown, Hell?s Corners, Devil Town, Deadman Crossing and River Styx, Bangs, Bacon Flat, Assumption, Henpeck Corners, Novelty, Knockemstiff, Lickskillet, Mudsock, Round Bottom, Polkadotte, Skunk and Pigeye.

Thanks to Debra Eisert for the link.

  • Casey Sue

    Personally I do not agree that Worstville is all that bad. It sounds awful but I live about 2 miles away from it and it isn’t a hick town or where scumy people live. Many nice familes live there. I happen to live close an dI’m just like every other person. So please stop joking about it.

  • http://tntluoma.com TjL

    These were not meant as a reflection on the people who live there. The names are just humorous, but I am sure the towns are very nice and the people as well.

  • http://bdbrewer.homestead.com Bob

    Was just browsing your site as a result of my newly found interest in Opera. When I came on this I was reminded of all of the misapplied PC things occurring in our country. You would think people could devote a smiliar amount of energy to problem resolution. But, people with inappropriate ‘thin skin’ seem to be leading our country in ways never dreamed of by our ancestors.

    How in the world could Casey Sue take something meant to bring a smile to their face, and distort it to conjure fantasy negatives. No where in your words, or those in the newspaper article could there be remotely construed such negative meaning as being “hick towns” where “scumy” people live. And, had Casey Sue taken a miniscule amount of her time to review your site, she may have found that you do not appear to have a mean though in your body. I was particularly moved when I read about Gabriel and the tree you planted in his memory (and the anniversary picture of you and your family (and friends?) with your new born celebrating the fact that Gabriel touched all of your lives.

    I am retired military who spent some time in our Special Forces, currently working on a large NASA site. Some may think I am a tough guy. But, I can assure you … I am not nearly as “tough” (or hard) as Casey Sue appears to be.

    The PC police who work to take God out of our daily lives particulary alarm me. We are all flawed human beings and need every ounce of support we can muster to sustain us our daily lives.

    Lord save us from the “PC Police”.

    Bob

  • John

    I remember visiting a town called “Fly, Ohio” at one time.

  • Anonymous

    What about Intercourse, Pennsylvania?

  • kaitlynd

    What about “Truth Or Consiquences” New Mexico, Or “Bird In Hand” Pennsylvania, or “New Hope” Illinois?

  • kaitlynd

    What about “Truth Or Consiquences” New Mexico, Or “Bird In Hand” Pennsylvania, or “New Hope” Illinois?

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