Search results
Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
This is a list of Missouri places named after non-US places. In the case of this list, place means any named location that's smaller than a county or equivalent: cities, towns, villages, hamlets, neighborhoods, municipalities, boroughs, townships, civil parishes, localities, Census Designated Places, and some districts. Also included are ...
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]
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
Local lore attributes the town's unusual name to a meeting one December night. Townsfolk had communed to discuss the name when a gust blew open the church doors where people were gathered and the ...
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 ...
A municipality incorporates as a 4th Class city if the population is between 500 and 2,999 (under 500, it may incorporate as a village [1] – see list of villages in Missouri). It may incorporate as a 3rd Class city if the population is between 3,000 and 29,999. [ 2 ]
Visit some of these small towns with names that say Christmas — sometimes literally. ... Historic and Unusual Post Offices Across ... Missouri. Noel was a town named for prominent early citizens ...
Names with yet other unusual sources include Madras, Oregon, which was named after a bolt of Madras cloth seen in the general store, and Poland, Maine, which was named after a medieval song that its first settler liked. Not all towns whose names are the same as a foreign city or country are named after that city.