Whynot
In high school in Mississippi I looked at a fairly detailed map of the state and compiled a list of singular place names. I have no idea where that list is now; it sure wasn't in any digital form. Here is a newly created list, had by browsing placenames.com:
Arkabutla
Bacon Springs
Ballground
Ball Hill
Bewelcome
Bloody Springs
Bobo
Bogue Chitto
Brown Town
Buckatunna
Cash
Chunky
Clack
Cockrum
D'Lo
Dancy
Delay
Denmark
Dick
Dogtown
Doskie
Ecru
Forkville
Frog Island
Frogtown
Fugate
Heater
Hercules Station
Hollywood
Homochitto
Hot Coffee
Hustler
Kongo
Kracker Station
Little Italy
Manhattan
Marathon
Merry Hell
Nitta Yuma
Nixon
Noxapater
Nugent
Onward
Panther Burn
Possumneck
Pumpkin Center
Red Lick
Revive
Sanatorium
Scooba
Singleton Settlement
Speeds Addition
Splunge
Sumbax
Thrasher
Tie Plant
Tokio
Toomsuba
Usrytown
Waldo
Whynot
Wise Gap
Posted by Charles on January 18, 2007 08:48 AM