We don’t know whether to laugh at these ridiculously named towns, or visit.
“If there were an Olympics for unlikely town names, America would surely be good for a medal, if not the gold,” cracked genealogist Josh Taylor of findmypast.com, which surveyed nearly 2,000 users online.
Toad Suck, located about 40 miles north of Little Rock, earned its unfortunate name because of the steamboats that used to moor there when the Arkansas River was too shallow to travel. Boat workers would kill time at a local tavern and “suck on the bottle ’til they swell up like toads,” explains toadsuck.org.
There’s an Intercourse, Pennsylvania too. That’s my favorite.
