40 Oddest Texas Town Names

[CabezaBlanca]

Thought this was a neat article.

https://www.click2houston.com/news/local/2020/08/09/from-bug-tussle-to-tarzan-here-are-40-of-the-oddest-texas-town-names-and-the-stories-behind-them/

[TacticalCowboy]

I've been to several of em!

[Muddy Bud]

Didn’t see Conception or Sweeney Switch.

[Walker]

Or Ding Dong

[Mayhem]

Iraan is the closet town to my deer lease and a depressing little town it is.


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[Grits]

Another one missing is Sacul where my dadgrew up. Located in far northwest Nacogdoches county. The town of Reklaw that is listed in this article is just across the Angelina River in Rusk county and I was always told by my grandparents and others that I know that lived in the two towns that the Lucas and Walkers lived close by each other and got into an argument over what to name the town when the Dallas to Beaumont railroad was being built in the area. So the Walkers went across the Angelina river and reversed their name for the towns name Reklaw and the Lucas's did the same going in the other direction and naming their town Sacul.
Don't know that this is fact, but what I was always told by lots of different people in both places.

[Kossetx]

They left off Ben Hur and in this day and age...White Settlement.

[CabezaBlanca]

They left off Ben Hur and in this day and age...White Settlement.

There are many that they left off. There are many that are much odder that should be on that list.

[Hunter98]

Old Ocean didn't make it?

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[Walker]

When Judd Ashmore was weatherman in SA he gave the currents of Mule Shoe every night.

[J-5]

Nada made it! Home town is on the map!!