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Old 04-30-2012, 05:15 AM
 
Location: Just transplanted to FL from the N GA mountains
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According to the towns listed on my official Illinois map from 2007-08, only Normal, Oblong, Effingham, Havana and Cairo are listed. Oskaloosa is in IOWA. Not sure where or how you got the others. Your Grand Detour of town names in IL is for the Birds. Now get Normal and get some accuracy going before we accuse you of spending too much time in Roachtown getting Oblong.
Actually... Birds was a nice little small community. I grew up just a few miles from there. The bar there was called The Birds Nest. A flood took out the whole town and thus it is no longer a village, but if you ask people who live in the area they are still from Birds. It's just down the road from Flat Rock...
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Old 04-30-2012, 06:13 AM
 
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According to the towns listed on my official Illinois map from 2007-08, only Normal, Oblong, Effingham, Havana and Cairo are listed. Oskaloosa is in IOWA. Not sure where or how you got the others. Your Grand Detour of town names in IL is for the Birds. Now get Normal and get some accuracy going before we accuse you of spending too much time in Roachtown getting Oblong.
I think only towns over 225 are listed, that leaves out a few. There are a few that were never incorporated but once had a post office, so there is often a sign on the road indicating its location. Examples include West Miltmore and Diamond Lake. In some cases the road name remains long after the town was either disbanded or incorporated into another. Gross Point and Niles Center, as examples.
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Old 04-30-2012, 10:51 AM
 
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Bone Gap, IL.

Kinmundy, IL. The only Kinmundy in the US. "Kin ya shoe my horse?" "I kin’t Sunday, but I kin Mundy" is the old wives tale version of its name origin.
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Old 05-27-2012, 07:47 PM
 
Location: illinois
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bulpitt and a town called cornfield
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Old 05-27-2012, 09:13 PM
 
Location: Not where you ever lived
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Interesting. Bulpitt is a village not too far from Springfield. Cornfield does not appear to be a Town, Village or City in Illinois. It is probably a very small community in an incorporated area. There might even be a sign on a highway with a road to Cornfield. For a community to change its status it has to apply to the state for new name., plus do ton of other things first. Until it changes its status it cannot be listed as a city, town, or village in Illinois.
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Old 05-28-2012, 02:09 PM
 
Location: Northeastern IL
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Just in my county alone...

Bannockburn
Hainesville
Knollwood
Mettawa
Rondout
Venetian Village
Volo
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Old 05-28-2012, 08:22 PM
 
Location: illinois
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Interesting. Bulpitt is a village not too far from Springfield. Cornfield does not appear to be a Town, Village or City in Illinois. It is probably a very small community in an incorporated area. There might even be a sign on a highway with a road to Cornfield. For a community to change its status it has to apply to the state for new name., plus do ton of other things first. Until it changes its status it cannot be listed as a city, town, or village in Illinois.


yes bulpitt is not too far from springfield.....My husband is from bulpitt......cornfield is just a few houses along a country road and if you blink you will miss it.......
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Old 06-28-2012, 09:18 PM
 
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Hope ya don't mind if I jump in with some. Kind of homesick tonight so was reading Illinois posts. I grew up in Watseka and lived in Kankakee when I taught up there . My dad's family were from Chebanse. My mom's from Beaverville and Papineau. I had some friends from Oblong, Illinois when I was in college.
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Old 08-20-2013, 06:47 PM
 
Location: East Peoria, IL
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Goofy Ridge is a little town a few miles SW of Pekin, IL. It might not be incorporated, but it's on maps.
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Old 08-21-2013, 08:42 AM
 
Location: Florida
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I've driven through Kingston Mines, IL before. Really small town. I read it on the water tower and when I went through, it was about 5 am and I called my buddy immediately because he worked at the Kingston Mines blues club on north Halsted at that time. He got a good laugh out of it.

Speaking of Kickapoo, when you drive west on I-44 in Oklahoma, it's between Tulsa and OKC, they have a sign that says, "Entering Kickapoo Nation."

Strangest town name I've seen anywhere was driving through Gun Barrel City, TX. My buddy, same one referenced above, didn't believe me so he Googled it and had a look on his face.

I've driven in 30 states so I've seen a few strange town names or two.
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