Looking at recent observations, I noticed the first place name is listed as “Mineral Rights”, which would usually be something like the name of a park or neighborhood. There’s no such place in the area named Mineral Rights, did they pull this name from a nearby little parcel related to natural gas m…

Mineral Rights will be because the observer has let the computer give the place name and it just puts the nearest words on the map. You also get observations where the location is given as Holiday Cottages To Let

There are multiple (at least 5 I think) states with a Pumpkin Center and in general weird place names scattered around the world. I think that there are likely two main reasons for this on iNat. One is what @jhbratton suggested (user left the location blank, which most users do, so Google pulled one…

Sometimes you just can’t help running into off-the-wall place names. In just one day ( May 31, 2021 ) I managed to get observations of periodical cicadas from Rabbit Hash, Big Bone, and Beaverlick Church. My maternal grandmother spent her early years in Hell for Certain, KY, where you can find the ne…

and more named “Punkin Center”

Aunt Mary’s Bottom, just north of Rampisham Hill, Dorset.

Every mineral collector, venture investor and their household pets know about Minas Gerais.

More gloomy than funny: Worlds End. South Australia 5381 Red dirt with bleached blonde hills in the background. Ruins along the road. We visited to see the Worlds End Gorge. The path was blocked by barbwire fence. I was disappointed, but it is not the end of the world. https://inaturalist.ala.org…

Ninety-Six, South Carolina. Meat Camp, North Carolina Trust/Luck, North Carolina Sodom/Revere, North Carolina. Originally named Sodom due to the amount of prostitution that was rampant. Name was changed to Revere after more religious people moved in.

There is a very small town in the south of this state called X’box. (It means “black” in maya and as the letter x is pronounced like sh it is pronounced Shbosh.) It is always fun to drive with people not from here on a highway and hear the reactions the first time the name appears on a sign; inevi…

Funny Place Names: Mineral Rights, Turnkey House

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petezani February 18, 2025, 10:48pm 8

The state of Minas Gerais, Brazil, has always struck me as funny. The English translation is General Mines. Guess what activity is prominent there?

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Funny Place Names: Mineral Rights, Turnkey House

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