8 Towns In Ohio That Have The Strangest Names You'll Ever see
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April Dray
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Some cities and towns in Ohio have been pretty strangely named—and (most of them) for reasons unknown. The following is a list of what we consider to be the weirdest names of cities and towns in Ohio.
Pronounced just as it's spelled ("Knock 'em stiff") this small town in Ross County near Chillicothe now has a literary reputation, thanks to author Donald Ray Pollock.
Located in Athens County (where all the cool kids live, of course.)
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Kox County is home to the small town of Jelloway (Where Jell-O is the way...?)
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Located in Defiance County, this city (south of Toledo) contains the site of Fort Defiance of the Northwest Territory Indian War.
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Between Butler and Warren Counties you can find the town of Blue Ball. Local legend says the town council changed the name of the town in the 1800s to reflect a landmark—a blue metal sphere that was suspended above the intersection of two highways in the middle of town—because passerby had trouble reading the town's original sign.
South Bass Island is home to this village, named after its bay where people sailing on Lake Erie, would "put in" to during bad weather to wait out the storms.
This town, part of the Akron Metropolitan Statistical Area, was actually named after a family (the Reminders.)
Where celery is king. (But not really.)
What other towns or cities in Ohio have especially strange names?
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