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These 13 Towns In Nebraska Have The Strangest Names You’ll Ever See

Nebraska has several towns with unusual and amusing names, each with its own story.

Published Jun 20, 2015

Written by 

Delana Lefevers

Every state has some towns with names that make you scratch your head a little. Nebraska is no exception. All of these weird town and village names have stories behind them - some of them very interesting - but we can't get over how funny they sound anyway.

Beaver Crossing

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flickr/Blair Haggerty

Cairo

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Wikimedia

Crab Orchard

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Friend

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DeviantArt/Zita952

Funk

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flickr/Patrick Tanguay

Hazard

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flickr/Howard Lake

Manley

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flickr/Tristan Schmurr

McCool Junction

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(That's Cool McCool up there, for those of you who aren't familiar with awesome 60s cartoons.)

Ohiowa

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Village of Ohiowa

Wahoo

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flickr/Jimmy Emerson

Weeping Water

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flickr/Andy B

Wymore

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flickr/Shannon Ramos

Wynot

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flickr/Peter Reed

What other Nebraska towns have been graced with super-weird names?

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