I need a good name for a small town and a state it might be in.

I'm brain dead.

Any ideas? :]

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Hickory Ferry, Alabama

I almost used it in my NaNoWriMo last year, but changed it to Poppy Chase, Georgia, instead. =]

What Cheer, Iowa.

It's an actual town!

Bishops Mitre, North Dakota

Waverly Hall, Georgia

I use this small-ish town often in my works.

I'm from Oklahoma, so mine are more often than not set there, too. I've rejected these before, but they're all sort of based on my own hometown of 300 people.

Choctaw Falls
Plowshare (one of my favorites, became a character name instead)
Grassy Point
Treebend
Breakwater
Bridgewater

I always like town names with landmarks/natural features in them. Dunno why.

Lonely Tree, Nebraska

I don't know, I just kind of like the idea of a town springing up around the only tree in the prairie. :)

Fallwater, Washington
A play off of Tumwater, Washington, named so for the Dechutes River. Tumwater is actually the Native American (Nisqually I think) word for Tumbling Water, surprising enough.

Amberly (or Amberley)
Rossi
Lawson
Stern

In retrospect, they kinda sound like names. Of people. That's okay, sometimes it works.

Atagia, Maryland

Bridge Point, Alaska (or where ever your story is set.. :D)

Smileyberg, Kansas. Yes, it's actually a town (erhm...village..umm...establishment!)

Buford, GA. It's not so small anymore, but it's the town I grew up in and back then there was nothing; we had to actually drive into town from the middle of nowhere spot I lived in, and it was a suburb. Most people have never heard of Buford, so it's easy to get away with it. Especially since most Buford sounds like the name of a small town.

I use names like Independence or Libertyville, change up the state. Sometimes I just take names and add "ville" or "town" or "ton" or "Creek" to it. Kateville. Lucastown. Mitchelton. Jordan Creek.

And much like the same way I make up names, I drive around town and use street signs, like Catawba.

Good trick I use:
(any former president's name), (any state).

Harrison, Wisconsin
Buchanan, Wyoming
Adams, Arizona.

Quite literally, I live in Drain, OR. This is right next to Curtain. All we need is Shower and we'd be all set.

In Ohio, a lot of the small towns are named after other, more interesting cities.
So, there's a London, Ohio, a Cairo, Ohio, a Lima, Ohio, the list goes on and on.
Or, you could throw in an arbitrary direction. Like, I live in "West Jefferson", but there's no "Jefferson" that my town is west of.

Kennedyville.

I'm fond of Boring, Oregon. Yes it is indeed a town. Then there is Halfway,OR, Athena,OR and the unencoporated dot on the map Otis, OR

Marshall, VA it's the hick town my mom comes from.

I came to this thread looking for just the right town for my screenplay, and I think I found it. I want to claim Halfway, OR.

Now to make some up to share: Hmm. How about Bear Mountain, MI? Or Crow Fly Falls, KY? (I think you could use this name with any state--I like the idea of nobody being able to come up with a good name for it, so they all agreed on a play on "as the crow flies".)

I live in Oregon too :) My aunt is in Boring, OR. There's this place out in Eastern Oregon called Paisley... it's an interesting place...

If you're going for a country ranch style place Jordan Valley, OR would be good too. There's about 300 people in both those towns. I came from Dallas, OR... commonly mistaken with The Dalles (not the same place, I assure you) And it's always fun to hear people say "TEXAS?! But you don't have an accent?" whenever I say I'm from Dallas.
Hope I could help :)

Maybe, West Virginia. Yep, it's a real four-corners village, i.e., it exists because two big roads cross each other.

Get a big map of Britain and pillage it. The vast majority of small towns across all the countries colonised by the British take their roots from there. I nearly used Angelsea not long ago.

And theres always silly. Australia has awesome silly names. Punchbowl, Orange, and Wagga Wagga are all up for grabs.

I'll second the fact that using just about any President's name is great. One warning, though, it to try not to make the town older than the President, if that's who you're trying to say it was named after.

If you want to go country: Stupidville, TN (real).

On the Presidents theme: George, Washington (real).
Or, a variation: Martha, Washington (fictitious).

Buckley, Kingsley.. most the small towns, at least around me are one word, ending with an e sound.

Lemoore or Hanford, CA They go to Fresno for a good time. Nuff said.

Melrose or Clovis, NM (seriously, Melrose is one farmers market and a couple trailer parks in the middle of a huge dessert. Clovis, right next to it, has a Walmart. That's it.

Ruston, Louisiana (green, beautiful, and everyone knows everything about you)