I just finished a trip across half of North America, and want to gripe about place names that clearly are self contradictory. The two I passed are Big Timber, Montana and Mountain Lake, Minnesota. Big Timber is surrounded by bare hills, and although there are trees in town, no big timber.
Mountain Lake, Minnesota, one would at least expect a lake in the state of 20,000 lakes, but in fact the lake was drained and planted to corn. No mountains within several hundred miles.

There are more examples. Every developer that names a subdivision, for example. Want specifics? Quail Run. Maybe they did when the developers got there, but not when they were done...

And then there's Los Angeles...

Any others?
Brad Sondahl
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