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Thread #100751   Message #2025336
Posted By: Slag
14-Apr-07 - 03:04 PM
Thread Name: BS: Silliest Name for a City....
Subject: RE: BS: Silliest Name for a City....
Map makers will sometimes include a non-existent place name or village name in an obscure location as a means of detecting copyright infringement. In central California where I grew up there is a little town named Richgrove on the Poterville highway. The old Chevron road map shows another small village just north of it named Orris but Orris does not exist nor did it ever exist and yet other tiny communities in the area go unrecognized such as Columbine CA. Orris may not be a silly name per se, but silly it is!