Random Weird Small Towns In Texas (19 items)

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  (#15) Salty Makes You Think You Need A Drink To Wash It Down

  Salty is a tiny incorporated community established in 1860 and named for the nearby Salt Creek (no indication why this creek was named "Salt Creek," though!) Although it reportedly has its own cemetery, church, and town hall, it has a very small political presence and plays a minute role in greater Wichita County. Salty, Texas: where you need a drink to wash it all down.
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  (#6) Cut and Shoot

  • Texas, USA

  It's not the most attractive moniker, but Cut and Shoot at least has a really interesting origin story. The city was named after a feud that took place over a preacher. 

  Back in 1912, the town was split over their opinions about a preacher set to hold a community meeting. Some believed he had spent his time frequenting the saloons and dancing. Eventually, the locals against the preacher took the community house with guns. A child witnessing the fight said, "I'm going to cut around the corner and shoot through the bushes in a minute!"

  Somehow, this turn of phrase became the town's name.
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  (#3) Nameless

  • Texas, USA

  The story of Nameless is pretty straightforward. Once it was settled in 1869, the residents of the south-central Texas town submitted several ideas for a name to postal authorities in Washington, DC. They were rejected six times, which prompted the community to write a frustrated response to the authorities. 

  "Let the post office be nameless and be damned!" they said. Their wish was granted, and in 1880, the post office was named Nameless.
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  (#1) DISH

  • Texas, USA

  In 2005, the rural community of Clark in northeastern Texas made a deal with a national TV provider that would give the whole town free satellite television. The condition? The residents of the town would have to agree to rename their hometown after their corporate sponsor. DISH, TX, was born.

  The change obviously garnered mixed responses for the community. In 2013, the New York Times reported on the name change, and got a funny quote from resident Buddy Kinney: "I wished Jack Daniel’s would have looked us up."
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  (#4) Ding Dong

  • Texas, USA

  Ding Dong isn't the most attractive name for a town, but it shows an undeniable sense of humor. Ding Dong was founded by Bert and Zulis Bell in the 1930s. The Bells ran a store, and recruited a painter to paint a sign for them.

  He painted two bells, one for each Bell, and as a joke, he labeled them "ding" and "dong." The name stuck.
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  (#8) Dime Box Was Named After The Way Early Settlers Transported Mail

  Old Dime Box is the second oldest town in Lee County, Texas, and it was originally named Brown's Mill. But because of a nearby town named Brownsville, the post office kept mixing up the mail, so the people changed the name of their town to Dime Box. A "dime box" was a wooden box used to transport mail during the time of the settlers, so it seemed fitting for a post office-related name change. 

  When the Southern Pacific Railroad bypassed the town, some people moved a few miles closer to the train, and the town split into "Old" and "New" variations of the same municipality. Population in 2010 was 381.

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