Five More Funny Sounding South Dakota Town Names

I posted a list of the Five Funniest Sounding Town Names is South Dakota. After that I got emails, texts and other various social media messages suggesting some others I had not considered. So here are five more towns that sound a little off.

5
Johnson Siding
Located in the Black Hills about 10 miles west of Rapid City on Highway 44, Johnson Siding is not much more than a housing development with a gas station and a post office. The name sounds like a business but isn't. It was named for part of the railroad that went to Johnson Sawmill, which sounds like scary birth control.
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4
Hooker
This isn't even really a town as much as it is a place in Turner County, about five miles from Viborg. I have driven by it and it doesn't look like you'd find one there. Or anything there, for that matter.
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3
Blunt
Snoop Lion would probably consider a vacation in a town called Blunt, Sizzle Dakizzle.
2
Bonesteel
Kinda sounds like the last name of a porn star, doesn't it? Like "Peter Bonesteel." The town's name was funny enough that Ziptees.com featured it's name and zipcode on a t-shirt between Intercourse, Pennsylvania and Protection, Kansas.
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Ziptees.com
1
Highmore
I don't think the fine people of this little town enjoy marijuana more than any other town, but their name suggests otherwise.
But could there be Highmore without Blunt? I guess that's like asking "What came first, the chicken or the egg?"
City of Highmore
City of Highmore

One More Thing...

Although it isn't necessarily funny, I wanted to add a little fun-fact about my hometown of Beresford. Before it was incorporated as a town in the Dakota Territory in 1884, it was known as Paris, which is amusing because there aren't many people of French descent there. Even more amusing is that the town is named for some British admiral named Lord Charles Beresford who died in 1919. Why this would be, considering it was settled by mostly Scandinavian people, I have no idea. They should have named the town after Lillehammer, Norway. Then instead of the school's British bulldog mascot of "Watchdogs" we could have been the Lillehammer Hammers, or Lillehammer Sledgehammers. That's a lot scarier than a small dog that has trouble running fast and breathing. But, then again, that was me playing sports in high school.

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