If you're not from Idaho, some of our town names are pretty strange.  You know what?  Even if you are from Idaho these town names are strange.  Every time we drive by one or hear about it we ask where did all these weirdo names come from?  Here's your answer.

 


No, it doesn't have anything to do with that fresh cow patty in the pasture you might take a step in.  This Lewis County city is named after a man named Josiah Slickpoo, who helped Idaho's infamous Father Cataldo expand his Jesuit mission across southern Idaho by providing a building site for Cataldo's church.


As far as we know, nobody in Idaho was licking anything.  Nobody anywhere was licking anything.  This little town is in the Lewiston / Moscow area where there's actually a beach, with shells.  That's most likely where the first part came from... we're still trying to figure out the second part.


Good thing there's no Berry at the end of this one.  Whoah!  Dingle was named by the Mormon prophet Brigham Young.  Some say it came from the sounds of trains passing by and others say it was from cowbells he'd hear in the fields.


This rural town just outside of Ammon was originally a stage coach stop.  The town was named after the original stage coach company, Ozone.


Couldn't find anything but myths, theories, and flat out lies.  Seems like this is a place that may or may not have existed.  It was more like a group of houses that's mostly likely a ghost town now.  The exact origin is still being explored.

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