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Enfield is one of the towns in Tompkins County. It doesn't have any villages or hamlets in it although it does have an area known as Enfield Center. It doesn't have its own school district, being properly in the Ithaca school district. It doesn't have its own dedicated representative on the County Board of Representatives, sharing one with Newfield to the south and another with Ulysses (Classical!) to the north. If it is unique it is unique only in its complete lack of uniqueness.
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I understand there's a Monkey's Elbow, Kentucky.There's also a Red Dick, Kentucky.  I live in Loveland, Ohio. That's somewhat eccentric. There's also Loveland, Colorado. (Loveland, OH was first.) I always found Truth and Consequences, New Mexico(I think) interesting. Then there's the town in Oregon (or one of those other square-shaped western states) that changed its name to Half.com.
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"Fertile woman dies in Climax"
In northwestern Minnesota there really are two towns called Fertile and Climax, about 10 miles apart. the headline was (purportedly) on a story about a woman from Fertile who died in a car accident in Climax.
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Actually, it's Monkey's Eyebrow. Don't go there for a raise.
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There's also a Red Dick, Kentucky.
NZ Maori have a habit of being much less coy. Here we have the Urewera (burnt penis) National Park, and a town caled Urenui - big penis.
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Actually, it's Monkey's Eyebrow. Don't go there for a raise, said Jackie, archly.  Now, what's the history of the town name?
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Truth and Consequences
I think it's Truth or Consequences (which is a sort of parlor game, no?), and there's also a town called Sho Lo in New Mexico, which is a corruption of Show Low, which is a card game, which prompts me to see how many appositive phrases I can use here, which is probably pretty annoying.
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...which is probably pretty annoying.
Not to me, I love it! But how many other left-handed Aquarians are out there, anyway?
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In Port Chester, NY, there is a hotel called Little Dick's
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Here we have the Urewera (burnt penis) National Park... which is, no doubt, where the Maori ate Spotted Dick - who was almost certainly consumed with gusto up until the point they cooked him. Actually, I was told a number of years ago by a Maori friend that there is a mountain in the park which is called Uretutu which translates as "erect penis". I've never been able to find it on any map, for some reason. Must've been a bad day for some poor sod when they started handing out those names. If you've seen the country the park's in, you'd understand, I think. 
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