I know where I am but 11% of our citizens don’t!
A news release sent to me a few years ago said, “11% of young people of the U.S. couldn’t even locate America on a map. The Pacific Ocean’s location was a mystery to 29 percent; Japan, to 58%; France, to 65% and England 69%. A survey found that many children considered geography their least favorite subject out of six school subjects.”
Hello, do they have a choice? We had weekly tests to determine our level of ignorance of the world. We either had to learn and pass or continue in the same grade the next year. This was incentive enough to learn not to mention the results at home.
Maps were always a fascination to me. I still enjoy looking through an atlas for undiscovered places. Take a look at locations in the state of Texas I found. The state has named their towns to cover every subject or location. A whole lot about Texas that y’all didn’t know:
Just Texas…
• Pep, Texas 79353
• Smiley, Texas 78159
• Paradise, Texas 76073
• Rainbow, Texas 76077
• Sweet Home, Texas 77987
• Comfort , Texas 78013
• Friendship, Texas 76530
Love the sun?
• Sun City, Texas 78628
• Sunrise, Texas 76661
• Sunset, Texas 76270
• Sundown, Texas 79372
• Sunray, Texas 79086
• Sunny Side, Texas 77423
Want something to eat?
• Bacon, Texas 76301
• Noodle, Texas 79536
• Oatmeal, Texas 78605
• Turkey, Texas 79261
• Trout, Texas 75789
• Sugar Land, Texas 77479
• Salty, Texas 76567
• Rice, Texas 75155
• Pearland, Texas 77581
• Orange, Texas 77630
• Sweetwater , Texas 79556
Feel like traveling outside the country?
• Athens, Texas 75751
• Canadian, Texas 79014
• China , Texas 77613
• Dublin, Texas 76446
• Egypt, Texas 77436
• Ireland, Texas 76538
• Italy, Texas 76538
• Turkey, Texas 79261
• London, Texas 76854
• New London, Texas 75682
• Paris, Texas 75460
• Palestine, Texas 75801
No need to travel to Washington D.C.
• Whitehouse, Texas 75791
We even have a city named after our planet…
• Earth, Texas 79031
Like to read about History?
• Santa Anna, Texas 76878
• Goliad, Texas 77963
• Alamo, Texas 78516
• Robert Lee , Texas 76945
Need Office Supplies?
• Staples, Texas 78670
Want to go into outer space?
• Venus , Texas 76084
• Mars , Texas 79062
You guessed it. It’s on the state line…
• Texline, Texas 79087
For the kids…
• Kermit, Texas 79745
• Elmo, Texas 75118
• Nemo, Texas 76070
• Tarzan, Texas 79783
• Winnie, Texas 77665
• Sylvester, Texas 79560
Other cities in Texas to make you smile…
• Frognot, Texas 75424
• Bigfoot, Texas 78005
• Hogeye, Texas 75423
• Cactus, Texas 79013
• Notrees, Texas 79759
• Best, Texas 76932
• Veribest, Texas 76886
• Kickapoo, Texas 75763
• Dime Box, Texas 77853
• Old Dime Box, Texas 77853
• Telephone, Texas 75488
• Telegraph, Texas 76883
• Whiteface, Texas 79379
• Twitty, Texas 79079
And our favorites…
• Cut and Shoot, Texas 77303
• Gun Barrel City , Texas 75147
• Ding Dong, Texas
• West, Texas (but it’s in Central Texas)
and, of course… Muleshoe, Texas 79347
