Cool suburb names in your city

[DBR96A]

PITTSBURGH

- Mount Lebanon
- Castle Shannon
- Bethel Park
- Upper St. Clair
- Bridgeville
- Fox Chapel
- McCandless
- Sewickley
- McKeesport
- Duquesne
- West Mifflin
- New Stanton
- Zelienople
- Eighty Four
- Kittanning
- Latrobe
- Vandergrift
- Mars

ATLANTA

- Alpharetta
- Kennesaw
- Conyers
- Dunwoody
- Sandy Springs
- Powder Springs
- Austell
- Peachtree City
- Locust Grove
- Newnan
- Cumming :D
- Flowery Branch
- Buford
- Dacula
- Carl
- Snellville
- Panthersville
- Tucker

Any cities/suburbs you'd like to add? :)

[totheskies]

I don't know if cool is the word

Sugar Land
Pearland
The Woodlands

Galena Park

[vid]

There is a village in the rural part of the city called Jelly, and our richest suburb is Nor'Wester View. All the others are ______ Heights or ______ Park.

[LMich]

All of the interesting suburb names around Lansing, Michigan are really ironic as most of these townships and places aren't interesting, at all:

- Delta
- Meridian
- Delhi
- Okemos
- Aurelius
- Alaiedon
- Windsor
- Westphalia

[pdxtex]

wankers corner, oregon....no really....

[holladay]

wankers corner, that takes the cake :haha:

[holladay]

Charlotte:

Indian Trail
Waxhaw
Tega Cay

[theWatusi]

wankers corner, oregon....no really....

ah, the sister city of Palm, PA :rolleyes:

[JivecitySTL]

St. Louis suburbs:

Cool Valley (top that one)
Beverly Hills
Black Jack
Vinita Park
Bella Villa
Champ
Ladue

[Reverberation]

More suburbs of Houston:

Jersey Village
Pasadena
League City
Friendswood
Dickinson
Nassau Bay
Missouri City (or MO City)

[STLgasm]

Jive forgot some great ones for St. Louis:

Olivette
Velda City
Bel-Nor
Bellefontaine Neighbors

[tayser]

Melbourne:

Moonee Ponds
Dandenong
Pascoe Vale
Ascot Vale
Kananook
Narre Warren
Nunawading
Mooroolbark
Upper Ferntree Gully
Upwey
Elsternwick
Aspendale
Carrum Downs
Weribbee
Hoppers Crossing
Balaclava
Tullamarine (airport was named after the town, which then became a suburb)
Footscray

Various favourites elsewhere:

Woolloomoolloo (SYD)
Vaucluse (SYD)
Parramatta (SYD)
Cabramatta (SYD)
Wolstonecraft (SYD)
Crow's Nest (SYD)
Concord (SYD)
Woolloongabba (BNE)
Toowong (BNE)
Anything ending in -up in Perth: Karinyup, Joondalup etc.

[Evergrey]

Pittsburgh

Dormont (Mountain of Gold)
Moon
Perryopolis
Plum
McKees Rocks (much cooler name than McKeesport)
Neville Island
Coraopolis
Aliquippa

[Alta California]

Rancho Cucamonga (L.A.). According to Krusty, it's one of the funniest place names around.

[ctman987]

Hartford, CT:

As you can see the influence from European towns and cities...and Rocky Hill WAS a hilly town

Rocky Hill
Glastonbury
Windsor/South Windsor/East Windsor/Windsor Locks (4 differant towns)
Berlin

[t-viz]

Elmira, NY

-Elmira Heights
-Horseheads
-Southport
-Veteran
-Breesport
-Pine City
-West Elmira
-Corning

[ColDayMan]

I've always liked Gahanna as a name (Columbus suburb). I don't know if it's a "cool" name but I've always thought it sounded nice (and it is a nice suburb).

For Dayton, Piqua, Xenia, Yellow Springs all come to mind.

For Cincinnati, Mariemont, Wyoming, Loveland, and Golf Manor always sounded nice.

[Swede]

Salem (http://www.salem.se) is kinda cool, but less so than a previous version: Slem (Swedish for slime/mucus). :D
Not a whole suburb, but part of one: Inverness. Industrial district iirc, probably named for the Scottish city.
"Krigslida" can be read two ways. Either correctly: suffering of war. Or incorectly: War-vagina.

[BnaBreaker]

Nashville suburban names that, I guess, are slightly out of the ordinary:

Bordeaux
Lebanon
Castilian Springs
Mount Juliet
Belle Meade
La Vergne
Gallatin
White House

My favorite neighborhood name: Cameron-Trimble

[Midwesterner]

I can't think of one good suburb name in Indy. Maybe Carmel?

My favorite suburb name in the country: Broken Arrow, OK.

[BnaBreaker]

ATLANTA

- Carl


Carl? LOL

[TexasStar]

My favorites around here are:

Farmers Branch
Grand Prairie
Mesquite
Frisco
Euless
Grapevine
Sachse

And of course,

White Settlement

[Xelebes]

Ardrossan
Leduc
Beaumont
Devon
Nisku
Acheson
Calmar
Namao
Rolly View
New Sarepta
Bon Accord

[bnk]

Chicagoland

Aurora
Elgin
Joliet
Naperville
Addison
Algonquin
Alsip
Antioch
Arlington Heights
Barrington
Bartlett
Batavia
Beach Park
Bellwood
Bensenville
Berwyn
Bloomingdale
Blue Island
Bolingbrook
Bourbonnais
Bradley
Bridgeview
Brookfield
Buffalo Grove
Burbank
Burr Ridge
Calumet City
Carol Stream
Cary
Carpentersville
Channahon
Chicago Heights
Chicago Ridge
Cicero
Country Club Hills
Crest Hill
Crestwood
Crete
Crystal Lake
Darien
Deerfield
Des Plaines
Dolton
Downers Grove
Elgin
Elk Grove Village
Elmhurst
Elmwood Park
Evanston
Evergreen Park
Forest Park
Fox Lake
Frankfort
Franklin Park
Gages Lake
Geneva
Glen Ellyn
Glendale Heights
Glenview
Goodings Grove CDP
Grayslake
Gurnee
Hanover Park
Harvard
Harvey
Hazel Crest
Hickory Hills
Highland Park
Hinsdale
Hoffman Estates
Homer Glen
Homewood
Huntley
Island Lake
Justice
Kankakee
La Grange
La Grange Park
Lake Forest
Lake in the Hills
Lake Villa
Lake Zurich
Lansing
Lemont
Libertyville
Lincolnwood
Lindenhurst
Lisle
Lockport
Lombard
Lyons
Markham
Matteson
Maywood
McHenry
Melrose Park
Midlothian
Mokena
Montgomery
Morris
Morton Grove
Mount Prospect
Mundelein
New Lenox
Niles
Norridge
North Aurora
North Chicago
Northbrook
Northlake
Oak Forest
Oak Lawn
Oak Park
Oswego
Orland Park
Palatine
Palos Heights
Palos Hills
Park Forest
Park Ridge
Plainfield
Prospect Heights
Richton Park
River Forest
River Grove
Riverdale
Rolling Meadows
Romeoville
Roselle
Round Lake
Round Lake Beach
Sauk Village
Schaumburg
Schiller Park
Shorewood
Skokie
South Elgin
South Holland
St. Charles
Steger
Streamwood
Sugar Grove
Summit
Tinley Park
University Park
Vernon Hills
Villa Park
Warrenville
Wauconda
Westchester
West Chicago
Western Springs
Westmont
Wheaton
Wheeling
Wilmette
Winfield
Winnetka
Wood Dale
Woodridge
Woodstock
Worth
Yorkville
Zion
Chesterton
Crown Point
Dyer
East Chicago
Griffith
Hammond
Highland
Hobart
Lake Station
Lowell
LaPorte
Merrillville
Michigan City
Munster
Portage
Schererville
Valparaiso
Pleasant Prairie
Aroma Park
Bannockburn
Barrington Hills
Bedford Park
Beecher
Berkeley
Big Rock
Bonfield
Boulder Hill CDP
Braceville
Braidwood
Broadview
Buckingham
Bull Valley
Burlington
Burnham
Cabery
Calumet Park
Carbon Hill
Channel Lake
Chebanse
Clarendon Hills
Coal City
Countryside
Crystal Lawns
Deer Park
Diamond
Dixmoor
Dwight
East Brooklyn
East Dundee
East Hazel Crest
Elburn
Elwood
Essex
Fairmont CDP
Flossmoor
Ford Heights
Forest Lake
Forest View
Fox Lake Hills
Fox River Grove
Frankfort Square
Gardner
Gilberts
Glencoe
Glenwood
Godley
Golf
Grandwood Park
Grant Park
Green Oaks
Greenwood
Hainesville
Hampshire
Harwood Heights
Hawthorn Woods
Hebron
Herscher
Highwood
Hillside
Hinckley
Hodgkins
Holiday Hills
Hometown
Hopkins Park
Indian Creek
Indian Head Park
Ingalls Park
Inverness
Irwin
Itasca
Johnsburg
Kaneville
Kenilworth
Kildeer
Kinsman
Lake Barrington
Lake Bluff
Lake Catherine
Lakemoor
Lakewood
Lakewood Shores
Lily Lake
Lincolnshire
Lisbon
Long Grove
Long Lake
Lynwood
Manhattan
Manteno
Maple Park
Marengo
Mazon
McCook
McCullom Lake
Merrionette Park
Mettawa
Millbrook
Millington
Minooka
Momence
Monee
Newark
North Barrington
North Riverside
Northfield
Oak Brook
Oakbrook Terrace
Oakwood Hills
Old Mill Creek
Olympia Fields
Orland Hills
Palos Park
Park City
Peotone
Phoenix
Pingree Grove
Pistakee Highlands
Plano
Port Barrington
Posen
Prairie Grove
Preston Heights
Reddick
Richmond
Ringwood
Riverside
Riverwoods
Robbins
Rockdale
Rosemont
Round Lake Heights
Round Lake Park
Seneca
Shabbona
Sleepy Hollow
South Barrington
South Chicago Heights
South Wilmington
Spring Grove
St. Anne
Stickney
Stone Park
Sun River Terrace
Symerton
Third Lake
Thornton
Tower Lakes
Trout Valley
Union
Union Hill
Verona
Virgil
Volo
Wadsworth
Wayne
West Dundee
Willowbrook
Willow Springs
Wilmington
Winthrop Harbor
Wonder Lake
Yorkville
Beverly Shores
Burns Harbor
Cedar Lake
Dune Acres
Hebron
Kouts
Lake Dalecarlia
Lakes of the Four Seasons
New Chicago
Ogden Dunes
Porter
Rensselaer
Schneider
South Haven
St. John
Town of Pines
Whiting
Winfield
Westville
Bristol
Genoa City
Paddock Lake
Powers Lake
Silver Lake
Twin Lakes

[steel]

For Buffalo:

Niagara Falls

Now that is pretty cool

[PhillyRising]

Philadelphia

Pennsylvania

King of Prussia
Gulph Mills
Gladwyne
Bryn Mawr
Bryn Athyn
Bala Cynwyd
Conshohocken
Media
Audubon (also an Audubon in New Jersey)
Neshaminy
Bensalem
Great Valley
Chadds Ford
Drexel Hill
Wynnewood
Lafayette Hill
Willow Grove
Springfield (what's cool is that there are two of them about 15 miles apart)
Plymouth Meeting
Blue Bell
St. Davids
Villanova (yes...the schools is in the town with the same name)

New Jersey

Cherry Hill
Collingswood
Haddonfield
Pennsauken (although some will say it's not a cool place)
Wenonah
Runnemeade
Barrington
Vorhees



King

[F-Misthebest]

Fargo-Moorhead:

West Fargo
Dilworth
Oakport

:cool:

[MayorOfChicago]

Yes....I've always thought East Chicago was the COOLEST Chicago suburb name.

I think you could get rid of 1/2 of those right away as normal or "boring"

[ardecila]

Yeah... Although I do like Dolton and Mokena.

[Cleveland Brown]

Cleveland

Pepper Pike
Highland Heights (a bit redundant)
Elyria
Wooster
Mentor-on-the-Lake
Shaker Heights
Parma
Chagrin Heights

[Evergrey]

Cleveland

Pepper Pike
Highland Heights (a bit redundant)
Elyria
Wooster
Mentor-on-the-Lake
Shaker Heights
Parma
Chagrin Heights

dude... i lived in Wooster last year... Wooster DEFINATELY ain't a suburb of Cleveland... it's also pronounced Wuh-ster.. which makes the name less cool

[Cleveland Brown]

Detroit

Hamtramck
East Pointe (Actually, the City was named East Detroit, but it changed it's name about ten years ago to disassociate itself with Detroit)
Grosse Pointe
Grosse Pointe Farms
Grosse Pointe Woods
Grosse Pointe Shores
Grosse Pointe Township
Grosse Isle
Pontiac (The Native American Chief / City existed before the car brand)
Novi
Inkster

Ann Arbor & Ypsilanti :runaway:

[Cleveland Brown]

dude... i lived in Wooster last year... Wooster DEFINATELY ain't a suburb of Cleveland... it's also pronounced Wuh-ster.. which makes the name less cool

Well, with all the damn Amish in Wayne County, Cleveland is the closest thing to civilization, unless you consider anything in Medina County, Lorain County or Akron civilization?

BTW, I forgot Medina, which oddly enough used to be called Mecca.

For Detroit I forgot Romulus.

[Evergrey]

Well, with all the damn Amish in Wayne County, Cleveland is the closest thing to civilization, unless you consider anything in Medina County, Lorain County or Akron civilization?

BTW, I forgot Medina, which oddly enough used to be called Mecca.

For Detroit I forgot Romulus.

The Giant Eagle in Massillon was my little slice of civilization... oh good memories... :yuck:

[Cleveland Brown]

The Giant Eagle in Massillon was my little slice of civilization... oh good memories... :yuck:

Giant Eagle? That's only a step above Wal-Mart!

Don't complain, I'd rather be stuck with the Amish than the hicks in Medina County.

[Visiteur]

A lot of the names where I'm from have Greco-Roman origins.

Syracuse:
Manlius
Cicero
Lysander
Camillus
Fabius
Pompey
Marcellus

And no, Ithaca is not a suburb.;)

Farther out, you get the villages of Victory and Conquest. Of what, I dunno.

[Sulley]

Birmingham:

Vestavia
Bessemer
Ensley
Tuxedo Junction
Dolomite
Inverness

[Cleveland Brown]

Birmingham:

Vestavia
Bessemer
Ensley
Tuxedo Junction
Dolomite
Inverness

Don't forget Hoover!

...and what the hell happened to "LeBuff?"

[MSPtoMKE]

Minneapolis-St. Paul:

Ostego
Monticello
Marine-On-St. Croix
Willernie
Little Canada
Mahtomedi
Minnetonka
Wyzata
Chanhassen
Edina
Waconia
Minnetrista
St. Bonifacius
Savage
Shakopee
Vadnais Heights
Lake St. Croix Beach
Corcoran
Delano

[rockyi]

St. Louis suburbs:

Cool Valley (top that one)


We have a Coal Valley up here. It's funny how just one letter difference can make a town seem "cool" or "hick." (and yes Coal Valley is hick, I know, I grew up there. :)

[mind field]

more detroit:

Lake Angeles
Troy
Keego Harbor
Lake Orion
Beverly Hills
Hell (exburb)

[arbeiter]

Austin doesn't have many suburbs, but I always liked these names:

Dripping Springs
Marble Falls
Bee Cave
Florence
Leander

[sprtsluvr8]

More Atlanta:

Rex
Hapeville
Lithia Springs
Villa Rica

[steel]

Another one for Buffalo:

Eden

[Mayfd24]

addition to Birmingham:
Moody

[ColDayMan]

Giant Eagle? That's only a step above Wal-Mart!

Basically.

[tmac14wr]

Boston: lots of Native American-inspired names

Chappaqiuddick
Scituate (my hometown)
Cohasset
Duxbury
Gloucester
Worcester
Manchester-by-the-Sea
Swampscott
Lynn
Chelsea
Martha's Vineyard
Nantucket
Hyannis
Hull
Chatham
Dedham
Hyannisport
Bourne
Ashburnham
Halifax
Truro
Harwich
Old City
Tewksbury
Marblehead
Annisquam
Cahoon Hollow
Cotuit

Plenty of others if you look at a map.

[Wigs]

not technically suburbs per se, but included in the Metro
Holland
South Wales
Sardinia
Warsaw (out in the boonies)
Silver Creek
Ransomville

[steel]

Also for Buffalo - the UNcool triumvirate:

Tonawanda
Cheektowaga
Lackawanna

[secondson]

Cincinnati area:

-Blue Ash
-Forest Park
-Terrace Park
-Mt. Airy
-West Chester
-Villa Hills (in Northern KY.)

[nobody]

Some of Boise's suburbs are super imaginative.

Star
Eagle
Meridian

[Michi]

My favorite Detroit suburb names have already been mentioned, but I'll list them again:

Novi (for as trashy as it is)
Romulus
Waterford
Inkster (sounds like midget)
Livonia
Gibraltar
Hamtramck
Ypsilanti (Ip-sil-antie)
Lake Orion (Or-ee-uhn)
Lathrup Village
Algonac
Harsens Island

Grand Rapids
West Olive
Wyoming
Kentwood
Cascade
Byron Center
Dorr
Tallmadge

[LyndaleHoosier]

Some that I like from Minneapolis-St. Paul:

Saint Louis Park
Edina
Brooklyn Center
Brooklyn Park
Richfield
Inver Grove Heights
Landfall
Hilltop
Apple Valley
Woodbury
Stillwater
Columbia Heights
Falcon Heights
Burnsville
Eden Prairie
Chanhassen
Sunfish Lake
Orono
Saint Anthony Village

[zaphod]

Is it just me, or do many US cities have old/streetcar suburbs called bel air or any number of variations(belair, bellaire, bell air, bellair)

why is that?

[KevinFromTexas]

For Austin:

Central Texas and parts of South Texas have a lot of German and Swedish settlements. So many of the names of the small towns and cities are either German or Swedish in origin.

Buda, (pronounced B-you-da)
Pilot Knob, named after an extinct volcano there, (short), which as the name suggests is a landmark for pilots. Originally Bergstrom Air Force Base was located there, which closed and was turned into Austin's first international airport, Austin-Bergstrom Int'l Airport.
Pflugerville, (pronounced Floogerville)
West Lake Hills
Lago Vista
Sunset Valley
Garfield
Bee Cave
Jollyville
The Hills
New Sweden
Montopolis, (now actually a neighborhood in East Austin).
Dripping Springs
Driftwood
Delhi
Friendship
Frame Switch
Waterloo, (named after Austin, which originally was called Waterloo).
New Corn Hill
Liberty Hill
Spicewood
Sprinkle
Mountain City
Niederwald
Stairtown
Littig
Mustang Ridge
Oatmeal
Round Rock, (actually named after a large round rock in the middle of town in a creek which indians used to cross the creek at high water).

Just outside the metro area:

New Braunfels, (It's closer to San Antonio actually, sort of a mid-suburb of both)
Marble Falls, (the granite in the Texas Capitol was quarried here).
Horseshoe Bay
Sunrise Beach
Fredericksburg
Johnson City, (the birthplace of Lyndon B. Johnson).
Luchenbach
Tivydale
Twin Sisters
Comfort
Waring, (wtf?)
Starzville
Schulenburg
Dubina
High Hill
Flatonia
Praha
Giddings
Manheim
Blue
Temple
Heidenheimer
Cyclone
Zabcikville
Seguin
Geronimo, (named after the indian chief).
Denhawken

[Xelebes]

Is it just me, or do many US cities have old/streetcar suburbs called bel air or any number of variations(belair, bellaire, bell air, bellair)

why is that?

Maybe look it up in a Spanish-English dictionary. I think Bel means beautiful.

[SacTownAndy]

Some Sacramento ones:

Elk Grove
Rocklin
Folsom
Granite Bay
El Dorado Hills
Greenhaven
Natomas
Citrus Heights
Fair Oaks
Laguna/Laguna West
Rancho Cordova

[ltsmotorsport]

^
Orangevale
Carmichael
Lincoln
Roseville
Antelope
North Highlands

[Latoso]

In Chicago the suburb of Joliet temporarily changed it's name to Juliet after a neighboring suburb named Romeo was incorporated. They both came to their senses somewhat and Joliet is back, and the other is now Romeoville.

I also think the suburb of Manhatten is hilarious, because it's out in the corn fields!:haha:

Lastly I enjoy the story of South Holland. Apparently a bunch of Dutch settlers were headed to Holland, Michigan but got on the wrong train in NY. Having no money to get to Michigan after arriving in Chicago nearly penniless so they decided to found South Holland instead.

[sf_eddo]

Alright, these are a few that for one reason or another, sound interesting to me.

San Francisco -
Pinole
Hercules
Rodeo
Berkeley
Albany
Crockett
Kensington
Alamo
Diablo
Alameda
Lafayette
Dublin
Pleasanton
Orinda
Moraga
Fairfax
Inverness
Guerneville
Lagunitas
San Geronimo
Sausalito
Tiburon
Tomales
Napa
Calistoga
Half Moon Bay
La Honda
Moss Beach
Pacifica
Pescadero
Princeton-By-the-Sea
Cupertino
Palo Alto
Vacaville
Petaluma
Sebastopol
Cotati

[Paradox21]

...picking up where secondson left off...

In the Greater Cincinnati Tri-State HyperSuperDuperMetroplex, there a bounty of riches to be found when it comes to interesting and goofy-ass community names, for starters:

Rising Sun
Utopia
Aaron
Marcus
Maurice
Florence
Gertrude
Maud
Patriot
Independence
New Baltimore
New Palestine
Morgadora
Felicity
Jericho
Lebanon
Munk
California
Wyoming
Santa Fe
Montgomery
Berlin
Boston
Hartford
Portland
Oregonia
Melbourne
Miamitown
Dent
Delhi (Not too unique, since there seems to be one in nearly every other city)
Dillsboro
Blue Ash
Blue Jay
Cyclorama Heights
Withamsville-Tobasco
Fashion Heights
Idlewild
Roachester
Layhigh
Ludlow
Reading
Moxley
Skyline Acres
Sparta
McConigle
Bevis
Cheviot
Pleasant Ridge
Mount Healthy
Golf Manor
Socialville
Lusby Mill
Bullittsville
Turkey Foot
Grants Lick
Over-the-Rhine
Columbia-Tusculum
Big Bone
Rabbit Hash
Pringle Corners
Alert
Bacon Flat
…and my favorite:

Sugartit

[SuburbanNation]

a few other semi-interesting stl suburb names (sorry if im redundant):

creve coeur ("broken heart")

bellefontaine neighbors (whoops, its listed...its my favorite name for some reason)

velda village hills

florissant (valley of flowers or something?)

sauget (means city of upsetting car rides in french)

[combusean]

For Phoenix:
Phoenix, of course, the mythical bird that rises from its own ashes.
Apache Junction sounds kind of cool, but it's not
Surprise ... there's nothing here!
Youngtown is full of old people
Goodyear is named after the tire and rubber company.
Tempe ... named from the vale of Tempe in ancient Greece
Carefree is full of NIMBYs.

Further outside the metro we have Miami-Globe, Winkelman, Dudleyville, and Superior. On the other side, Black Canyon City, Strawberry-Pine, Snowflake (named after two guys named Snow and Flake). Tucson has Oracle, Drexel Heights, Marana, and Vail. Why is in there too.

[Onward]

For San Antonio

Boerne
Helotes
Hill country village
Selma
China Groove "Maybe some know the song"

[williasj]

Though we dont have suburbs per se we do have large master planned communites that are basically the same thing.

Summerlin (named after howard hughes mother)
Anthem
Lake Las Vegas
Tuscany
Mountain's Edge
Aliente
Rhodes Ranch (named after developer jim rhodes)
And soon to come Coyote Springs