List of geographic anagrams and ananyms
Name Anagram of Notes
Birson , Saskatchewan Robins George Cornelius Robins , early settler ; now known as Fir Ridge
Boncar , West Virginia carbon Now known as Alloy , West Virginia
Carol City , Florida Coral name changed after Coral Gables threatened to sue
Dongola , Wisconsin Gondola name misspelled ( during post office approval ? ) and never corrected
El Jobean , Florida Joel Bean developer anagrammed his own name
Elroy , Wisconsin Leroy chosen to avoid post office name duplication
Garus , California sugar
Goliad , Texas Hidalgo ( except silent H ) indirect naming for Miguel Hidalgo , Mexican national hero
Kinhop , Saskatchewan Hopkins ( minus the S ) William Hopkins
Landrose , Saskatchewan Roseland William Roseland
Lerado , Kansas Laredo , Texas post office clerical error resulted in a swap of the E and A
Linbro Park , Sandton , South Africa Brolin local family name
Lipona Plantation , Florida Napoli owned by Prince Achille Murat , former prince of Naples
Malesus , Tennessee Samuels Samuels was a prominent local who did not want the town named for him . Malesus was a compromise
Medina , North Dakota median name changed from Midway , so named because it 's about halfway between the extreme east and west of the continent
Nada , Kentucky Dana Dana Lumber Company , which owned the sawmill
Neola , West Virginia Olean , New York
Romley , Colorado Morely Colonel B. F. Morely , mine owner ; now a ghost town
Salitpa , Alabama Satilpa Creek error when someone apparently crossed the wrong letter ( thus switching the L and T ) when applying for a post office
Shallmar , Maryland Marshall a New Yorker who founded the community
Anagrams
Place names created by anagramming fall into three distinct groups : Single letters swapped Sometimes this is due to a typo that did not get fixed . Others are just to make a different name , but not too different , from the original . Syllables swapped Usually based on someone 's surname . Well mixed combinations When a completely different name was desired .
These are geographic anagrams and ananyms. Anagrams are rearrangements of the letters of another name or word. Ananyms (also called reversals) are other names or words spelled backwards. Technically, a reversal is also an anagram, but the two are derived by different methods, so they are listed separately.