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It appears very few place names in the United States are descriptive of the place.

OK, this is way off topic, but as you can see the workload today is less than usual, so...

I live in central Florida. Towns here are named after people, or are descriptions of the area and/or the climate. Haines City, Plant City, Kathleen, Babson Park, Sebring, Bartow, and Fort Meade are named after people. Winter Haven and Frostproof are named for the climate. Lakeland, Mulberry, Green Pond, Lake Wales, Zephyrhills, and Groveland are all descriptions of the area. There are also two types of names that are somewhat unique to America: Indian names such as Kissimmee, Wauchula, Narcoossee, and Thonotosassa, and names brought from Europe such as Dundee.

There is one other town in the area whose name makes no sense, and I cannot find out how it was named: Medulla. When it was named that in the 1880s the medulla oblongata was still called "the bulb," and in any case "medulla" means "bone marrow," which is an odd name for a town. Incidentally, before it was called Medulla it was called Spring Hill, because it was--you guessed it--on a hill with a spring. That doesn't mean there isn't a Spring Hill in FL, of course; there is one, about 50 miles north of Tampa, except that it isn't on a hill, and doesn't have a spring.

Well, I live in a city named for a long forgotten Governor of Kansas Territory. The founder named it hoping to curry favor as at the time Denver was in Kansas, but he found out too late that Mr. Denver had left office when the city was named.

Our longest street, Colfax, was named for U.S. Grant's first Vice President who was kicked off the ticket because of the Credit Mobilier scandal. Somewhat appropriately, Colfax was once called the "wickedest street in America" but it has cleaned up considerably since then.

I however, live on a beautiful street unfortunately named for a number. But, people can find me.

“the medulla oblongata?”

The medulla oblongata...is where anger, jealousy
and aggression come from.

Now, is there anybody here can tell me where happiness comes from?

- Anyone?

All right, let’s hear what Mama has to say on the subject.

Mama say that happiness is from magic rays of sunshine that come down when you feelin’ blue.

Well, folks, Mama’s wrong again.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UfC4u5GCy3I