Well if there was ever an apt Wiki page for a town it would be found for Needmore.
Needmore…as in needs more information. Needmore, a town in Pennsylvania, only has three sentences written about it on Wiki. There are three towns in Indiana named Needmore. One (Lawrence County) only mustered a one sentence description. Another (Vermillion) lacked a description altogether. The final one (Brown) did manage a full paragraph.
There are also Needmores in Georgia, Texas, and West Virginia.
Needmore…as in needs more people. The Pennsylvania town only has a population of 170. The Indiana page didn’t even bother listing populations. The Texas town only has 45 people.
Needmore…as in history. There aren’t any in depth explanations but one page explains where the peculiar name comes from. From the Brown County Indiana page:
The Texas town was similarly named, “Needmore was so named because townsite promoters “needed more” settlers.”
Strangely, there are two in relatively close proximity in Texas:
In Indiana, “The nickname became a derogatory name for the local school’s basketball team.”
However, as Indiana’s very own Fighting Irish will tell you, call somebody something derogatory for long enough and they are liable to like it.
Eventually the name stuck and became a point of pride amongst residents.