A Town That Named itself "Santa Claus"

Trust The BBC News to find that there truly is a place called “Santa Claus” that is in Indiana with a population of 2,500 with most of them of course living in a gated development called “Christmas Lake Village”. And yes, the three main streets are named after the three wise men Balthazar, Kaspar and Melchior. Other areas of the town have streets named after reindeer.
Why? This place used to be called Santa Fee but the post office in the 1800’s already had Santa Fe three hundred kilometers to the north and wanted a name change. The residents were choosing from the names of either Santa Claus or Wittenbach. The post office at the time was tiny but since about 1914 letters addressed to the other Santa Claus started to arrive, and the postmaster started to respond  to those letters. Now 20,000 letters are addressed to “Santa Claus, North Pole” yearly, and they all end up here.  Over two hundred volunteers respond to the letters with a printed response and a hand written annotation.
There is a holiday park called Holiday World and Splashin’ Safari in Santa Claus that gets over one million visitors a year, and as expected there are models of Santa Claus everywhere. The town centre is called Kringle Place. You can come and get your letters stamped at the post office as being mailed from Santa Claus. And as one of the residents noted to an inquirer, if the town had been called Wittenbach the town would not have received the interest and economy it has today.
Here’s Santa Claus citizen Pat Koch explaining how Santa Claus got its name. You can view the YouTube video here.