adjective. Remote, small, and insignificant.

adjective. Contemptibly trivial.

adjective. small and remote and insignificant.

adjective. Off the main railroad line.

noun. A train on a branch line.

adjective. Of an inhabited place, small, insignificant, backward

adjective. small and remote and insignificant

"From Daggett, a forsaken station of the Santa Fé Railroad, a "jerkwater" road, as it is called, extends northward to Goldfield and Tonopah, and this road takes one almost as the crow flies to the edge of the valley of the ominous name."

provincial  

jerk water  jerk-water  

jerkwater town  

'hillsborough  chickenshit  condensed-steam  criswell  indie-rock  

one-horse  pokey  poky  remote place