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What's the smallest town you've visited (for at least one day) or lived in?
@abbyful: I saw that in one of your other posts you said you used to live outside of Hays. My grandma lives in St. Francis, KS.
I used to live in Ogden, KS and its so small that it doesnt even have a grocery store. Luckily there was town close with everything that we needed.
I have no idea. I have traveled all throughout Ecuador where there are indiginous villages in the rainforests with no running water, nothing modern and stayed there...so...less than 50?
I live in Wyoming right now and the town about 20 miles from us (Buford) has one person...there are billboards everywhere advertising the "World's Smallest Town." There are several other towns nearby with 20-50 people.
smallest town i visited was a town in Alaska, had a population of 2 - ive got the sign photo somewhere at home
I lived on an island with less than 3000 people for two years. While there, I also worked on another island with less than 200. That place was insanely rural.
I lived in Bloserville, PA for my HS years and it has maybe 100 people total.
I grew up in Woodston KS, about 100 people by http://www.city-data.com/city/Woodston-Kansas.html, but in reality most of those people live in the country, the town itself has about 50 people. 2 paved roads in the entire town. No school, no convience store, no cafe, it's pretty much a dead town.
We moved to another small town (about 500 people) when I was in high school.
Our football field only had a 40 yard line, not a 50. We played 6 & 8 man football. Some of the nearby schools were combining schools, so you'd go to a basketball game and there'd be 3 jerseys on the court because the combining schools still wanted to wear their own colors.
A couple of my friends lived in the nearby town of Densmore, KS, which is just a few houses near each other.
Wow. I thought the town I grew up in was small. We had a four way stop. It's not a blinking four way stop. It's right around 1000 people. My mom's family lives in Mongo, IN, where nearly everyone is related. They don't even have a four way stop. (This is how I measure towns... the number and type of traffic lights/stops. Ha!). But Mongo does have a Post Office (probably not for long!), a convenience store that they call a grocery store, and a bar. And in the summer you can rent canoes--from a family. :)
I work in Agassiz BC, the town has a research center (where I work) and it seems as if a lot of the people live there to work at the center (which isn't that big to begin with) or to be close to the local prison for visiting purposes.
The smallest town I've been to has about 2000 people and is in Maine.
Oh wow... all this time I thought I grew up in a small place. LoL. My hometown has a population of about 55,000 (Decatur, AL). I went to college in Auburn, AL which has a population of about 53,000-- mostly because of the school, obviously.
When I first moved to Georgia, I lived in Decatur, GA (odd, since I'm from a city of the same name, LoL) and the populaiton there is about 19,000, but it didn't feel small, since it's one of many cities that get lumped into the Atlanta Metro area. I now live in Sandy Springs (another Atlanta Metro area) which has a population of about 93,000.
I googled the population of the town I live in & it said 900 some. That was for the whole county.
My first job posting was to a town called Hyden (western Australia) some of you may've heard of, or visited, Wave Rock it's the closest town to there... ANYWAY According to Google population is now 204 but trust me when I lived there it had about 100 and only 4 roads... As a city girl i was totally weirded out by the fact everyone knew everything about everyone hahaha.
Please to say I now live back in the CBD and love the anonymity hahaha
Right now I live in East Moline IL, which itself has about 20,000 people. However if I walk down my street about 200 yards, I am in Moline, which is much larger, and that is part of the Quad Cities which is Moline, Rock Island, Davenport and Bettendorf and that combined metro area is just under half a million. So I sort of have the best of both worlds. The small town municipalities with the big city conveniences.
I spent the first eight or nine years in a town (or village.. but has since been demoted to township) with six or so streets and then moved to a town with six stop lights (which at the time I thought was HUGE!) Now I live in a area with a metro population of over 1 million! It is great to see peps who grew up or lived in small towns/ areas!
My fi and I drove from Florida to Cali and we stayed in Deming, New Mexico... It was TINY.
@ShellVee: Oo ive been to hyden! there isnt much there!! wave rock... ahmazinggg!
Smallest town I have stayed a few months in is tambellup (western australia) 297 people is what the census says. I swear there is less though... everyone is spread out over the farming community.
@ccranetobe hahaha yes Hyden definitely has nothing there except the big wave rock hahaha. I remember my mates visiting me and being so excited to see Wave Rock then saying thank god that they had me as a reason to visit cos seriously NOTHING else to do for miles around :)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kimmswick,_Missouri
Kimmswick, MO. I never lived there, but we've visited there. It has a population of just over 100.
The smallest place I've ever lived is where I live now in the UK. It has a population of 21,000. I grew up 10-15 minutes from downtown St. Louis in the St. Louis suburbs so... never lived anywhere remotely in the coun try before now. (And even now we're only a 1/2 hour from Norwich, a 1/2 hour from Cambridge and and hour and a half from London).
I think I concur with previous poster - UK has lots of tiny villages dotted around, and some have bigger villages which are classed as towns, but have nothing really there
I spent a lot of time in Glenuig on the west coast of Scotland while growing up. That's probably the smallest town/village I've spent considerable amounts of time.
The village pub used to be awesome, though, and they have a village hall that's one of the best concert venues in the North.
Tyrone, PA. Just visited. They did have a Sheetz tho, I was content.
I lived in Weitchpec CA for the majority of my life and there was maybe 50 people in the town... Maybe lol
I grew up in a town of about 2,000, and I've visited smaller places. Just a few weeks ago an acquaintance referred to a town of 100,000 as "small" and I was pretty taken aback - seriously?!
My family and I evacuated for katrina for two months to a place called alpine, TX. Middle of nowhere out on the western border. The sign said pop. 5,000 , however, there were about 4,500 kids up at this college they had there. So the actual pop was about 500. Couldnt wait to get back home. It was just odd.....no redlights, no real stores, no walmart, no airport for miles, some woman would ride a burro around town while dressed like an old west gun sling er...just....odd.
Growing up, I had family in Marion, North Carolina. The current population is 4,900, so I imagine that it was much smaller 25 years ago, the first time I visited. Everyone hung out at the store that was also a gas station (like a 7-11, but it was called Nikelodeon).
I took a bus from Buenos Aires, Argentina, through the " Pampas" to a small town where my Mother in law grew up called " Olavarria". On the way there I saw some pretty outdated ways of life and small towns. No stores or street lights, traffic lights etc. Just a few farms.
Right next to where I will be getting married, the town of Red House (also where my officiant and a friend of my parents lives) has a population of under 40 peopel.
I have visited towns with less than a 1k but I have lived in towns with less than 5k. Definitely a huge change though since the church I use to belong to when I lived in New Orleans had 5k parishioners.
The population of the town I'm from is about 150. However, my parents house is on the "outskirts" of town outside of the city limits (the official town covers less than 3 square miles).
But, there's a city of 100,000 about 25 miles away, so it doesn't seem that bad.
Picher, OK... the eeriest town I've ever seen. It doesn't actually qualify for the "visited for at least one day thing" but it was so odd, I had to share. Apparently, it was a mining town and they stripped the land so that it was caving in on itself and the ground water became contaminated. People just got up and left, leaving behind most everything they owned. It was the spookiest thing I've ever seen and we just drove through, seeing "no trespassing signs" everwhere and children's toys scattered in the yard. I think a few die-hards continue to live there, but I didn't see one sign of life on our drive.
@Jeannine @ Small Chic: I actually know where that is because that is where I moved to when I moved from New Orleans to NC. What a small world and I didn't even see your response till just now after I had responded. But I never heard of Nicklodeon though. So I wouldn't know where that is. Still don't know where more then 1/2 of the things in Marion is but no longer living there after moving to the Southeastern end of the state a little over a year ago.
But if you still have family there, they will probably know what my family does because we use to own the resturant Nara Express about 4 years ago.
I was born in Grabill, IN (well, the hospital was in Ft. Wayne but my parents lived in Grabill and that is where I went home too). According to Wikipedia, the population is just over 1000, but when I lived there 20+ years ago, I'm sure it was under 1000.
Yay Amish county!
I was also in some tiny places during travelling (like an area of Costa Rica accessable only by boat), but I don't remember specific names.
Haha @futureKMM i feel u I live in Ridgeville, IN, find that on the map lol
As a kid, my mom and I lived with my Grama in Lennon, Michigan. The population now is 454, so I'm guessing it was even less back then.
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