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06/19/12, 07:53 PM
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Near by town/village is 1500 . .in the summer time when the Dairy queenie is open it is 1503......
Enough lads to have a top dog football team......
I complain that 45 miles away is a way larger 'city' that has a Catholic school that is rabid for sports . . . .all the Notre Dame wanna be's from a huge area drive there just because of the football team................OH ya . .that city has the idiot drawing wallyfarts.......
But our small town boys have spirit.......
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06/19/12, 07:55 PM
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RF in Western Mtns.of ME
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Join Date: Jun 2008
Location: N.W. corner of ME by both NH, & Quebec border.
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Originally Posted by Freya
What kind of population (or area) is a small town to you?
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The biggest town in the state of ME is Portlandia @ about 67,000 - the biggest town near me is somewhere over 4000 (40 mi. away), and there are a lot of towns in the state that are 700 - 1200.
This little resortish village is 1200 year round & 4000+ in summer.
You can tell the summer folks are here if you have to wait to get onto Main St. at all.
Closest stoplight is 40 mi. down out of the mtns. & there is a Walmart just a bit farther.
A 'village' in Russia can be 8,000 or more ?!
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06/19/12, 07:59 PM
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RF in Western Mtns.of ME
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Join Date: Jun 2008
Location: N.W. corner of ME by both NH, & Quebec border.
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Originally Posted by NorthCountryWd
That's just about every town in our state...big and small.
My town has 232 full time residents and I would call it small....that's about 100 maple taps per person.
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Few towns in ME have more than one zip - the entire state has only the 207 area code.
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R. F. in Western Mtns. of Maine
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06/19/12, 07:59 PM
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Join Date: Feb 2005
Location: Hoosier transplant to cheese country
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Jerngen's got it right.
Under 5,000 is a small town.
A village is under 1,000.
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06/19/12, 08:03 PM
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The town I grew up in didn't have a stop sign. We did have two speed limit signs. One on each side of town. Our school only went to the 8th grade and we only had 2 teachers. In my 8th grade graduation class there was 4 of us.
If a small town is 5000 or less and a town is 1000 or less what would I call the town I grew up in? We had less than 100.
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06/19/12, 08:04 PM
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Location: Texas...for now....
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I grew up in a village of 809. Went back and now just left again, the pop. is at 744....moved to a village pop. of somewhere around 400. I call that small....to me anything that doesn't have a gas station is...not a town or village..it's....an address. 
Where I moved from is in northern WI, 8 miles from that village is a town of around 4k and they have a small walmart. That doesn't believe in selling salt and pepper shakers....just sayin.
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06/19/12, 08:06 PM
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Location: Ontario, Canada
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Originally Posted by wogglebug
Well, technically, a town is self-governing - a local government or council.
A village is not self-governing, but does have public buildings - a village hall, or a school.
A hamlet is a collection of houses, maybe even shops or inns, but has no publicly-owned buildings.
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Well, in that case, I live 2 miles from the nearest hamlet (it's got a name and a few houses, but no services) 4 miles from the nearest village (Population about 430: it has an elementary school, a library, a fire station, and four churches) and 20 miles from the nearest town.
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06/19/12, 08:07 PM
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Join Date: Jan 2008
Location: Oxford, Ark
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Originally Posted by OkieDavid
I use red lights.....a small town has none. Less than five and you are a suburb. Above six and there is no difference between your town and NYC.
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BwahaBwahabwahahahahahahahah!!! 
Darlin, I grew up in NYC. First time I left it a friend said she was taking me to Albany. We wandered around for a while and then I asked when we were going to the city. She said we were already downtown.
Yeah, there's a difference.
My town now has population 630, about (they didn't change the sign when we moved here) I'd consider that small.
ROFL, but as to what I'd consider a city, if it doesn't have public rail and buses, it's just a big town to me.
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06/19/12, 08:09 PM
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150 people ,7 beer joints, 1 grocery, a VFW and a gas station with a jug in the tire stack, and a dang good welding shop, maybe a tomato and pickle factory
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06/19/12, 08:20 PM
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Location: Texas and Missouri
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For me, it depends on where I am at the moment.
While in Houston (where I currently live and work), a small town is probably any town under 5,000 people.
When I am at my property in Missouri, a small town is Brixey or Romance....the two closest named places to my property (both unincorporated). Gainesville (population 600) is no longer a small town...it is a big town. And Ava (population 3,000) is a small city.
So yea....it depends!
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06/19/12, 08:21 PM
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Can't find bacon seeds
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Join Date: Dec 2005
Location: On the move again
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Originally Posted by TNHermit
150 people ,7 beer joints, 1 grocery, a VFW and a gas station with a jug in the tire stack, and a dang good welding shop, maybe a tomato and pickle factory
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Is that where you live or what you consider small? 
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06/19/12, 08:51 PM
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I got it on farm status.
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Location: SouthWest of Phoenix
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Only one chain grocery store, and a movie theater with only one screen.... NO Walmart. Ideal small town.
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06/19/12, 08:58 PM
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zone 5 - riverfrontage
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Location: Forests of maine
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Our town has 250 people, one store-front [a gunsmith] and no stop sign.
The census goes through our state and group many towns into groups of four so they have people to survey.
We have a lot of townships with less then 5.
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06/19/12, 11:52 PM
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Unreality star
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Join Date: May 2003
Location: New York
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Originally Posted by rickfrosty
Few towns in ME have more than one zip - the entire state has only the 207 area code.
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Vermont only has 802 for an area code
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Last edited by Shygal; 06/20/12 at 07:37 AM.
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06/20/12, 12:30 AM
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Too many fat quarters...
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Location: SW Nebraska, NW Kansas
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Less than 500, and more than 50 miles to a town over 5000...
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06/20/12, 12:31 AM
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Join Date: Feb 2005
Location: Alaska- Kenai Pen- Kasilof
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Originally Posted by Jennifer L.
There's one zip code for the town.
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The whole state of Alaska has one area code.
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06/20/12, 05:13 AM
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doll maker/ ND goats
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Join Date: Jun 2010
Location: Northern Maine
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I live in a small town. We have a town government, selectmen etc. I think right now there are about 53 of us. We have a do have church.
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06/20/12, 06:37 AM
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Stop signs = small town.
Traffic lights = city. Number of traffic lights defines size of city.
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06/20/12, 06:57 AM
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Join Date: May 2004
Location: Indiana
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Spotted Horse, WY
Has anyone else ever been through there? I think Spotted Horse, WY, is on Route #1.
They have a stop sign. And, i think a little grocery/ hardware store/post office in one building. A few years ago, DSW went on several meandering trips around the Western United States.
We were just sort of sight seeing. I think another real small town is Elorna, UT. DSW bought a T-shirt there.
We saw a lot of "small towns".
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06/20/12, 07:04 AM
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zone 5 - riverfrontage
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Join Date: Oct 2005
Location: Forests of maine
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Shygal
Vermont only has 802 for a zip code
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The size difference between Maine and Vermont is telling.
Of course a tiny state would only need one zip code. 
A part of what factors into 'small towns' is population density. Massive stretches of land with very few people.
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