What size is a "small town" to you?

-Where I grew up was a village of 815 people. Nice little place to be a kid. We had two stop lights, but that's because the main road through town was a state highway. One stop light was at the street the local school was on, and the other was at the intersection heading the other way out of town. Now I live in a Township that has a lot of housing because it's about 15 minutes down the highway from Canton, OH. I think I saw that there were around 5k in population here. Still a pretty nice and quite area to live in.

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Matt

If the municipality offices are located in a town hall, its a town. If municipal offices are in a city hall, its a city.

If it supports its own independent police department it is a city. If it has a two to five man police force with the chief of police on the Sheriff's personnel roster as a sergeant and the department is overseen and 911 dispatched by the county sheriff and EMS , its a town.

If the population is less than 1500 its a town. If more than 1500 its a city.

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I just bought a house in a town of less than 500 people. My place is still a couple of miles out of town which is fine by me.

Mary

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What about when they're in an office in the corner of the maintenance shop?

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The town that we moved from last November was less than 100 people. It had a bar and a post office, a community club and a fire hall. No stop lights or stop signs. It was a "you blink, you miss it!" Hank Williams Jr. sang a song about the Two Dot Bar. There are some hard working, great people there. I miss them.

I'd say any town with 1000 folks or less would be what I'd consider a "small town".

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We live about nine miles from the town of Yarmouth Nova Scotia which has a population of about 8,000 people which I consider a small town. It has a Walmart store for a few years now; banks, hospital, schools, churches and some stores ; although downtown has many vacant store fronts. There are also lawyers, insurance companies, dentist and car dealers and other businesses. We also live 3 miles from a village of 2,500 people. It has a school, seniors home, corner grocery with a post office, two churches, a bakery and antique shop.The difference in the two locations is population and services offered.

DO NOT GO BY POPULATION NUMBERS!!!!

When we refer to a "small town" we need to not look further than the local economy.

Small town: NO MORE than two gas stations
NO MORE than one liquor establishment
A STRONG presence of FREEMASONRY or other civic organization.
various SMALL employers, maybe one large, maybe.
a MAIN STREET with a few LOCAL buisnesses.
Restaurants are ALL locally owned, NO major chains.
A PARK/recreational area being utilized in healthy condition.
a lumber company.
one or two small local grocers
a car/truck wash, manual bays.

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It takes a good size town to have 2 gas stations.

I know a town where the only non-residential buildings they have is 1 restaurant and 1 Masonic lodge.

My town has one street with one store-front business.

A small town can not support more than 1 restaurant.

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That's what I was thinking. lol A small town is lucky to have a Card-trol at CoOp!

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Right

My town has no gas station. I know of many towns that have no gas station.

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My zip code town consists of a convenience store and a post office. No gas station, no restaurant, no tavern or bar. No stop signs or traffic lights. A lot of people who pass through don't realize they've just gone through a town. I live another 15 miles out of that.

Nearest bigger town is about 21 miles away, population of 4,500. Too big so far as I'm concerned.

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In a small town, if someone calls you and you screen the call, you can go through the phone book and ID the caller in less than 15 minutes. And, when writing letters or sending packages all you need is the persons name, and zip code, they'll get it.

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THIS DEPENDS ON GEOGRAPHY OF THE LOCAL AREA. If a state highway runs through town, then yes it CAN support two gas stations.

If your town is "off the beaten path" then you'd be lucky to even have a post office.

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Good point an interstate off-ramp in a town would allow for more businesses. As the traffic would be supporting them, and not the town.

We have an interstate cutting through our township, but no off-ramps.

I think that for a small town to have an interstate off-ramp in their town would be a rare oddity when looking at a wide selection of small towns.

As for post offices, it is common around here for groups of towns to share one zip code. Our zip code is shared by five townships. The biggest town has the post office and a group of neighboring townships all use the same post office [The biggest town, one Indian reservation and three other towns].

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