who on AT lives in the smallest, most obscure town?

[evident]

Originally posted by: Xanis
My town: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/N...s_County,_Pennsylvania

Population: 2,312

newtown is nice though and has a good infrastructure. i might consider working there in a few years.

 

[waggy]

Originally posted by: Beanie46
Population in July 2007: 238

Oliver, GA

ohh you beat me! Esmond, IL we have 291 people!

 

[rivan]

I lived in Gerald, MO for about 8 years of my childhood. Pop at the time was about 800.

More accurately, we lived 5.5 miles from 'town'. Our nearest neighbors were about a half mile away, and there MIGHT have been 10 people living in the square mile around us.

Gerald was infamously in the national news last year as the Wiki page points out.

 

[Fenixgoon]

wow, my town is technically 536.

saint leonard, md

 

[Perknose]

Originally posted by: evident

Originally posted by: Xanis
My town: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/N...s_County,_Pennsylvania

Population: 2,312

newtown is nice though and has a good infrastructure. i might consider working there in a few years.

The town itself is semi-sweet. It's the numerous anonymous and hideous housing developments around it that suck.

And, anyway, Doylestown is sweeter. Much sweeter. And it's environs, while also defiled by the ticky-tacky, have FAR more history and farms and culture than exists right around Newtown.

 

[Perknose]

Originally posted by: Fenixgoon
wow, my town is technically 536.

saint leonard, md

Technically, my town, Plumsteadville, has a listed population of 0. It's actual population is probably between 200-300 or so, maybe even less.

 

[MrPickins]

http://www.tshaonline.org/hand...articles/FF/hnf31.html

FORDTRAN, TEXAS. Fordtran, just west of U.S. Highway 77 and twenty miles north of Victoria in Victoria County, was named for Henry Fordtran, a Galveston real estate agent responsible for bringing settlers to the site from Tennessee and the Midwest in 1898. The area was once part of the 44 Ranch, which in 1844 covered parts of DeWitt, Victoria, and Goliad counties.

By 1899 most of the ranch had been sold to developers. One factor in the location of the community may have been the promise of the Guadalupe Valley Railroad, which was to have run through the site on its way from Port O'Connor to Yoakum and Austin. Though the roadbed was built from the coast to Hallettsville by 1898, the line was never completed because funds ran out. Nevertheless, by 1900 the settlement was thriving. It had a post office from 1898 to about 1930. The Fordtran Oil Company was established in 1915. A rural common school was built at the community, and by 1920 Fordtran's population had risen to seventy-five.

By the 1950s, however, the town was in decline. The Fordtran school was discontinued, after which area students attended classes within the Victoria Independent School District. Fordtran's population was reported as eighteen from 1974 through 2000.

This is where I grew up...

 

[darkxshade]

Currently living in the international space station. Population: ~3

 

[Perknose]

Originally posted by: MrPickins
http://www.tshaonline.org/hand...articles/FF/hnf31.html

FORDTRAN, TEXAS. Fordtran, just west of U.S. Highway 77 and twenty miles north of Victoria in Victoria County, was named for Henry Fordtran, a Galveston real estate agent responsible for bringing settlers to the site from Tennessee and the Midwest in 1898. The area was once part of the 44 Ranch, which in 1844 covered parts of DeWitt, Victoria, and Goliad counties.

By 1899 most of the ranch had been sold to developers. One factor in the location of the community may have been the promise of the Guadalupe Valley Railroad, which was to have run through the site on its way from Port O'Connor to Yoakum and Austin. Though the roadbed was built from the coast to Hallettsville by 1898, the line was never completed because funds ran out. Nevertheless, by 1900 the settlement was thriving. It had a post office from 1898 to about 1930. The Fordtran Oil Company was established in 1915. A rural common school was built at the community, and by 1920 Fordtran's population had risen to seventy-five.

By the 1950s, however, the town was in decline. The Fordtran school was discontinued, after which area students attended classes within the Victoria Independent School District. Fordtran's population was reported as eighteen from 1974 through 2000.

This is where I grew up...

DING! DING! DING! We have a weiner! :laugh:

That one Slim town, MrP.

 

[Perknose]

Originally posted by: darkxshade
Currently living in the international space station. Population: ~3

Far out! How's the atmosphere?

 

[MrPickins]

Originally posted by: Perknose

Originally posted by: MrPickins
http://www.tshaonline.org/hand...articles/FF/hnf31.html

FORDTRAN, TEXAS. Fordtran, just west of U.S. Highway 77 and twenty miles north of Victoria in Victoria County, was named for Henry Fordtran, a Galveston real estate agent responsible for bringing settlers to the site from Tennessee and the Midwest in 1898. The area was once part of the 44 Ranch, which in 1844 covered parts of DeWitt, Victoria, and Goliad counties.

By 1899 most of the ranch had been sold to developers. One factor in the location of the community may have been the promise of the Guadalupe Valley Railroad, which was to have run through the site on its way from Port O'Connor to Yoakum and Austin. Though the roadbed was built from the coast to Hallettsville by 1898, the line was never completed because funds ran out. Nevertheless, by 1900 the settlement was thriving. It had a post office from 1898 to about 1930. The Fordtran Oil Company was established in 1915. A rural common school was built at the community, and by 1920 Fordtran's population had risen to seventy-five.

By the 1950s, however, the town was in decline. The Fordtran school was discontinued, after which area students attended classes within the Victoria Independent School District. Fordtran's population was reported as eighteen from 1974 through 2000.

This is where I grew up...

DING! DING! DING! We have a weiner! :laugh:

That one Slim town, MrP.

Nice catch on the name.

MrsPickins' family is from a similarly small town:
http://www.tshaonline.org/hand...articles/CC/hrc55.html

We own some land out there. It's a nice place to go when you're tired of the city.

 

[rudeguy]

Originally posted by: Perknose

Originally posted by: NSFW
Chesire Twp, MI represent!

Its pronounced Cheshur, not like the cat. We have 1 small store and 4 commentaries.

Uh, that is the way the Chesire Cat is pronounced.

Wow...spell check murdered cemeteries.

But if what you are saying is true, then my town is pronounced Chesire with a long i. Everyone explains its the way I did, "Its not pronounced like the cat".

 

[Kirby]

I really don't live in a town, but the closest one is Pollard, AL.

Population: 118

 

[hanoverphist]

Originally posted by: KeithTalent

Originally posted by: drnickriviera
population 950 (2005)

Hi everybody!

KT

hi dr nick!


i live in mesa, far from small but i also visit my family home in de tour, mi which is a very small town. i dont think it has 500 residents. free wifi too, as long as you can see the water tower lol.

 

[hanoverphist]

Originally posted by: clamum

Originally posted by: Brigandier
My home base of Engadine has a population of about 500-600 farmers all spread out. They have water, electricity and some houses even get DSL.

Upper Peninsula hey? I'm from/live in Escanaba.

say ya to the UP, eh?

 

[darkxshade]

Originally posted by: Perknose

Originally posted by: darkxshade
Currently living in the international space station. Population: ~3

Far out! How's the atmosphere?

A lot better than Podunk Alabama (Pop: ~1) when I'm not at the ISS.

 

[CrackRabbit]

http://www.tshaonline.org/hand...articles/MM/hlm45.html
This is where my girlfriend is from and where my parents live currently.
Nothing there except a gas station, a cemetery, a church and the remains of the old downtown area.

 

[Turin39789]

Nunavut

 

[vi edit]

I don't technically live in a town. I'm in a rural subdivision of about 50 houses.

But the town closest to me with the post office is called "Kickapoo" and has about 500 people in the town, proper. It's got one 4 way stop sign, two bars, a church, and a little corner restaurant.

 

[Jumpem]

Vienna, NY.

5,783 people across 61,5 square miles.
Population density: 94 people per square mile.

 

[xcript]

Currently living in an alternate dimension, slightly out of phase with the rest of you meatsacks but, paradoxically, not the planet itself.

So I live on Earth, population 1.

 

[seemingly random]

Don't live in a town or city - live seven miles from a town of ~1000 in southern georgia. No bars in town but there are ~50 churches in a ten sq. mile area - yippee...

Just got dsl a couple of years ago... probably no cable for 50 years.

 

[SearchMaster]

I'm quite surprised, my town is listed with a population of 16,340 (2007). I would have thought under 4000. I guess it's more spread out than I thought (47 square miles).

 

[Perknose]

Originally posted by: SearchMaster
I'm quite surprised, my town is listed with a population of 16,340 (2007). I would have thought under 4000. I guess it's more spread out than I thought (47 square miles).

That's most likely your Township, and not just your town.

 

[Deeko]

From Lorane, PA - population 3,213. That's not fair though. Its a part of a township of about 25,000, which is a suburb of a city of about 80,000...and really, the whole area is a part of the Philly metro region depending on who you ask.

Still...that's my answer and I'm stickin to it.