Town is small, but it is incorpated with a pop of ~450.

1) I took two grandkids to the local park in town yesterday. As I walked and the kids rode their bikes around the trail I noticed two high school age girls sitting on a bench, they got up and started jogging around the trail. By the time we got to the bench they were almost out of sight and I noticed they had left an iPhone on the bench. I thought I would do them a favor so I sent a grandkid on their bike to catch up and tell them they had left their phone. Kid comes back and told me they did it on purpose, were timing their run and didn't want to carry the phone! Pretty brave even for here I thought.

A couple more observations...

2) No red light.

3) The entire town got together and posed for a town photo! It's on the wall at city hall.

4) The 24hr convenience store closes about dark, but they do leave the gas pumps on.

So anyone else got a true life, You might you live in a small town story?

My hometown of Belews Creek has a post office established in 1831 and that's it.

Belews Creek's Zip Code Tabulation Area (Zip Code 27009) has a population of about 2,647 as of the 2010 census. The population is 50.6% male and 49.4% female. About 91% of the population is white, 7.4% African-American, 1.1% Hispanic, and 0.3% of other races. 0.7% of people are two or more races.

The median household income is $50,345 with 2.6% of the population living below the poverty line.

The Christmas Parade goes around almost the whole town (population about 650). Most of the kids graduating high school with my kids went K-12 together. Just about every household has a gun(s).

The city I live in is considerably larger than yours at 28k. But I like it.

A few years ago I went into a local restaurant that serves mainly hot sandwiches. He makes them to order but around lunch he cooks a bunch of his more popular items and puts them on a rack so people can grab a couple and go without waiting. I grabbed a burger and fries and went to pay with card and found out it was cash only. I went to put the burger back and he told me not to worry, just eat it and come back whenever I had cash and pay him. I went right to the ATM and came back and I have been a customer ever since.

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Originally posted by SIG4EVA:
My hometown of Belews Creek has a post office established in 1831 and that's it.

Belews Creek's Zip Code Tabulation Area (Zip Code 27009) has a population of about 2,647 as of the 2010 census. The population is 50.6% male and 49.4% female. About 91% of the population is white, 7.4% African-American, 1.1% Hispanic, and 0.3% of other races. 0.7% of people are two or more races.

The median household income is $50,345 with 2.6% of the population living below the poverty line.

and most of the population was conceived at the Bel-Air drive in in Walkertown

The town where my parents grew up is nice and small. County population is 8,000, city is 1,500. One of my grandmothers is one of 14 children and the other is one of 13. Needless to say I am related to a large number of people in town. There are two red lights in town and everybody in the county's phone number begins with the same 3 digits.

A couple of years ago my wife and I were at our family lakehouse there and ran out to get some lunch at a bbq joint close to the house, but out from the city. It was Sunday and we were taking a small vacation and did not go to church. Well, bbq was closed so we had to head into town. My wife asks, "do you think we'll see anybody we know?" I just laughed and said, yes I 'spect so. We walked into the Home Cafe which seats about 40 and knew 35 of the people in there and then proceeded to know the 10 or so people that changed over while we ate.

I don't want to live there but I do spend a good bit of time there and love having family/friends all around me.

I would live in a town like that, not sure my wife would like it. I just want quiet and good neighbors.

Two cool things about Marquette:
1- They shut off the traffic signals late at night. I love that!
2- On July 4th, one of the events before the fireworks is the Boat Parade. People decorate their boats in red, white and blue and then parade around the harbor. Its a hoot!

There are more cows than people, 370, in my town.
We have a post office, bank, restaurant, mom and pop general store, gas/feed store and an insurance office.
Sidewalks are officially rolled up at 9:30pm.
Great place to live and raise a family.

The town I lived in had 300 students in the school....300 students, kindergarten to 12th grade.

That school has since closed.

We are zoned for goats and chickens.

Town in Oklahoma where I hunt had two stop signs. While playing poker and drinking 3.2 beer, the mayor wanted my opinion, as an outsider, if I felt a stoplight was warranted.

I grew up just outside a town, which didn't have a stop light only a flashing yellow...not enough cross traffic to warrant a stop light. At one point, it was one of the poorest counties in WA state but also one of the prettiest ones. If I could get a job there, I'd move back in a heart beat!!

If a person of moderate strength can’t rip the phone book in two, the town is too big.

My mom grew up in a very small community--I don't think it could be called a "town". It's original name was "Red Stripe" but back in the 1940s (I think) it changed its name to "Pleasant Grove". I don't know how many called it home, but couldn't have been more than a few hundred, mostly scattered on nearby farms. There were 2 general stores, one containing a post office (and owned by my uncle--his wife was the Postmaster and my mom's oldest sister). Both stores had gas pumps, and my uncle's had a minimal garage facility. A small 2-room elementary school was there, and a cemetery (but the church was in the next community 2 miles down the road). In the 1950s a fire station was added and in the 1960s the Post Office was moved out of the store into a new building across the road. The state highway 14 ran through the community, and the 2 main feeder roads did have stop signs for it--back in the 1940s all of the roads were gravel, but SH-14 was paved in the 1960s. I think there were only 3 main surnames in the place, 2 of which were in my family. Needless to say, I was kin to about 75% of all the inhabitants.

flashguy

I lived in a small town in Pennsylvania where the population never changed.

When a baby was born, a man left town.

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Originally posted by YooperSigs:
2- On July 4th, one of the events before the fireworks is the Boat Parade. People decorate their boats in red, white and blue and then parade around the harbor. Its a hoot!

We do that in Oxford,GA except the parade runs through town and we pull the boat behind the truck.

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Originally posted by YooperSigs:
2- On July 4th, one of the events before the fireworks is the Boat Parade. People decorate their boats in red, white and blue and then parade around the harbor. Its a hoot!

Oh yea, good one to add to mine. Before the 4th fireworks they read the Delectation of Independence. The guy doing the reading was a tad lit from celebrating and it took a while but he got through it!

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Originally posted by GWbiker:
I lived in a small town in Pennsylvania where the population never changed.

When a baby was born, a man left town.

LOL! I see you left...

We live about 7 miles away from a town of about 200. Out where we live some kids ride their bikes to the bus stops and then leave their bikes unlocked by the side of the roads, riding them back home at the end of the day.

Where I work we had a couple of high school boys who found $100 in twenties in the parking lot and another boy who found a wallet with $50.00 inside. The kids turned the money in. The pair of boys said that it was not their money and the kid who found the wallet told me how bad he'd feel if he lost that much money.

Silent