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Word. And do we need a poll? Smallest town you've ever lived in?

Posted by Reluctant Cynic (aka ReluctantCynic) Jul 19 '23, 09:05

St. Edward, Nebraska. Current population is about 725. When I lived there back in the 80s, the population was about 800.

But it was a town, not a "township," because it had at least two bars, a stop sign, and a seasonally open ice cream stand. Pretty much the same, except the Tastee Freeze is now a taco truck.

https://stedwardne.com/ (stedwardne.com)

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250-275 annual pop. Swell to 700-800 in summer. -- nm - Name Withheld By Request Jul 19, 12:59
As a toddler we lived on Sullivan's Island, a spit of sand part of a barrier reef I understand no longer exists on Carolina coast -- nm - zeitgeist Jul 19, 10:46
Perry, OK 5200 people -- nm - Pippy Quintas Jul 19, 10:17
Where I live currently is ~9,200 in the borough proper as of 2021, but we’re surrounded by other suburban municipalities as well. -- nm* - znufrii 🦄 Jul 19, 09:52
Athens OH I think had 5k permanent residents at the time but >16k students. My grandfather lived in a one-stop-sign town in OH pre-WWII - Max Jul 19, 09:40
Kurtistown, HI Population 2-3.5K people depending on when counted - JD Jul 19, 09:37
did you ever have a chili dog outside the Tastee Freeze? -- nm - crash davis Jul 19, 09:35
Palmer Lake, Colorado has a population of 2,654 as of 2021 - and we lived there in the late 70s where it was much smaller. -- nm - JaxSean Jul 19, 09:34
Brooklyn. Only 2+ million. -- nm - Krusty Jul 19, 09:34
my hometown proper is less than 1k but adjacent to a city of about 8k -- nm - hollywood big shot Jul 19, 09:30
Weehawken-10 years. 14000 people. -- nm - Diva Jul 19, 09:28 1
- There are only two reasons that I know such a place exists. - Beryllium Jul 19, 09:33
My hometown was about 10-12k growing up. Similarly our first house was in a town of about 10k. That's about as small as it gets for me -- nm - oblique Jul 19, 09:25
The small town I lived in from age 8 to 18 was about 1200 at the time -- nm - mara Jul 19, 09:25
Bethel, AK was 6,325 in the 2020 census -- nm - crash davis Jul 19, 09:23 4
- You grew up in Alaska? -- nm - oblique Jul 19, 09:29 3
  - No. I took a job there in the mid-90s. I thought the way RC phrased it was lived in at any stage of life. -- nm - crash davis Jul 19, 09:33 2
    - Ah true, he said "lived in". Still, I didn't know you lived in Alaska either :) -- nm - oblique Jul 19, 09:35 1
      - Yeah, I have lived in WA, ID, and AK. I've always been a northwest guy -- nm - crash davis Jul 19, 09:42
Three that are currently smaller than 4500. One of them is currently at 1,717. -- nm - Beryllium Jul 19, 09:23 1
- The population of the town I currently live in is 10,408 ... but that's kind of a technicality. The GV area's pop is just shy of 400K. -- nm - Beryllium Jul 19, 09:36
Depends what year you sampled in but it bounced between 175 and 225. -- nm - Reagen Jul 19, 09:20
Where i grew up (from 5 to 18) - it was about 35,000 then, felt smaller. -- nm - Andie Jul 19, 09:08

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