Well, getting into where I live, and the population of said place is tricky. You see, I live in Bristol, VT. But there is a Village of Bristol, and a Town of Bristol, two different, but related, entities. The village is the more densly populated part. Houses on streets with lawns, neighbors, as well as the grocery store, gas stations (2), churches, etc… The Town of Bristol is the Village as well as a 20 some-odd mile radius around it. It covers all the people who live on the farms, or up in the woods.
I live in the village, population just over a thousand. The Town has a combinbed population of almost 6000 (that includes the 1000 from the village.)
And, since I live in Vermont, it’s at least a 45 minute drive to do anything remotely interesting.
(waiting to go back to school, 10 minutes from Albany.)
In 1990 this town (actually a village) had a population of 273, living in 101 houses. Land area is 0.12 square miles (79 acres). I doubt it has changed much.
We don’t have mail delivery: we have to have PO boxes. When we first moved in we had to get our mail at the counter. We got gas service last year, and we vote on whether or not to get a city water system this year.
But that there village got itself a whole heap of stores. Seems proper city-like to me. At least you got yourself a union high school, though.
-ellis
Who’s from Jericho Center, but doesn’t know the population breakdown between Jericho, Jericho Flat, and Jericho Center. And who would like to nominate Buels Gore for the largest population boom in the last decade or so. A guy I went to school with moved there during high school, triggering exponential growth that has pushed the population (barely) into the double digits.
Chalk me up with the ‘micro-town’ crew. As several dopers know, I live in the tiny little hamlet of Hillsboro, VA. Hillsboro is situated in the Hillsboro gap of Short Hill Mountain. I live just to the north of the town in an area called, “between the hills” (no kidding). It’s a little valley about 2 miles wide and 8 miles long between the Blue Ridge and Short Hill Mountain.
Hillsboro has had a real population boom betwixt the 1990 and 2000 census; the population has grown 4.44% in that time.
To 94. From 90 to 94 citizens in ten years.
The town council has 5 seats but we never get enough people to run so it’s kind of a booby prize to get the most write in votes. Some poor slob (not me, so far) or two gets the gig.
We have the Hill Tom Market (which also doubles as the Post Office, as above there is no delivery, you have to head on out to get your mail), a B&B and, oddly enough, a jeweler. She caters to the horse country folks.
Eh, it works. I wouldn’t trade it for anything in the world.
I’ll be moving to Borrego Springs, CA in a month or so. The year-round population is just under 3,000, but another 10,000 hang out there for the mild winter. There’s an elementary, middle, and high school. The town sports TWO grocery stores and four restaurants, but being a “resort”, I’m not too suprised.
Also, there’s a golf course, which attracts ducks, which attract coyotes, which snack on the ducks and then loll about the golf course.