How big/small is your town?

[LegginMF12]

I live in Yucca Valley although technically I am on the mesa. If I look up my house on the county tax assessor site I have to use Yucca Mesa or it won't "find" my address so. Yucca Valley pop. as of 2009 20,382. Yucca Mesa pop. 885. It is 11 miles to town from my house, but have a fire station one block away.

 

[danischi24]

We have about 200 families in our village.

 

[Christie Loves Silkies]

there about 91,713 people where i live, though there could be more.

 

[conny63malies]

i think Ft Riley has a day time pop. of around 25k people. Not all soldiers and fams live on post and some are deployed while over move here or away, so it always changes.

 

[BookWorm243]

We are in Franklin, NC and have a population of 3,963. I don't think I could live in a town much smaller

 

[BookWorm243]

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What a great story!

 

[LiLRedCV]

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When my grandfather died, we found close to $6,000 dollars he tucked away at the very top and back of his kitchen cabinets.

I had an uncle who was a serious miser - didn't trust banks - made my aunt account for every single penny she spent their whole entire 60+yrs of married life. My aunt wanted to get a new mattress as their old one wasn't good for her aging, aching back. He told her she could get one, but he wasn't sleeping on it... he liked his old mattress just fine and dandy! At that point, they started sleeping in separate rooms and that was for the last 10 or so years of their marriage. When he passed away? She was going to toss his old, lumpy mattress out. Discovered over $300,000 stuffed in it!!!! She took that money, invested wisely and yet had fun (by taking a cruise here or there and traveling to Europe at least once), and never had to worry about money again the rest of her life! She lived until just shy of her 90th birthday....

 

[mandelyn]

296,943 in 2010 for inside city limits where I am. 2,130,151 for the whole area. You can tell how crowded it is at 4:30 Friday afternoon on any of the 6 interstates/connector highways.

The good news is we have a large lot and the location is great, 15 minutes to anything worth going to in any part of town! Close to all the important highways for when we want to get the heck out of town.

It's a cool enough place as far as cities go. Lax chicken laws for the city proper! Surprisingly. Makes me want to go downtown and buy one of the brownstones and have a roof top garden, green house, and chicken coop. Walk to the market, walk to Music hall, one of the theaters... all the while with my hand on a can of mace.

 

[BlueLagoonRabbitry]

The closest town to us has a population of 9

 

[gryeyes]

The community in which my physical address is located shares the same zip code with two other unincorporated communities, we are: Somerset, Omo Ranch, and Fairplay. There is a Post Office in Somerset; the closest other Post Office is in Mt. Aukum, which is closer to my house than Omo Ranch. All three communities have name signs with elevations, but NO population listed for any of 'em. The real estate guides list all three's collective population as "around 1,900." Now, down in Amador County, the city of Plymouth (closest incorporated city to where I live in El Dorado County) lists a population of 512. Or was it 518? The elevation is 1,008 feet.

I don't recall Mt. Aukum's elevation, but it has the closest feed store and is about six miles from my house. Omo Ranch is at a higher elevation than Fairplay, which is reported to be 2300 feet. Somerset is at 2080 feet. I live between the two, within an eighth of a mile of a gas station/market. There are no traffic signals anywhere around here. No fast food places, either. Law enforcement is provided by the Sheriff's Office, and fire protection by a volunteer fire department which also serves all the small communities in this part of El Dorado County: Fairplay, Somerset, Omo Ranch, Mt. Aukum, and River Pines. Uh, possibly Pioneer, too....

My house is on a street with no residential mail delivery, not even mail boxes at the main highway as some other streets within the three communities are blessed. I pick up my mail at a UPS Store (formerly MailBoxes, Etc.) in the city where I used to live, population 49,849, elevation 20 feet. It's pretty close and convenient to where I work across the river in Sacramento, population 418,711 at 25 feet. When I retire, I will have to get a P.O. box in Somerset, 'cause I ain't coming Down the Hill for anything I don't have to!