Forty Rod SASS 3935 Posted July 25 Share Posted July 25 Smallest: Unity, Oregon population about 40. Largest: Los Angeles population 3,849,000....Greater LA area population about 12,870,000. How about you all? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Subdeacon Joe Posted July 25 Share Posted July 25 Clear lake Oaks, CA, population ~2200. Largest, Santa Rosa, CA, ~180,000, greater metro area ~488,000. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tyrel Cody Posted July 25 Share Posted July 25 Lafayette, TN - 5,586 - (which is WAY too many damn people); born and raised here and really want to leave; just gotta wait til the kids are out of school(3 years). Cookeville, TN - 34,842 - for 10 months when I was in college in 92/93 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Anvil Al #59168 Posted July 25 Share Posted July 25 Mertens Tx. Population at the time was around 130. That was in the early 80's. Think it's around 2,000 now. Biggest was Kansas City Kansas. Close to 180,000 at the time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alpo Posted July 25 Share Posted July 25 Lakehurst New Jersey, 2,600 and change Tampa Florida, 398,000 and change Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rye Miles #13621 Posted July 25 Share Posted July 25 Largest, Cleveland, Ohio 1,000,000 in the 50’s and 60’s Smallest, Grand River Ohio about 1,000 (1978) I’m currently in Euclid,Ohio 43,000 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rip Snorter Posted July 25 Share Posted July 25 NYC and my current unincorporated Montana town of 60 people (in the Census Point, not the town). I've probably lived in a couple smaller ones, but not by much. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eyesa Horg Posted July 25 Share Posted July 25 Smallest is where I am now, 620. Largest was around 5K, too lazy to do the research . Never lived in a big city, never will!! Working in one was enough for me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Warden Callaway Posted July 25 Share Posted July 25 Never lived in a town. On same farm all my days. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Yul Lose Posted July 25 Share Posted July 25 Smallest…Creede, Colorado about 400 in the winter and a few thousand Texans and Oklahomans in the summer. Had I stayed there to graduate high school there would have been 4 in the graduating class. Largest….. Escondido, Kalifornia last I checked 223,000 and a whole bunch of illegal immigrants. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michigan Slim Posted July 26 Share Posted July 26 Fruitport Michigan, 900+- when I was there. Fort Wayne Indiana, 300,000 or so. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Texas Lizard Posted July 26 Share Posted July 26 King Salmon, AK. Population...Depends on time of year....Winter a few...Salmon season....A bunch.... San Antonio, Texas Texas Lizard Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bgavin Posted July 26 Share Posted July 26 Boise, ID in the 50s and 60s. Petaluma CA, but that really isn't a town. San Diego or Sacramento, whichever is larger. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Buckshot Bear Posted July 26 Share Posted July 26 12 hours ago, Forty Rod SASS 3935 said: Greater LA area population about 12,870,000. Wow that's nearly half the population of the WHOLE of Australia! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LawMan Mark, SASS #57095L Posted July 26 Share Posted July 26 Smallest was the unincorporated area I lived in as a teen ager. The nearest unincorporated town was Iron City, TN, which boasted 300 residents at that time. Where I lived, the nearest house was over a mile away. Largest was Madison, AL in the late 1980s, with a population of around 5000. It had contiguous city limits with Huntsville, AL, which had a population of 178,000 then. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pat Riot Posted July 26 Share Posted July 26 Jefferson PA - 500 people, 1960’s Southern California, the whole dang place is one huge town. - 17,500,000+ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Shoer 27979 Posted July 26 Share Posted July 26 15 hours ago, bgavin said: Boise, ID in the 50s and 60s. Petaluma CA, but that really isn't a town. San Diego or Sacramento, whichever is larger. In the 60s Petaluma was over 20000 and the egg basket of the world at that time. I lived there from 63 till 78 when I joined the Army Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bgavin Posted July 26 Share Posted July 26 We were in Petaluma from 1980 to 1988, then on to Colorado Springs. Economy in COS was chronic boom-bust, so when aerospace folded up in COS, I picked up another IBM job in Sacramento. I survived all the purges except the last... we were close to the 25 year mark, and they canned us to avoid pensions. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hardpan Curmudgeon SASS #8967 Posted July 26 Share Posted July 26 21 hours ago, Subdeacon Joe said: Clear lake Oaks, CA, population ~2200. Done grown since I used to hang out there 45+ years ago. Wonder if they still have the "Fireman's Ball" volunteer fire department fundraiser.... Been a while since I shared that story ~ mebbe I'll resurrect it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Abilene Slim SASS 81783 Posted July 26 Share Posted July 26 Maybe Iwakuni Japan was the smallest. All the others were cities. New York City was definitely the largest. Currently live in the Kansas burbs of Kansas City. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cactus Jack Calder Posted July 26 Share Posted July 26 All data is from present figures (2020 census) I am unable to search out old history. Raised: 1944 - 1967 Fair Lawn ,NJ - 35,159 ~ 5 sq. mi. I am sure it had a much smaller population back then. Smallest: From 2006 to present Whispering Pines, NC - 4,987 ~ 4 sq. mi. Largest: 1968 - 1970 US NAVY My wife and I actually had an apartment in the city She taught Art in the public school system for 2 years. Norfolk, VA - 238,005 CJ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Forty Rod SASS 3935 Posted July 26 Author Share Posted July 26 51 minutes ago, Abilene Slim SASS 81783 said: Maybe Iwakuni Japan was the smallest. All the others were cities. New York City was definitely the largest. Currently live in the Kansas burbs of Kansas City. Iwakuni wasn't all that small when I was stationed there (1973-1974), about 90,000 Okinawans and maybe 7,000 Marine and Navy when you counted families. I'll always remember the Kintai cherry blossom festival and that arched bridge with four or five arches. I and four others also taught conversational English to about twenty five Japanese at the museum building at Peace Park in Hiroshima every Friday night. Marvelous memories. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Three Foot Johnson Posted July 26 Share Posted July 26 Not counting three Navy bases in Millington TN, San Diego, and Oakland, I've never lived in a town, but military bases being federal property, I guess I've never lived in a town at all... It just dawned on me I've lived in five different houses, and a trailer house, scattered across the ranch within about 2 1/4 miles of each other. The trailer house is long gone and one of the houses was torn down decades ago. I've lived in the house I'm in now since October of 2000, the longest I've ever lived in the same house. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Abilene Slim SASS 81783 Posted July 27 Share Posted July 27 6 hours ago, Forty Rod SASS 3935 said: Iwakuni wasn't all that small when I was stationed there (1973-1974), about 90,000 Okinawans and maybe 7,000 Marine and Navy when you counted families. I'll always remember the Kintai cherry blossom festival and that arched bridge with four or five arches. I and four others also taught conversational English to about twenty five Japanese at the museum building at Peace Park in Hiroshima every Friday night. Marvelous memories. Lived there 1958-60 when a kid. I vividly remember the cherry blossom festival, Kintai Bridge and Hiroshima Peace Park. Have some pics hanging on my wall I will try to post. Doubt it was 90,000 back then, but if it was, it’d still be the smallest place I’ve lived. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marshal Mo Hare, SASS #45984 Posted July 27 Share Posted July 27 Smallest town? There was a stop sign but the intersection was in the next county. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Forty Rod SASS 3935 Posted July 27 Author Share Posted July 27 We lived in a town so small that when Dad started his electric razor the trolley stopped and all the street lights dimmed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matthew Duncan Posted July 27 Share Posted July 27 Smallest: Town of Millersburg. 1980 census put the population at 809. Largest: Town of Millersburg. 1980 census put the population at 809. I was raised in the country, married to live in Town until we moved back to the country to become empty nesters. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Buffalo Creek Law Dog Posted July 27 Share Posted July 27 5 hours ago, Forty Rod SASS 3935 said: We lived in a town so small that when Dad started his electric razor the trolley stopped and all the street lights dimmed. I lived in a town so small that the WELCOME and COME AGAIN signs were on the same post. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Forty Rod SASS 3935 Posted July 27 Author Share Posted July 27 Huh! It's true: the first liar don't stand a chance. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
watab kid Posted July 28 Share Posted July 28 assuming it dont count if you live for months out of a motel for work in any given place , ill say the quad cities for largest in IA/IL , and kimball MN for the smallest , have not really given any of it much thought for the last 32 years - but now im thinking on it and remembering , Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LawMan Mark, SASS #57095L Posted July 28 Share Posted July 28 I lived in a town so small that it straddled the county line and didn't hang over into either county. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Three Foot Johnson Posted July 28 Share Posted July 28 The closest "town" to us when I was born would have been Claisoil, MT, about 1200 yards from the south property line and 2 1/2 miles from the house. The building, built in 1917, was a combination general store, post office, gas station, and ticket agent for the railroad. I doubt more than half a dozen people lived there at any given time, but rather it was an outgrowth of a stagecoach way station built to serve the local farms & ranches as they developed. Across the tracks about 150 yards away was a small stockyard and maybe half a dozen buildings. One house still stands and is still being lived in. The store still exists, but was moved 5 1/2 miles to East Helena nearly fifty years ago where it has filled a variety of roles, including a day care, convenience store and gas station, and houses a "dispensary" today. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blackwater 53393 Posted July 28 Share Posted July 28 Ashland City has a population of 5,193. I once lived within walking distance of Manhattan, on the New Jersey side of the Hudson River. NYC, Newark, what’s the difference?? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
swamp yankee Posted July 28 Share Posted July 28 Smallest is Eastford CT with about 1200 people, the largest was Brooklyn NYC with of course millions of people. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Three Foot Johnson Posted July 28 Share Posted July 28 59 minutes ago, Blackwater 53393 said: Ashland City has a population of 5,193. I once lived within walking distance of Manhattan, on the New Jersey side of the Hudson River. NYC, Newark, what’s the difference?? I still live within walking distance of Manhattan... but it's a pretty looooong walk. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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