Post Some Info About Your Home Town

Dakstang

WC's Resident Redneck

I though this would be an interesting thread topic

Here is mine:

Crum, West Virginia
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

- Crum is a small, unincorporated community in southern Wayne County, West Virginia, United States. It is the home to Crum Elementary School and Crum Middle School. The approximate population of the town of Crum is 300.

In Crum proper, there is a U.S. Post Office (ZIP code 25669). There is a small country store called "Copley's Market". There you can get assorted groceries and feed for animals. There are two restaurants located in Crum: "Crum Pizza House" and "Nettie's Diner".

Crum is also the home of Silver Creek United Baptist Church (the 2nd oldest church in West Virginia), Crum Separate Baptist Church, Crum Church of Christ, and Crum Missionary Baptist. Many other small churches are located in nearby hollows and roads.

U.S. Route 52 runs directly through Crum as does the Norfolk Southern Railway's Kenova District. The town is bordered on the west by the Tug Fork of the Big Sandy River (also known locally as the Tug River). This river is part of the boundary between West Virginia and Kentucky. A mile section of the future King Coal Highway is built just east of Crum, with access from Silver Creek Rd.
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I live right on the Tug Fork River. We own land all the way down to the river itself.

Slimdust

St. Petersburg (often shortened to St. Pete) is a city in Pinellas County, Florida. The city is known as a vacation destination for North American and European vacationers, as well as a politically important battleground in U.S. Presidential politics and home of the highly-regarded St. Petersburg Times[1]. As of the 2000 census, the city population was 248,232.

Club Sport League Stadium
Tampa Bay Buccaneers Football National Football League (NFL) - NFC Raymond James Stadium
Tampa Bay Lightning Hockey National Hockey League (NHL) - Eastern Conference St. Pete Times Forum
Tampa Bay Devil Rays Baseball Major League Baseball (MLB) - AL Tropicana Field, St. Petersburg
Tampa Bay Storm Arena Football Arena Football League (AFL) St. Pete Times Forum






The Town I was born and spent 13 Years of my Life is Midland TX.

Midland is the county seat of Midland CountyGR6 located on the Southern Plains of the western area of the U.S. State of Texas. As of the 2006 U.S. Census estimate, the city had a total population of 102,073. The Midland–Odessa metropolitan area had a population of 251,842.

Midland was originally founded as the midway point between Fort Worth and El Paso on the Texas and Pacific Railroad in 1881. The city has received national recognition as the hometown of President George W. Bush and First Lady Laura Bush.

Felix

Maintenance Worker

Adamstown is in Frederick County, in the Washington-Arlington metro area.
The community was named for Adam Kohlenburg, station agent.


The latitude of Adamstown is 39.310N. The longitude is -77.475W. It is in the Eastern Standard time zone. Elevation is 305 feet.

As of 2007, Adamstown (zip 21710)'s population is 3,818 people. Since 2000, it has had a population growth of 39.71 percent.

The median home cost in Adamstown (zip 21710) is $499,900. Home appreciation the last year has been -8.28 percent.

Compared to the rest of the country, Adamstown (zip 21710)'s cost of living is 18.61% Higher than the U.S. average.

Adamstown public schools spend $5,908 per student. The average school expenditure in the U.S. is $6,058. There are about 19 students per teacher in Adamstown.

There is one country store, and one pizza shop in Adamstown. They are the only two businesses here.

Adamstown, MD, violent crime, on a scale from 1 (low crime) to 10, is 1. Violent crime is composed of four offenses: murder and nonnegligent manslaughter, forcible rape, robbery, and aggravated assault.

Adamstown, MD, property crime, on a scale from 1 (low) to 10, is 1. Property crime includes the offenses of burglary, larceny-theft, motor vehicle theft, and arson.

47.66% of the people in Adamstown, MD are religious, meaning they affiliate with a religion. 18.00% are Catholic; 21.25% are Protestant; 0.83% are LDS; 6.92% are another Christian faith; 0.61% in Adamstown, MD are Jewish; 0.04% are an eastern faith; 0.00% affilite with Islam.

The median age is 40.1. The US median is 37.6. 63.65% of people in Adamstown, MD, are married. 6.94% are divorced.

The average household size is 2.73 people. 29.06% of people are married, with children. 4.16% have children, but are single.

93.97% of people are white, 2.73% are black, 0.98% are asian, 0.21% are native american, and 2.17% claim 'Other'.

Joseph T. Cool

Administrator

The City of Spokane is home to some 195,500 residents; there are around 418,000 residents in the metropolitan area. Spokane is located in the heart of the Inland Northwest, and it serves as a shopping, entertainment, and medical hub for an area that includes Eastern Washington, Eastern Oregon, North Idaho, Western Montana, and southern portions of Alberta and British Columbia. The Spokane River runs through our downtown with spectacular falls on the western end of our city core. Beautiful Riverfront Park also is in the heart of our city.

We are an outdoors-lover's paradise, with downhill and cross-country skiing, white-water rafting, camping areas, hiking trails, numerous lakes, and the Centennial Trail all in our backyard. We are home to the largest timed road race in the nation—Bloomsday—and the largest three-on-three street basketball tournament—Hoopfest.

The median household income in our County in 2002 was $41,636. That’s up modestly from $40,615 in the previous year. However, we still lag behind Western Washington cities. Average annual unemployment for 2002 was 6.9 percent, up from 6.5 percent in 2001. The average Spokane-area sales price of homes sold during 2002 was $124,973.

Crocker

Ashton-under-Lyne is a town within the Metropolitan Borough of Tameside, in Greater Manchester, England. Lying under the Pennine hills, roughly seven miles (11 km) east of Manchester City Centre, it has a total population of 43,236.

The 'Ashton' part of its name derives from "settlement surrounded by ash trees".The "under-Lyne" part of its name became standard in the 1830s when Ashton was incorporated as a Parliamentary Borough and had its own member of parliament, prior to the 1830s "under Lime" was the norm from the 17th century.

In the Middle Ages, Ashton was centred around the parish church of St Michael within the Hundred of Salford. This might have been the same church as that mentioned in the Domesday Book of 1086 as one of the two churches of the parish of Manchester. The first recorded Rector of St Michael's in circa 1262 was Clemment under the patronage of Thomas Grelley.

Ashton's growth occurred from the early 19th century, during the Industrial Revolution, with the development of cotton mills and coal mines. By the mid 19th century Ashton had a population of over 40,000 (1841 census 45,235, 1861 Census 65,306, the increase mainly due to the Great Irish Famine victims migration).Ashton was incorporated as a parliamentary borough in 1832 and a municipal borough with an elected council in 1847 under the Municipal Corporations Act 1835.

The River Tame forms part of the southern boundary of Ashton, while the River Medlock runs to the west of the town and both the Ashton and Peak Forest Canals are routed through the town. The eastern terminus of the early medieval linear earthwork Nico Ditch is in Ashton Moss

Ashton's industries today include: engineering, food processing, leather, limes, plastics, textiles, brewing, and the manufacture of diesel, gas, and oil engines.

Construction on Ashton Leisure Park was completed in 2003. The park houses a Cineworld cinemas multiplex, Hollywood Bowl ten-pin bowling alley, Frankie & Benny's Restaurant, Chiquitos Restaurant, a Chinese buffet called 'Eat Inn', Nando's Restaurant, KFC, Lime Bar and the Harvester pub/restaurant. In October 2006, Ashton also became home to the second IKEA store in the north-west of England (the other being in Warrington) and only the fifteenth in Great Britain.

The past few years has seen a great deal of investment in an area to the west of the town centre, known as St Petersfield. The aim of this investment is to create a business quarter in the town and bring life to a neglected area of Ashton. When complete, the area will house several thousand square feet of office space, spread over numerous new buildings, as well as apartments and amenities such as cafes, pubs, restaurants and a creche. The Pennine Care NHS Trust has already agreed to occupy office space in the first building, which reached practical completion in September 2006. Tameside and Glossop Primary Care Trust will also be setting up a medical resource centre within the St Petersfield area.

In May 2004, Ashton's Victorian Market Hall was ravaged by a massive fire. Plans are now under way to rebuild the market hall and outdoor market and the work is scheduled to be completed in early 2008. A temporary market hall called the Phoenix Market Hall has built on Old Cross Street on the opposite side of the old market hall. A farmers and produce market is held on the last Sunday of the month on the outdoor market grounds as is a continental market about 3 times a year.

The M60 motorway, cuts through the west end of Ashton (Junction 23). Regular rail services on the Huddersfield Line between Manchester (Victoria) and Huddersfield stop at the railway station in the town centre.

Ashton-Under-Lyne is split up of four wards being Ashton Hurst, Ashton St. Michaels, Ashton St. Peters and Ashton Waterloo. After the current 2007 elections held in May, Ashton consists of 10 Labour councillors and 2 Conservative councillors.

Ashton-under-Lyne's most prominent football teams are Ashton United F.C. and Curzon Ashton F.C.. Richmond Park Athletics Stadium is a synthetic running track and is home to the East Cheshire Harriers and Tameside AC. The town also lays claim to having produced two football World Cup winners (Geoff Hurst and Simone Perrotta)

Other famous names from the town include George Formby, Sadie Frost, PFA Cheid Gordon Taylor and Coronation Street stars Sean Wilson, Dawn Acton, Pat pheonix, Amanda Barrie, Roy Barraclough and Bill Tarmey

Dakstang

WC's Resident Redneck

Looks like I come from the smallest town so far....

Beaker

As of the census of 2000, there were 22,219 people. The racial makeup of the town was 95.01% White, 0.89% Black or African American, 0.05% Native American, 2.61% Asian, 0.04% Pacific Islander, 0.59% from other races, and 0.90% from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 1.79% of the population. The median income for a household in the town was $56,605, and the median income for a family was $71,334. Notable people from Stoneham are
Mario Cantone: comedian and actor
Nancy Kerrigan: two-time Olympic figure skating medalist.
Mike Ness: singer for punk band Social Distortion.
Joe Vitiello: former Major League Baseball player from 1995-2003; 1st round draft pick (7th overall) of the Kansas City Royals in 1991; played for the Royals, San Diego Padres, and Montreal Expos.

Wikipedia didn't mention the Brinks robbery of 1950 that Stoneham was apart of as well as the movie based on that robbery.

U MAD

The Half Boy

Wow Dak! That's a lot of churches for a town with a population of around 300! I'd love to live somewhere small like that, where you could pretty much know everybody. In fact, I want to live somewhere that's so small, the town doesn't have a name, just a postal number or something, like TR-19, in Bag of Bones by Stephen King.

Anyway, I think I'll let Giggly get the info for our shithole, becuase I'm too lazy to head over to wikipedia.

Tomorrow's Just An Excuse Away,
So I Pull My Collar Up And Face The Cold, On My Own.
The Earth Laughs Beneath My Heavy Feet,
At The Blasphemy In My Old Jangly Walk.

Dakstang

WC's Resident Redneck

lol....there are more churches than that just outside of the city limits as well.

West Virginia is truly in the Bible belt.

The Half Boy

So are there that many differing views on Christianity just in your township to warrant it, or is it just overkill. I'm a Methodist, so I wouldn't want to go to a Catholic church, or anything like that, but I would have thought two churches catering to the two extremes, with a third that sits on the fence would be sufficient for a town getting up to the 2000 pop. mark.

Tomorrow's Just An Excuse Away,
So I Pull My Collar Up And Face The Cold, On My Own.
The Earth Laughs Beneath My Heavy Feet,
At The Blasphemy In My Old Jangly Walk.