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Subject: BS: Georgia Communities Disappear!! From: Rapparee Date: 08 Dec 06 - 03:49 PM CHATTOOGAVILLE, Ga. (AP) -- Poetry Tulip has vanished. So have Between and Climax. Cloudland and Roosterville are gone, too. A total of 519 communities have been erased from the newest version of Georgia's official map, victims of too few people and too many letters of type. Georgia's Department of Transportation, which drew the new map, said that the goal was to make it clearer and less cluttered and that many of the dropped communities were mere "placeholders," generally with fewer than 2,500 people. Some are unincorporated and so small they are not even recognized by the Census Bureau. The state began handing out the new map at rest stops and welcome centers over the summer. Gone are such places as Ty Ty, Centralhatchee, Deepstep, Gay, Good Hope, Gum Branch, Talking Rock, Young Harris and Chattoogaville, a spot in far northwestern Georgia that consists of little more than a two-truck volunteer fire department, a few farmhouses and a country store where locals fill up their gas tanks. "We're not under obligation to show every single community," department spokeswoman Karlene Barron said. "While we want to, there's a balancing act. And the map was getting illegible." How have people been able to find their way home??? |
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Subject: RE: BS: Georgia Communities Disappear!! From: katlaughing Date: 08 Dec 06 - 03:57 PM That's just plain stupid. If nothing else they should remain on there just for history's sake, esp. if folks still live there! |
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Subject: RE: BS: Georgia Communities Disappear!! From: Rapparee Date: 08 Dec 06 - 04:00 PM Well, there were 1,000 people living in Hickory Level, but it's gone now. All the folks who still live there don't, I guess. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Georgia Communities Disappear!! From: Bee-dubya-ell Date: 08 Dec 06 - 04:16 PM Ridiculous! One of the towns they've taken off the map, Gay, is home of The Cotton Pickin' Fair, one of the best known crafts shows in the southeast! There may only be a handful of people who live there year-round, but there are well over a hundred thousand who visit it during the first weekends in October and May. What's gonna happen when Aunt Betty gets a hankerin' to buy a birdhouse and can't find the place 'cause it's not on the map anymore? |
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Subject: RE: BS: Georgia Communities Disappear!! From: Amos Date: 08 Dec 06 - 04:23 PM JEs' tell her to go to Twinkyville, turn right and keep going til she gets to the fair. A |
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Subject: RE: BS: Georgia Communities Disappear!! From: Rapparee Date: 08 Dec 06 - 04:26 PM An AWFUL lot of towns would disappear in Idaho if they did this.... |
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Subject: RE: BS: Georgia Communities Disappear!! From: frogprince Date: 08 Dec 06 - 04:36 PM Take it off the map if it has a population of less than 2,500 ? When I was growing up, our mailing address was a town of 100 or so, about 4 miles away. Our telephone was listed under a town of about 200, 2 miles away. We were in the school district for a town of 60 residents, 6 miles away; there were something like 8 times as many in town during school hours. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Georgia Communities Disappear!! From: Q (Frank Staplin) Date: 08 Dec 06 - 05:48 PM Rural postoffices have disappeared all over, as people move to urban centers, or the powers that be consolidate services, or arbitrarily remove the very small from maps. Climax, GA, can still be found on the internet (Pop. 297, 9.7 mi. from the metropolis of Bainbridge), but some others you list are not. The New Mexico state map has many little places that may have just a gas station or one or two houses (Truxton, Yampai, etc., etc.) but the map would be empty if they were removed. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Georgia Communities Disappear!! From: Q (Frank Staplin) Date: 08 Dec 06 - 06:08 PM My error, the city of Truxton is in AZ, not NM. But is has no pop. and no facilities; it is a signpost on the railroad. It is on the Arizona state map. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Georgia Communities Disappear!! From: Bill D Date: 08 Dec 06 - 06:18 PM Top 5 Smallest Towns in America Need some peace and quiet? Move to one of these towns! (But don't expect a big welcome.) 1. Hoot Owl, Oklahoma: 0 citizens 2. Glenwood Plantation, Maine; Hove Mobile Park, North Dakota; Florida, Mississippi; Gannts Quarry, Alabama: 2 citizens 3. Lost Springs, Wyoming: 3 citizens 4. White Rock, South Dakota: 6 citizens 5. Tenny, Minnesota: 7 citizens Source: The 1990 U.S. Census Bureau |
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Subject: RE: BS: Georgia Communities Disappear!! From: Bee-dubya-ell Date: 08 Dec 06 - 06:26 PM The more I think about it, the more I'm convinced that whoever's responsible for this decision has to live in Atlanta. Atlantans separate the state of Georgia into two distinct geographical areas: ITP (Inside the Perimeter) - Atlanta proper and the adjoining towns and suburbs within the bounds of the Interstate 285 loop that goes around the city. OTP (Outside the Perimeter) - Anyplace outside the Loop. Many Atlantans live for months at a time without ever going OTP. Going OTP by air doesn't count since Hartsfield-Atlanta Airport is ITP. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Georgia Communities Disappear!! From: GUEST, Ebbie Date: 08 Dec 06 - 06:47 PM The last I knew, Wagon Wheel in eastern Oregon has three residents. Shaniko has 26. Oregon has many towns that have fewer than 500 residents. On the other hand, Oregon is much larger than Georgia- 96,000 plus square miles versus Georgia's 55,000 plus- and has only 3 million some in population versus Georgia's 9 million plus. So there is MUCH more room on Oregon maps to list the bitty towns. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Georgia Communities Disappear!! From: Bee Date: 08 Dec 06 - 10:25 PM Um... two page maps? Bigger maps (they do fold, after all)? Sounds like what's'isname's bed, chop off yer feet if yer too tall. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Georgia Communities Disappear!! From: Rapparee Date: 08 Dec 06 - 10:28 PM Do what Rand-McNally does: vary the print size. By the way, Rand- McNally isn't removing anything from their maps. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Georgia Communities Disappear!! From: Peace Date: 08 Dec 06 - 10:29 PM Wasn't it Rand McNally that missed all of New Mexico one year? Or is that an urban legend? |
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Subject: RE: BS: Georgia Communities Disappear!! From: RangerSteve Date: 08 Dec 06 - 10:34 PM New Jersey, which is much smaller than Georgia, still has room for Ong's Hat, Mount Misery, and a lot of other places that disappeared a hundred years ago, but unlike Georgia, apparently, we like our history. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Georgia Communities Disappear!! From: Rapparee Date: 08 Dec 06 - 10:34 PM It's kinda hard to miss New Mexico, especially if you're going from Texas to Arizona. Never heard that one before, Peace. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Georgia Communities Disappear!! From: number 6 Date: 08 Dec 06 - 10:50 PM Real estate must have shot up in value in Hoot Owl Oklahoma ... Wikipedia mentions that the population there is now 1. biLL |
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Subject: RE: BS: Georgia Communities Disappear!! From: catspaw49 Date: 08 Dec 06 - 11:04 PM Bee-Dub has the Georgian thing nailed. I lived in Atlanta for a few years and for me, the place just gets more screwed up by the year. Karen grew up there but if asked now, she'll tell you that here is better. AND......I'm outraged about a few of those places which are the heart and soul of what Georgia really is! Gay is a really pretty little place and as BWL said, they are renowned for the great fairs they have. Plus you get the shock value of telling folks you were at the Gay Crafts Fair and watching their moths drop open as they say, "Huh?" Hell, Karen and I were there before we got married and I remember sitting in traffic and munching boiled peanuts with this wonderful new woman I would soon marry. Now I tell ya' that may not sound romantic to you, but I think we both remember that day with a lot of fondness. So did they do away with the north Georgia town of "Helen" as well? If it's not marked, how can you travel through the Helen half of Georgia? I bet Ball Field is gone too............. Spaw |
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Subject: RE: BS: Georgia Communities Disappear!! From: Bee-dubya-ell Date: 08 Dec 06 - 11:04 PM The area where I live, the western Florida panhandle, has been left off maps numerous times. Because Florida's shaped like an upside-down "L" there's a lot of wasted space if the entire state is shown on one map. So, Florida maps are usually split in two, with a large map showing the peninsular portion and the eastern panhandle to around Tallahassee, and a separate map showing the westernmost counties. Every now and then a publisher forgets to include both. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Georgia Communities Disappear!! From: Bee-dubya-ell Date: 08 Dec 06 - 11:16 PM Naw, Helen's a tourist trap. You can bet no map given out at highway rest stops is gonna have any tourist traps deleted. Sorta stupid to give people free brochures advertisin' touristy places and then give 'em a map they can't find the places on. But, then again, we are talkin' Georgia here, aren't we? |
