The Smallest Towns In Illinois
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- Опубліковано 20 сер 2024
- Have you ever wanted to run away from it all? Many people have that thought, but few act on it. Besides, it's really hard to avoid other people. There are billions of us walking around, so most of us just have to deal with it. But...if someone does want to be a hermit, where do they go? In this video, we discuss the ten places in the state of Illinois with the smallest population, according to the most recent census data.
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Other tiny towns in (southern) Illinois worth mentioning include Burnt Prairie, Crisp, Hord, Heartville, Samsville and Texico.
Sims or listed as Arrington
I've been in Southern illinois my whole life. And I've never heard of any of those lol
You've never heard of Texico? You're not a lifelong Illinois resident.
Bluff City!!!!! 😍
Don't forget my grandparents little Southern Illinois town Mulkeytown less than 150 but a fun place to come in the summer when I was a kid.
Brooooo I love mulkeytown!
I grew up and still live in Nason IL, we are surrounded by the Rend lake wildlife refuge on 3 sides, there are under 200 people, our kid's attend Waltonville schools (7 miles west of Nason) and we use the Bonnie IL post office, we have 1 bar and 2 churches, it was once one of the biggest city's in Jefferson county, there was a train (The Tinkerville Trolley) that ran twice a day from Nason to Mt Vernon when the coal mine was still in operation, Nason once had one of the most modern coal mines in the world (opened around 1921 i think), about one out of every two house's "mysteriously" caught fire and burned to the ground in the week following the closing of the Nason mine (im sure insurance had nothing to do with that 🙄) , most people work in Mt Vernon IL these days, about 50% of what use to be the City of Nason is under Rend lake, Life is boring here but its a good place to raise kids and grow old, on a side note most female companionship has to be imported (i imported my wife from Eldorado il) as its mostly hairy legs in this town aka a total sausage fest 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
I was incorrect, the Muddy, Illinois post office is still open and the stated population for the village of Muddy is 44. Btw the hours for the post office are 12:15pm to 2:15pm
It should be noted that Kaskaskia is located on the west side of the Mississippi River requiring a drive through Missouri to get there and is home to The Liberty Bell of The West.
I grew up in Wayne Co. lots of small towns around. The next county over, Edwards Co., had a place called Bone Gap pop. 19 back in early 80s
I don't think it is a town anymore and I think the USPS closed the post office, but at one time Muddy was one of the smallest towns and claimed to have the smallest post office. The post office was quite literally one room and you could only fit one person in the "lobby" at one time. I believe that when the post office closed, the official population was 10.
Karbers Ridge still has a small Post Office. Not sure what the population is but it's not a whole lot.
Great nature shots and landscape didn’t know what Illinois look like
Although not incorporated, Tabor is a town near my hometown of Waynesville and only comprised of 2 houses and a grain elevator.
My Dad was born in Belknap, IL. My Mom in Karnak, IL. Two tiny little towns. Lots of surrounding ones as well, in Southern, Il. I still love visiting there. Ever heard of these places?
These are kind of ghost towns that haven't completely disappeared. I am aware of two of them: Bentley and Time. When schools consolodated the towns without schools tend to disappear
Well Time has a gazebo but Bentley has that cute hedgehog so it's the clear winner.
Back in the 90's there was a small village called Iron in White Co. It had a post office and 5 residents. Gone now but cool vid.
Valley City used to have 2 taverns and Tate Cheese. The taverns are gone and Tate Cheese closed years ago. Winn Productions and the rock quarry and a few homes are all that is left.
Oddly enough, the I-72 bridges over the Illinois River are named for Valley City. Unfortunately there is no exit leading directly to Valley City.
I spent some time in Pike County in the late 90's through the mid 2000's. I met Hamer Tate and his wife.
The Mississippi River actually changed course during the New Madrid earthquake and cut off Kaskaskia from the rest of Illinois.
@@denniscain7218 that is misinformation. Kaskaskia Island was made by repeated flooding over time. The only large change the great earthquake made was Reelfoot Lake in TN
In 1963 we left little Okawville Illinois population 300. Happiest year of my entire 65 year old life. There's an underground river there that just made me ecstatic. It's 40 miles east of St. Louis on the Interstate. Let me know if you live there.
My cousin lives there
Dear God. When you said small, you really meant "small".
Anyway, two of your communities (Rockwood and Kaskaskia) are located in Randolph County - my home county since 1950. My paternal ancestors arrived in Randolph County several years before the beginning of the American Civil War. I attended Pleasant Ridge Church in Rockwood for 2 or 3 years - a white, wooden framed church literally sitting between two kernfields.
Randolph County is a great place to live and raise a family!
Yep! I'm fascinated by really small communities and ghost towns.
Try School, Centerville, Illinois. They're in White County.
A lot of Southern Illinois. Forgot to mention that Kaskaskia used to be the capital of Illinois. It's a neat place steeped with history if you ever get the hankering to visit there. You can't get there from Illinois though, you have to enter on the Missouri side.
Those are tiny little towns. Love the video, I would love to live in one of those little towns, peace and quiet
great job you nailed it I've lived in Harrisburg I'll and I found that very interesting
Gulfport once was a swinging town. Iowa had really weird liquor laws, and being a river town Gulfport had several it was either in the 20's / 30's bars and restaurants and in 2000 they eith 5 / 600 people that lived there but the flood completely wiped out the town. Most of the people in Gulfport that did not have a bar or restaurant worked in Burlington Iowa. A Huge military ammunition plant. The levee was underwater nd the huge grain elevators were underwater because of the flood .
1:40 that's basically a few houses just outside of Waterloo, a city in Monroe County, but technically in our Illinois county of St Clair, making it by definition a St Louis suburb. That's the crazy thing with St Clair County, IL, the largest cities are on the western edge, which is the border of St Louis. Because our county has all the Illinois parts of MetroLink (St Louis subway), we're true suburbs of St Louis, but really just the largest western cities (Belleville, O'Fallon, Swansea, Fairview Heights, etc), as the rest of the county really shrinks in size, especially the farther away you get from St Louis.
2 things: Bentley: I did not know Illinois had hedgehogs, was that filmed there? Annapolis: My great grandparents lived/raised family here. Thanks for your work to make this video available.
Thanks for watching! I'm not sure where that was filmed. I'm using stock footage for these, at least for now. Once the weather improves, I'll be scouting out some areas to get my own footage.
@@StuckInTheKernfield Actually, hedgehogs are not native to NA. Friends of ours that live in UK, she takes care of them in a shelter. So I was surprised to see one in that clip. Hedgehogs are sold as pets here but they're African pygmy hedgehogs are imported. Maybe someone had a pet & released it? When I was a kid in Decatur, ppl would buy alligators the release them into Lake Decatur (my cousin did just that).
Maybe the animals are porcupines I’m not going to try to find out what they are! 😱
@@naturelvr123 you won’t do that in Texas or the game wardens will have a little conversation with you. They frown on people selling and buying alligator unless you have a license.
Fellow Illinoisian here, nice vid😎. I am road tripping through little Egypt this coming weekend and I will surely be seeing a bunch of the towns on this list, notably Centralia, Anna, Marion, but also Cairo, etc. Centralia is a nice location for photography but I wouldn't want to live there.
Thanks for watching!
First of all it’s Illini and sorry for your luck southern ill SUCKS
I just moved from CA LA grew up In LA went to hllwd high. Now grown up found me 10 acres in chilicothe hills. Luv it! I don't miss traffic, people or the fake glamorous life of LA cali.
LA don’t seem too glamorous these days with the homeless people who camp out there. 🤷♂️
@@glennso47 sure
@@glennso47 how do you know?? You lived in la?
@@user-vs5vb6hl4h I see presentations online. Especially parts where Maxine Waters is the “representative.” And she doesn’t even live there. She lives in a mansion just outside the district.
I lived my childhood in the town of Annapolis....#10 on your list. It had 2 banks, one was robbed at one time...and a school and 2 grocery stores. The railroad bypassed Annapolis for Robinson and oil was discovered nearby in Hardinville and today, Annapolis is a one stop sign town, with a post office, and a fertilizer company called Bunker Hill Supply. I knew some wonderful people from Annapolis and almost all were good people. Now......the town is pretty much decaying with many buildings/houses that need to be torn down. There was a feed store and a grocery there in the 1970's and an elementary school there until around 1970.
Thanks for the maps showing location. Another good one Kern!
:45 mark. LOL! My thoughts exactly.
Thank you for the video. My wife grew up in the country near Bentley.
Glad you enjoyed it!
What about Moonshine Il in Clark county? Population two. You can get some of the best burgers you've ever had there too. It is located just northwest of Annapolis and across the county line. I grew up only a mile outside of Annapolis, and live about seven miles from there now.
It's an unincorporated community. I only counted those that have been incorporated.
@@StuckInTheKernfield ok
I love these Illinois names--some of 'em. I grew up in Champaign, but it's time to move to Time.
Gulfport is an after hours bar town. I believe there is a bar for every 5 residents. This is across the Mississippi river from Burlington Iowa which is considerably larger.
Gulfport was almost destroyed by flooding in mid-to late 2000's.
Hi, another comment. Rockwood, Illinois, did you show prairie dogs from this town? I didn't know they were that far east. I live in Greeley, Colorado & they're all around here. :)
I drove through Time once. Most, if not all the residents were trailer houses.
I grew up northern LaSalle county. There was a small town of 5 or 6 people in a town called Peterstown. The people consisted of a catholic priest, 2 nuns and an old couple if I remember correctly. Haven't been there in quite a few years. Maybe its been turned in corn fields and thats why it was not on your list.
Have you looked at St Francisville IL? Population now less than 600. It is located across the Wabash River from Vincennes IN.
Annapolis, my ancestors lived there. I never been there. I grew up in Decatur but live in Colorado now. Nice video & interesting. :)
Yesterday me and my friend randomly drove to Ohio IL out of the blue. Population is under 460ish. Very quiet area with decent schooling and 1880s architecture that is slowly getting renovated. EXTREMELY CHEAP homes too, I am talking 60-80k for a 2 story 1880s property with renovations. For work I'd assume remote is ideal
Good video. Poverty, ownership, and incomes are grey at best in rural areas. On paper people will be poor, but all their stuff is in trusts related to family agriculture. Or they'll appear well off based on your vehicle ownership point, when it's old farm trucks.
With population, it'll vary wildly based on how many square miles are considered within the town. Kaskaskia for example has more going on than population leads one to think, since it's based on an area the size of a postage stamp. Compare it to Piasa in Macoupin county which appears smaller to drive through, but claims a population of several hundred because they roll in several square miles.
Thanks for that information! I've always wondered so much about people living in those areas. I love Kaskaskia.
Some small towns: Eldred, Hettick, Hillview, Curran, Petersburg, Scottville
I was also thinking a bit about Johnsburg. Which was located in Northern Illinois. It does have some remote feel. Johnsburg was once like a small community until we got more businesses. While McHenry has the urban feel.
I grew up in a small town in IL called in kinmundy. I think it had 800 or so, people. I thought that was small. Lol
Small world - I had in-laws who lived in Kimmundy in the late 70's - 80's. Marie and Gary House. Lost track of them after '87.
I grew up in Mount Carroll population 1500. I thought it was small. Some surrounding communities are even smaller. Like Chadwick, Shannon, Lanark, Thomson, Milledgeville, Argo Fay. The “big city “ is Savanna population 4900.
There was a village in southeastern Marion County called Helm. Last I heard, it had a population of 3, but that was some years ago. I think it's officially a ghost town now.
My daughter and her family live outside Kinmundy.
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Latham is under 300 I believe. It’s between Decatur and Lincoln.
In Knox County where I'm from originally there are several small (sadly dying out) towns i.e. Maquon where my maternal family lived in and Gilson where I went to elementary school. Sad to see them bypassed.
Suggestion, Wilbern....
Great video!
Thanks!
@@StuckInTheKernfield keep up the good work! I still love this crazy state.
Thank you! I'm glad you enjoyed it!
I get a real kick out of your videos. I left Illinois way back in 1980. I drove to the West Coast and never looked back. I remember driving out of my missable hometown that just got an ice storm. I almost didn't make out of Illinois that day. I really wasn't sure if I was going to go to Florida or California. I remember thinking that Florida had a lot of retired people. So I turned right and drove to the Golden State. I was 26 at the time.
That sounds exciting! I wish I had done something like that when I was younger. It would've been a lot easier to move before I acquired so many adult responsibilities.
I left So.ill. about the same time, came to NYC, my broth, too, to LA. What part of the state did you live in? Think you made a good choice.
I bet you regret not going to Florida
I left Gilman back in 1983. Been in Florida ever since. I really do miss the trains.
Need some advice, when you moved what did you do when you got to the WC? How did u manage there
I grew up in McLean County in central IL and remember seeing a sign for Padua, pop. 5. Maybe it has totally disappeared.
You should check out 2 towns in Northern Illinois. Loran, and Kent. Both in Stephenson County. They about 8 miles apart. Loran has a bar with 2 dairy farms right Cross the street/road and a church. Both towns are very small. Plus there is a smaller town in Jo Daviess County, Nora. Only has a bar and a church.
Don't forget Bolten and Siota Mils.
Waddams Grove too.
You also have Penrose on the Freeport Road in. Whiteside County.
And don't forget about Everts and South Freeport.
Both in Stephenson County.
Kaskaskia is a fascinating town with an interesting history. Been there a couple times
I'm originally from Hillsboro. Have U ever did a video on this town ?
Rowe, Illinois. Where I grew up
Those are pretty small towns and I assume they're all incorporated to be considered a town. I grew up in a small Kankakee county town that had about 600 in it when we moved there in '61. Other towns within 20 miles ranged from about 200-700 people.
Annapolis once had a high school.
I'm originally from Iroquois Co. so I was expecting to see Woodworth, Effner, and/or Pittwood on the list but they aren't incorporated so their populations must be listed in neighboring towns. I wonder how many more communities are not incorporated. Nice video.
There are so many tiny little communities around the state. Most of them are unincorporated, so there just isn't any data. Thanks for watching!
Hey,don't forget Delrey.
I love your videos, but I haven't seen any of your new videos yet. I know of a couple small towns like Cedar Point, IL.,I believe the population is about 300 and there's a town called Detroit, IL.,last time I was there the population was about 150
Doddsville is on the boarder of Schuyler and McDonough countries. 1 church, and about 10 houses.
Howdy from Elgin. Pop 110 th. A studio apt is 780$ or so. M
Wenona. Isn't that by st Charles ?
Elgin/ Waukegan. Illinois.
Malvern Illinois, 10 houses. Used to be the place back in 1800s. I've been in what used to be stage coach hotel.
Dunkel, Illinois. Located in central illinois it has 3 houses lol.
Floraville is kind of a unicorn. It's a suburb of a suburb (Millstadt) near St. Louis. You are correct, though, in that the UCC church is the only thing in town that's not a home.
Woodland, IL & Bondville, IL
There's a bunch of places just like that right here in Stephenson County, Illinois.
I missed your videos and your beautiful voice, bless you.
Burnt Prairie is in White County. Not sure of the population, but it's a very small town.
Also Barnhill in Wayne County.
And here I thought Brussels and Golden Eagle were small.
Brussels Sprouts are the population of the one town And the eagle craps on the other? 👨💻
@@glennso47 um. Sure.
Ott Ville, Magnolia, Holloway Ville, Compton. There are a lot more small ones in the one hundred or so residents. I was born in Ladd but moved in 1989.
You showed a picture of clover when you talked about Time. You could have at least found a picture of thyme.
Well, that would just be too punny, wouldn't it?
4:08 I'm not hating at all, because I think that it's cute, but that's a European Robin, pretty lost if it ended up in Illinois. Great video, very informative.
Loved the video! Where are you from in Illinois?
I'm from the east central section of the state.
@@StuckInTheKernfield Ah okay. Your voice sounded super familiar so I was curious if I knew you. I’ve been all over this state but I spent most of my time in the central region. Awesome videos and channel, I can’t wait to see more from you!
Thanks!
Kane
Niantic!!
Great statistics and narration!
Not many are in medical/clerical in these areas.
Awesome work on the demographics!
Your work is greatly needed and appreciated!
Thank you very much!
@@StuckInTheKernfield
Most welcome, I had to share on my social media because it’s contents are needed!
We thought sure you would mention our hometowns Tioga and Mendon.
Win a big lottery I would move to one. People will be sprawling back. Mark my words.
Incredible!
What about Moonshine? Population 1,
Is he drunk most of the time?
@@glennso47 no, all of the time 😂
Rockwood is my mom's hometown! Pretty sure every resident is a cousin of mine.
Check out Loami (pronounced Low am I) only 400 people, 3 churches My ancestors are responsible for the name.
My cousin Amber Eller lives in Loami
So much footage of agricultural work. Apparently locals own none of it. Agribusiness has a vertical supply chain which bypasses local businesses and services. The result has been the gradual evisceration of these towns.
On this video where’s Argo Fay, Illinois? Fair Haven? Chadwick? Milledgeville? These are all small towns?
Chadwick and Millidgeville are too big.
LOL!!!
You forgot Tamalco, Stolletown, and Frogtown.
How many residents are porcupines?
One family. They run the funeral parlor, Pine's Pine boxes.
I just visited Illinois I think it’s a beautiful state
great content
Thank you!
I always thought bensenville was small but compared to these no sir
Bensenville is not small compared to a lot of towns outside the Chicago area. A town of 18,000 would be considered the big city to a lot of places outside the Chicago area. You consider that Bensenville is similar in size to Clinton Iowa for example. In my area of Illinois, Clinton Iowa is a major city, as is Sterling, Dixon, Rock Falls, Freeport, Rochelle, etc.
What were those cows doing :D
I can make a list that big where I live and won't have to drive 20 miles in any direction to get there all with populations 50 or less. It's in northern Illinois.
Argo Fay in Carroll County is a prime example.
@@glennso47 That was on my list!
@@davidbartch8917 my folks used to say of Argo Fay that the city limits signs are on the same sign post.
Some other places in Carroll County include Daggett which is just a little store between Mount Carroll and Morrison on 78 highway. Also Fair Haven which is near Chadwick. Center Hill between Mount Carroll and Savanna is another one. I could go on and on about the little unincorporated areas in Carroll County and surrounding areas.
Kent, Woodbine, Elroy, Ridott.
What bout Irving Illinois
Interesting! I'm from Chicago
Thanks for watching!
Do you ever critique Northern Illinois?
I have a bunch of videos on the suburbs.
I lived in Genoa IL for 10 years
That’s southeast of Rockford/Belvedere. A lot of towns in the area are named for cities in Europe. Such as Genoa, Milan which is in the quad cities area, there are probably others but the two I mentioned are examples. My wife is from a small town in Missouri,Versailles, but it is pronounced “Ver-SAILS” 😁
Technically it's called Genoa Kingston/Kerkland area. And Stillman Valley not to far from there. And I think the Hiowatha/Pocahontas school district is near there. But don't remember for shure. I also wasn't that far from Byron or Rochelle. The 2 larger towns in DeKalb county are Sycamore and DeKalb is where one part of Northern Illinois University. The other part was in Rockford last I remembered anyway. I did enjoy living in that area it was nice to live in a smaller town than where I grew up in. The town I grew up in has about 63,000people. Geno was significantly smaller than that. And I did like it. But eventually moved back to where I grew up
@ 00:45 Barnography. Fornicowtion. The Hot Beef Injection. Wine me, Dine me, Sixty Bovine me....
Oh. Wow....Guess they were in the moooood?
@@StuckInTheKernfield They clearly have more than a cowsual friendship. It's like Rodeo and Juliette. I hope he didn't suffer performance angusiety. That would be a bunch of bull.
@@mr.taggpricesretailsalesan8635 Skunks have a sexual relationship where the male just hangs around long enough to get her pregnant and then leaves her to raise the kits. Sounds like some people you might think of. 🤔Also if the female is not a willing partner she will spray him, her way of saying “ not tonight, I have a headache.”
Mam what about carbondale wheather it's good for living or not
Carbondale has a lot of crime. I covered it in this video: ua-cam.com/video/8LcjtQbB9LQ/v-deo.html
I grew up in Glenwood from about 4 - 14 years old (77 - 88) & i thought that area was small. Any videos referencing Glenwood?
Annapolis, some of my ancestors lived/buried here. My great grandparents lived here as well my grandfather on my mother's side, No, I'm not going to be critical of your filming, I've got a drone myself so how can I tell you Ï don't like your filming? I'm not good at the drone but I do know photography (stills, black & white) got my own darkroom so I'm not going to be critical of your filming. Thanks for this video. :)
It's stock footage.
Muddy Illinois pop.100 on the sign.
Harmon and a few close by
I use to work in Harmon, 130 people.
Dang started exactly right where I grew up lol small word
Any population under 700 is considered a village?
A village is determined by the type of government they have. There are some Chicago suburbs with a population over 20000 that are classified as villages.
I'm from Alpha, south of the QCA... and I was surprised to see that people still live in Gulfport... I thought the floods of '93 wiped it off the map??
Not completely. They have a few people still, as well as an "adult entertainment club" called Charlie's Angels, from what I could find out about the area.
@@StuckInTheKernfield how depressing...
@@StuckInTheKernfield when I was growing up, Gulfport was knows for its bars
Anything in the north!