Largest and smallest SMALL cities in the US. (bars, design)

[Corey the Otter]

Now that we have ones for major and for mid-sized, we don't have ones for small cities.

What would you all say?

EDIT: I'm talking MSA.

[BostonBornMassMade]

Lowell is probably the largest Small city i know of.

[TheTimidBlueBars]

Visalia, CA. Feels like a small town --- and I don't mean people are friendly and there's a community feel, I mean the downtown is small and has a low activity level and there's not much traffic. MSA pop 442k.

[jFug]

I would say Burlington, VT is the smallest small city, IMO.

[Corey the Otter]

Originally Posted by jFug

I would say Burlington, VT is the smallest small city, IMO.

I mean with a metro population of 220k and distinct suburbs that definitely could work.

[rowhomecity]

Williamsport, Pennsylvania

It is the largest city in the North Central part of Pennsylvania. It definitely is an economic hub.

The city itself is about 30,000 people and the metro area is about 120,000 I believe.

[ChrisMT]

I thought I read that Carson City, Nevada is the smallest Metropolitan Statistical Area?

Or am I confused with some other designation?

[eddie gein]

Originally Posted by TheTimidBlueBars

Visalia, CA. Feels like a small town --- and I don't mean people are friendly and there's a community feel, I mean the downtown is small and has a low activity level and there's not much traffic. MSA pop 442k.

The Valley out there is kind of weird in that there are five or six good sized cities and about a gazillion towns of 10-25 thousand sprinkled around. Visalia is like that. 135 K with moderately sized Tulare, and Porterfield close by and several other 10 K type towns around there.

[Corey the Otter]

Originally Posted by ChrisMT

I thought I read that Carson City, Nevada is the smallest Metropolitan Statistical Area?

Or am I confused with some other designation?

It is the smallest MSA and one of the only ones where the urbanized area has more people than the MSA. Also, there are many MSAs that definitely don't feel like actual cities.

[GeoffD]

In New England, “city” is a form of government and has nothing to do with size. A town has an open town meeting or a representative town meeting. A city has a mayor and city council or a city council and a hired city manager. In Vermont, the whole state shuts down the first Tuesday in March for town meeting day and most towns have an open town meeting. I’m used to representative town meeting where people in the voting precinct run for town meeting member and there are a couple hundred town meeting members. There are cities with mayors that have a population of 5,000. Towns tend to shift to city government before they get to 60,000. There are towns of 20,000+ that have open town meeting.

In Massachusetts, Brookline is a town form of government at 59,000. Hingham has an open town meeting at 22,000. There are cities like Palmer and North Adams with 12,000 to 13,000.