How many streets does a small town usually have?

Question

How many streets does a small town usually have?

Answer 1

Google Maps is amazing for this sort of question. Find a town that looks to be the right size and look at the layout. I've lived in towns that were nothing but buildings clustered along a highway, and some dirt tracks leading to houses. And I've lived in towns that have been planned out to perfection.

Answer 2

That depends on how many people that live there are is "small". Mine has 27,000 people. I feel like it's small. That also depends on if you consider cul-de-sacs which is considered connected to one street. You also have to consider, number of houses/apartments/businesses/schools/cul-de-sacs. According to this website I'm looking at says my street has a couple hundred streets, but again, you have to consider everything. My street is 0.5 miles from one end to the next. My street is a "side street" which is a street where nobody's heard of unless you go there enough. Then there's streets that intersect each other, which we say "cross over". "You have to cross over A to get to B." Then there's roads that change names. I don't know why, but they do. It looks like you're on the same road, which you are in a way, but some reason they change names, so folks have to pay attention. "You have to go to point A, which changes to point B, even though it's the same street)



I don't know if that helps, probably not, but that's the only way I can explain it without drawing a map or something. "GOOGLE MAPS" "MAP QUEST"

Answer 3

I once drove through a town with only 1 street

Answer 4

I did. Branchville had three, a main road and two that branched off (get it?) at the north end, sort of like a W made with your fingers. It was all we needed, but it made getting from one side to the other interesting (or frustrating) because you either had to go to the intersection or cut through yards.

Answer 5

This is not something you would need to put in a story about a small town. Also, how small? In the present or in the past? Near an urban area or in farm country? Etc. Honestly, if you're that clueless about small towns, you should not set your story there.

Answer 6

Depends on rivers and mountains and stuff. If you have a small town on the Plains with no real rivers or anything, I think it would naturally be somewhat squarish, and you'd probably have about 20 streets by 20 avenues in a grid, with one Main Street, and possibly a Main Square park in the middle of Main Street surrounded by major shops.



Another thing is if the town was designed in modern times to move cars and stuff, or if it grew organically from a watering hole, and was designed to move, at most, a horse through an alley.



I live in mountainous region now, and most small towns here have a main street, no square, and they are built up in the valleys, but not up the sides of hills (they could fall down in landslides). A lot of times, there will be one main street that forks off into two valleys, and there will be a few side streets running parallel to the main street(s).