When my kids were little we lived in a very small place. It wasn't incorporated so it isn't even considered a town. The population was around 50. There was a gas station/grocery store/post office all in one place. The grocery store only carried basic necessities. By the time we lived there the school was closed and the kids had a choice of going to school in two other smallish towns, one 12 miles away and one 15 miles away. Other than the grocery store there was one church and two grain elevators and that was it.