Ok, one more thing. I love all the towns, they are all very nicely kept. I also love seeing all the old playground equipment you show in all these towns, takes me back!!
@TravelwithaWiseguy10 ай бұрын
Thank you very much! 😊
@LM7945310 ай бұрын
Makes me wish for the peaceful and quiet life.❤
@sarge3ad5 ай бұрын
I attended school in that old school house in Leroy 28:59 from 1st grade through 6th in the late sixties early seventies. Back then LeRoy had a few businesses like the grocery store/ post office all in one. The owner use to literally change hats when he would go from store clerk to post master. They also had feed stores and repair/ welding shops plus other. The town has remained active by the members of the church where have an annual LeRoy Harvest Festival celebration with a parade and big meal sponsored by the church and more.
@TravelwithaWiseguy5 ай бұрын
Love that! Thanks for the info!
@musicroom71852 ай бұрын
I went to school there too ! 1972-74 (we moved to MO in 1974) Rode a shuttle bus over from Humeston. That was such a cool building ..makes me sad to see it run down. When I was there, K-2 were in Humeston with 7-8, 3-6 in LeRoy, and HS in Garden Grove
@chiefamylee8 ай бұрын
The quiet of the small towns in Iowa is a breath of fresh air. Thanks for the great video!
@TravelwithaWiseguy8 ай бұрын
Couldn't agree more! Thanks so much!!
@PB-hr8tg2 ай бұрын
Born and raised in Iowa. My oldest son’s name is LeRoy, so LeRoy is on the list of towns to visit!
@TravelwithaWiseguy2 ай бұрын
Would be a great photo next to the sign!
@darrylclark5634 ай бұрын
My mom graduated from Leroy Iowa. I will have to show her this video.
@lindawicker2225Ай бұрын
My mom taught school there or Mormon Trail her entire career. Nice to see your comment.
@darrylclark563Ай бұрын
@@lindawicker2225my mom’s younger siblings graduated from Mormon Trail.
@davidespinoza9584 ай бұрын
I live in Southern California. These little towns in the video are so peaceful Thank you for your video..
@TravelwithaWiseguy4 ай бұрын
Thank you 😊 Iowa has so many great small towns!
@amymeier12393 ай бұрын
Welcome to Iowa..by wat of video!
@brendacejda706910 ай бұрын
I've done a lot of traveling through Iowa. It's a beautiful state, especially when the corn is at its peak. Curious what time of year this video was shot?
@TravelwithaWiseguy10 ай бұрын
I filmed this in mid-October
@GabeGarrett-t7s10 ай бұрын
Great video! Especially on beaconsfield! My great grandfather lived in beaconsfield and grew up in Coburg.
@TravelwithaWiseguy10 ай бұрын
Yeah Beaconsfield is one of the best! Wow he lived in 2 of them!
@GabeGarrett-t7s10 ай бұрын
@@TravelwithaWiseguy pretty interesting imo, I also recently just walked the entire Heritage trail end to end in July and before I started, I chilled and talked to a nice man in DURANGO! Cool Spot
@TravelwithaWiseguy10 ай бұрын
Oh wow how long was that walk?
@GabeGarrett-t7s10 ай бұрын
@@TravelwithaWiseguy it took me, since I remember I used a stopwatch, 2 hours and 46 minutes long. Another question for you John, what about delphos? Is it unincorporated because it also has 26 and on Wikipedia it says former city, are former towns not in lists either? I know Donnan isn’t, it’s population is 7!!! They said it’s the smallest incorporated town in Iowa, but it’s become unincorporated a few years ago
@bglrj10 ай бұрын
I've spent a lot of time in Iowa. I love every inch of it. Thanks for sharing it with us.
@TravelwithaWiseguy10 ай бұрын
You bet!
@GabeGarrett-t7s10 ай бұрын
Yay! Finally! Thank you so much John
@GabeGarrett-t7s10 ай бұрын
I appreciate it John! What is your next list? I’m just kidding! THANK YOU SO MUCH JOHN!!!
@pigoff12310 ай бұрын
Iowa has some beautiful churches.
@trishamccarty3202Ай бұрын
I feel in love with that church ⛪️
@lindawicker2225Ай бұрын
I went to school from kdg. through sophomore in Le Roy. Then it merged with 3 other towns to form Mormon Trail schools and I graduated from there. My mother was a school teacher, spent her entire life teaching in Le Roy then Mormon Trail and still was teaching when she died. My dad born and raised in the area was a farmer. I loved growing up in southern Iowa. I was married in that church in 1962 and it''s still a very active church. Don't know that I'm particularly proud that my hometown is the smallest in Iowa, but I'm still proud to have grown up there. The people were great and there was more to the town, but not a lot, when I was growing up.
@TravelwithaWiseguyАй бұрын
Thanks for the info! Much appreciated!
@sheryld195710 ай бұрын
I love looking at all these older slower going towns. Very interesting to hear their history.
@TonkaVicious96077 күн бұрын
I'm from Iowa, but I live in Utah now, so I IMMEDIATELY recognized your shirt! I LOVE the Buzzard Belly in Cisco Utah!!!!!!!
@TravelwithaWiseguy7 күн бұрын
Awesome! 😎
@lindastepp984210 ай бұрын
Good ole towns, I can see where the population went, 😥 in the grave yards. I enjoyed this venture. 😎
@TravelwithaWiseguy10 ай бұрын
Thank you! Yes indeed 😞 It was a fun adventure!
@JerryGreif6 ай бұрын
Pretty cool cruising all the small towns in Iowa, I have been to every town in Iowa on 2 wheels (bicycle or motorcycle). 1588 towns this includes ghost towns and unincorporated towns.
@TravelwithaWiseguy6 ай бұрын
That’s amazing!
@dochood196625 күн бұрын
Yetter is 5 miles from Lytton, where I grew up. I knew someone who moved from Lytton (population 376 at the time) to Yetter... probably for the "peace and quiet"! Also, I recognize some of the family names on that rock.
@Nickifoster-hl3ux10 ай бұрын
Did that street sign say cookie monster? I'm enjoying these videos of places I'll probably never see. Thanks for the window on the tiny towns world 😊
@TravelwithaWiseguy10 ай бұрын
Yes it did! Someone had a good sense of humor in Berkley 😂
@Nickifoster-hl3ux10 ай бұрын
@@TravelwithaWiseguy indeed they did!
@robinconnell388210 ай бұрын
We really enjoyed your visits to Iowa's smallest towns. While in school at Iowa State I helped my Rural Sociology Professor conduct a large research project that took me all over Iowa. Even though I was born, and now live, in Missouri I consider Iowa my adopted State. Go Cyclones! But most of all we enjoyed your Bussards Belly t-shirt! Been there. Keep up your great work.
@TravelwithaWiseguy10 ай бұрын
Sounds like a fun project! Haha yes! Cisco, Utah!! 😊
@pigoff12310 ай бұрын
My step fathers family is from Iowa. The family farm is in Waterloo outside of Gilbertville. My brother lives in Cedar Falls.
@TravelwithaWiseguy10 ай бұрын
Beautiful state!
@susanoline58235 күн бұрын
I ate in Gilbertville a couple days ago! A young local girl opened a new restaurant. 1854 ... the old Cobblestone.
@robertodebeers25519 ай бұрын
I know Hepburn, Iowa, well. I owned a farm a few miles south of Hepburn, on the way to Clarinda. There are several small towns in the Clarinda area that are pretty darned cool, like College Springs. Enjoyed your journey this time, too. Always a pleasure.
@TravelwithaWiseguy9 ай бұрын
Thank you! Beautiful area to visit!
@Dragonflylane7710 ай бұрын
Whats the difference between incorporated and corporated? I know i live in an unincorporated town in az and ive always wondered? ❤ your vids!!
@TravelwithaWiseguy10 ай бұрын
The difference is an incorporated town has a form of government (mayor, city council, etc) where an unincorporated one doesn’t and is just an area where people live and are usually part of a different postal code and such. Thanks you!!
@trishamccarty3202Ай бұрын
Thank you for the very beautiful video on my home state ❤... actually probably my favorite video I've watched on iowa and I am thinking about taking a little trip from busy west des Moines and going to these places ❤
@TravelwithaWiseguyАй бұрын
Awesome! Some great small towns to check out. Thanks for the nice comment!
@michellemakeuptutorials10 ай бұрын
I really enjoyed this small towns journey so much!! I had no idea about any of this, so thank you for the historical info and all of it
@TravelwithaWiseguy10 ай бұрын
Glad you enjoyed it! Thank you very much!!
@theangryangle905010 ай бұрын
This is another wonderful video of history. I bet it was a beautiful drive through that part of America. Thanks for what you do with these videos.
@TravelwithaWiseguy10 ай бұрын
It was definitely a beautiful drive! Glad I went there in October! Thank you very much!
@amylamb869310 ай бұрын
I enjoyed the video. I actually grew up in Galt.
@TravelwithaWiseguy10 ай бұрын
Oh wow - interesting little town!
@Giles296 ай бұрын
My uncle, who lives in Iowa, was a regional manager for Hy-Vee for a number of years. He's retired now though. I remember being quite impressed when it came to Missouri as well. Interesting to see where it started off.
@TravelwithaWiseguy6 ай бұрын
Kind of amazing it started in that little town!
@peterselten50010 ай бұрын
Hi john thanks for the tour i enjoyed seeing the places an when you show a old gas station i think about what they were back in the day when open how they looked . Cheers mate🇦🇺
@TravelwithaWiseguy10 ай бұрын
I do too! Interesting to see some old photos of what it used to be!
@melissagerber72312 ай бұрын
I lived in Centerville . It's a wee larger than surrounding ones,being a county seat.
@billiegutierrez250610 ай бұрын
Some of the small towns are well kept and very impressive I loved seeing the old barn. imagine the stories they could tell. Nice Muriel’s in Elliston. What a wonderful video thanks for the ride along stay safe until the next adventure
@TravelwithaWiseguy10 ай бұрын
Thank you! Ellston was a great little town!
@riverratranger14273 ай бұрын
Our farm was near the little, now dying, of Ruthven Iowa. These towns started going down hill with the end of passenger train service... then as the Baby Boom passed the local schools consolidated, then again... and again.
@danieltrue16893 ай бұрын
The Interstate highways don't pass through towns like the old highways did.
@skylermummert244 сағат бұрын
My grandma is originally from the ruthven area
@timmitchell470110 ай бұрын
Thanks again John really enjoyed your video I live in a small town and consider myself very fortunate . Have you ever considered incorporating a gravel bike into your visits you being a track coach I am a 62 year old gravel bike rider and ride around small towns in south west Missouri it’s a very relaxing thing for me to do have met a lot of wonderful people in my adventures!
@TravelwithaWiseguy10 ай бұрын
Thank you! I used to be a reasonably decent bike rider and someone stole my mountain bike 🤷🏼♂️ But I haven’t done much of it in a while. I was a sprinter so the long distances aren’t always my thing 😂😂
@onrycodger10 ай бұрын
All of them were clean and seemed to be well taken care of. As always, another great video!👍
@TravelwithaWiseguy10 ай бұрын
I agree! As a whole, these were some of the best I’ve seen! Thanks 😊
@asimplehorseman464810 ай бұрын
"You'll be able to see that the town is on a hill in the drone footage"..... LOL!!! Of note is how well those "small towns" maintain a civil standard of upkeep. Great episode. Thanks for sharing. Always enjoy the vintage merri-go-rounds actually moving. One was pretty old. "I died once when I was 5, but my mom made me get up and walk it off". Better times, stronger people.....
@TravelwithaWiseguy10 ай бұрын
Thank you! Some great go-rounds for sure. That one in Ellston might STILL be spinning 😂
@ronalddailey520810 ай бұрын
I will never see these places myself. So thanks for showing them off. Have a great weekend
@TravelwithaWiseguy10 ай бұрын
Thank you! You as well!
@ronfullerton316210 ай бұрын
You have captured the look of the small Iowa town very well. Or anyhow, how I knew them before moving away from the tall corn state. Most have been kept up fairly well. I believe many of the residents are either "lifers" or at least have a good amount of years involved to where there is much pride. There are some that look like the junkyard from Hades, but those are an exception. The joy of visiting these little bergs is the occasional diamond you fond in the rough. The people are usually friendly and a joy to chat with. And little snips of history is alive in these remote Uowa areas. I really enjoyed your tour of small town Iowa. I have been removed from Iowa for over thirty years now, but I guess my heart never left! Thank you again for a wonderful trip!
@TravelwithaWiseguy10 ай бұрын
Awesome words - thanks so much! I really did enjoy finding these towns and for someone interested, many of them are not too far from each other in the SW part of the state. Fun trip!
@Jruth6810 ай бұрын
They are all probably family in some of those towns.
@ronfullerton316210 ай бұрын
@@Jruth68 Many times you will find many families in the area are related. Just part of small town life.
@UncleDaffy31310 ай бұрын
Glad to see you getting up North. I first watched one of your videos about ghost towns in Texas, since I live in that state. But I was born in Minnesota (New Ulm), and was hoping you'd take a trip up North. Searles was a tiny, nearby town when I was a kid there in the '60s, with one gas station, one bar/town store combo, a Cathodic church/school, & a post office run out of somebody's home. Even THAT sounds huge next to these in Iowa. 🙂
@TravelwithaWiseguy10 ай бұрын
Thank you! I’m hoping to continue to explore different areas - Minnesota is definitely on the list! I’m actually going down to Texas this weekend 😊
@roberteshaw952010 ай бұрын
Coach,good job as usual.These small towns have a surreal vibe in their quiet clean setting. Just a thought, when those playground rides start moving by themselves,it might be time to get to a slow sprint on out of there, just saying. Thanks for the research and effort put forth.
@TravelwithaWiseguy10 ай бұрын
Haha yeah it felt like someone else might have been spinning that 😂😂
@aliceevans335710 ай бұрын
All of the small towns were so clean and well kept. Shows pride in their small burgs. Bigger towns could take a lesson. Beautiful churches, you wonder if folks from other areas come to worship there. Wouldn't be a video without playgrounds and puppy dogs.😊 Enjoyed the journey, stay safe and GOD bless
@TravelwithaWiseguy10 ай бұрын
Absolutely! Thank you very much! Always love finding the playgrounds and dogs 😊
@rosiemcnaughton993310 ай бұрын
My favorite is Bankston. The church is gorgeous, and the playground looks nice. Everything is neat. They all looked cared for. Nice old buildings. Great video. Thanks.
@TravelwithaWiseguy10 ай бұрын
That one really stood out to me too. The drone shot of the town is really incredible!
@rosiemcnaughton993310 ай бұрын
@@TravelwithaWiseguy 👍
@juanitagarcia95810 ай бұрын
Great video! Ellston looks well kept and clean. Interesting history 😊
@TravelwithaWiseguy10 ай бұрын
Thanks! Yes Ellston was really nice!
@angelikac6767Ай бұрын
I drive through galt all the time ,i live in a nearby metropolis sporting 540 people ( if some of us have company staying)
@judysoedt9162 ай бұрын
Thanks for video. Born and raised in Iowa.
@TravelwithaWiseguy2 ай бұрын
Thanks for watching! 😊
@ElwoodAndersonNV9 ай бұрын
I've enjoyed your trips to the small towns. Growing up in a small town in North Dakota where my grandparents homesteaded at the turn of the 20th century, I learned how the area developed. You might wonder why people settled along the railroads. There are a few reasons, the homestead act, the soil suited to agriculture, the immigration from Europe at the time, etc. Your maps show that the counties were laid out in near perfect rectangular layout. So, why did the railroads develop in such areas, and why did the immigrants settle along the railroad lines. The settlers were primarily immigrants, some with agricultural background who were looking for land to farm, others with shopping keeping or professional experience that these farmers would need to buy the clothes, food, and other necessities and services they would need. It was not unlike the development of communities around mines in other areas of the country. The government and the homesteading act provided the land. Railroads came because they were given land on either side of the tracts, every ten miles of so, so it could be sold to the immigrants to develop a townsite. The farmers needed places to market their grain and the grain elevators to buy it, since the mills were located in cities further east, the case of North Dakota, in Minneapolis. So why every ten miles or so? That was the distance a team of horses pulling a grain wagon could travel forth and back from the grain elevator. As time passed, some immigrants couldn't make a go it, so they sold their land to adjacent farmers who could, after their homestead obligations were fulfilled. As farms and farming equipment grew in size to handle more farmland, farmers income improved so they afford the new equipment. With trucks replacing the horses and wagons they could reach the grain elevators over a longer distance and the small towns in between the new terminals shrunk in size while the more distant towns with larger elevators grew in size. This has been the way the plains states have developed. The little towns survive because the survivors there can afford to live there, possibly because they sold their land, and the location has become endeared to them.
@TravelwithaWiseguy9 ай бұрын
Greta post! Thanks for the info - very interesting!
@darrenmuci598410 ай бұрын
Great video, Coach Wise!!
@TravelwithaWiseguy10 ай бұрын
Thanks!!
@bertholini281010 ай бұрын
Really nice video. I like how you covered 13 different small towns, quite well too. Yard work/trees today (before hard winter). Be good, be safe !!
@TravelwithaWiseguy10 ай бұрын
Thanks! It was a lot of fun and a beautiful time of the year to do it!
@imaoregonbum668310 ай бұрын
Makes me want to travel. Thank you!
@TravelwithaWiseguy10 ай бұрын
Go for it! 😊
@sueelliott320610 ай бұрын
Great video! I knew HyVee started in Iowa but didn't realize it was on a town so small. Thanks for sharing
@TravelwithaWiseguy10 ай бұрын
I didn’t either! Was surprised when I rolled up and found that out!
@TrentFocken10 ай бұрын
I love ghost towns and your amazing videos!!
@TravelwithaWiseguy10 ай бұрын
Much appreciated- thank you!
@terriquotskuyva459410 ай бұрын
Some amazing small town!! I love your odd ball videos 😂!!
@TravelwithaWiseguy10 ай бұрын
Haha thanks! It was a fun trip!
@Mikell-h2c10 ай бұрын
another cool production❤
@TravelwithaWiseguy10 ай бұрын
Thank you 🙌
@derekace747110 ай бұрын
very awesome. great video, sir.
@TravelwithaWiseguy10 ай бұрын
Thank you kindly!
@bratzmama3 ай бұрын
I was expecting to see Mederville (with maybe 10 people if that) but when I didn't, I went looking and it is unincorporated. But if you ever decide to do the small uninc's check it out because it's got a lot of history.
@TravelwithaWiseguy3 ай бұрын
Thanks!
@Dragonflylane7710 ай бұрын
Which vid showed that table and chair out in the middle of nowhere in Kansas? And it was a geocache place. I want to share that vid with a few people and i cant find it. Please and thank you!
@TravelwithaWiseguy10 ай бұрын
Here ya go: kzbin.info/www/bejne/hqWxhGOiYq92laMsi=05w7zfMKWUxJTCKf
@Dragonflylane7710 ай бұрын
@@TravelwithaWiseguy Thanks!
@tinman713010 ай бұрын
I kinda liked Bankston a lot. Church was specular. Although the fact several of them had parks and play grounds makes them fun to see. 11 people...Leroy. I'll bet the city council meeting draw the whole town
@TravelwithaWiseguy10 ай бұрын
Haha yes! 6 votes passed new legislation 😂
@michaelgraves518810 ай бұрын
Everything did seem better in Yetter! Just sayin- I’m really enjoying your videos Wiseguy, keep them coming.
@TravelwithaWiseguy10 ай бұрын
Thank you Michael! Much appreciated!
@juliogonzales544110 ай бұрын
Love small quite towns..thanks
@TravelwithaWiseguy10 ай бұрын
My pleasure! 😊
@janewasson48453 ай бұрын
I went to high school in Blairsburg. At the time, there was a ratty wooden sign that said population 308-still growing. Now, it's down too 172.
@williamford93927 ай бұрын
Well, first time ever, have been shown a railroad diesel switcher at a grain elevator in an out of the way place. Green liveried 6974 at the Farmers Coop elevator, Yetter, IA. Have travelled from the UK just to see such on many occasions, and this one is new to me. The number of times I have wished that the blogger would show me the rail siding, to see whether there is switcher there !! Thanks a lot, don't forget us crazy railfans in the future. Will have to try to find the identity and history of 6974 now.
@williamford93927 ай бұрын
Has taken me a few hours, but 6974 is an EMD SD40-2, built by GMD Canada A2310/1968 as Canadian National SD40 5058. Was rebuilt by Alsthom, Canada in 1999, becoming Burlington Northern Santa Fe SD40-2 7314, later renumbered 6974. Subsequently sold out of service, and becoming Farmers Cooperative Co, FARX 6974 at Yetter.
@TravelwithaWiseguy7 ай бұрын
Awesome stuff! It’s just dumb luck that I included it - I just thought it looked cool 😂😂 Thanks for the great info!
@juliesroadtrip17 сағат бұрын
Very nice! What equipment are you using? Best wishes.
@sheryld195710 ай бұрын
Would you ever consider moving to any of the small towns you show us in all these series?
@TravelwithaWiseguy10 ай бұрын
I think I would later in life when I’m retired. But I need to live closer to where I currently work 😊
@darrylclark5634 ай бұрын
Have you done a video on Garden Grove Iowa and the Mormon Trail? Or maybe explored part of the trail?
@TravelwithaWiseguy4 ай бұрын
I haven’t but I didn’t entire Oregon Trail where it paralleled the Mormon Trail for a long time. Visited a lot of Mormons towns on that trip.
@papabear56210 ай бұрын
Ok, gotta admit, Ellston was the highlight. Looks like a nice little town to retire to. I wonder, what do small towns like these do in the winters when the streets need to be plowed? Great video!
@TravelwithaWiseguy10 ай бұрын
It was probably the most “livable” of these towns. Very well kept and a big lake nearby. A lot of these small towns don’t have much winter plowing available. Probably done by a local.
@sixchuterhatesgoogle382410 ай бұрын
The county government usually provides services the towns need, like snow removal and law enforcement.
@Orange-Entity6 ай бұрын
I'm from the Ellston, Sun Valley Lake area, and when the roads get snowed over really bad, Ellston usually has to either wait for the snow removal service from a nearby town such as Kellerton or Mount Ayr, but also, a lot of us have personal snow plows that we put on the front of our vehicles that is able to do most of the work.
@elizabethmurray322110 ай бұрын
I can’t say my favorite town - it keeps getting autocorrected. I love when people leave signs to share history. The churches were beautiful. Lovely to see on a Sunday morning.
@TravelwithaWiseguy10 ай бұрын
Thank you! I wonder why it keeps autocorrecting 🤔 🤷🏼♂️
@elizabethmurray322110 ай бұрын
Still autocorrects, but it’s better with a Y.
@bjen7210 ай бұрын
I am from Iowa and have heard of some of these small towns.
@bluelionsage998 ай бұрын
Ya know, I only see those "wheels of death" mostly in old, small places. Well, except for one near the Space Needle in Seattle. That thing was fling off kids left and right like a dervish the day I was there.
@TravelwithaWiseguy8 ай бұрын
I imagine most larger places worry about a lawsuit for those things!
@GabeGarrett-t7s8 ай бұрын
Hi John, you should go explore Wiley street in greenwood Indiana! That’s mine! It’s amazing houses
@TravelwithaWiseguy8 ай бұрын
Would love to someday!
@GabeGarrett-t7s7 ай бұрын
@@TravelwithaWiseguyIf you do, tell me so I can meet you, I get home from school around 3:25
@dalekrohse187110 ай бұрын
Very nice video. My three decades working for a regional electric power cooperative in Iowa put me at or working with power lines near around 2/3 of those small towns. It brought back memories.
@TravelwithaWiseguy10 ай бұрын
Thank you! It was fun!
@KipdoesStuff10 ай бұрын
Lived in Iowa for my entire life, never heard of any of these towns.
@glennso4710 ай бұрын
I’ve lived in Illinois all my life and there are small towns here that I never heard of.
@glennso4710 ай бұрын
I grew up in Mount Carroll Illinois and lots of people have never heard of it unless you are from there or nearby. That’s probably the case with many of these places in Iowa.
@glennso4710 ай бұрын
It seems that the southern part of Iowa has lots of small towns. It’s similar to the northern part of Missouri. There’s probably more life in the cemetery than in the actual towns.
@glennso4710 ай бұрын
The city hall in so many of small towns look like an outdoor toilet.
@stevehilliard149510 ай бұрын
Interesting trip, I noticed no wind generation, maybe too flat. Good to see the wheels of death & the pups. Be safe my friend
@TravelwithaWiseguy10 ай бұрын
Thank you! Good point about the wind turbines. 🤔
@keithnichols7926Ай бұрын
Iowa contains more than 6,000 wind turbines, even after the tornadoes of this spring.
@glennso4710 ай бұрын
What about Sabula? It’s a small town on an island in the middle of the Mississippi River.
@TravelwithaWiseguy10 ай бұрын
Sabula’s population is 506. Huge compared to these towns!
@vickigraves859710 ай бұрын
Your "after shots" are the best. Dogs and carousels ❤
@TravelwithaWiseguy10 ай бұрын
Haha thanks 😂😂
@lalistamales-dp1mw8 ай бұрын
You need to go to New Home Texas in 1973 it was like 252 population . I was raised there now I live in Wolfforth.
@TravelwithaWiseguy8 ай бұрын
Ok!
@anthonyneagle3 ай бұрын
Off to Dublin Georgia next year to see family. What can I look forward too?. Anthony from England
@TravelwithaWiseguy3 ай бұрын
Have never been there - have fun!
@trinity777610 ай бұрын
The large red brick church which is almost a cathedral in Bankston makes absolutely no sense for a very small town with only a handful of people in its entire recorded census unless they have a long history of migrant workers from south of the US border. Nice long vlog, John.
@TravelwithaWiseguy10 ай бұрын
The drone footage of Bankston showing the church within the town is kind of wild!
@sixchuterhatesgoogle382410 ай бұрын
Those small towns are surrounded by farms. Farm families used to be quite large, especially Catholic ones. There could have easily been forty people per square mile around the towns.
@scottpond588110 ай бұрын
I often wonder who owns these seemingly abandoned properties now?
@TravelwithaWiseguy10 ай бұрын
Often someone who lives there owns the property or if it was a public building the town or county may own it.
@travis3039 ай бұрын
Well you didn't find Sesame Street but you did find Cookie Monster!
@TravelwithaWiseguy9 ай бұрын
😂😂
@johnedgren850216 күн бұрын
Hamilton Iowa was not mentioned. We are incorporated with a small government. Located in Marion county. Lovilia and Bussey are slightly bigger.
@TravelwithaWiseguy13 күн бұрын
Population 119 so a little bit too big for this video
@robertkellett115610 ай бұрын
How far do people have to drive to go shopping for grocery's ( roughly) ? I'm in Australia in The Whitsundays Qld. Most to drive here in this area its about 100/150km round trip, if your in a small locality( town)
@TravelwithaWiseguy10 ай бұрын
It really depends on there are certainly places in far off remote parts of the US that is 100 miles or so from anything. But usually it’s much closer than that.
@KevinWhite-zb5os9 ай бұрын
Town was so small, sign at the edge of town said "Welcome, come back again", on the same post! 🙃🤡
@TravelwithaWiseguy9 ай бұрын
😂😂
@toonertimesfour115810 ай бұрын
I hope you got to take side trips to the American Pickers shop and the farmhouse in the "American Gothic" painting.
@TravelwithaWiseguy10 ай бұрын
Unfortunately I didn’t on this trip
@jerrilynhenson902410 ай бұрын
I was wondering if I’d recognize a town of an ancestor but I didn’t.
@CindyinArizona10 ай бұрын
Funny, it wasn't a bridge of Madison County. Great video, very interesting. I wonder what people do in those small towns and where they work? I would think it would be very boring living there.
@TravelwithaWiseguy10 ай бұрын
Thanks! Usually most of these small towns have an older population and most of the jobs are farming and rural.
@sixchuterhatesgoogle382410 ай бұрын
They're mostly bedroom communities. It doesn't take long to drive to a bigger town for work.
@williammatzek466010 ай бұрын
In Bankstown the Catholic church was unlocked. I've been told the reason for that is a place of quiet to work thur their problems. In yetter I wonder if the metal tower and tanks is a grain dryer?
@sueboller718310 ай бұрын
Cookie Monster Place? That's random. 😉
@TravelwithaWiseguy10 ай бұрын
Haha yes! Someone had a good sense of humor. It was the driveway to the old school 😊
@Jruth6810 ай бұрын
I had a girlfriend who had Family in Delhi Iowa in the 90's. The population back then was only 90. Now its over 400. Still very small but not even close to your list.
@TravelwithaWiseguy10 ай бұрын
Nice to see it growing in population!
@senzanome829410 ай бұрын
I love this small towns, but where do the people go shopping, banking? Is there good phone service, internet?
@TravelwithaWiseguy10 ай бұрын
Usually there are big enough towns not too far away from these places to get those things. I would think phone and internet are hit and miss.
@keithnichols7926Ай бұрын
The county seat usually has the businesses that have abandoned the small towns. Eisenhower's national highway grid and the reduction in farm population owing to improvements in farm machinery have killed many small Midwest towns. My hometown, which had a population of about a thousand in 1933 and served a good many farms as well, now is about 750. But it serves fewer farms and so has lost most of the essential services it once provided.
@travis3039 ай бұрын
Any of these towns you strongly recommend or at least moderately recommend I visit?
@TravelwithaWiseguy9 ай бұрын
My favorites were: Beaconsfield, Leroy, and Durango. But also very good were: Yetter and Ellston. Most abandoned feeling was Berkley.
@Vossi42010 ай бұрын
Medervill ia. Have you done that?
@TravelwithaWiseguy10 ай бұрын
I have not - yet!
@rossbryan610210 ай бұрын
ON THE MENTION OF ANIMAL TRAILS BECOMING ROADWAYS, IN MY VERY YOUNG DAYS , WAS GOING BEHIND OUR BARN, AND FOLLOWING OUR COWPATHS TO THE FAR REACHES OF OUR PASTURE AREAS! AS I MADE THESE EXCURSIONS WITHOUT TELLING ANYONE, IT WAS QUITE WORRISOME TO MY PARENTS! WITH A CAR, TANK OF GAS, AND A NICE DAY I STILL WANDER ABOUT, MUCH AS POSSIBLE!!
@TravelwithaWiseguy10 ай бұрын
I lived in a farm and can’t believe the places I would wander off to. Maybe that was the beginnings of our love of travel! The story about the Dragoon Trace was fascinating!
@Jilly-Kerry-2Mullens3 ай бұрын
Prescott is incorporated. Less than 200 pop.
@TravelwithaWiseguy3 ай бұрын
Population 191
@travis3039 ай бұрын
I notice a lot of these towns are near the state's southern border
@TravelwithaWiseguy9 ай бұрын
For sure - most in the SW part of the state. Many Ringgold County.
@travis3039 ай бұрын
That must have made it easy for you, could knock a bunch out right next to each other@@TravelwithaWiseguy
@TravelwithaWiseguy9 ай бұрын
Yep that was an efficient day haha
@travis3039 ай бұрын
Did you notice how "Iowa Nice" people were as nobody kicked you out of their town? 🤣🤣@@TravelwithaWiseguy
@TravelwithaWiseguy9 ай бұрын
Haha yes! All friendly people 😊
@MichaelThomas-oe9yl17 күн бұрын
These Small Towns NOT for Jobs But for FARMING....
@scottcromwell210327 күн бұрын
You not in iowa no wind mill iowa is second most wind mill
@Yourallmonkeys3 ай бұрын
Iowa has turned into a immigrant state. The immigrant population has destroyed my new neighborhood and has really made this state a horrible place to live.