Smallest U.S. Town with a course?

[Gflap]

Picuris Pueblo, NM has a 20 hole course. Population 86

 

[grodney]

Interesting topic, I'd also be curious to know the biggest city without a course.

Depends how you define it, right?

If you are talking cities proper, and you don't count object courses, then I think it's New York City, right?

If you want to allow the object course in NYC, but still want to go cities proper (or more specifically, incorporated places and/or CDPs), the most populous cities proper (2009 estimates) can be found here:
http://www.census.gov/popest/cities/tables/SUB-EST2009-01.xls

If you want to go with metro areas, you have to decide on a definition (MSA vs CSA vs Urban Area vs etc. etc.), but you'd probably have to go way down the list to find one without a course.
MSA list:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Table_of_United_States_Metropolitan_Statistical_Areas#_note-OMB-07-01
CSA list:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Table_of_United_States_Combined_Statistical_Areas
Urban Area list:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_United_States_urban_areas

I'll leave it as an exercise to the reader to ferret out the answer.

 

[grodney]

Picuris Pueblo, NM has a 20 hole course. Population 86

This is so close to an awesome answer -- but I'm not convinced the course is in the boundaries of the Picuris Pueblo CDP.

It might be in Rio Lucio, which has population 379.

Or it might be just outside the CDP limits of both -- I can't really tell for sure.

Defining and identifying boundaries is not straightforward.

 

[AdamE]

Where in the H do you get 42 from? i can only remember seeing like 4-6 houses (including johns), the cemetery, and the DG complex. i think one house may be a bar since it had a ton of neon beer signs facing out the window.
Highbridge should take #1. it has no large population center to draw from. probably less than 100k (maybe even 50k???) people within an hour drive. so its remote.

some of the small towns mentioned are near large population centers. so its not like there isnt people around.

I've been through some small towns and Highbridge is up there with the smallest of them. I could be mistaken, but I believe the sign on the road says Highbridge is unincorporated, so it's not even a large enough to be a town. I believe someone earlier in the thread mentioned that it's not a town either.

muldraugh, KY - pop 1220 - 18 holes -- and a pretty fun course at that
Palmyra, IN - pop 734 - 19 holes
English, IN - pop 652 - 18 holes -- great course
Eubank, KY - pop 379 - 18 holes

Not only is English a great course, it's the highest rated course in the state of Indiana!

 

[Steve West]

This is so close to an awesome answer -- but I'm not convinced the course is in the boundaries of the Picuris Pueblo CDP.

It might be in Rio Lucio, which has population 379.

Or it might be just outside the CDP limits of both -- I can't really tell for sure.

Defining and identifying boundaries is not straightforward.

One way is to open up Google Earth, turn on the City Boundaries layer (under More/US Government), and see if a yellow line shows up. It does for Warba.

 

[asu225]

Depends how you define it, right?

If you are talking cities proper, and you don't count object courses, then I think it's New York City, right?

If you want to allow the object course in NYC, but still want to go cities proper (or more specifically, incorporated places and/or CDPs), the most populous cities proper (2009 estimates) can be found here:
http://www.census.gov/popest/cities/tables/SUB-EST2009-01.xls

If you want to go with metro areas, you have to decide on a definition (MSA vs CSA vs Urban Area vs etc. etc.), but you'd probably have to go way down the list to find one without a course.
MSA list:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Table_of_United_States_Metropolitan_Statistical_Areas#_note-OMB-07-01
CSA list:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Table_of_United_States_Combined_Statistical_Areas
Urban Area list:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_United_States_urban_areas

I'll leave it as an exercise to the reader to ferret out the answer.

New York, of course, how did I not think of that one. Yea, I was thinking cities without traditional courses so go figure, the biggest city in the country would be the winner.

 

[koogs]

Ixonia, WI has 2 9-holers (both suck) and a pop of 676.

 

[schnelle]

Ransom Kansas. 12 holes. 268 people.
Played it first to review it. No signs or pads.

 

[mickas]

Rosendale, Wi has something like 600 people with a course

 

[S.Cann]

I thought I had the winner...

Due West, SC has a 9-hole course on Erskine College Campus inside city limits. The 2009 population was 1,261. Not the winner, but a good candidate.