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| | ABC 7 News - 500 Towns Erased from Latest Georgia Map (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13) |
 | | Georgia's Department of Transportation, which drew the new map, said that the goal was to make it clearer and less cluttered and that many of the dropped communities were mere "placeholders," generally with fewer than 2,500 people. |
 | | Gone are such places as Ty Ty, Centralhatchee, Deepstep, Gay, Good Hope, Gum Branch, Talking Rock, Young Harris and Chattoogaville, a spot in far northwestern Georgia that consists of little more than a two-truck volunteer fire department, a few farmhouses and a country store where locals fill up their gas tanks. |
 | | In Texas, few of the 2,076 cities and towns are ever deleted because of strict standards that weigh whether a spot is along a state highway, has a post office or boasts a population of 50 or more. |
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