I live in that part of the midwest and we have about a dozen varieties of apples at the grocery store, prices are pretty decent too.

Great lakes? That's where all the good apples come from in the midwest, Minnesota, Wisconsin, Michigan.

County here is 40,000. There's 3 stores with lots of apples in town. (Walmart, a regional chain and a local grocer).

One county over isn't big enough to have a Walmart, but the smaller local grocer does it up with their produce...