GF's dad mentioned there used to be little fading towns like this all over the Midwest. A lot of them now if you drove through you wouldn't know they'd been there. Farmers used to need store within 5 miles back when they used wagons on dirt roads. When they got cars, that increased to 15 miles. And when they paved the roads it went to 30-60 miles. Same time consolidation of farms meant less people.