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<br />, <br /> <br />03&Ti.ich also happen to be the largest population centers, the <br />remaining population, from Kersey to Brush, is less than 15,000. <br />The general characteristics of these communities vary <br />widely, with Greeley at the upper extreme in populatin 's'ize, <br />diversity of economic base and employment, and range of' ser- <br />vices available to its citizens, and Goodrich at the lower <br />end with few residents and almost no community economic base <br />or service structure to speak of. One is a thriving, middle- <br />sized, Colorado community, and the other serves as a concen- <br /> <br />tration point for a few homes, farms, and a numbe'r of abandoned <br /> <br />houses. Fort Morgan, Sterling, and Brush are all modest sized <br /> <br />communities with a variety of stores, services, and other <br /> <br />economic and social activities and all are clearly communities <br />with a sense of identity. <br />In the prospective flood pool areas Hardin and Orchard <br />are both quite small, and do not have sufficient services and <br />economic base in and of themselves to constitute formal commu- <br />nities in the standard sense of this term. Finally, Weldona <br />itself does not have a "community center" of any size. Rather, <br />what these flood pool communities generally share is being <br />locations around which a significant number of farms are located; <br />reference to these communities, therefore, is not with respect <br /> <br />to a formal town so much as to the people living in the general <br /> <br />& <br /> <br />., <br /> <br />hinterlands who constitute the real "community." <br /> <br />In this sense, <br /> <br />" <br /> <br />the flood pool communities are quite rural in their population <br />dispersion. This is not, however, true of the Fort Morgan, <br /> <br />\viggins, Brush and Sterling communities. <br /> <br />51 <br />