crossroads town
Where routes meet
A crossroads town is a small settlement that developed where two roads intersect, typically in rural areas.
Such towns often serve as minor commercial or social hubs for surrounding farmland: The crossroads town had a general store, a church, and not much else.
The term evokes modest, out-of-the-way places where travelers might stop briefly before continuing on.
- junctionPoint where things meet
- intersectionPoint where paths meet
- crossroadsMeeting of routes
- four cornersAngular meeting points of edges
- waystationIntermediate stopping point
trading post · truck stop · rest stop · dusty · saloon · traveler · stopover · two lane highway · fork · highway · drifter · general store · passing through · frontier · railway · depot · stranger · wanderer
- settlementsvillage, cities, hamlet, city, villages
- small townshamlet, village, settlement, homestead, village square
- small communitieshamlet, village, outpost, settlement, commune
- medieval placesvillage, hamlet, borough, burg, burgh
- rural settlementsvillage, hamlet, farmstead, commune, fishing village
- township settlementhamlet, village, farming community, frontier settlement, colonial settlement
crossroads townforgotten town
Settlement lost to memory
insular community · ghost town · dying town · hidden village
cross, crosses, crossed, crossing, crossings, crossroad, road, roads, roadway