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The Doclopedia #3,267
Unusual Small Towns: TableTown
On the post apocalypse Earth 101-B, which saw many end of civilization scenarios happen in a very short timespan, a thriving town perched safely atop a large butte is a very nice place indeed.
Eagle Butte, as it was known in the Before Times, towers 600 feet above the northern Sacramento Valley and almost butts up against the foothills of the Sierra Nevada Mountains. Almost, but not quite. The sides of the butte are straight up and mostly worn smooth. The top is very flat except for a small depression that holds Fred’s Lake, named after one of the first settlers here. The only way onto the butte is via a half mile long foot/horse bridge going from the top of Last Chance Hill on the eastern side. The bridge is guarded 24/7 by armed guards and several deadly devices. It replaced the original bridge that was built in 1865 and destroyed 130 years later during the Robots & Zombies Uprising. The butte measures 3.5 miles long by an average of 2 miles wide.
TableTown is in the center of the butte and is about a mile across. The lake sits on the west side of town. Surrounding the town are small farms, the solar power farm, and a small forest. About 15,000 people live here, free from attacks by cannibal crazies, roving biker gangs, revived dinosaurs, the now very rare zombies, the even rarer rogue robots, COVID cows, mutants, and the armies of several “New United States”.
Since soil loss is an ongoing, though minor problem, people coming into town to trade or whatever, often bring sacks of compostable materials. This is as good as gold in TableTown.
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