16. TIME (Central) Population in 2000 was 29.
17. ROYAL (Central) 2010 population 293.
18. BENLD (Central) Founded 1903. Took name from founder Benjamin L. Dorsey who took first three letters of his first name, his middle and last name initials. In 1938, a meteorite landed in Benld. The meteorite and a car it struck are now on display at the Field Museum in Chicago.
I should also mention that it is on good old Route 66!!!
19. BONE GAP (Southern) Originally called Bon Pas by French trappers, changed to Bone Pass by Kentuckians then to Bone Gap. There is also another story about how it got its name. Check it out.
20. EQUALITY (Southern) Pop in 2000 was 721. The Crenshaw House nearby was a station in the Reverse Underground Railroad which transported captured runaway slaves and returned them to the South.
--RoadGap
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