When is a Village a Town?

I've always referred to Shiloh as a "community village".

Maybe it's a "town".

In a sorrowful story, I learned that Bonaparte, Iowa is called a "town" by its residents, all of 460 them:-

Bonaparte, population 460, is about 145 miles southeast of Des Moines, in southeast Iowa's Van Buren County. It is a historic town on the Des Moines River, known for its restored buildings and Victorian homes that date to the 1800s.

And then this:-

"The town has a pretty big cloud over it," she said. "It'll pull together. It always does."

Shiloh has about 1500 persons so that surely makes us a town. By American Midwest standards, at least.

P.S. Yes, I know it's been called something else:-

this quiet hamlet of 455 in southeast Iowa.

But we're Jewish and "ham", in any form, won't make it to our plate.