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This is why I was confused. There's no way that's a town with so few people (from a UK perspective)
Another consideration might be how far your "town" is from a more major center.
A town with a population of 1000 might not feel that rural if it's 10 miles down the road from a city of a million.
If the next closest center > 5,000pop is 250 miles away... Perhaps a different story.
I've hear it said that in Europe 100km is considered a long distance and in North America 100 years is considered a long time.
We use the word differently. In the past I think we used it more as you do, because “going to town” had the connotations of going to a big city.
“Town” in American usage can mean anything from a small urban center (like under 10k people) to an incorporated municipality that has only a post office and tons of farms around it.
Basically we don’t say “village” here. So town is the smallest word we have. But it has a big range.
To my knowledge, US states may use different terms for municipalities, collections of homesteads, etc. as they wish because of the 10th amendment in the US Constitution, i.e. it’s not explicitly given to the fed government to prescribe the hierarchy. But I’m no expert on this subject, so I could be mistaken.
Depending on the state there may be different formal definitions based on population and incorporation status. In Ohio, we have townships, villages, and cities. In Pennsylvania they have "boroughs" instead of villages. In NY a borough is a subdivision of a city. I don't think they have the township organizational structure in Vermont. In Maine there are unincorporated territories (usually just numbered).
The role of the county government can vary significantly from state to state too.
My understanding is that in Virginia the city/town that serves as the county seat is explicitly not a part of the county it’s located in!