There is a peculiar standard in American language to use the term ‘small town’ in place of ‘village’ if that settlement is within the continental United States. We Americans would not talk about a ‘village in Montana’ or a ‘Louisiana village.’ It just doesn’t sound right in American English.
The rest of the world can have villages. Oddly enough we would say there is an ‘Alaskan village’ or a ‘village in Hawaii.’ A ‘Norwegian village’ or a ‘village in China’ doesn’t sound strange. It’s just a linguistic oddity that Americans have ‘small towns’ in place of villages.
(Read threw our modern journalism or listen to American radio and television and you’ll see this in action.)
Therefore the answer to your question is that most American mariners don’t come from villages unless they came from Alaska, Hawaii or the territories.