Ever consider catch aside from the city to assay your hand at humble - town animation ? If you require to last in a seat where everybody will know your name , town do n’t come much small than these teensy communities around the country . Even if you do n’t wink you might overlook them .
1. S.N.P.J., Pennsylvania
formally , it ’s hard to get much petite than S.N.P.J. According to the 2000 nosecount , the Lawrence County borough could boast a universe of zero . To be fairish , the townspeople ’s residents " “ all 14 of them " “ enounce they were n’t around when the census worker dropped in , and the Census Bureau never render a second time to bet them .
The queerly name borough get its moniker from Slovenska Narodna Podporna Jednota , a fraternal order for Slovenian immigrants . During the 1970s , the high society had a 500 - acre diversion area unadulterated with pools , playground , a 20 - Akka lake , and rental cabin . What it did n’t have , though , was a local liquor licence . The society ’s member lick this trouble in 1977 by formally seceding from North Beaver Township , which did n’t allow Sunday alcohol sales . Although the residents ' local taxes still go to North Beaver Township , SNPJ and its minuscule smattering of house physician are technically an self-directed borough , a answer that seems manner more reasonable than just stocking up on beer on Saturday .
2. Freeport, Kansas
Freeport ’s six resident physician may not have a lot of urban luxuries at their fingertip , but at least they do n’t have to leave Ithiel Town to do their banking . The Harper County community bill itself as " the smallest merged urban center in the U.S.A. having a bank . “ That financial institution , Freeport State Bank , share Freeport ’s 0.2 solid mile area with a grain lift and a Presbyterian church that draw in 60 member from surrounding community of interests .
3. Monowi, Nebraska
Elsie Eiler may be in her mid-seventies , but she ca n’t slow down . In addition to being Monowi ’s sole resident , she ’s also the townsfolk ’s city manager , bartender , and librarian .
As you enter Monowi , the planetary house tells you that the universe is two , but that number was cut in half when Eiler ’s husband , Rudy , died of Crab in 2004 . Rudy had been a voracious reader in addition to do work as a sodbuster and a tavern keeper , and he amassed a collection of over 5,000 books . One of his last wishes was that Elsie turn the collecting into a public library after his death , which she did ; Rudy ’s library is put up in a small white building near Elsie ’s trailer .
Elsie ’s days are busy ; she exert the bar , which guide thirsty drinkers and fans of her beefburger from around the region , runs the library , and serves as the one - woman townsfolk ’s city manager . She collect taxes from herself and makes an annual program for state route funds to keep the town ’s four street lamp burning . Elsie ’s can - do mental attitude has earned her some internal recognition ; Today has even number to photograph section at her depository library .
Oddly , Census Bureau estimates from originally this year estimated that Monowi ’s population was two people . This 2nd resident physician was news show to Mayor Elsie Eiler . She quipped to the Associated Press , " Where ’s this other individual ? Let me have sex . " ¦ I do n’t want to come back to my mansion at 11 or 12 and see someone else there . “
4. Erving’s Location, New Hampshire
Here ’s a bite of a enigma : according to the 2000 nosecount , Erving ’s Location has a entire population of one resident . Nobody knows who that occupant is , though , and if he ’s there , he ’s living modestly . harmonize to Coos County ’s tax regulators , there ’s nothing but a few phone terminal in the township , which is only accessible by dirt road or by hiking . The county workers say there was never anyone in the town in the first place . Given that bit of information , the population estimate is probably a blunder on the part of the Census Bureau , although peradventure the one occupant is just really , really near at camouflage his house .
5. Holy City, California
Hard to think that a town founded by a white supremacist cult leader who advocate a gospel of sobriety and celibacy would n’t fly high , but that ’s what come about with Holy City . Cult leader William E. Riker convinced his follower to give up all their wealth in the years following World War I. He took said wealth and used it to buy 200 acres , which he established as Holy City in 1919 .
No longer incorporated , the former cult town is on the veridical estate securities industry if you ’re look to begin your own community . You ’ll only have one existing permanent resident to contend with , so traffic should n’t be too bad .
6. Lost Springs, Wyoming
As we ’ve already regard , when a town is tiny , the census ' rounding wrongdoing can have a pretty grownup impact on universe estimates . suffer Springs , Wyoming , was n’t go bad to take these computer error consist down after the 2000 census found that town had a universe of one . Not so , say Lost Springs Mayor Leda Price . The estimates were wildly incorrect . Lost Springs in reality had three occupier .
Yes , according to Price and her fellow Lost Springs resident physician , the census only counted one side of the townsfolk ’s lone street . They counted Leontyne Price at the bar where she live and works , but they missed brother Art and Alfred Stringham , who crop and endure near the Lost Springs Store and Post Office on the other side of the route . Mayor Price took the matter to the Census Bureau in an effort to get the estimation redress . The interest : $ 111 in additional federal funding the town would encounter if it got quotation for its other two residents . It sounds like she finally give up , though , as she of late told the AP , " I tried for a long time to straighten it out and it was like mouth to a brick wall . “
7. New Amsterdam, Indiana
New Amsterdam is another town that only had one house physician at the clock time of the 2000 census , a sharp decay from 30 resident physician in 1990 and direction down from 200 at the bout of the 20th 100 . According to the residents of the Ohio River hamlet , their approximate population is also too gloomy ; many of them mistakenly listed nearby towns that have post offices as their actual places of residence . New Amsterdam , which house a general entrepot and occasionally a bait store , in all probability has more like 16 residents , which by the standards of this listing build it positively urban .
