Smallest towns in America
Small towns can sometimes generate big news. The L.A. Times recently won a Pulitzer Prize for the story it broke about the grossly overpaid city employees of Bell, Calif.. Bell is a giant metropolis compared to this list of America’s smallest burgs, some just a resident or two away from becoming ghost towns.
Books outnumber residents in Monowi (map it) by a ratio of 5,000 to 1. Nebraska’s smallest town was featured on a famous morning news show in 2005.
Talk about a boom town: Check out this Wyoming hamlet . Somehow, the population mushroomed in just 10 years, quadrupling its 2000 census figures.
With a population density of 4.7 per square mile, Hillsview has a lot of breathing room and has never known a traffic jam. Founded in 1887, it lies within a stone’s throw of a neighboring state (which one).
Located near this famous range of mountains, the smallest official community (map it) in Arizona attracted people looking for a precious mineral (what was it?). It’s on an old Indian tr
The smallest incorporated town in the U.S. with its own bank (map it), this Kansas burg (photos) has one other thriving business (what is it?). Its lone church, on a well-known listing of historic places, attracts 60 people every Sunday, dwarfing the local populace.
On the shores of what was once an ice-age lake (which one?), this Minnesota hamlet has one viable business that collects the region’s primary local crops Weeki Wachee, Fla.
Located next to the deepest naturally-formed spring in America (what's it called?), this Florida town (map it) features a tourist attraction complete with more of these mythical sea creatures than residents.
Located next to the deepest naturally-formed spring in America (what's it called?), this Florida town (map it) features a tourist attraction (photos) complete with more of these mythical sea creatures than residents.
Named after a distinguished English lord , this petite Iowa farm village (map it) boasts a high-flying former resident whose made quite a name for herself
Now considered a ghost town, this Colorado hamlet (map it) (photos) once harbored a healthy trade in a certain mineral found in the nearby mounta
Part of a parish named for an American president (which one?), this tiny Louisiana town (map it) once made its living from a plant dear to the Confederate States
