Elsie Eiler has been the mayor and only resident of Monowi since her husband, Rudy, died in 2004. She has run the Monowi Tavern for 50 years. The resident of Nebraska’s only one-person town was ...

Monowi, Nebraska, with a population of one, is the smallest incorporated town in America and the only to have just a single resident, reports the BBC. That person is Elsie Eiler, who became Monowi’s ...

Off Nebraska’s Highway 12 just five miles from the South Dakota border stand a grain elevator, an abandoned schoolhouse and church, and a few vacant homes, the paint now peeling from their wooden ...

The entire population of Monowi, Nebraska, is sitting in a bar. Her name is Elsie Eiler, 72. Monowi, founded by Czech immigrants seeking a slice of the American dream, is on its last legs. Only Eiler ...

MONOWI, Neb. — The founders must have chuckled at the impossibility of the job when they etched it into the Constitution: Count every man, woman and child along every back road and big-city avenue.