If you buy something from a link, Vox Media may earn a commission. See our ethics statement. Monowi, in Boyd County, Nebraska, is a somewhere far from anywhere. The town — if you can call it that; ...

At the age of 84, Elsie Eiler is still the proud mayor of her hometown of Monowi in Nebraska. But not only is she the town's mayor, she is also the village clerk, treasurer, the smartest, the ...

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 ...

Eighty-four-year-old Elsie Eiler pays taxes to herself, grants her own alcohol licence and is the only remaining resident in Monowi, Nebraska. As people around the world are socially distancing, it’s ...

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 ...

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The village of Monowi in Nebraska, USA, is known as a 'village with a population of only one person.' The BBC has released a video showing how the only villager in the village, who no longer lives ...

The founding fathers 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 in the ...

Eighty-four-year-old Elsie Eiler pays taxes to herself, grants her own alcohol licence and is the only remaining resident in Monowi, Nebraska. As people around the world are socially distancing, it’s ...