Monowi, a city in the United States that only has one occupant

Monowi, a city in the United States that only has one occupant

About eight kilometers from the border of South Dakota and Nebraska, United States there is a unique city named Monowi.

Monowi is the only city in the United States with only one person.

He is 84-year-old Elsie Eiler.

Monowi City

In the center of Monowi there is an abandoned church building whose room is now filled with tractor tires.

On the other side there is a rusty iron which used to be a grain transporting machine.

Elise Eiler lives in a whitewashed building that begins to peel off with a yard that has fertile grass.

Previously Elsie lived alone with her husband Rudy, but Rudy died in 2004, so Elsie now lives alone in the town of Monowi. Reported by bbc.co.uk according to the US census agency, Monowi is the only city in the United States that has one resident.

So that citizens, mayors, employees, treasurers, librarians, bar guards are all carried out by one person, Elsie Eiler.

Elsie also had to make an annual plan and collect a tax of 500 dollars a year from her own pocket so that the lights and clean water in the town of Monowi did not stop operating.

Elsie also kept a list of vacant residences, in anticipation if there was someone who wanted to move to one building in the city while increasing the population.

Before he died, Rudy bequeathed a bar to Elsie so Elsie got income from opening the bar business.

There are some people who stop at the bar that Elsie owns, usually they are people passing through Monowi town to go to the next city, or people who meet with their colleagues.

Elsie revealed that she was very happy to be in Monowim City, she had felt used to doing all these things alone for years. In the 1930s, Monowi was a bustling city with the existence of the Elkhorn train station, at that time, Monowi was home to 150 people and the city had shops, restaurants and even prisons.

Elsie grew up on a farm about one kilometer from downtown Monowi. The condition of the farms and plantations in Monowi also collapsed when World War II took place, this resulted in Monowi's population going to the city in search of other jobs.

Gradually, Monowi was only occupied by Elsie, Rudy and her children. In the mid 1970s and 1980s, Elsie's two children went to look for work in another city, so that only Elsie and Rudy inhabited the town of Monowi. In 2004 Rudy died resulting in Elsie being the only resident in Monowi City