View Monowi, Nebraska in a larger map When the Chicago & Northwestern Railroad was built through the area at the start of the 20th century, Monowi was a boom town, with its own post office and a ...

Monowi is likely to be wiped from the map. “The bar is the town, and I’m the town,” she said. “We’re all so intermeshed, you can’t quite imagine one without the other.” Population ...

Elsie Eiler has single-handedly put Monowi, Nebraska, on the map as the smallest town in the US, where she's been the bartender, librarian, mayor and sole resident for over two decades.

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 ...

Monowi, in Boyd County, Nebraska, is a somewhere far from anywhere. The town — if you can call it that; according to the US Census it’s a “village” — sits smack-dab in the flat center of ...

In 2005, the journalist Alyssa Schukar began photographing the life of Elsie Eiler, the sole resident of Monowi, Neb. By Alyssa Schukar Times Insider explains who we are and what we do and ...

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 ...