A 93-year-old woman who is mayor, bartender & librarian

Monowi, Nebraska is the only incorporated town in the US with a population of 1.

The 1 resident is Elsie Eiler, 93 born Oct 11, 1933 in Monowi when it had an average of 150 persons.

Since her hubby Rudy died in 2004, she has been the sole person on the US Census.

She is a mayor, a clerk, a treasurer, a librarian and a bartender - she posts a notice for mayoral elections in her bar and votes for herself.

She runs Monowi Tavern (12 hrs a day, 6 days a week since 1971) and Rudy's Library - 5,000 books her husband collected, opened after his death in 2004.

Her own words: “When I apply for my liquor licence, they send it to the secretary of the village, which is me. So I get them as secretary, sign them as clerk and give them to myself as bar owner.”

In March 2026, Nebraska officials still approved an audit waiver addressed to her as village chair - the one-woman government is still legally operating.

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