Delightful 1. 9th- Century Australian Slang Terms. From a central Florida enclave where the mermaids outnumber the residents to the town that changed its name to Joe, Montana, there’s a lot of quirky history in America’s least populated places.

We’ve combed the country to find the most interesting tiny town in each state—ranging in population from one to more than 1. Some entries describe the state’s smallest incorporated town, while others highlight the smallest census- designated place. We picked the one with the wackiest, cutest, or most surprising story. MCMULLEN, ALABAMA // POPULATION: 9. In 2. 00. 0, Mc. Mullen was one of the only all- black towns in America, with a population of 6.

But a series of recent natural disasters has pushed residents away, from Hurricane Katrina in 2. EF2 tornado that destroyed 1. February 2. 01. 6. Now only nine people remain in the rural western Alabama town, according to a 2. Census Bureau. 2.

HOBART BAY, ALASKA // POPULATION: 1. David Jorgensen has Hobart Bay all to himself. The 6. 2- year- old has been the sole caretaker for the abandoned logging camp, accessible only via floatplane or boat, for nearly a decade.

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He used to live in Hobart Bay with scores of neighbors before the logging dried up in the late ‘9. The population plummeted from 1. David Jorgensen by 2. Now Goldbelt, Inc., a former logging company which owns 3.

Hobart Bay, wants to turn the place into a cruise ship destination and clam farm. JEROME, ARIZONA // POPULATION: 4.

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Jerome holds simultaneous claims as the smallest incorporated municipality in Arizona and the largest ghost town in America. Founded in 1. 87. Arizona Territory. Workers poured in to climb down the town’s mine shafts and extract as many as 3 million pounds of copper each month.

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The vast number of saloons and brothels that cropped up to cater to the miners in their off- work hours led the New York Sun to dub Jerome “the wickedest town in the west” in 1. Today, Jerome’s small population of artists, shopkeepers, and hospitality workers bring the ghosts of its past to life for visiting tourists.

MAGNET COVE, ARKANSAS // POPULATION: 5. Magnet Cove was named for the abundance of magnetite (lodestone) in its soil, which early settlers discovered when they felt their plows and other tools strangely attracted to the ground. Watch Frankenstein Unbound IMDB'>Watch Frankenstein Unbound IMDB. It remains a popular site for rockhounding thanks to its unusually rich [PDF] diversity of minerals. Today, the only businesses in Magnet Cove are a gas station and two novaculite quarries. Watch Visiting Hours Online (2017). Novaculite is a mineral used to make whetstones, and Magnet Cove produces some of the purest novaculite in the world.)5. VERNON, CALIFORNIA // POPULATION: 2.

Vernon was founded in 1. Los Angeles. Until 2.

Vernon housed about 1. The city kept its population low on purpose. All residences were owned by the city government, which evicted its political rivals and tore down houses to prevent newcomers from moving in. This enabled a ruling family to control the electorate, run the city “like a fiefdom,” and pay one city administrator a salary of $1. In 2. 01. 5, under threat of dissolution from the state, Vernon agreed to adopt a series of reforms, including the construction of a new privately- owned apartment building that doubled the city’s population. BONANZA, COLORADO // POPULATION: 1.

Bonanza got its name in 1. Over the next few decades, Bonanza grew into a copper, zinc, and silver mining boomtown, home to thousands of miners, two hotels, seven dance halls, a newspaper, a candy store, and even a baseball team.

Today the town is mainly a summer vacation getaway. Although as many as 2.

Bonanza today, only one man lives in town year- round: Mark Perkovich, a retired hotshot firefighter who moved in 2. UNION, CONNECTICUT // POPULATION: 8. Founded on rough terrain with poor soil, Union was the last town settled east of the Connecticut River. James Mc. Nall, the town’s first settler, arrived from Ireland in 1. Union was officially incorporated in 1. Legend has it that the town got its name because it was formed from the “union” of leftover plots of land that surrounding towns hadn’t incorporated. Today Union is a quiet residential community that prides itself on its scenic hills, trees, and wildlife.

HARTLY, DELAWARE // POPULATION: 7. After 2. 80 years of townhood, Hartly faced an existential crisis in 2. The town had no functioning government. It hadn’t collected taxes in two years. And it was somewhere between $2. Hartly had stopped paying for the P.

O. box where it received its bills. To make matters worse, a former treasurer, convicted in 2. Hartly’s coffers, still hadn’t repaid the town for his theft.

Then in December, more than 1. Hartly. They formed a new council and got to work reviving the town, inspiring the 2. A Hope for Hartly. WEEKI WACHEE, FLORIDA // POPULATION: 5.

Weeki Wachee is home to a state- estimated five human beings—and roughly 2. More than 2. 50,0.

Florida town, an hour north of Tampa, to see the Weeki Wachee Mermaids perform 3. Weeki Wachee Springs State Park. The show began in 1. Newton Perry figured out a way to breathe underwater using an air hose and a compressor. He built an underwater theater into the springs’ limestone and sought out “pretty girls” to train as mermaids. Today, the mermaids swim and dance alongside manatees, otters, turtles, and even alligators, stopping only occasionally to catch a breath through tubes at the bottom of their tank.

The mayor of Weeki Wachee, Robyn Anderson, is a former mermaid. TATE CITY, GEORGIA // POPULATION: 1. Tate City, according to the Atlanta Journal- Constitution, “isn’t really a city, more an assortment of fancy, second- home homes owned by Atlantans and Floridians and more utilitarian houses for residents working in Clayton or Dillard.” The town sprang up around a ruby mine that once attracted more than 1.

A man named Tate owned the biggest logging camp, hence the name.) After the loggers stripped Tate City of its forests, they moved on and left little behind. The sleepy town didn’t get electricity until the early 1. MANELE, HAWAII // POPULATION: 2.

Manele is the site of the Four Seasons Resort Lanai, on Hawaii’s sixth largest island. Through most of the 2. Lanai was the site of the Dole pineapple plantation, once the most productive in the world.

But today, 9. 7 percent of the island belongs to Larry Ellison, founder of the software firm Oracle and the fifth- richest person in the world.