View Full Version : Smallest Town On Earth


Luke
12-19-2005, 09:13 PM
Who knows what the smallest town on earth is?
No Durbuy, Belgium as it's too close to Brussels.

One that google earth can even find.
I want to know because I think it's fun to add the smallest town on earth to the game as well.

Timmetie
12-19-2005, 09:15 PM
isn't there a 20 people town somewhere in friesland? or is that too close to amsterdam?

try syberia, or central australia.

birq
12-19-2005, 09:39 PM
Hum supposedly has 22 residents.

http://www.hum.hr/indexENG.htm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hum_%28disambiguation%29

Luke
12-19-2005, 09:41 PM
Can google earth find that one? That would also be important.

birq
12-19-2005, 09:44 PM
Can google earth find that one? That would also be important.

Details... The Hum web site has a map. I can't get into GE at the moment since I'm at work, but I can try to find it in a little while.

Luke
12-19-2005, 09:46 PM
Well if the coordinates are there...couldn't find them yet.

But perhaps Blitz can and then this would be a great town to add.

birq
12-19-2005, 09:51 PM
Google is awesome...

KML attached (someone else had already found it: http://www.tageo.com/index-e-hr-v-04-d-m121089.htm) and here's the link in Google Maps:
http://maps.google.com/maps?q=45.348+14.050+(Hum)&spn=4,0.5&t=k&hl=en

Blitzkrieg
12-19-2005, 09:53 PM
Hum is on the edge of the city polygon for Trieste

jammo
12-19-2005, 10:04 PM
William Creek in South Australia has a population of 16.

It contains the world's most remote pub.

speedfreak227
12-19-2005, 10:36 PM
is it going to be a bonus city? maybe one where illicit drugs are manufactured underground!

speedfreak227

mitsubishievo_6
12-21-2005, 06:09 PM
Well whilst on holiday in Scotland, I went through a place called Drumguish. If you blinked you missed it, with a total of 4 houses and a whiskey distillery, this has got to be a candidate.

And the whiskey distillery could be the bonus resource!

Timmetie
12-21-2005, 06:17 PM
yes whisky, for every minute beezer is online you get 5 geo's!

zinc
12-21-2005, 06:55 PM
Thurber, Texas, USA.
Population~8
Founded in 1888 by the Texas and Pacific Coal Company (now owned by the Sun Oil Company).

Zinc, out.
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zinc
12-22-2005, 01:41 AM
Changed me' mind.
I looked this up in the Census-
Minowi, NE (Nebraska)
Population~2
Only an old couple live there, whom have been fighting for years to keep this town incorperated.
Zinc, out.

jammo
12-22-2005, 01:57 AM
Changed me' mind.
I looked this up in the Census-
Minowi, NE (Nebraska)
Population~2
Only an old couple live there, whom have been fighting for years to keep this town incorperated.
Zinc, out.

well that has to be the winner.

(unless ghost towns count??) :D

Mythdraug
12-30-2005, 03:18 PM
Yes, Minowi is probably the winner. But unfortunately, they have had a population decrease since the census.

Minowi, Nebraska, has only one resident, 71 year old Elsie Eiler. When Elsie’s late husband, Rudy, was diagnosed with terminal cancer, he confided a dream: “He wanted to turn his [personal book] collection into a public library.” Now the tiny disorganized and eclectic library, home to Rudy’s 5,000 or so volumes, sits beside Minowi’s other public building – the bar that Elsie runs. Rudy’s library runs on the honor system: “take what you want, return it when you can.”

araT
12-30-2005, 03:24 PM
Wow, we HAVE to add it then! that would be great! hahaha

T.

Mythdraug
12-30-2005, 03:28 PM
And we have the spelling wrong...

Nebraska.gov lists it as Monowi. http://www.unicam.state.ne.us/app_rev/uses/data_city_use.htm

GE can find Monowi, NE.

Wikipedia has an entry for it that states, "According to the United States Census Bureau, only 4 places in the United States had a population of one person in 2000: Ervings, New Hampshire; New Amsterdam, Indiana; Hibberts, Maine; and Lost Springs, Wyoming."

araT
12-30-2005, 03:35 PM
ADD EM ALL! MUWAHAHAHAHA!

ok folks, I'm off to bed for the night, ciao :)

T.

Mythdraug
12-30-2005, 03:37 PM
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_places_with_fewer_than_ten_people

araT
12-31-2005, 04:22 AM
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_places_with_fewer_than_ten_people
Thats hilarious! we definately have to add some of those for the newbies :)

T.

araT
01-05-2006, 12:24 PM
LOCKED & MOVED

T.