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DHD HOG MEMBER SPOTLIGHT

Population 1 – Wayne W.

Did you know that Nebraska has an incorporated village with only one resident? The least populous incorporated village in the United States by population is Monowi, Nebraska. That single resident is 90+ year old Elsie Eiler.
In 2025 the Defiance HOG Group decided to go check it out and of course I had to go! Monowi is a short 203 miles from Defiance Harley Davidson in Omaha, NE. It made for a very nice day trip. Our group left early on an April Saturday morning and stopped for an excellent lunch in Niobrara, NE at the Country Café. The menu included many comfort foods including fried chicken and homemade pies. I’d recommend stopping there on your next trip to Niobrara.
With our bellies full, we continued west on Highway 12, known as the Outlaw Trail Scenic Byway. The trail’s name comes from all the rustlers, robbers and killers who frequented the area and used to hideout in the region. Very few lawmen were available in the area and lawlessness abounded. Around 1976 the entire northern section of Nebraska was terrorized by “Doc” Middleton, and his “Pony Boys”, among other horse thieves and murderers. That is how the area came to be known as the Outlaw Trail.
Today the outlaws are gone mostly. And the Niobrara River Valley offers some of the prettiest riding you’ll find.

Time went by fast and we were soon in Monowi. In the week before the trip, I had read an article about the lone resident, but I really didn’t know what to expect. I knew that beside being the only person living in the town that she was the mayor, chief of police, postmaster, librarian and owner/bartender of the Monowi Tavern. I also learned that Monowi’s name comes from the Native American name for the wildflowers that were there when the village was established in 1902.
When our group pulled into the village with the roar of those Harleys, you might have thought we’d startle the lone resident. On the contrary, Elsie welcomed us and posed for pictures with all of us. As we warmed up to her bar in her tavern, she was glad to chat with each of us and share the story of how she became the lone resident. It seems that in the 1930’s Monowi had 150 residents. There was a post office, a school and several businesses. The Fremont, Elkhorn, and Missouri Valley Railroad serviced the area. But when the railroad left in 1978 and industrial farming became the norm the population soon dwindled. In 2000 only Elsie and Rudy Eiler, her husband, remained and operated their tavern. Rudy passed away in 2000 and left Elsie as the sole resident.
We spent a couple hours chatting with Elsie and looking around the tavern at her collectables and drinking soda pop. The bar is filled with memorabilia and Population 1 signs. It’s really all that’s left in Monowi, NE.

I think everyone on the trip was impressed with the spunky lady that was keeping the town alive. I’m not sure what the future will hold. But I’m glad we all got to see the least populated town in the U.S.A. and to meet it’s one resident. On the ride back through the beautiful Nebraska scenery I could only think of the outlaws that ran the area and the pioneers that carved a living out of it and the brave people that still populate our state.