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Second resident of Nebraska’s one-person town just a figment of Census Bureau’s imagination

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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.

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Gross, Nebraska is a small town. That's actually over-selling it. In fact, only two people live there. Mike and Mary Finnegan are the sole residents, and run a bar in the incorporated town. But Gross is a metropolis compared to nearby Monowi, where Elsie Eiler is the only resident. Eiler, the town’s mayor, also runs a tavern. Small towns, big stories.

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15 Nebraska ghost towns

Ghost towns abound in Nebraska

Not all stories are about how the West was won. More often than not, it was lost -- with dreams of getting rich quick and settlements that popped up overnight both fading forgotten into history.

"Ghost town" is the term that came to embody this trend, one abundantly common across Nebraska and the Midwest. Today, Nebraska has 146 cities and 384 villages, according to the state's official website. But Lilian Linder Fitzpatrick's 1925 work, "Nebraska Place-Names," attempts to study the origins of how more than 1,100 communities -- many of which were long gone then -- got their names.

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1. Antioch (Sheridan County)

The ruins of Antioch, about 15 miles east of Alliance, are all that remain of a town that once one of the most important potash-producing regions in the nation. (JACOB HANNAH / Lincoln Journal Star)

JACOB HANNAH/Lincoln Journal Star

Antioch embodies the "here today, gone tomorrow" life that typified many young settlements in the West.

The Sheridan County community was originally called Reno, but confusion with the Nevada city of the same name led its leaders to rename it Antioch, after the Ohio city from which a prominent family had lived.

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2. De Soto (Washington County)

A train pulls into the depot in the short-lived Washington County town of De Soto in this undated photo.

Courtesy photo, Washington County Historical Association

Famed for steamboat sinkings before and during the Civil War, the early Missouri River town of De Soto could have foreseen its own fate.

The first county seat of Washington County was established in late 1854 and officially incorporated early the next year. Seemingly overnight, it boomed to boast several hundred residents, a dozen stores and taverns and three banks. Just as quickly, all three failed in the bank panic of 1857, with the Colorado gold rush convincing many residents to move west.

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3. DeWitty (Cherry County)

DeWitty homesteaders pose in front of a church near Brownlee in this photo shot by pioneer photographer Solomon Butcher.

Courtesy Nebraska State Historical Society

Though the vast majority of homesteaders lured to Nebraska by the promise of free land were white, not all were. Nowhere was that more evident than DeWitty.

A vibrant community of roughly 200 African-Americans, some of whom were slaves freed after the Civil War, settled along the North Loup River in the northern Sandhills on what's now U.S. 83. Though it wasn't the state's only largely black community, it was the most successful.

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4. Dobytown or Kearney City (Kearney County)

This sketch by Lenore Clark shows businesses in the short-lived community of Kearney City, better known as Dobytown.

History Nebraska

Though the official name for this small community three miles west of Fort Kearny was Kearney City, the name Dobytown -- a reference to the handful of earthen buildings that appeared to be constructed from adobe -- stuck.

Unlike many settlements set up for homesteaders, Dobytown sprung up to provide soldiers and pioneers services that weren't typical of military bases. To quote the History Nebraska marker at the town site: "Gambling, liquor and disreputable men and women were its principal attractions." Its famous customer was Gen. William Tecumseh Sherman, who despised its whiskey.

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5. Hecla (Hooker County)

This 1912 photo shows Hecla's general store -- which facilitated far more than merely the sale of goods along the railroad line.

Courtesy photo, Hooker County Historical Society

Named after an Icelandic volcano by the Grand Island and Wyoming Central Railroad, the siding for cattle transportation grew into a tiny town that persisted for several decades.

The Hooker County Historical Society notes the town never exceeded 11 permanent residents. Despite its size, it had a general store, pool hall and school. Those working on the railroad and cattle drives could nearly triple its population -- though they'd often have to sleep in the store or a barn.

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6. Lemoyne (Keith County)

The depot in the original town of Lemoyne, which is now submerged under Lake McConaughy.

History Nebraska

Unlike other ghost towns, a town named Lemoyne still exists in Nebraska. The small community, which boasted 82 residents in the 2010 Census, is nestled along the north shore of Lake McConaughy.

But that's the second iteration of Lemoyne. The first, often referred to as Old Lemoyne, is deep beneath Nebraska's largest lake.

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7. Mariaville (Rock County)

This undated photo shows the Mariaville post office, along with the residents of the small Rock County village that's long since fallen off the map.

History Nebraska

Though the West was hardly the land of outlaws it's often portrayed as being in movies and TV shows, they certainly existed on the Nebraska frontier. Those characters were far more complex than portrayed.

In the case of the short-lived town of Mariaville, one outlaw's generosity is credited with helping keep the town afloat.

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8. Meadville (Keya Paha County)

This 1910 photo shows a baseball game played near Meadville, with the Sandhills' tall dunes visible in the background.

History Nebraska

Not all ghost towns stay dead and buried forever -- Meadville is proof of that.

The town on the north bank of the Niobrara River in Keya Paha County, named after Civil War veteran and early settler Merritt Mead, was never large, despite its early role as a stop for travelers heading west.

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9. Montrose (Sioux County)

This photo of Immaculate Conception Catholic Church, the last building standing in the former town of Montrose in Sioux County, was taken in the 1960s. To this day, Mass is occasionally celebrated at the church.

West Nebraska Register/Diocese of Grand Island

In Nebraska's northwestern corner, a single building remains where a town once existed.

Immaculate Conception Catholic Church, built in 1887, has stood alone for years, and the occasional Mass is celebrated there. Without the church and its adjacent cemetery, though, no tangible reminder would mark where Montrose -- which peaked at 24 residents in 1910 -- had been in the present-day Oglala National Grassland.

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10. Nonpareil (Box Butte County)

Perhaps the only surviving photo of the original town site of Nonpareil is the home of Frank Martin.

Knight Museum and Sandhills Center

When voters in southern Dawes County, tired of traversing nearly 60 miles to the courthouse in Chadron, elected to break away and form their own county, Buchanan -- later renamed Nonpareil -- was the first community to pop up in the new Box Butte County, named for a local landmark.

As such, the town -- which took its second name from a small newspaper type, given that its founder, Eugene Heath, ran a newspaper -- became the first county seat in 1886. Wikipedia muses that it's because the town, like the type, was so small, peaking at 50 residents.

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11. Pischelville (Knox County)

Though the town of Pischelville is long gone, its cemetery -- seen here in 2015 -- captures the Czech heritage of northwestern Knox County that is still visible to this day.

JOHN SCHREIER, Journal Star

Czech heritage remains strong in northwestern Knox County, near where the Niobrara River flows into the Missouri River.

Descendants of many of the first Czech immigrants who moved to that area of northeast Nebraska in the 1870s still live in and farm their corner of what locals call the Bohemian Alps. Pischelville, named after early settler Anton Pischel, is one of several such defunct settlements in the area. Many of them also bear Czech names.

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12. Rock Bluffs (Cass County)

This photo shows what remains of the once two-story Naomi Institute at Rock Bluffs. It was the first high school in Cass County and "one of the first colleges in Nebraska." (Courtesy Cass County Historical Society) Courtesy Cass County Historical Society

Rock Bluffs, situated between two hills alongside the Missouri River, was a major player in Nebraska's earliest days, when it once was a legitimate rival to Omaha for power. Yet, as the Journal Star wrote in 2016, the community "stumbled over about every obstacle possible to growth, dooming it (to) obscurity."

Occasionally referred to as just Rock Bluff, the town is marked by only a cemetery and a former one-room schoolhouse that was converted to a museum after it closed in 1969. They belie the fact that Rock Bluffs was once a vibrant center of commerce for riverboat traffic and other businesses.

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13. St. Deroin (Nemaha County)

This undated photo shows the Missouri River ferry moored at St. Deroin.

History Nebraska

It's hard to find a more accessible ghost town in Nebraska than St. Deroin. Founded in 1854 as one of the earliest settlements in Nebraska Territory, it's located entirely within Indian Cave State Park.

Named after Joseph Deroin, a prominent half-Oto trader who owned the land it occupied, the town challenged Brownville's claim to being the first platted in the state. (The "Saint" was presumably added shortly thereafter, to evoke feelings of larger cities St. Louis and St. Joseph.) Its namesake, a colorful and controversial character, was later shot and killed while attempting to collect a $6 debt. His killer was acquitted.

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14. Sedan (Nuckolls County)

Mangled steel hangs from the top of a grain elevator damaged in an explosion on July 6, 2013, in Sedan. Officials said two people were injured in the accidental explosion in Nuckolls County.

LAURA BEAHM/The Hastings Tribune

Sedan is no longer an incorporated town, but it remains a hub for commerce in south-central Nebraska as a satellite site for a local farmers co-op.

Founded as Coy, the town opened its post office in 1900. The name was changed to Sedan, after a French city, in 1906. Never a big community, its population reached a high-water mark of 35 in 1950 before fading into obscurity. The post office closed three years later.

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15. Spring Ranch (Clay County)

A nest of birds are the only residents of this old building near Spring Ranch. The original Spring Ranch was founded around 1863. James Bainter, the first permanent settler operated a store and inn for travelers along the Oregon-California Trail, according to nebraskahistory.org. The town was burned in 1864 when Lakota Sioux and their allies attacked settlements along the Little Blue River. The village of Spring Ranch was rebuilt and a post office was established south of the river in 1870. A saw mill was in operation a year later. In 1886 the town site moved across the river, where the St. Joseph and Grand Island Railroad was being built. The village once boasted several businesses and a population of about 104 in 1895, but few traces remain today. In 1885 Spring Ranch residents Elizabeth Taylor and her brother Thomas Jones were accused of barn burning and murder. Before they could be tried, they were lynched by a mob on March 15. Taylor and Jones, along with other early settlers, are buried in the Spring Ranch Cemetery. (JACOB HANNAH / Lincoln Journal Star)

JACOB HANNAH/Lincoln Journal Star

Few ghost towns take that mantle as literally as Spring Ranch, which still commemorates a history that some consider haunted.

Founded in 1860 along the Little Blue River, within sight of the Oregon-California Trail, Spring Ranch -- often referred to as Spring Ranche in early texts, to differentiate itself from an actual ranch -- began as a trading post for settlers heading west. The town that sprung up, though, was devastated by a Cheyenne and Sioux war raid in 1864 that left several people dead.

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Reach the writer at 402-473-7254 or psalter@journalstar.com.

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