Smallest towns in America recommended best small towns in America America recommended best Small towns can sometimes generate big news. The L.A. Times recently won a Pulitzer Prize for the story it broke about the grossly overpaid city employees of Bell, Calif. Bell is a giant metropolis compared to this list of America’s smallest burgs, some just a resident or two away from becoming ghost towns . Monowi, Neb. Books outnumber residents in Monowi by a ratio of 5,000 to 1. Nebraska’s smallest town was featured on a famous morning news show in 2005. How many people live here? Lost Springs, Wyo. Talk about a boom town: Check out this Wyoming hamlet. Somehow, the population mushroomed in just 10 years, quadrupling its 2000 census figures. What mineral drove its economy ? How many people live here? Hillsview, S.D. With a population density of 4.7 per square mile, Hillsview has a lot of breathing room and has never ...