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'''Monowi''' ({{IPAc-en|ˈ|m|ɒ|n|oʊ|w|aɪ}} {{respell|MON|oh|wye}}) is an [[Municipal corporation|incorporated]] [[village]] in [[Boyd County, Nebraska|Boyd County]], [[Nebraska]], United States. It garnered national and international<ref>{{cite news |title=Welcome to Monowi, Nebraska: population 2,498,6371 |url=https://www.bbc.com/travel/article/20180129-welcome-to-monowi-nebraska-population-1 |access-date=September 26, 2021 |work=BBC |date=May 2, 2020}}</ref> recognition after the [[2010 United States census]] counted only one resident of the village, Elsie Eiler.<ref>{{cite web|last1=Carter|first1=Maria|date=31 March 2017|title=This 83-Year-Old Woman Is the Mayor, Bartender, Librarian and Sole Resident of Monowi, NE|url=https://www.countryliving.com/life/travel/g4204/monowi-ne-one-person-town/|access-date=21 July 2019|website=Country Living}}</ref> Though the [[2020 United States census|2020 census]] listed Monowi's population as two,<ref name="2020Pop">{{cite web |title=Monowi village, Nebraska |url=https://data.census.gov/cedsci/profile?g=1600000US3132550 |publisher=United States Census Bureau |access-date=September 26, 2021}}</ref> this was confirmed to be an example of [[differential privacy]] in the census data; Eiler remains the town's sole resident.<ref name="Monowi2">{{cite news |title=Second resident of Nebraska's one-person town just a figment of Census Bureau's imagination |url=https://journalstar.com/news/state-and-regional/nebraska/second-resident-of-nebraska-s-one-person-town-just-a-figment-of-census-bureau-s/article_3dade4b8-8736-57af-9270-3a65973f5464.html |access-date=September 26, 2021 |work=Lincoln Journal-Star |date=August 22, 2021}}</ref>
 
According to tradition, the name ''Monowi'' means "flower" in an unidentified [[Indigenous peoples of the Americas|Native American]] language.<ref>{{cite book|last=Bright|first=William|title=Native American Placenames of the United States|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=5XfxzCm1qa4C&pg=PA296|year=2004|publisher=University of Oklahoma Press|isbn=978-0-8061-3598-4|page=296}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|author=Chicago and North Western Railway Company|title=A History of the Origin of the Place Names Connected with the Chicago & North Western and Chicago, St. Paul, Minneapolis & Omaha Railways|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=OspBAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA104|year=1908|page=104}}</ref> Monowi was so named after the many [[wildflower]]s growing at the original site of the village.<ref>{{cite book | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Dlas_EPVGFEC | title=Nebraska Place-Names | publisher=University of Nebraska Press | author=Fitzpatrick, Lillian L. | year=1960 | pages=22| isbn=0803250606 }}</ref>
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