The 10 least populated towns in America

5. Lost Springs, Wyoming – 4

The residents of this Wyoming town, have a love-hate relationship with the Census Board. In the 2000 census, the city was listed as home to only one resident. This information was displayed on the markers at the town boundary and on the official census site. However, this wasn’t true as they counted only one side of the Main Street!

Established in the 188os, Lost Springs sits on 0.14 miles of land, not far from the Rosin coal mine. When the mine closed in the 1930s, Lost Springs lost most of its 280 residents. By 1960, the population of the town had dropped to five.

These days, Lost Springs boasts of a Lost Bar, the Lost Springs Post Office & Antique Store, a catering business and hunting camp and 4 residents in town.