This is the last in a series of stories v isiting the five smallest cities in Oregon.

On July 5, about a dozen people in folding chairs gathered in a field. They filled up on hot dogs and potato salad before Mayor Dennis Koellermeier knocked a fist-sized rock on a picnic table to gavel in the start of the annual Greenhorn City Council meeting.

This is how Oregon’s tiniest town keeps itself going.

Oregon’s smallest incorporated city, Greenhorn was home to just three people in the 2020 census but currently has a year-round population of zero. The city’s water system serves about 15 cabins, most occupied only in the summer.

The last family who tried to stay in the unplowed city through the winter gave up two years ago.

“You’ve got to be pretty hardy because four months out of the y

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