The Smallest Town In Illinois Is Home To Less Than 15 People

Not all Illinois towns are the size of Chicago, or even anywhere near it.

I used to think I was from a small town but there's one in Illinois that has me beat there. I couldn't imagine always seeing the same people every single day only because we happen to live in the same town. Unless they're cool folks. Then that's fine.

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Every state has several fairly small unincorporated communities or villages but Illinois's smallest, actually incorporated town is quite tiny indeed.

The smallest town in Illinois is Valley City, which recorded a population of 14 people at the 2020 census.

Valley City is in Pike County and by the Illinois River. Here's a visual from Google Earth:

Valley City is Illinois's smallest town in regards to population, not land area. But it's not absolutely winning in that category either. The town has an area of 0.212 square miles. That's it.

It's a town small enough that Google associates some addresses in Valley City with Griggsville, Illinois, so that's what pops up on Google Maps.

The biggest the town has been in it's history was when it had a population of 109 people in 1960, according to the Census. Being right on the river, the town hasn't been without it's troubles. In early 2016, Valley City flooded from the river and it put a lot of the town's roads underwater.

As far as the town's distance from the Quad Cities, Valley City is about a 3-hour drive away from Davenport, according to Google Maps, and is situated pretty close to the Illinois/Missouri border.