Van Tassell, Wyoming
Van Tassell is a town in Niobrara County, Wyoming, United States. The population was 15 at the 2010 census. It is the least populous town in the least populous county of the least populous state in the U.S. History A post office was established at Van Tassell in 1910 and was in operation until its discontinuation in 2017. The town was named for R. S. Van Tassell, a cattleman. Geography Van Tassell is located at (42.663612, –104.091149). According to the United States Census Bureau, the town has a total area of , all land. Demographics 2010 census As of the census of 2010, there were 15 people, 6 households, and 6 families residing in the town. The population density was . There were 9 housing units at an average density of . The racial makeup of the town was 100.0% White. There were 6 households, of which 2 had children under the age of 18 living with them, 5 were married couples living together, and 2 had a female householder with no husband present. No households were m ...
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Town
A town is a human settlement. Towns are generally larger than villages and smaller than cities, though the criteria to distinguish between them vary considerably in different parts of the world. Origin and use The word "town" shares an origin with the German word , the Dutch word , and the Old Norse . The original Proto-Germanic word, *''tūnan'', is thought to be an early borrowing from Proto-Celtic *''dūnom'' (cf. Old Irish , Welsh ). The original sense of the word in both Germanic and Celtic was that of a fortress or an enclosure. Cognates of ''town'' in many modern Germanic languages designate a fence or a hedge. In English and Dutch, the meaning of the word took on the sense of the space which these fences enclosed, and through which a track must run. In England, a town was a small community that could not afford or was not allowed to build walls or other larger fortifications, and built a palisade or stockade instead. In the Netherlands, this space was a garden, mor ...
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