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The first 8 counties (county-equivalents) are uninhabited, while the 10th on the list (Palmyra Atoll) has a small non-permanent human population whose maximum capacity is 20 people. [ 6 ] Smallest population counties in all U.S. territory
Kalawao County (Hawaiian: Kalana o Kalawao) is a county in the U.S. state of Hawaii. [1] It is the smallest county in the 50 states by land area and the second-smallest county by population, after Loving County, Texas. [2] The county encompasses the Kalaupapa or Makanalua Peninsula, on the north coast of the island of MolokaŹ»i.
The least populous county was Pickett County (5,128) and the smallest in area was Trousdale County, covering 114 sq mi (295 km 2). As of the same year, Davidson County, in which the capital Nashville is located, covers 502 sq mi (1,300 km 2) with a population of 712,334.
Randolph County is the largest by area at 1,040 square miles (2,694 km 2), and Hancock County is the smallest at 83 square miles (215 km 2). [8] Kanawha County contributed land to the founding of 12 West Virginia counties [12] and has the largest population (174,805 in 2023). Wirt County has the smallest population (5,000 in 2023). [13]
Robertson County is a county located in the U.S. Commonwealth of Kentucky. As of the 2020 census, the population was 2,193. [1] Its county seat is Mount Olivet. [2] The county is named for George Robertson, a Kentucky Congressman from 1817 to 1821. It is Kentucky's smallest county by both total area and by population.
Population: 1 No list of small towns would be complete without at least mentioning Monowi. Established in 1902 when the railroad extended into the area, it's the only incorporated town in the ...
It also makes the population of Los Angeles County 17.4 times greater than that of the least populous state, Wyoming. The second most populous county is Cook County, Illinois, with a population of 5,275,541. [49] Cook County's population is larger than that of 28 individual U.S. states and the combined populations of the six smallest states. [49]
The last county, Ford County, was created in 1859. Cook County, established in 1831 and named for the early Illinois Attorney General Daniel Pope Cook, contained the absolute majority of the state's population in the first half of the 20th century and retains more than 40% of it as of the 2020 census.