What is kansas’s smallest city?
Okay, so that’s not really an irish question - but it is an important question from an Irish point of view. Because most people in ireland don’t know what the word “city” means in America. In Ireland “city” only has the generic meaning of a whopping big urban place of no offical size but it’s probably bigger than a town. This contrasts with the British concept of a city which is the same as the Irish sense but also includes anywhere that has a cathedral, or anywhere that a monarch arbitrarily said was a city, including some Irish towns - the feckers.
In the U.S. however a “city” is an official administrative area, which is why the generic city, being a grouping or conurbation of cities, is usually referred to as a metro area.
As such in the Irish sense an American “city” can be like a major city, or like a town, or a village, or a county, or a suburb, or a crossroads, or a townland, or even just a single street. And each city has its own taxes, police force, street signs - or sign - etc.
So what is the smallest city in Kansas? I shouldn’t know but Waldo in Russell County has a population of 48 as of the 2000 census, and that’s huge compared to Freeport over in Harper County with its population of six people making it the smallest incorportated city in Kansas.
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