I am pleased to announce that I have achieved an accomplishment few if any other person has ever reached. I have photographed all the houses in a single image of an entire city. Welcome to Champ, whose residential neighborhood is reached by driving through what is essentially the parking lot of a large church.

And there you have it, all four houses of Champ, which interestingly were only built in the last twenty years. And there used to be two more from that generation, plus another house that was much older across the street. Those three houses were swallowed by the massive quarry on the other side of Jessica Adele Court.

And here are all four houses!

The story of what brought about the least populated, but by no means the smallest by land area is sort of funny. Bill Bangert, the mayor of Berkeley, founded the town in 1959 with the hope of attracting a stadium for the Olympics, which obviously never happened.

The U.S. Census estimated the 2024 population at seven people.

And here is the quarry, which has apparently been converted into a landfill.

So it’s the landfill and those four houses, but there is in fact a working city government. A nearby landmark is Pattonville High School, which is not within the city boundaries.