Crap Towns

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tonasket,_Washington

yep, that's it. All 900 peoples worth of it.

Yeah, but this is where we hung out. In their parking lot.

This is really interesting, Nhatt--why is Tonasket a 'city'? The Wikipedia article doesn't state the reason for incorporation. I'm surprised that such a small place could achieve city status, or is that quite a normal description for small places in the US? (Must brush up on US planning.) Is it because of the claim-to-fame connection with Chief Tonasket?

According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of 0.6 square miles (1.7 km²), all of it land.

Presumably, this slightly puzzling sentence means that none of it is river or sea?