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Frequently, you really desire to get away from it all, away from the noise of cities, people’s loud and often meaningless conversations, loans, pollution, etc. Whether you are ready to put roots somewhere far away from the closest Starbucks or just seeking to stay somewhere way off the boring trail, these remote settlements are ideal.
The map below created by Reddit user malxredleader shows the most isolated settlement in every U.S. state.
Alabama
Eufaula is a settlement located in Barbour County. The place along the Chattahoochee River that is nowadays, Eufaula was inhabited by three Muscogee Creek tribes. By the 1820s, the land was part of the Creek Indian Land and probably off-limits to white settlements. By 1827, enough illegal white settlements had appeared that the Creeks petitioned the national government to defend their property rights. But the national army was sent to the Eufaula territory to expel the homesteaders by force.
The Creeks signed the Treaty of Washington in 1826, ceding most of their land in Georgia and eastern Alabama to the United States. By 1835, predominantly white settlers had bought the land surrounding the settlement.
Alaska
Kaktovik is a city in the North Slope Borough of Alaska with 239 people.
Until the late 19th century, Barter Island was a primary trade center for the Inupiat and was notably significant as a bartering place for Inupiat from Alaska and Inuit from Canada.
In the early 21 century, Kaktovik became a traveler destination to view polar bears.
Arizona
Supai is the capital of the Havasupai Indian Reservation located in Coconino County of Arizona and had a population of 208 in 2010. It is the only place where mules still carry out correspondence.
According to the U.S. Department of Agriculture, Supai is the most remote community in the contiguous U.S. It is reachable only by helicopter, by mule, or on foot. The town is 8 miles (13 kilometers) from the closest road and has no cars in the settlement.
Arkansas
Saint Paul is a town in southern Madison County of Arkansas in the Upper Boston Mountains ecoregion with the natural vegetation of the oak-hickory forest. The community is situated along Interstate Highway 23 and Highway 16 on the bank of the upper White River.
The population of the settlement was 113, according to the 2010 Census. In 2000, there were 163 people, 70 households, and 44 families living in the townlet.
California
Baker is a census-designated place located in San Bernardino County of California in the Mojave Desert at the Death Valley Road. It has a population of 735.
Baker was established as a rail station on the Tonopah and Tidewater Railroad in 1908 and was named for Richard C. Baker, company partner of Francis Marion Smith in constructing the railway.
Colorado
Meeker is the most populous municipality of Rio Blanco County in northwestern Colorado, with 2,475 settlers. The town is primarily an agricultural community situated in the broad fertile vale of the White River.
The settlement is named for Nathan Meeker, the American Indian Agent who was murdered and 11 other white citizens by White River Ute Indians in 1879.
Connecticut
Salem is a settlement in New London County. The Mohegan people initially settled in the area. The first settlement of English origin in present-day Salem was founded in 1664. It is one of the oldest settlements in Connecticut. The town was named New Salem Parish in praise of Colonel Samuel Browne, the most prominent landowner.
Over the decades, Salem has gradually advanced from a tiny and remote farming settlement to a bedroom community. According to the 2020 census, the population of the town is 4,213.
Delaware
Georgetown is a town in Sussex County of Delaware. It is part of the Salisbury, Maryland-Delaware Metropolitan Statistical Area.
The town is uncommon among Delaware settlements as the city was built around a circle instead of the more typical park square. In the center of the town is located a little green park with a fountain. The town’s population is 6,422.
Florida
Key West is an isle in the Straits of Florida with a total land area of 4.2 square miles (11 km2) and approximately 95 miles (153 km) north of Cuba at their nearest points. It is the southernmost city in the contiguous United States.
As of the 2020 Census, 26.4 thousand people lived in Key West.
Georgia
Fargo is a town in Clinch County of Georgia, with a population of 250 and 146 households. The city is close to the Okefenokee Swamp and is the western gateway to the Okefenokee National Wildlife Refuge.
Hawaii
The settlement of Volcano in Hawaii County has a population of 2,575 people.
Owing to its altitude, varying from below 2,800 feet (850 meters) in the southeast to over 6,200 feet (1,900 meters) at its desolate northern end, Volcano has a subtropical highland climate.
Idaho
Leadore is a small city in Lemhi Valley with a population of 105. The settlement was founded in 1910 when the Gilmore and Pittsburgh Railroad were completed.
Illinois
Marshall is a town in Clark County with a population of about 4 thousand. William B. Archer formally founded Marshall settlement in 1835; the town was named after John Marshall, chief judge of the U.S. Supreme Court.
In the town of Marshall was operated a writers’ Colony (the Handy Colony) from 1950 to1964. The most well-known writer associated with the Handy Colony was the author James Jones. Marshall is the place of the oldest continuously worked hotel in Illinois.
Indiana
Nashville is a town in Brown County, Indiana, with a population of 803. Tawn of Nashville began with the land acquisition from native people under the 1809 Treaty of Fort Wayne.
By the turn of the century, intensive timber in the area had driven considerable deforestation, culminating in dramatic erosion problems.
Nowadays, the settlement is best known as the center of the Brown County Art Colony and as a traveler’s destination.
Iowa
Blakesburg is a city in Wapello County with a population of 274, according to the Census of 2020.
The history of the settlement was laid out in 1852. It was named for one of its founders, an emigrant from England, Theophilus Blake.
Kansas
Ulysses is a city in Grant County of Kansas. It is named after Ulysses S. Grant, the 18th President of the U.S. In 2020 the city’s population was 5,788.
The first settlement was established in 1885 and was located about 2 miles east of modern Ulysses.
Kentucky
Monticello is located close to the center of Wayne County, along Lake Cumberland, with a population of 6,188.
Monticello declares “The Houseboat Capital of the World” as many houseboat factories in the town. The city’s economy is based on serving the recreational and traveler traffic to the Cumberland lake.
Louisiana
Grand Isle is a town in Jefferson Parish located on an isle in the Gulf of Mexico with a population of 1,005, according to the 2020 U.S census. Fishing is an essential part of Grand Isle’s culture.
Hurricanes have frequently hit grand Isle throughout its history. Since 1877, the settlement has been directly affected by hurricanes and tropical storms on average every 7.9 years.
Maine
Eustis is a settlement in Franklin County with a population of 641, according to Census 2020.
The town was initially named Township No. 1 of Range 4. The initial frontiersperson was Caleb Stevens, who brought his family from New Hampshire. Roughly 1831, the northern half of the settlement was bought by two men, one of whom was Charles Eustis.
Maryland
Flintstone is a settlement in Allegany County. It stretches between the Tussey and Warrior Mountains.
The Breakneck Road Historic District, a Rural agricultural landscape near Flintstone, is recorded on the National Register of Historic Places.
Massachusetts
Provincetown is a New England town placed at the outermost end of Cape Cod in Barnstable County with a population of 3,664, according to the 2020 Census.
Initially, this area was populated by the Nauset tribe, which spoke Massachusett, a Southern New England Algonquian language dialect.
In November 1620, the Pilgrims anchored in the harbor, known nowadays as Provincetown Harbor.
Michigan
Newberry is a settlement in Luce County encircled by state and national forests. It is regarded as the southern gateway to the Tahquamenon Falls area, the other being Paradise to the northeast.
Newberry was established in 1882. The settlement was named in praise of John Stoughton Newberry.
Minnesota
Angle Inlet is a settlement in Lake of the Woods County with a population of only 54, according to the 2020 census. It is the northernmost settlement in the contiguous U.S., located north of the 49th parallel. The French constructed Fort Saint Charles close by in 1732.
Mississippi
Tylertown is a settlement in Walthall County. The townlet of Tylertown was first known as the Magee Settlement. It was inhabited by colonists of the Magee and Thornhill families who came from South Carolina.
The settlement was named Conerly from 1848 to 1879 and then was renamed Tyler Town in the glory of William G. Tyler.
Missouri
Salem is located in Dent County, with a population of 4,608 in 2020.
The settlement’s name is obtained from the Hebrew word Shalom, meaning “peace.”
Vicinity of Selem was settled between 1818 and 1829. In 1881, Salem was organized as a town.
Montana
Jordan is a town in Garfield County. According to the 2020 Census, the population of the settlement is 356.
The to was established in 189 by hunter Arthur Jordan. In 1899, in the settlement, a post office was built. Later, other buildings appeared around the post office.
Nebraska
Hyannis is a settlement in Grant County. It is centrally situated in the vast, unique, and isolated region of grasslands recognized as the Sandhills of Nebraska at the intersection of highways NSH 61 and NSH 2. A railway official called the settlement after the townlet of Hyannis in Massachusetts.
Nevada
Owyhee is a settlement in Elko County. It is the principal town of the governmentally acknowledged Shoshone-Paiute tribe’s Duck Valley Indian Reservation, covering parts of northern Nevada and southern Idaho. Most of the population of Owyhee is Native American.
New Hampshire
Colebrook is a settlement in Coös County with a population of 2,084 in 2020. The town is located in the Great North Woods Region; the Connecticut River bounds the city to the west. Colebrook is home to Beaver Brook Falls Natural Area.
Initially, the settlement was named “Dryden” to honor the English poet John Dryden. Because of the incapability of its initial beneficiaries to inhabit the remote area, however, it was re-granted in 1770 by Colonial Governor John Wentworth, who renamed the settlement from “Dryden” to “Colebrook” to honor Sir George Colebrooke, the East India Company’s chairperson of the board.
New Jersey
Flemington is situated in Hunterdon County, in the Amwell and the Raritan Valleys.
Before Europeans, the territory that nowadays comprises Flemington was the land of the Lenni Lenape Native Americans. In 1712, the Flemington territory was gained by William Penn and Daniel Coxe. The town was established in 1870 and named for Samuel Fleming.
New Mexico
Lake Valley settlement in New Mexico was named for prehistoric lakebeds nearby. The town was established in 1878 with the finding of silver in the region. At the best of times, the population of the settlement was 4,000.
Manganese mining conducted a short rebirth which ended in 1955. The last permanent residents of the settlement were gone in 1994, leaving behind an authentic ghost town.
New York
The settlement of Indian Lake in Hamilton County was founded in 1858. The name is from a lake of the same name mainly located inside the town.
In 1861, the settlement was extended using territory from the municipalities of Gilman and Lake Pleasant.
North Carolina
Ocracoke is a settlement situated in Hyde County at the southern end of Ocracoke Island. According to the census, the population of the town was 797 people.
Ocracoke Island was the place of the pirate Blackbeard’s death in 1718. Today the economy of the isle is driven by tourism and fishing.
North Dakota
Amidon was the second-smallest incorporated county with its population of 20, behind Brewster in Nebraska, with a population of 17. In 2000, Amidon had 26 people to Brewster’s 29.
Amidon was established in 1910 at the expected terminus of a Milwaukee Road branch line that branched from the railroad’s Pacific Extension in McLaughlin (South Dakota).
The settlement is named after Charles F. Amidon, a federal judge for the U.S. District Court for North Dakota.
Ohio
Richmond Dale is situated in Ross County along U.S. Route 35.
The settlement was founded in 1811. The town gets its name from Richmond (Virginia), the native house of a first settler.
Oklahoma
Kenton is the westernmost settlement in Oklahoma, located in Cimarron County. The town has only 17 residents.
The east end of the plateau features dinosaur tracks that have been preserved in sandstone strata next to Carrizo Creek.
Kenton had a bank, motel, two stores, and car dealerships during its peak.
Oregon
Silver Lake is a settlement situated in the high desert in Lake County of central Oregon. The town is named for a lake of the identical name 6 miles (10 km) east of the settlement.
Sparsely populated but experiencing growth as the city of Bend increases, the area is perfect for those interested in hiking, camping, hunting, and fishing.
Pennsylvania
Renovo is located in Clinton County on the West Branch Susquehanna River.
The settlement is the place of the “Flaming Foliage Festival” held each October, commonly on the second weekend.
The town’s economy was primarily based on lumbering until the first-growth woods was almost completely cut away, and the industry tumbled.
Rhode Island
New Shoreham is a settlement in Washington County. The town has the reputation of being the southernmost settlement in both Washington County and all of the state of Rhode Island.
South Carolina
Yemassee is a tiny settlement in Beaufort and Hampton counties in the U.S.
The townlet bears its name from the Native American tribe of the same name, the Yamasee, the essential Indian supporter of South Carolina.
Yemassee hosts one of the few commercial breeding structures for non-human primates in the U.S.
South Dakota
Union Center is a tiny settlement in Meade County. The town was established in 1927 by the Farmers’ Union as one of its first companies in South Dakota.
Nowadays, it has a post office and three small businesses.
Tennessee
Hohenwald is a town in Lewis County, Tennessee. “Hohenwald” is a German word that signifies “High Forest.”
The settlement was established in 1878 and later combined with a city named “New Switzerland” to the south. New Switzerland was established in 1894 by Swiss settlers.
Texas
Sanderson is located in Terrell County. The settlement was established in 1882 as a split point for the Southern Pacific Railroad, where refueling and workforce shifts on its significant transcontinental way took place. Wool production on surrounding farms developed a substantial part of the economy. The community entered into an economic downfall when goats and sheep and operations dropped.
Utah
Hanksville is a small settlement located in Wayne County, in the frigid desert ecological region of Colorado Plateau.
The settlement was inhabited in 1882 and known for a period for the name assigned to the surrounding vicinity, Graves Valley. Later, in 1885 the town was renamed after an earlier immigrant, Ebenezer Hanks.
Vermont
Norton is a settlement in Essex County with a population of 153, according to the Census 2020, situated on the US-Canada border, directly south of the Canadian village Stanhope in Quebec.
Virginia Beach is a resort town situated on the southeastern shore of Virginia with miles of beaches and hundreds of hotels and restaurants.
The settlement is recorded in the Guinness Book of Records as having the lengthiest pleasure beach worldwide.
The Chesepian were the indigenous people who lived in the vicinity of the settlement.
Washington
Forks, formerly known as Quillayute, is a city in southwest Clallam County of Washington with a population of 3,532.
The local lumber industry fueled the city’s economy for many years. More lately, it has attracted tourism linked to Twilight novel series and movies of the same name. Moreover, Forks is a famous destination for sports anglers who fish for rainbow trout and salmon in streams.
West Virginia
Helvetia is a settlement in Randolph County with a population only of 38people established by the Swiss beginning in 1869 and nowadays preserving Swiss traditions, including folkways and food.
Wisconsin
Dairyland is a settlement in Douglas County located 36 miles south of the municipality of Superior, 25 miles southwest of Solon Springs, and 20 miles northeast of Danbury. The population of the town is about 150 people.
Wyoming
Wright is a settlement in Campbell County of Wyoming. The first people came to the high grasslands to hunt antelope and buffalo about in 8,000 BCE.
The Wright family homesteaded the land in 1911, founding the Wright Community.
The town experienced a boom in the 1970s by creating the Black Thunder Coal Mine, the most extensive mine in the Powder River Basin and the most effectively functioning mine in the U.S.
