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Even in Georgia, There Is a Loneliest Town: Bluffton, 35 Miles From a City

By Marko Visic·Published 13 May 2026·Rank #37 of 50 states·↑ All 50 states

Bluffton, GA — population 480, Clay County — is the most isolated inhabited place in Georgia. The nearest city of 10,000+ residents is Eufaula, AL, sitting 35 straight-line miles away — across the state line in AL. Georgia has 389 towns under 10,000 residents; Bluffton is the most isolated among them.

Map: Bluffton, GA (Georgia's loneliest inhabited place) and its 5 nearest cities of 10,000+ residents. The brick-red ring shows the empty zone in which no qualifying city exists; the nearest, Eufaula, sits on its edge 35 miles away.The brick-red dot marks Bluffton, the most isolated inhabited place in Georgia. Up to 5 green dots mark the nearest qualifying cities (population 10,000+), each labelled with name and straight-line distance. The brick-red dashed circle traces the empty zone — radius equal to the distance to the very nearest qualifying city. Dothan, AL40 MIAlbany, GA41 MIOzark, AL44 MILeesburg, GA45 MIEufaula, ALBlufftonGEORGIA 35 MIsimplemaplab.com / studies / most-remote-places
Bluffton (red dot) and the nearest 10,000+ city, Eufaula, AL (green dot), separated by 35 straight-line miles.
35 mi
straight-line distance from Bluffton to Eufaula, AL
480
year-round residents of Bluffton (Census 2020)
12 mi
average distance to nearest anchor across Georgia's 389 small towns
#37
of 50 states ranked by their loneliest town's isolation
Open a radius around Bluffton → /tools/map-radius-tool · Bluffton, GA · 50 mi
The link opens the SimpleMapLab Map Radius Tool with a 50-mile circle drawn around Bluffton. Try expanding the radius to see how far you have to look before encountering any 10,000+ city — the answer is roughly 35 miles in the direction of Eufaula.

Why this happened

Bluffton, GA is Georgia's most remote inhabited place — but "remote" is relative here: just 35 miles from Eufaula in AL. Georgia is among the more densely populated US states; the average small-town resident lives 12 miles from a qualifying anchor. Bluffton's isolation is real to its 480 residents, even if the numbers are modest compared to Montana or Nevada.

Georgia's 5 most isolated towns

The top 5 most-isolated inhabited places in Georgia, sorted by distance to the nearest 10,000+ city.

#TownPop.Distance to nearest 10K+Nearest city
1Bluffton48035 miEufaula, AL
2Edison1,82834 miAlbany, GA
3Arlington1,75832 miAlbany, GA
4Damascus68230 miBainbridge, GA
5Blakely9,01230 miDothan, AL

How Georgia compares

The states ranked closest to Georgia on this metric. Click any for the dedicated breakdown.

#38 Illinois
Milford · 33 mi to the nearest 10K+ city
#36 Mississippi
Scooba · 35 mi to the nearest 10K+ city
#35 Arkansas
De Witt · 41 mi to the nearest 10K+ city
#39 Pennsylvania
Coudersport · 31 mi to the nearest 10K+ city
#40 Tennessee
Linden · 31 mi to the nearest 10K+ city

Draw your own radius

Open a 50-mile circle around Bluffton →

Try the 100-mile radius to see whether a major city falls inside — for Bluffton, it doesn't, because the nearest qualifying city (Eufaula, AL) sits 35 miles away.

More about Georgia

See the full breakdown of Georgia's counties at /states/georgia/counties — population, area, median income, and county seat for every county, plus a labeled printable map. The companion study 100-mile radius around Georgia's capital measures the share of Georgia's population that lives within day-trip distance of the capitol — an inverse framing of the isolation question this page poses.

Methodology (brief)

We aggregate the US Census ZCTA dataset by postal city, treating any (postal city, state) pair with ≥ 50 residents as a town. Anchor cities are places with ≥ 10,000 residents. For every Georgia town below the anchor threshold, we compute the straight-line distance to every anchor city in the US (cross-state distances count). The town with the largest minimum distance is Georgia's loneliest. Full methodology on the hub page.

Suggested citation: SimpleMapLab (2026). The Loneliest Towns in America: Georgia. Part of the Most Remote Inhabited Places study. Retrieved from https://www.simplemaplab.com/studies/most-remote-places/georgia. CC-BY 4.0.