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Pittsburg, NH Is New Hampshire's Most Remote Inhabited Place — 65 Miles to Farmington in ME

By SimpleMapLab·Published 13 May 2026·Rank #22 of 50 states·↑ All 50 states

Pittsburg, NH — population 1,054, Coos County — is the most isolated inhabited place in New Hampshire. The nearest city of 10,000+ residents is Farmington, ME, sitting 65 straight-line miles away — across the state line in ME. New Hampshire has 204 towns under 10,000 residents; Pittsburg is the most isolated among them.

Map: Pittsburg, NH (New Hampshire'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, Farmington, sits on its edge 65 miles away.The brick-red dot marks Pittsburg, the most isolated inhabited place in New Hampshire. 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. Skowhegan, ME81 MIAuburn, ME87 MIBarre, VT87 MIMontpelier, VT88 MIFarmington, MEPittsburgNEW HAMPSHIRE 65 MIsimplemaplab.com / studies / most-remote-places
Pittsburg (red dot) and the nearest 10,000+ city, Farmington, ME (green dot), separated by 65 straight-line miles.
65 mi
straight-line distance from Pittsburg to Farmington, ME
1,054
year-round residents of Pittsburg (Census 2020)
17 mi
average distance to nearest anchor across New Hampshire's 204 small towns
#22
of 50 states ranked by their loneliest town's isolation
Open a radius around Pittsburg → /tools/map-radius-tool · Pittsburg, NH · 50 mi
The link opens the SimpleMapLab Map Radius Tool with a 50-mile circle drawn around Pittsburg. Try expanding the radius to see how far you have to look before encountering any 10,000+ city — the answer is roughly 65 miles in the direction of Farmington.

Why this happened

New Hampshire's loneliest inhabited place is Pittsburg — 65 miles from Farmington in ME. Pittsburg's 1,054 residents are the most-removed-from-civilization population in the state, though the gap is not as dramatic as in the Mountain West or Great Plains states. The average New Hampshire small-town resident lives 17 miles from a qualifying anchor.

New Hampshire's 5 most isolated towns

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

#TownPop.Distance to nearest 10K+Nearest city
1Pittsburg1,05465 miFarmington, ME
2Colebrook2,76464 miFarmington, ME
3West Stewartstown52763 miFarmington, ME
4North Stratford1,29760 miBarre, VT
5Groveton1,94958 miBarre, VT

How New Hampshire compares

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

#21 Arizona
Blue Gap · 66 mi to the nearest 10K+ city
#23 Louisiana
Venice · 63 mi to the nearest 10K+ city
#20 Michigan
McMillan · 70 mi to the nearest 10K+ city
#24 North Carolina
Hatteras · 56 mi to the nearest 10K+ city
#25 Iowa
Massena · 53 mi to the nearest 10K+ city

Draw your own radius

Open a 50-mile circle around Pittsburg →

Try the 100-mile radius to see whether a major city falls inside — for Pittsburg, it doesn't, because the nearest qualifying city (Farmington, ME) sits 65 miles away.

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 New Hampshire 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 New Hampshire's loneliest. Full methodology on the hub page.

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