Pittsburg, NH Is New Hampshire's Most Remote Inhabited Place — 65 Miles to Farmington in ME
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.
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.
| # | Town | Pop. | Distance to nearest 10K+ | Nearest city |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Pittsburg | 1,054 | 65 mi | Farmington, ME |
| 2 | Colebrook | 2,764 | 64 mi | Farmington, ME |
| 3 | West Stewartstown | 527 | 63 mi | Farmington, ME |
| 4 | North Stratford | 1,297 | 60 mi | Barre, VT |
| 5 | Groveton | 1,949 | 58 mi | Barre, VT |
How New Hampshire compares
The states ranked closest to New Hampshire on this metric. Click any for the dedicated breakdown.
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.
More about New Hampshire
See the full breakdown of New Hampshire's counties at /states/new-hampshire/counties — population, area, median income, and county seat for every county, plus a labeled printable map. The companion study 100-mile radius around New Hampshire's capital measures the share of New Hampshire'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 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.