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Teasdale, UT Is Utah's Most Remote Inhabited Place — 96 Miles to Price

By SimpleMapLab·Published 13 May 2026·Rank #12 of 50 states·↑ All 50 states

Teasdale, UT — population 357, Wayne County — is the most isolated inhabited place in Utah. The nearest city of 10,000+ residents is Price, UT, sitting 96 straight-line miles away. Utah has 187 towns under 10,000 residents; Teasdale is the most isolated among them.

Map: Teasdale, UT (Utah'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, Price, sits on its edge 96 miles away.The brick-red dot marks Teasdale, the most isolated inhabited place in Utah. 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. Cedar City, UT102 MIPage, AZ110 MIMoab, UT111 MIPayson, UT119 MIPrice, UTTeasdaleUTAH 96 MIsimplemaplab.com / studies / most-remote-places
Teasdale (red dot) and the nearest 10,000+ city, Price, UT (green dot), separated by 96 straight-line miles.
96 mi
straight-line distance from Teasdale to Price, UT
357
year-round residents of Teasdale (Census 2020)
34 mi
average distance to nearest anchor across Utah's 187 small towns
#12
of 50 states ranked by their loneliest town's isolation
Open a radius around Teasdale → /tools/map-radius-tool · Teasdale, UT · 50 mi
The link opens the SimpleMapLab Map Radius Tool with a 50-mile circle drawn around Teasdale. Try expanding the radius to see how far you have to look before encountering any 10,000+ city — the answer is roughly 96 miles in the direction of Price.

Why this happened

Utah's loneliest inhabited place is Teasdale — 96 miles from Price. Teasdale's 357 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 Utah small-town resident lives 34 miles from a qualifying anchor.

Utah's 5 most isolated towns

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

#TownPop.Distance to nearest 10K+Nearest city
1Teasdale35796 miPrice, UT
2Bicknell53193 miPrice, UT
3Boulder52291 miPage, AZ
4Elsinore1,20289 miCedar City, UT
5Lyman30488 miPrice, UT

How Utah compares

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

#13 California
Fort Bidwell · 93 mi to the nearest 10K+ city
#11 Idaho
Cascade · 96 mi to the nearest 10K+ city
#10 Minnesota
Grand Marais · 99 mi to the nearest 10K+ city
#14 Washington
Loomis · 93 mi to the nearest 10K+ city
#9 Colorado
Cheyenne Wells · 106 mi to the nearest 10K+ city

Draw your own radius

Open a 50-mile circle around Teasdale →

Try the 100-mile radius to see whether a major city falls inside — for Teasdale, it doesn't, because the nearest qualifying city (Price, UT) sits 96 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 Utah 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 Utah's loneliest. Full methodology on the hub page.

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