Teasdale, UT Is Utah's Most Remote Inhabited Place — 96 Miles to Price
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.
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.
| # | Town | Pop. | Distance to nearest 10K+ | Nearest city |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Teasdale | 357 | 96 mi | Price, UT |
| 2 | Bicknell | 531 | 93 mi | Price, UT |
| 3 | Boulder | 522 | 91 mi | Page, AZ |
| 4 | Elsinore | 1,202 | 89 mi | Cedar City, UT |
| 5 | Lyman | 304 | 88 mi | Price, UT |
How Utah compares
The states ranked closest to Utah on this metric. Click any for the dedicated breakdown.
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.
More about Utah
See the full breakdown of Utah's counties at /states/utah/counties — population, area, median income, and county seat for every county, plus a labeled printable map. The companion study 100-mile radius around Utah's capital measures the share of Utah'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 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.