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Mapping Vermont's Loneliest Town: Beecher Falls Sits 72 Miles From Farmington in ME

By SimpleMapLab·Published 13 May 2026·Rank #19 of 50 states·↑ All 50 states

Beecher Falls, VT — population 104, Essex County — is the most isolated inhabited place in Vermont. The nearest city of 10,000+ residents is Farmington, ME, sitting 72 straight-line miles away — across the state line in ME. Vermont has 235 towns under 10,000 residents; Beecher Falls is the most isolated among them.

Map: Beecher Falls, VT (Vermont'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 72 miles away.The brick-red dot marks Beecher Falls, the most isolated inhabited place in Vermont. 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. Barre, VT74 MIMontpelier, VT74 MISaint Albans, VT81 MIEssex Junction, VT84 MIFarmington, MEBeecher FallsVERMONT 72 MIsimplemaplab.com / studies / most-remote-places
Beecher Falls (red dot) and the nearest 10,000+ city, Farmington, ME (green dot), separated by 72 straight-line miles.
72 mi
straight-line distance from Beecher Falls to Farmington, ME
104
year-round residents of Beecher Falls (Census 2020)
18 mi
average distance to nearest anchor across Vermont's 235 small towns
#19
of 50 states ranked by their loneliest town's isolation
Open a radius around Beecher Falls → /tools/map-radius-tool · Beecher Falls, VT · 50 mi
The link opens the SimpleMapLab Map Radius Tool with a 50-mile circle drawn around Beecher Falls. Try expanding the radius to see how far you have to look before encountering any 10,000+ city — the answer is roughly 72 miles in the direction of Farmington.

Why this happened

Vermont's loneliest inhabited place is Beecher Falls — 72 miles from Farmington in ME. Beecher Falls's 104 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 Vermont small-town resident lives 18 miles from a qualifying anchor.

Vermont's 5 most isolated towns

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

#TownPop.Distance to nearest 10K+Nearest city
1Beecher Falls10472 miFarmington, ME
2Canaan80167 miBarre, VT
3Norton10860 miMontpelier, VT
4Derby Line1,53457 miSaint Albans, VT
5Island Pond1,31554 miBarre, VT

How Vermont compares

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

#20 Michigan
McMillan · 70 mi to the nearest 10K+ city
#18 North Dakota
Neche · 74 mi to the nearest 10K+ city
#21 Arizona
Blue Gap · 66 mi to the nearest 10K+ city
#17 Wyoming
Lance Creek · 84 mi to the nearest 10K+ city
#22 New Hampshire
Pittsburg · 65 mi to the nearest 10K+ city

Draw your own radius

Open a 50-mile circle around Beecher Falls →

Try the 100-mile radius to see whether a major city falls inside — for Beecher Falls, it doesn't, because the nearest qualifying city (Farmington, ME) sits 72 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 Vermont 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 Vermont's loneliest. Full methodology on the hub page.

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