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Mapping Washington's Loneliest Town: Loomis Sits 93 Miles From Colville

By SimpleMapLab·Published 13 May 2026·Rank #14 of 50 states·↑ All 50 states

Loomis, WA — population 289, Okanogan County — is the most isolated inhabited place in Washington. The nearest city of 10,000+ residents is Colville, WA, sitting 93 straight-line miles away. Washington has 331 towns under 10,000 residents; Loomis is the most isolated among them.

Map: Loomis, WA (Washington'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, Colville, sits on its edge 93 miles away.The brick-red dot marks Loomis, the most isolated inhabited place in Washington. 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. East Wenatchee, WA96 MIWenatchee, WA102 MIGranite Falls, WA105 MIEphrata, WA106 MIColville, WALoomisWASHINGTON 93 MIsimplemaplab.com / studies / most-remote-places
Loomis (red dot) and the nearest 10,000+ city, Colville, WA (green dot), separated by 93 straight-line miles.
93 mi
straight-line distance from Loomis to Colville, WA
289
year-round residents of Loomis (Census 2020)
20 mi
average distance to nearest anchor across Washington's 331 small towns
#14
of 50 states ranked by their loneliest town's isolation
Open a radius around Loomis → /tools/map-radius-tool · Loomis, WA · 50 mi
The link opens the SimpleMapLab Map Radius Tool with a 50-mile circle drawn around Loomis. Try expanding the radius to see how far you have to look before encountering any 10,000+ city — the answer is roughly 93 miles in the direction of Colville.

Why this happened

Washington's loneliest inhabited place is Loomis — 93 miles from Colville. Loomis's 289 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 Washington small-town resident lives 20 miles from a qualifying anchor.

Washington's 5 most isolated towns

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

#TownPop.Distance to nearest 10K+Nearest city
1Loomis28993 miColville, WA
2Conconully18278 miEast Wenatchee, WA
3Riverside1,09676 miColville, WA
4Winthrop2,99576 miEast Wenatchee, WA
5Mazama24574 miGranite Falls, WA

How Washington compares

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

#13 California
Fort Bidwell · 93 mi to the nearest 10K+ city
#15 Maine
Saint Francis · 86 mi to the nearest 10K+ city
#16 New Mexico
Aragon · 86 mi to the nearest 10K+ city
#12 Utah
Teasdale · 96 mi to the nearest 10K+ city
#11 Idaho
Cascade · 96 mi to the nearest 10K+ city

Draw your own radius

Open a 50-mile circle around Loomis →

Try the 100-mile radius to see whether a major city falls inside — for Loomis, it doesn't, because the nearest qualifying city (Colville, WA) sits 93 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 Washington 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 Washington's loneliest. Full methodology on the hub page.

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