what is going on everyone have you ever just wanted to get away from people a
lot of us do that's why we go camping hiking take unisom and sometimes quit
showering for weeks at a time all in an attempt to get away from other human
beings some people want to do this on a full-time basis and move way out of town
the further the better those people see it that's how they like it and that's
fine it's not just Preppers Hermits and
people avoiding lawyers it's everyday people that daydream about this this a
very popular video series on this channel in part because it's a very
interesting subject like I said people daydream about it and I also had to
redhead girls from us clued to town in Wyoming as the thumbnail on the last one
that didn't hurt today's video is the third video in this series this list
won't be filled with towns that you need a mule in three days of water to get to
this list is comprised of user suggestions ever since the first
secluded town video I've gotten comments and emails about how I missed one I
always seem to miss one people say I sort of realized from the comments
distance isn't the only thing that makes a place secluded some people feel since
nobody ever visits their small town or their village or whatever it's secluded
maybe it's like 20 miles down the interstate from some city but you have
to get off the interstate and drive ten minutes into the desert to the town that
really has nothing so to the people of that town they're secluded so I filtered
through the comments and came up with this list this list is in no particular
order some of the locations may not statistically be a town per se they may
have like under a hundred people or something like that after you watch this
video and know of one that should have been on the list let me know in the
comments section below we'll make another video all right so let's check
out what the subscribers said in my top 10 most secluded towns the subscriber
version
number ten Thurmond West Virginia this first one
came from a longtime subscriber Andy Sumner she asked me on Twitter with this
week's videos would be and I told her about this one and she said she had a
really good one I told her to put it in the comment section and yeah she was
right it was a good one Thurmond West Virginia isn't as much the distance that
makes it secluded as nobody goes there it was built on a hillside of a river
valley and at its peak in 1930 Thurmond had a population of 460 the new river
flows right by town that's what's called the new river these days it has five
nothing happens here but the Amtrak rolling through town a couple times a
week it does stop to pick up people from the area sometime so that's kind of cool
the medium income reported for a family was zero in the 2010 census
holy moonshine Batman how are those people paying their Internet oh never
mind they can't even get internet and Thurman which makes it even more
secluded number nine marble Mount Washington Christy Clark said marble
Mount Washington should be on the list I took a look I agree as of the census of
2000 there were 251 people 93 households and 59 families residing in marble mount
marble mount or em town as the locals call it and totally kidding nobody has
ever said that until just now nothing happens in marble mountain their news
for the last year has consisted of a Wolf Pack being spotted near town the
locals are trying to stop a mine from opening up and like most out-of-the-way
towns a a couple guys got arrested for threatening people with firearms the
closest real city is Everett Washington about an hour and a half down some
mountain roads that get kind of dangerous in the winter and before you
do stop typing if you're from the area I am sure that you are an expert driver
and you drive them all the time and you're amazing
Mario Andretti used to call you for advice I get it I watched a YouTube
video about the area and they were saying some of the locals get snowed in
for weeks at a time in the winter and that kind of makes those people even
more secluded marble mount isn't far from concrete Washington which is
somewhat famous for two things author Tobias Wolff attending concrete
high school and during the War of the Worlds radio broadcast in 1938 they had
a power outage at the worst possible time people all over the country thought
that the radio show was actually a Doozer
of an alien invasion they thought it was real a few minutes before they announced
it wasn't real a transformer blew in the town went dark this is a radio show so
people just couldn't you know figure it out these people freaked out some even
went and hid in the woods for weeks before they realized it was okay to come
out number-8 Heppner Oregon Aaron Henshaw told us about Heppner Oregon
Heppner Oregon is in a part of Oregon that Oregonians would like Idaho to take
off our hands like some Louisiana Purchase thing will give Eastern Oregon
to them for some rugs beads and I don't know a badminton court with a hedge a
multi-level hedge thing you know make it nice you know landscaping or anyway
hepner sits at the base of the Willow Creek Reservoir Dam I've always marveled
at people that build homes essentially in the wash plain for a dam if the dam
breaks they will have to change the name from the Willow Creek reservoir to the
sunken city lake or something like that this place makes the local insurance
company cry every time someone mentions the word earthquake Kepner is about a
three hour drive east of Portland and really other than Legrand and
Pendleton's kind of there but those are just the Pendleton's like a really small
town and the grants nothing special those are off to even further to the
east which nobody goes to so yeah Heppner Oregon is secluded number seven
Charlotte Iowa charles merrick told us about charlotte iowa with its 398
residents that was in the 2010 census since then they've misplaced about 40
people and they're not really sure where I think they probably lost him in a
cornfield or something Charlotte was incorporated in 1904 a post office had
already been established there since 1853 the town was named for the first
post masters wife Charlotte Gilmore how sweet is that my cousin actually named
his car after his ex-wife he calls that Pontiac Aztek the swamp witch
Charlotte is almost an hour away from the nearest city which is Davenport if
you've ever been to Davenport you know it's not much of a city so really
they're even further away from civilization number six
Wilton Wisconsin Phoenix cat thugs said Wilton Wisconsin should be on the list
Wilton is about an hour so of driving country roads to get to La Crosse
Wisconsin Wilton was founded sometime in the mid-1800s
I saw three different dates and I couldn't figure out which one
and nobody's got a bead on when this little town started or village so I just
go with mid-1800s anyway it's considered a village because
it only has 500 residents this is the type of place that everybody knows
everybody and of course they gossip about each other at the local diner
American Legion it's the American Way it's what we do when we live in small
towns you know they're out there saying things like hey don't you know that
Anderson girl's been getting that fake tan down at Margie's on Main and meeting
up with that boy from Oil City down at the Kickapoo don't you know now I know
that sounds funny to most of you what's really funny is that those places are
reeling including the Kickapoo river that flows right by Town Oil City is
right down the road and you can get a fake tan at Margie's on Main I'm sure
they do great work there and if there is any young lady in Wilton named Anderson
I'm sorry I just picked out a random name I don't want to spread any rumors
about you and make you look like the town tramp or anything like that as I
say this I realized that Anderson is one of the most common names in Minnesota
and Wisconsin so the chances of there being a young lady named Anderson Wilton
are very high I apologize I know nobody from Wilton and I've heard no rumors
about any young lady down to the Kickapoo number five Glen Rio New Mexico
and Texas in this day and age is the name of this YouTube channel and they
suggested we look at Atlanta Louisiana and Glen Rio New Mexico and Texas you
got to go with the place that's in two states right Glen Rio isn't a big town
or village for that matter the community was founded in 1903 as a railroad siding
on the Rock Island Railroad it's name is derived from the Scots word Glen and the
Spanish word Rio I guess a lot of Scots and a lot of Mexicans we're working on
that rail at the time it's a good thing that there's only one resident living
here could you imagine the problems you'd have if you were living in a town
that split down the middle by two states and there's teenagers
living there Texas and New Mexico have different ages of consent can you
imagine the problems you can get into because your girlfriend came over to
your house and Texas or something strange
Glen Rios a little over an hour away from Amarillo Texas and there's almost
nothing in between the two towns there's a little town called Vega but it's
really not much of a town going into New Mexico the western direction there
really isn't anything except Tucumcari which there's tons of jokes that go with
Tucumcari and I'm not even you get into them Glen Rio even has a visitor center
that doubles as a rest stop Wow what are people coming to visit for has
anyone ever visited here I mean other than to have to use the restroom number
four dear Arkansas Rebecca swilling thought dear Arkansas was worthy of our
list looks like it is dear is an unincorporated community in Newton
County Arkansas it only has 800 residents and it's within the Ozark
National Forest the nearest town is Harrison with its 12,000 residents about
an hour drive on Arkansas 7 the good news is the Arkansas 7 is in a dirt road
like most of you assumed after all it is Arkansas it's safe to assume that it
would be a dirt road but it is paved at least most of it watch out for potholes
and exploding moonshine stills and you'll be ok there's also a big thing
here running into deer it isn't actually in a National Forest so be prepared for
that running into deer and hillbillies they wander out onto the road
occasionally number 3 Haines Alaska Toby wanted us to know about Haines Alaska
Haines is in the middle of a peninsula on the Chinook Inlet which is part of
the Alaskan Inside Passage that means nothing to anybody unless you're from
the area or have taken an Alaskan cruise you'll hear about it all the time on the
cruises which I'm going on one in April and I will give you plenty of pictures
and video Haines has 1700 residents and if you want to drive to the nearest city
it's in Canada it's about a five-hour drive away they got a couple little
villages between there in the city but yeah the nearest American town is
Skagway and that's about an hour and a half boat ride or it's like a 10 hour
drive if you want to drive your car the funnest thing to do here is drink look
at bald eagles and wave it passing cruise ships while you drink or drink
and look at bald eagles and cruise ships at the same time that's actually
possible there or you could just drink and sit in the woods and stare at trees
that's also a lot of fun sometimes you could go out and dip your toes in the
water for a few seconds not much longer than that because the ocean is freezing
they're literally like little miniature icebergs I know they're not called
icebergs but little chunks of ice float by they're on a regular basis it's weird
and you can do that while you're drinking too
number two Atlanta Idaho Dan Carlin tipped us off to Atlanta Idaho it was
founded in 1864 during the Civil War as a gold and silver mining community and
named by southerners after they heard a rumor of a Confederate victory over
General Sherman in the Battle of Atlanta which turned out to be completely wrong
Sherman actually marched right through Atlanta and set the place on fire but
the name stuff the closest city is Boise and that's about three and a half hours
of mountain road driving though good luck with that especially during the
winter Atlanta has less than 300 people in the village itself in the surrounding
area they don't have much going on here except for the river and whoa hold on a
second do they really have a beaver lodge I need to go here and number one
Tangier Island Virginia Kevin Dean told us about Tangier Island Virginia 90
miles south of Washington DC you have the tiny fishing community on Tangier
Island the population was 727 at the 2010 census right now they figure it's
closer to about 600 the people who came to settled the island permanently
arrived in 1770 and they're farmers in the late 19th century the island became
more dependent on harvesting crabs and oysters from the Chesapeake Bay Tangier
Island is located eighteen miles offshore in the Chesapeake Bay and it is
sinking it probably will be completely underwater within the next 25 to 50
years unless they get a seawall because of rising sea levels and erosion and
things like that it's just gonna be gone soon well soon I mean if 50 years is
soon to you I mean 50 years is soon to a turtle but maybe not to most humans I
don't know this place is so secluded it even has its own very distinct accent
really you should watch a video on it's pretty interesting because of it being
so isolated most the island residents can trace their lineage back to when it
was a colonial outpost that's interesting
Tangier is a very secluded location and it is number one on this list
now all right everyone's let's my top 10 most secluded locations third video it's
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