{"id":8710,"date":"2011-06-30T18:49:21","date_gmt":"2011-06-30T23:49:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.howderfamily.com\/blog\/?p=8710"},"modified":"2022-05-27T06:29:53","modified_gmt":"2022-05-27T11:29:53","slug":"least-visited-counties","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.howderfamily.com\/blog\/least-visited-counties\/","title":{"rendered":"Least Visited U.S. Counties"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Of all the 3,143 counties and county-equivalents in the United States, which are the least visited? I don\u2019t think there is any definitive way to know for certain. As a proxy, however, I examined the 20 least visited counties for the Lower 48 states listed on the Mob Rule county counting website<\/a> as of June 2011. This may not be a perfect list but it should closely approximate it. After all, these are people who go out of their way to catalog county visits. Counties at the very bottom of their collective list are undoubtedly inconvenient places to visit.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Least visited doesn\u2019t mean lowest population, it means fewest non-residents entering a physical space, although I imagine there should be a general correlation. Each of the Bottom 20 provides plenty of elbow room. A lightly populated county can still have plenty of visitors though, however fleeting: imagine rural outposts that straddle Interstate Highways or serve as a gateway to national parks. Loving County, Texas, the least populated county in the United States has only 82 residents but it does not appear in the Bottom 20.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I took the Mob Rule list and plotted the twenty counties on a map.<\/p>\n\n\n\n