Is Northern and Western Maine the most remote part of the US, east of the Mississippi? (Ashland: rating, area)

[221B]

You haven't really experienced remote until you've parked in the Toy Story parking lot at Disneyland.
Trudging back to your car parked miles away, at 1:30 in the morning, after blitzing through the park for 16 hours… now that's REMOTE!

[mainebrokerman]

Maine is over 90% trees, the MOST forested state in the country

The forests of Maine stretch from Kittery to Fort Kent and from Jackman to Lubec. In fact, forests cover 90% (17.7 million acres) of the state, making Maine the most heavily forested state in the country.
Northern and eastern Maine have the largest tracts of undeveloped forest in the eastern United States. In the western United States, large blocks of forest are publicly owned and overseen by the federal government. Maine is unique in that the public owns just 6% of forest in the state. The other 94% (16.7 million acres) is in private hands.

The 10 million acres known as the North Woods (dark green on map) is the largest unfragmented forest east of the Mississippi River map won't come up, but it's a map of just maine, shaded from west to north to east

[Northern Maine Land Man]

Here is a link to "Keeping Maine's Forests". It is a Maine State initiative to prevent those who own wooded land in Maine from living on it. A century and a half ago, Henry David Thoreau asked, "Why would anybody go west when Maine has everything?" Today the answer is LURC, The Land Use Regulation Commission. It's a misnomer. What they really regulate with a heavy fist is people.

Click on the link. It is very slick and it hides the true intent of all this which is rural cleansing. Over the past few weeks there have been numerous posts related to Northern Maine. The three maps on Page 11 of this document are very useful.

http://www.keepingmainesforests.org/...%2013%2010.pdf

[Submariner]

There are a lot of people who do not want to allow anyone to live in the UTs of Maine.

I have met a few of them.

[GraniteStater]

The lowest population density of any county in the eastern US is Hamilton County, NY at 2.9 people per square mile, in the Adirondack park.

[Submariner]

The US census Bureau produces a population density map of Maine that shows the relative population densities of different areas, broken down by people per square mile.

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedi...lation_map.png

As you can see vast regions of Maine have less than 1 person per square mile.

Here is yet another census map which shows the huge areas of Maine with less than 1 person per square mile.

http://www.statemapsonline.com/image...ensity-Map.jpg





I recall reading an article during the most recent census, about how the US Census had to combine so many townships into clusters so they could find one person to survey.

There were dozens of town-clusters like that. This 4 town-cluster, that 3 town-cluster, etc.

[Bydand]

Originally Posted by GraniteStater

The lowest population density of any county in the eastern US is Hamilton County, NY at 2.9 people per square mile, in the Adirondack park.

You can't go by population density along at the County level when determining how remote an area is. Hamilton County is 1717 square miles in size which is SMALL compared to the Counties in Northern Maine. Aroostook is 6671 square miles, Piscataquis is 3960 sq/mi and Somerset County is 3924 sq/mi. Either Somerset or Piscataquis has an area that is under 1 person per square miles that would be at least 1 1/2 times as large as Hamilton County. Western Aroostook County would have an area that would easily be less than 3 people per square miles that is 2 1/2 times as large.

[GraniteStater]

Originally Posted by Bydand

You can't go by population density along at the County level when determining how remote an area is. Hamilton County is 1717 square miles in size which is SMALL compared to the Counties in Northern Maine. Aroostook is 6671 square miles, Piscataquis is 3960 sq/mi and Somerset County is 3924 sq/mi. Either Somerset or Piscataquis has an area that is under 1 person per square miles that would be at least 1 1/2 times as large as Hamilton County. Western Aroostook County would have an area that would easily be less than 3 people per square miles that is 2 1/2 times as large.

On a township or UT basis that would be correct for the remote portions of the Maine counties. In terms of the county with the lowest overall density in Maine- it would be Piscataquis. However, Aroostook probably has a larger UT land area.

[Bydand]

Originally Posted by GraniteStater

On a township or UT basis that would be correct for the remote portions of the Maine counties. In terms of the county with the lowest overall density in Maine- it would be Piscataquis. However, Aroostook probably has a larger UT land area.

That's what I meant. County, by County density comparisons don't tell the whole story when it comes to counties that are that large and forested.

[THFox83]

Originally Posted by maineguy8888

As far as just pure remoteness, I don't think there are any areas in the entire lower 48 that are more remote than northern Maine. All the previous contenders have seen quite a bit of change over the last 50 years. Or they are located on the way to "somewhere else". But we're still our own little world lol
I like it........it keeps the crazies and wimps out lol

I would classify most Mainers as crazy.