My search via Google Earth implies not, but just wondering.
Anybody know if any other states lack inhabited islands?
Yes, I’m on vacation this week. And loving it.
I don’t think there are any here in New Mexico.
Certainly doesn’t look like it. Wikipedia lists only 7 islands in New Mexico, and none of them look to be inhabited.
Mountaintops that are far away from other mountains are sometimes called “sky islands” and they sometimes have settlements on them.
Any number in South Carolina. But what size are we talking, here?
I’m mainly curious about how many states don’t have inhabited islands. I’m sure SC does, I’ve been on a few of them.
So which states do you think *have *inhabited islands? I’d expect most coastal (and Great Lakes) states to have some, and almost all inland states to have none.
Of non-coastal states I’m pretty familiar with Nevada and Missouri. I suspect neither have inhabited islands. Islands with campgrounds, sure. But not with regular habitation.
Lots of river and reservoir islands are inhabited. Missouri has an island that has a house or two on it at 38.23001, -92.73403. I’ve found similar islands in OK, NE, and other non-coastal states.
I think there are some on the Big Thompson River west of Loveland, but we are talking about a tiny piece of land connected by a bridge with a single dwelling on it.
According to the USGS, there are twelve named islands in the state of Colorado, about ten of which are in reservoirs and the remaining two are in between channels of rivers. None of them appear to be inhabited.
I remember using this service in a previous thread to tally the number of islands in various U.S. states. Only one of the named islands of Kansas, for example, appears to have any man-made structures on it (some kind of farm, but apparently no houses); the other two appear to be uninhabited.
That’d qualify. Got coordinates for those islands?
Yeah, Grand Lake O’ The Cherokees here in OK has Monkey Island - with quite a bit of development on it.
I’m going by memory, and Google Maps isn’t a lot of help because of the vegetation in the foothills. Sorry.
Ooh, good one! Thanks!
Close examination shows Monkey Island isn’t really an island.
But nearby Bluestar island at 36.57605, -94.88978 certainly is.
I’m just imagining that guy living in his run down little farmhouse in Silt with his old trucks and his (squinting… horses maybe?) not even suspecting he may be the only island dweller in the state of Colorado.
What do you want to do about Hawaii? Yeah, they are all islands, but do they have any lakes large enough to have lake islands, much less inhabited ones?
How big is Mauna Loa’s crater? 
I think Ford Island in Pearl Harbor should do it for Hawaii.