Clinching Counties' Highways

[NWI_Irish96]

There are threads about clinching counties and clinching highways, but I haven't seen one for clinching all highways within counties.  Does anybody else keep track of that?

For my purpose, a county's highways are clinched if I have driven every signed mile within the county in all of the following categories:
Interstate highways
Business interstate highways
US highways
Auxiliary US highways (BUS, ALT)
State highways, including any BUS, ALT or TRK

I've currently "highway clinched" 32 counties in Indiana, 3 in Michigan, and one each in Illinois and Kentucky (the most populous one in each though).

My goal for the end of the year is to finish 7 more in Indiana and 2 more each in Illinois and Michigan. 

[MNHighwayMan]

What about signed county routes? (if applicable)

[NWI_Irish96]

What about signed county routes? (if applicable)

Because they vary so much from state to state, I didn't include signed county highways as part of my criteria.  Of course, anyone else attempting to "highway clinch" counties can choose to include them.  Indiana doesn't have them, save a couple decommissioned state highways where counties have chosen to keep the numbers and re-sign them as county highways.  Michigan and Kentucky also don't have any that I've ever seen.  Also, keeping track of my travels at the state level and above is easy using travelmapping.net and I don't know of any way to easily keep track of county routes. 

[Flint1979]

My part of Michigan doesn't have county highways. I'm in Zone E for county highways which is bordered by I-96 on the south, US-127 on the west, US-10 and the Saginaw Bay on the north and Lake Huron on the east. Zone E is the only zone in Michigan with no county highways.

However Zone D only has two highways and I have both clinched D-19 and D-32 have their terminus at each other and D-32 is called the Highway to Hell since it passes through Hell, Michigan which I ironically passed through without even realizing it about a month ago. Both highways are about 10 miles long.

[Rothman]

To answer the question, no.

[Eth]

There are threads about clinching counties and clinching highways, but I haven't seen one for clinching all highways within counties.  Does anybody else keep track of that? 

I've clinched the following counties (Georgia unless otherwise specified):
Butts
Clayton
DeKalb
Fayette
Forsyth
Gwinnett, counting only numbered routes (missing some other TM-mappable mileage though)
Henry
Jasper
Rockdale
Spalding
District of Columbia, counting only numbered routes (missing some other TM-mappable mileage though)

Close, but not quite:
Cobb (missing GA 120 west of Marietta)
Fulton (missing part of GA 92 in south Fulton)
Newton (need to re-clinch GA 36 after it was routed onto the Covington bypass)
Walton (need to re-clinch GA 11 after it was routed onto the Social Circle bypass)
Montgomery, MD (pretty sure I have over 90% of the mileage, but missing a few pieces mostly inside I-495)

[sbeaver44]

I track it, all mine are currently in PA, but I am very close to one in MD.

For PA purposes, I'm not counting quadrant routes as those are effectively unsigned and not part of the primary state highway system.

I count it if all interstates, US routes, PA routes, and auxiliary Interstate and US Routes have been driven.

I have the following PA counties:
Adams
Berks
Carbon
Columbia
Cumberland
Dauphin
Franklin
Fulton
Lancaster
Lebanon
Lehigh
Lycoming
Juniata
Northampton
Northumberland
Perry
Schuylkill
Snyder
Union
York

I am less than 1 mile remaining in Mifflin and Montour.

[Max Rockatansky]

What about signed county routes? (if applicable)

I kind of do that in California with the lettered county routes that interest me.  In that regard I've clinched a couple counties but I probably won't even get close with some like Tulare.  The problem with counties like Tulare is that the lettered county routes are largely no longer signed and many of them are just plain boring flat terrain.  With the State Routes I'm generally making a purposeful attempt to get as many as I can but I won't do a lettered country route unless it is on my path of travel. 

[TheHighwayMan3561]

MN, as far as I know; it's tough to be 100% sure
Aitkin
Anoka
Benton
Chisago
Crow Wing
Cook (this is the only one I can easily be 100% sure of)
Hennepin
Isanti
Kanabec
Lake
Mille Lacs
Morrison
Pine
Sherburne

Near misses:
Carlton (MN 289)
Wright (US 12 west of Cokato)

[US 89]

I keep track of this, counting interstates, US routes, state routes, and any bannered routes of those. County roads in this area either don't exist or are signed very poorly, so I don't bother with them. However, unsigned state routes do count.

So far I've fully completed Davis, Morgan, Salt Lake, and Weber County in Utah. Of those, Morgan County was sort of accidental - I drove up with the intent to clinch SR 65 and 66, and afterwards realized I'd totally finished the county without intending to.

I'm also extremely close on Kane County, where I'm missing the 2 miles or so of US 89A.

[vdeane]

I keep track of NY.  I have all of Regions 1, 2, 3, 4*, 7**, and 9, as well as Yates, Chemung, Schuyler, Columbia, Dutchess, Putnam, Ulster, Orange, Rockland, New York, and Richmond Counties.

*Technically not Truck NY 354, but it's small enough that I've essentially sight clinched it, probably temporary, and truck routes aren't really considered part of the "state highway system" (for example, we didn't record the pavement score for them back when that was still done by the regions, even though we did for routes that we don't maintain)
**Sight clinch of US 11 from US 2 to the border; no idea if/when I'll be able to get around to fixing this

[ftballfan]

I've done several in Michigan:
Benzie
Isabella
Lake
Livingston
Manistee
Mason
Newaygo
Oceana
Osceola
Ottawa (clinched it twice as I had the county clinched before M-231 opened then had to re-clinch it)
Washtenaw
Wexford

I am close in the following counties:
Branch (missing M-86)
Grand Traverse (missing two small portions of M-72)
Hillsdale (missing small portions of M-49 and M-99)
Ingham (missing M-52 north of Webberville)
Jackson (only missing M-50 south of Brooklyn)
Kent (missing small portions of M-21, M-44, and M-57)
Mecosta (missing M-20 between Big Rapids and Remus)
Missaukee (missing M-66 north of M-42)
Muskegon (only missing M-120 between US-31 and Holton)

[keithvh]

To answer the question, no.

Yeah, sometimes there are TOO many things to count.  :-)

But I did do some spot checks.  I have Macomb, Oakland & Saint Clair counties MI clinched.  Broomfield and Clear Creek counties CO clinched.  Those 2 make sense - I've lived in Detroit & Denver.

However, I also have Elk County KS clinched.  That's an oddball.  But there are two through highways and I've taken each of them as part of a bigger trip once.

[formulanone]

I keep track of counties and routes, but never gave much thought as to how many of each.

21 in Florida: Monroe, Miami-Dade, Broward, Collier, Lee, Palm Beach, Martin, Indian River, Okeechobee, Highlands, De Soto, Hendry, Hardee, Glades, Brevard, Sumter, Osceola, Alachua, Putnam, St. Johns, Flagler.

7 9 in Alabama: Madison, Limestone, Lawrence, Morgan, Marshall, Etowah, Cherokee.
Can add Cullman and Blount.

So, 28 30 is my answer for now. I can't think of any others that I haven't lived near or alongside of, to count towards that total.

[oscar]

Easiest for me to figure is for the states where I've clinched the entire Interstate/US/state highway network:

Hawaii (four counties with state highways, one of which has Interstates but no current signed county routes, the other three I've clinched all the signed and numbered county routes),

Alaska (15 counties/equivalents with state highways; no county routes, not counting lots of unsigned state-maintained routes, and some signed and numbered Forest Service roads)

Delaware (three counties, I've covered all their signed/numbered Intestate/US/state routes, no signed/numbered county routes)

Maryland (23 county equivalents where I've covered all their signed/numbered Intestate/US/state routes, missing one state route in the remaining county, no signed/numbered county routes)

California (54 of its 58 counties, I've covered all their signed/numbered Intestate/US/state routes, but not necessarily all their all their signed/numbered county routes)

Also, Virginia (at least Arlington and Henrico counties, and most of the independent cities, which conveniently have no state secondary routes)

Might be some counties in other states too, but no time to figure that out.

[Hot Rod Hootenanny]

If you have an account with the Travel Mapping site, it is easy to figure out which counties you've clinched.*
That said, I only have 9 counties, all within Ohio, "clinched."
Delaware
Morrow
Marion
Union
Knox
Franklin
Licking
Lake
Geauga

* - I think the only exception is Mississippi which, outside of MS 55, has no other state routes are listed as of yet.

[hbelkins]

If you're talking about signed state routes within counties, then I have all 55 of West Virginia's clinched, since I have the state primary route system completed in that state.

In Kentucky, that total is exactly one, my home county. I did have two under my belt, but they added a state route to Estill County last year (swapped it with the county; turning over a state route to the county that had been a state highway since the days of the round cutout markers). I never drove that route when it was county maintained, so I couldn't grandfather it in.

[NWI_Irish96]

Kentucky's counties are definitely a pain due to the density of signed highways.  Took me a long time to get Jefferson.

[Max Rockatansky]

Here is what I have finished in California for state maintained highways:

-  Kern
-  Tulare
-  San Luis Obispo
-  San Benito
-  Monterey
-  Santa Clara
-  San Mateo
-  San Francisco
-  Alameda
-  Fresno
-  Madera
-  Mariposa
-  Merced
-  Stanislaus
-  Mono
-  San Joaquin
-  El Dorado
-  Alpine

I'll have Sacramento County completed tomorrow if plans stick true.  For Arizona the only two counties I didn't fully clinch the State Highway system were Graham Santa Cruz.  I'd have to sit down and really think about the other states I lived in or worked like Florida or Nevada. 

[hotdogPi]

I've been on all numbered state routes on Nantucket and Martha's Vineyard (Dukes County), even though I have never been there.

[DandyDan]

Iowa made this easier by decommissioning numerous highways in 2003. My list for Iowa includes Fremont, Mills, Pottawattomie, Winnebago, Hancock, Wright, Cerro Gordo, Worth, Mitchell, Floyd, Chickasaw and Howard.

When I lived in Nebraska, I got Douglas and Sarpy.

[CNGL-Leudimin]

I do it with the comarcas of my home region of Aragon. For that, I consider a comarca to be highway-clinched if I have been on all routes prefixed A, AP or N in it, as well as the Z-40 beltway around Zaragoza (note that A is used for both non-tolled freeways and regional roads). I've thus highway-clinched 3 of them, and recently I've run out of stuff to see in one (Campo de Cariñena, South of Zaragoza) as I grabbed the last municipality I had yet to enter there.

I've been on all numbered state routes on Nantucket and Martha's Vineyard (Dukes County), even though I have never been there.

So I do. As well as those on Kalawao county in Hawaii .

[okroads]

Yes I do. A couple years ago, I created a spreadsheet to keep track of clinched Ohio route mileage by county. So far, I've only 100% completed one county in Ohio (Franklin) but am above 90% in two others: Delaware & Clark.

I know I have some counties in Oklahoma finished (at least 2: Oklahoma & Cleveland) but don't have a spreadsheet for that state.

[webny99]

Clinching individual highways, especially non-freeways, is an activity that sounds like it would give me a headache.

I generally know whether I've traveled a specific road segment, and if so roughly how many times, but I've never felt the need to get more detailed than that in recording my travels.

[iowahighways]

Using the original poster's criteria, I've clinched all of Iowa's state highways, plus the state highways of one non-Iowa county (Rock Island, IL), so that would be a total of 100 counties.

Given Iowa's vast county road system, I have chosen not to keep track of the county roads I've been on.