Counties with no 4-way state highway intersections

[US 89]

What counties do you know of that have no 4-way intersections or freeway interchanges where each leg is at least a state route? We've had a thread on counties without traffic lights, so I'm curious how that list compares to this one.

I'll start with Utah: Beaver, Daggett, Duchesne, Garfield, Kane, Rich, Tooele, Uintah, Wasatch, Washington, and Wayne County do not have any 4-way state highway junctions, which is a lot more than the 6 Utah counties without a traffic light.

[Max Rockatansky]

Pretty sure none of the State Highway junctions in Alpine County, CA is four way. 

[webny99]

I believe Hamilton County, NY qualifies (correct me if I'm wrong). There are a number of state route junctions, but they're all three-way.

It's unlikely that any other NY counties qualify - pretty well every county besides Hamilton has one or more population centers with a bunch of state routes.

[Mapmikey]

Counties in Virginia that meet this criteria:

Bath
Buchanan
Craig
Cumberland
Dickenson
Essex
Fluvanna
Giles
Goochland
King and Queen
Lee
Lunenburg
Madison
Mathews
Middlesex
Northumberland
Powhatan
Russell
Scott
Surry
Westmoreland

Also the Independent Cities of Manassas Park and Radford

[1995hoo]

Kalawao in Hawaii

[nexus73]

Coos County OR has three way intersections with a state route involved but no 4-way intersections as defined by the OP. 

Rick

[thspfc]

Menominee County, WI
Florence County, WI
Vilas County, WI
Probably several counties in upper MI as well. St Louis County, MN has only one, and that's a county of 200k people.

[bulldog1979]

In the UP of Michigan:

• Alger
• Baraga
• Delta
• Dickinson
• Keweenaw
• Iron
• Marquette
• Menominee
• Schoolcraft

Houghton is an edge case. There is a four-way intersection with US 41 and M-203. The southern leg is US 41 southbound, the eastern leg is US 41 northbound, the northern leg has both directions of US 41, and the western leg is M-203. All other highway intersections in the county are three-way (or the fourth leg is not a state highway).

[ilpt4u]

Pulaski and Hardin Counties in Southern Illinois qualify, I think...

[GaryV]

In the UP of Michigan:

• Alger
• Baraga
• Delta
• Dickinson
• Keweenaw
• Iron
• Marquette
• Menominee
• Schoolcraft

Houghton is an edge case. There is a four-way intersection with US 41 and M-203. The southern leg is US 41 southbound, the eastern leg is US 41 northbound, the northern leg has both directions of US 41, and the western leg is M-203. All other highway intersections in the county are three-way (or the fourth leg is not a state highway).

And in the Lower Peninsula:
Emmet
Charlevoix
Montmorency
Alpena
Leelanau
Benzie
Grand Traverse
Kalkaska
Oscoda
Alcona
Manistee
Missaukee
Mason
Lake
Oceana
Newago
Montcalm
Huron
Sanilac
Hillsdale

Much of this is due to the propensity of highways to join each other for a short distance.  For example, an E-W route might meet a N-S route, travel concurrently with it for a few miles (or even as little as a few blocks, as in the case of Jonesville in Hillsdale County) and then strike off on it's own again.  This results in 2 intersections with 3-way connections, but no 4-way connection.

[CNGL-Leudimin]

Alaska

Yes, I know it's a state, but there are no freaking 4-way state highway intersections in the entire state, so all boroughs qualify for this thread.

[hbelkins]

Definitely not Lee County, Ky. We have no four-way state highway intersections. All of our bordering counties, however, do have four-way intersections.

[Flint1979]

In the UP of Michigan:

• Alger
• Baraga
• Delta
• Dickinson
• Keweenaw
• Iron
• Marquette
• Menominee
• Schoolcraft

Houghton is an edge case. There is a four-way intersection with US 41 and M-203. The southern leg is US 41 southbound, the eastern leg is US 41 northbound, the northern leg has both directions of US 41, and the western leg is M-203. All other highway intersections in the county are three-way (or the fourth leg is not a state highway).

And in the Lower Peninsula:
Emmet
Charlevoix
Montmorency
Alpena
Leelanau
Benzie
Grand Traverse
Kalkaska
Oscoda
Alcona
Manistee
Missaukee
Mason
Lake
Oceana
Newago
Montcalm
Huron
Sanilac
Hillsdale

Much of this is due to the propensity of highways to join each other for a short distance.  For example, an E-W route might meet a N-S route, travel concurrently with it for a few miles (or even as little as a few blocks, as in the case of Jonesville in Hillsdale County) and then strike off on it's own again.  This results in 2 intersections with 3-way connections, but no 4-way connection.

If I'm understanding the question right then just off the top of my head Sanillac County shouldn't be on the list. M-53 and M-46 intersect in the western part of the county and have all four directions as a state highway.

[jeffandnicole]

What counties do you know of that have no 4-way intersections or freeway interchanges where each leg is at least a state route? We've had a thread on counties without traffic lights, so I'm curious how that list compares to this one.

I'll start with Utah: Beaver, Daggett, Duchesne, Garfield, Kane, Rich, Tooele, Uintah, Wasatch, Washington, and Wayne County do not have any 4-way state highway junctions, which is a lot more than the 6 Utah counties without a traffic light.

While it won't qualify due to highway junctions, amazingly enough from what I can tell Salem County, NJ has no 4 way state or US route surface intersections.

NJ 140 and 48 T's at US 130 and both end at US 40.  NJ 45 and NJ 77 both end at NJ 49.  NJ 45 runs concurrent with US 40 for a little bit so that won't qualify.  And while NJ 77 and US 40 meet, it's actually at a 5 way traffic circle including a county road, not a 4 way intersection, so it doesn't meet the qualifications here either!

[pdx-wanderer]

Oregon has several, in addition to Coos County mentioned above:

Curry County
Lake County
Columbia County
Wheeler County
Grant County
Lincoln County
Clatsop County
Hood River County
Wallowa County

Del Norte County CA is another one.

[ozarkman417]

Missouri: (this list will be expanded, supplementary/Lettered Routes excluded)

Maries, Morgan

[webny99]

Definitely not Lee County, Ky. We have no four-way state highway intersections.

... so it would qualify, then.

[wxfree]

In Texas, my first thought was Terrell and Jeff Davis.  Of course, there's also Kenedy, which doesn't even have a second highway to intersect with US 77.  Checking a map, I also found Edwards and Kent.  I thought Mills was a good candidate, because none of the seven highways in Goldthwaite meet at a four-way, but there's one between two minor highways at the edge of the county.

[GaryV]

In the UP of Michigan:

• Alger
• Baraga
• Delta
• Dickinson
• Keweenaw
• Iron
• Marquette
• Menominee
• Schoolcraft

Houghton is an edge case. There is a four-way intersection with US 41 and M-203. The southern leg is US 41 southbound, the eastern leg is US 41 northbound, the northern leg has both directions of US 41, and the western leg is M-203. All other highway intersections in the county are three-way (or the fourth leg is not a state highway).

And in the Lower Peninsula:
Emmet
Charlevoix
Montmorency
Alpena
Leelanau
Benzie
Grand Traverse
Kalkaska
Oscoda
Alcona
Manistee
Missaukee
Mason
Lake
Oceana
Newago
Montcalm
Huron
Sanilac
Hillsdale

Much of this is due to the propensity of highways to join each other for a short distance.  For example, an E-W route might meet a N-S route, travel concurrently with it for a few miles (or even as little as a few blocks, as in the case of Jonesville in Hillsdale County) and then strike off on it's own again.  This results in 2 intersections with 3-way connections, but no 4-way connection.

If I'm understanding the question right then just off the top of my head Sanillac County shouldn't be on the list. M-53 and M-46 intersect in the western part of the county and have all four directions as a state highway.

Sorry, my mistake.  Not the first time, and most likely won't be the last.   

[NWI_Irish96]

Predictably, almost all of Indiana's are in the southern (less flat) part of the state.  There are a few that get by on the technicality of two highways intersecting but being concurrent for a short distance so there is no intersection where all four directions are highways.  Also a few that are recent due to routes being decommissioned in cities:

Brown
Fayette
Floyd
Franklin
Johnson
Martin
Ohio
Owen
Posey
Washington

[froggie]

Probably several counties in upper MI as well. St Louis County, MN has only one, and that's a county of 200k people.

Three in St. Louis County.  The OP's definition includes interchanges.

There's only one county in Vermont that meets the OP's criteria:  Grand Isle.

[paulthemapguy]

Stark County, IL came to mind.  Every junction is either the start or end of a multiplex, or a T-intersection in the case of IL-91/93.  I'll also add Wabash, Edwards, and Calhoun County in Illinois to the list.

[TheHighwayMan3561]

MN list: it has a lot more than you'd think because of the funny little "hop duplexes"  it has

Lake (only state highway junction is MN 1/MN 61; only other state route in the county is a sliver of MN 169)

Cook (only one state route)

Koochiching (became the case when MN 332 was decommissioned)

Houston

Lake of the Woods

[GaryV]

Ottawa County MI went from having a 4-way to not having one and then back to having one.

Previously there was a 4-way connection at US-31 with Bus I-196.  However, when the business routes in Holland were turned back to city control, that intersection became a 3-way connection.

Then M-231 was created, which has a 4-way connection at M-104.  So Ottawa is again off the list.

[formulanone]

Florida
Monroe, Glades, Franklin, Gulf, Hendry* 

Alabama
Russell and Perry are the only two, as far as I can tell.

* If you want to be precise, there's also no four-way state-maintained intersections; but SR 29 makes a slight 330-foot jog/concurrency from Main Street to Bridge Street via SR 80 in La Belle, to continue north.