What is the closest road to you with the same number as your home area code?

Started by KCRoadFan, January 03, 2023, 10:19:27 AM

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KCRoadFan

For me, this is post number 816, the same number as my home area code.

As you may recall, I created an earlier post about area codes that contain highways of the same number. Well, here's a somewhat related one: corresponding to the area code of the city or town where you live, what is the closest highway with the same number (that is, if the area code doesn't contain the same-numbered highway itself)?

For me, the closest road with the number 816 would be FM 816, which runs west from Wolfe City, Texas, a town northeast of Dallas and southeast of Sherman, near the Oklahoma border - about 400 miles straight-line distance from Kansas City, where I live. As for my fellow forum members, what is the road that's closest to your home area code and happens to have the same number as it? I'm interested to find out more.


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My area code is 519.

The closest highway 519 to me is PA 519, which is 544 km / 338 mi driving distance away (closest point is its interchange with I-79).

ON 519 is 1012 km / 629 mi driving distance away, almost double! (closest point is its western end at Highway 17).

EDIT: jayhawkco brought up overlays, so I might as well add those.

For 226, closest highway is NY 226 at I-390 which is 341 km / 212 mi away (PA 226 is a close second at 360 km).
For 548, closest highway is ON 548 at Highway 17 which is 704 km / 437 mi away.
For 382 (future overlay), closest highway is QC 382 at QC 391 which is 576 km / 358 mi away.

JayhawkCO

Well, I have to answer this in different ways. I didn't change my phone number when I moved, so I currently have a 913 number. But, I'm in the 303/720 area, so:

303 - UT303 which is just southwest of Green River
720 - NV720 way out by Fallon
913 - KY913 outside of Louisville

Hunty2022

Mine is 434. That means PA-434 is my closest state route with my area code number.
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roadman65

For me it's FL SR 407. Though FL 407 is within the 321 area code it comes close to it though.

407 is for Orlando but Highway 407 is in Brevard County to the east of it near Titusville.
Though 321 is used also in Orlando, it's primarily the Space Coast that uses it, with 407 exclusively in Orange County which has its borders only two miles from SR 407 in Brevard.

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GaryA

Mine would be I-805, about 160 miles from home.

Added: The closest match for our new-ish overlay of 820 is, I think, also an Interstate - but much farther away: I-820 in Fort Worth, about 1,450 miles away.

1995hoo

Secondary Route 703 in Fairfax County (Shreve Road) is the closest to me; the end nearest to my house is just over 11 miles away via the most direct route.
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MATraveler128

My closest one is I-781 in New York to my home area code of 781.
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Max Rockatansky

Seemingly FM 559 in Texas, I've actually clinched FL 559. 

Using the 602 area code that is still part of my number the closest would be NV 602 on Stewart Avenue in Las Vegas (which I've also clinched).

NWI_Irish96

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kirbykart

For me I think it's OH 716 (315 miles, which is coincidentally another NY area code).

gonealookin

Northern Nevada's area code is 775.

Nevada has a lot of local state routes in the 700s, but there's no SR 775.  SR 774 comes close.

Some Duck Duck Go-ing produces a short Alberta Provincial Highway 775 leading to Beauvais Lake, not far across the border from Montana's Glacier National Park.  That one is about 1150 miles distant by road.

In the U.S. I can't find anything closer than Texas FM 775, a little east of San Antonio, roughly 1750 miles by driving.

Ted$8roadFan

I believe mine is SR-617, which is apparently located in numerous locales across the Commonwealth of Virginia.

CoreySamson

Mine is FM 979, which is about 145 miles away in central Texas. Second place goes to LA 979, which would be my closest if I still lived in Louisiana.
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pianocello

KY 812 is just across the river from Evansville in Henderson.

Being adjacent to a route-dense state like Kentucky, it almost feels like cheating.
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Takumi

Not all Virginia counties have a route 804. The closest one to me is Chesterfield's, which is about 10 miles away.
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Ted$8roadFan

Another option that is relatively close to me is PA-857 in Fayette County, PA. 857 area code being auxiliary to 617.

TheHighwayMan3561

I actually don't know of any highways numbered 612, 763, or 952. Probably in Kentucky somewhere.

My unofficial 218 home area code though, I only have to go to southern MN for US 218.
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tdindy88

My area code is 317 and the nearest state highway would be Ohio's SR 317 in Columbus about 180 miles away.

brownpelican

See Louisiana 985 in West Baton Rouge Parish. It runs a little over a mile along Rosehill Drive from Louisiana 985 southeast of Bueche to Louisiana 415 near Alfords.

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dlsterner

With area code 410, nearest road with that same number is MD 410.

About 18 miles from my house, less than 1.5 miles from my place of work.

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formulanone

Tennessee Highway 256 is the closest one to Alabama's 256 area code. Its overlay code is 938; Kentucky Highway 938 is the nearest.



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