Counties without stoplights

[formulanone]

I think Jefferson County, FL has none.  At least on US 19, from Perry to Thomasville, GA there are only flashers even in Downtown Monticello!  I have not been on US 90, though, but chances are if US 90 has none either than the rest of Jefferson does not. 

I haven't completely explored Jefferson County, but off the top of my head, both Liberty and Glades Counties each have a single stoplight.

[froggie]

Heh...DTP must've been looking at Streetview for Vermont.  Caledonia, Orleans, and Windsor Counties each have several signals besides the ones mentioned.

Also, you can drop that New England count further....US 5/VT 25 in Bradford (Orange County) has a signal.

For Minnesota, these are the counties I'm aware of that don't have traffic signals:

- Big stone
- Grant
- Kittson
- Lake of the Woods
- Lincoln
- Mahnomen
- Marshall
- Murray
- Norman
- Red Lake
- Traverse
- Wilkin (amazingly, Breckenridge has no signals)

Of others previously mentioned, Fillmore (only 1), Dodge (also only 1), and Pipestone all have signals.  Le Sueur County only has "signals" if you consider that MN 13/MN 19 in New Prague straddles the Scott/Le Sueur County line...there are no signals fully within the county.  Here's the list of Minnesota counties with only one signal:

- Aitkin (US 169/MN 210 in Aitkin)
- Clearwater (US 2/MN 92 in Bagley)
- Cook (MN 61 in Grand Marais)
- Dodge (MN 57/Main St in Kasson)
- Fillmore (US 52/MN 30/MN 74 in Chatfield)
- Houston (US 14/US 61/MN 16 in La Crescent)
- Lac Qui Parle (US 75/US 212)
- Pipestone (US 75/MN 23/MN 30 in Pipestone)
- Pope (MN 28/MN 29/MN 104 in Glenwood)

All other Minnesota counties have at least two signals.

20 years ago, Cass County didn't have any...signals have since been added in Cass Lake, Walker, Pine River, and at the southern MN 200/371 junction (right next to an Indian casino).

[deathtopumpkins]

Heh...DTP must've been looking at Streetview for Vermont.  Caledonia, Orleans, and Windsor Counties each have several signals besides the ones mentioned.

Guilty as charged! I've only been to Windham and Windsor counties. Though for the ones I listed a location with a signal, I just listed the first one I found.

[Mark68]

Jackson County, home to Walden, is the only county in Colorado without a traffic signal.

Baca, Crowley, Kiowa, Cheyenne neither.

EDIT: Also, add Costilla, Conejos, Mineral, Hinsdale, Saguache and Dolores to that list.

And almost in my back yard, Custer.

San Juan (Silverton), Ouray, & San Miguel (Telluride) also have none.
Clear Creek wouldn't have any except for the two that are on the I-70 ramps for Central City Parkway.

[sandiaman]

One  more  county to add: De Baca  County, NM.  I  was there  yesterday  and  the  only  intersection  in  the  county with  a  need  for  one  is  the  intersection  of  US 60 & US  84  in  downtown  Fort  Sumner .  And, there  is  only  a  stop  sign.

[adt1982]

I'm fairly certain that these Illinois counties have no traffic lights.  However, they all have at least one flashing 4-way.

Putnam
Stark
Hamilton
Gallatin
Pope
Hardin
Pulaski
Calhoun
Scott

[Mark68]

I don't think anybody has mentioned Alpine County, CA.

[Road Hog]

My grandfather used to bitch all the time about the first traffic light in Cleburne County, AR. It was installed in 1979 on a relatively minor intersection on the courthouse square in Heber Springs. There were two other heavily-trafficked intersections that sufficed with a blinking stop light in all directions until a bypass around that town was built.

My grandfather griped that the mayor was hellbent on getting his town a traffic light, and I must confess he had a point.

[kphoger]

I'm fairly certain that these Illinois counties have no traffic lights.  However, they all have at least one flashing 4-way.

Putnam
Stark
Hamilton
Gallatin
Pope
Hardin
Pulaski
Calhoun
Scott

Hamilton County:  Downtown McLeansboro has at least two stoplights.
I believe Gallatin, Pope, Hardin, Pulaki, and Calhoun are correct.
I'm not familiar with Putnam, Stark, or Scott to say one way or the other.

[Brandon]

I'm fairly certain that these Illinois counties have no traffic lights.  However, they all have at least one flashing 4-way.

Putnam
Stark
Hamilton
Gallatin
Pope
Hardin
Pulaski
Calhoun
Scott

Hamilton County:  Downtown McLeansboro has at least two stoplights.
I believe Gallatin, Pope, Hardin, Pulaki, and Calhoun are correct.
I'm not familiar with Putnam, Stark, or Scott to say one way or the other.

Putnam has a freeway, but no signals.  Stark also has no signals other than four-way stop beacons.  Scott doesn't have any signals.

[hbelkins]

Owsley County, Ky., can be scratched off this list. A traffic light is going to be installed there on KY 28 near Owsley County Elementary School and the KY 3347 intersection which leads to Owsley County High School.

The school board and local politicians have requested a signal there for several years, after a new school entrance was built, but numerous traffic studies showed that warrants were never met for a signal. Nevertheless, state legislators got involved and somehow ordered the signal to be installed. Don't know if a law was passed to require the installation, or if the legislators somehow convinced KYTC higher-ups to install it, but it's going up in the next few weeks.

[getemngo]

I'm not for certain, but I wouldn't be surprised if Alcona, Baraga, Luce, Montmorency, Ontonagon, and Oscoda counties in Michigan don't have lights in addition to Keweenaw and Lake counties.

You're right about Baraga, Luce, Montmorency, and Ontonagon. Add Schoolcraft and Mackinac (seriously!) to the list. Alger got its first in 2009.

Alcona County has a signal at US 23 & M-72 in Harrisville, and Oscoda County has one at M-33 & M-72 in Mio.

ME: Androscoggin - yep, Aroostook - yep, Cumberland - yep, Franklin - yep (Farmington), Hancock - yep, Kennebec - yep, Knox - yep, Lincoln - yep (Damariscotta), Oxford - yep (Rumford), Penobscot - yep, Piscataquis - no (couldn't find a signal, although I did find Interstate 6 still kickin'), Sagadahoc - yep, Somerset - yep (Skowhegan), Waldo - yep (Belfast), Washington - yep (Calais), York - yep.

Piscataquis County has at least two signals in Dover-Foxcroft - one marking the northern terminus of SR 7, and another one a block west at the junction of way too many highways. So every county in Maine has a traffic light.

[bugo]

According to this, Pike County is the only county in Arkansas with no stop lights:

http://www.arkansasstateparksblog.com/975/

Are there any stop lights in Montgomery County?  I cannot think of any.

[Urban Prairie Schooner]

In Louisiana, I can't think of any existing traffic signals in Saint Helena Parish. I would wager that Tensas and East Carroll lack signals also. Otherwise, there are very few parishes in the state that are so desolate as for traffic signals to be completely absent. (This discounts flashing beacon type lights which do not regulate traffic flow in the manner that a red-yellow-green signal head would.)

For bonus points, the east bank of Plaquemines Parish is also signal-less.

Also, someone mentioned Cameron Parish as having no traffic signals, but I am pretty sure that the eastern LA 27/82 junction in Creole is signal controlled, unless that assembly has been removed since 2008.

[Dr Frankenstein]

I believe that MRC Haut-Saint-Laurent has no stoplights. Eeyou Istchee and Kativik are also good candidates...

[SD Mapman]

For South Dakota, I think (unsubstantiated) that Jones, Jackson, Buffalo, Harding, Perkins, Campbell, Corson, Ziebach, and Dewey all don't. There's probably a lot more, I just can't think of them now.

[oscar]

I believe that MRC Haut-Saint-Laurent has no stoplights. Eeyou Istchee and Kativik are also good candidates...

Baie-James too (if it hasn't already been folded into Eeyou Istchee, which was agreed to a few years ago but I don't know if that's been carried out).

[1995hoo]

AFAIK, these Virginia Counties still do not have a stoplight:
Highland Co, VA
Charles City Co, VA
Mathews Co, VA
Fluvanna Co, VA
Craig Co, VA
Bath Co, VA
Cumberland Co, VA

Some Virginia Counties have just one:
Floyd Co
King and Queen Co
Nelson Co


Mapmikey

An article in the online Times-Dispatch today confirms Bath County has no traffic lights. I won't link the article because the subject matter (appalling events involving an attack on a state senator) makes it feel like bad taste to link to it regarding traffic lights.

[Bitmapped]

AFAIK, these counties in West Virginia are free of stop-and-go traffic signals:
- Monroe County
- Wyoming County
- Clay County
- Calhoun County
- Doddridge County (although one appears to be coming on US 50 at WV 18)
- Wirt County

There are a number of other counties with just a single signal.

[Jardine]

Monona County Iowa might have only 2 red/yellow/green traffic light controlled intersections.  Highway 175 and K45 in Onawa and 141/175 in Mapleton.  Might be a few red/yellow flashers around, like maybe out by the casino, and the county road department has (or at least had at one time) a portable set of R/Y/G for one lane construction zones.

The K45/175 intersection actually has a fairly complex arrangement of signals as 175 for 2 blocks thru downtown Onawa has additional lanes and parking strips due to their near record breaking main street width.

If there are other signals in the county I am drawing a blank where they would be hiding.

[oscar]

I believe that MRC Haut-Saint-Laurent has no stoplights. Eeyou Istchee and Kativik are also good candidates...

I didn't see any stoplights in Kuujjuaq, the "county seat" of the remote Kativik region.

Apparently no stoplights in all of Nunavut Territory, either, including its three administrative districts.  I saw none in the three "county seats" of Iqaluit, Rankin Inlet, and Cambridge Bay.  News articles about a failed proposal to put stoplights at Iqaluit's busiest intersection, to replace the four-way stop signs that are still there, said that would have been Nunavut's first stoplighted intersection. 

There are probably other stoplight-free Canadian county equivalents.  But not the one where Yellowknife NT is located, with a pain-in-the-ass string of stoplights every block on the main drag through downtown Yellowknife, and some others in the more suburban parts of the city. 

[freebrickproductions]

As far as I know, other than a beacon in Apalachicola, there are no traffic lights in Franklin County, FL.

[US71]

According to this, Pike County is the only county in Arkansas with no stop lights:

http://www.arkansasstateparksblog.com/975/

Are there any stop lights in Montgomery County?  I cannot think of any.

Only thing in Madison County is flashers

[bassoon1986]

In Louisiana, I can't think of any existing traffic signals in Saint Helena Parish. I would wager that Tensas and East Carroll lack signals also. Otherwise, there are very few parishes in the state that are so desolate as for traffic signals to be completely absent. (This discounts flashing beacon type lights which do not regulate traffic flow in the manner that a red-yellow-green signal head would.)

For bonus points, the east bank of Plaquemines Parish is also signal-less.

Also, someone mentioned Cameron Parish as having no traffic signals, but I am pretty sure that the eastern LA 27/82 junction in Creole is signal controlled, unless that assembly has been removed since 2008.

I did some checking on Tensas and East Carroll parishes. I have been to both of those parishes but not in recent years. I thought I remembered St. Joseph having one, but streetview, although it's a 2008 view, shows a 4 way stop in the middle of town that looks like it replaced a traffic light. However, just down the road, Newellton has a traffic light (LA 4 at LA 605), unless it has been removed in the past few years.

Lake Providence also has at least 2 that I found for East Carroll Parish.

[iowahighways]

Based on memory and Street View, I believe these Iowa counties do not have lights:

• Adair (tried looking at Greenfield and Stuart through GSV)
• Adams (tried Corning)
• Butler (tried Allison, Parkersburg, Greene, Shell Rock, and Clarksville)
• Calhoun (tried Rockwell City)
• Clayton (tried Elkader, Monona, Guttenberg, and Strawberry Point)
• Decatur (tried Lamoni and Leon)
• Guthrie (tried Guthrie Center and Panora)
• Louisa (tried Columbus Junction and Wapello)
• Lucas (tried Chariton, which has just over 4,000 people, but US 34 bypasses it and has an interchange with IA 14)
• Osceola (tried Sibley)
• Ringgold (tried Mount Ayr)
• Van Buren (tried Keosauqua)
• Wayne (tried Corydon)