First State Route Clinched In A State

[74/171FAN]

This past Saturday I clinched OH 609, which was the first state route in OH I have clinched, so I have been thinking what is the first state route you have clinched in each state.

VA will be tough because I was born there, and lack of memory as an infant plays a part in this.  This is as correct as I think that I can come up with.

FL: FL 869 (2008)
GA:  GA 331 (2002)
SC:  SC 65 (mid 2000s sometime, this is somewhat controversial based on uncertainty with 27th St, taking that away would make it SC 700, which I clinched in 2012)
NC:  NC 168 (whenever I went to Nags Head the first time)
VA:  VA 36 or VA 156 Business (Hopewell) (If counting business routes, I believe it is the latter.  If not, I believe it is the former.  It could also be VA 144, but the portion north of VA 10 makes that unlikely IMO).
WV:  WV 112 (2014)
KY:   KY 2167 (2013) (same day as KY 3226, the other clinched KY route)
OH:  OH 609 (last Saturday)
PA:   PA 581 (2015)
DC:  DC 295    (well it still is not a state at the moment anyway, clinched in 2009)
MD:  MD 234 (2014)
DE:  DE 141 (2016)
NJ:  NJ 208 (2009, thanks to a church van randomly going this way)
NY:  NY 440 (2018)

I have not clinched any state routes in any other state as of this post.

[TheHighwayMan3561]

MN and WI, no certainty. MN was probably Crosstown 62 or MN 100. WI may have been STH-105 when I was in college, which my historical travel patterns and my TM list supports.

AR: AR 41 (southern)
CO: SH 58
FL: A1A leg in Key West
IA: IA 60
IL: ILL 35
MI: M-14
ND: ND 54
NM: NM 4
SC: SC 107
SD: SD 43
WA: SR 4

[Flint1979]

Michigan: M-58
Indiana: IN-520
Ohio: OH-420

Seriously though these are all short highways that I just happened to clinch first in each of these three states.

M-58 is about 5 miles long.
OH-420 is about 3 miles long.
IN-520 is about a quarter mile long if that.

[Roadgeekteen]

I've clinched very few state routes. Probably MA 128.

[Big John]

WI 172
IL 35
MI M-117
GA 360

[roadman65]

NJ - NJ 59

[US 89]

Alabama: SR 73
Arizona: SR 389
California: SR 17
Colorado: SH 75
Florida: SR 536
Georgia: oh god... SR 141 CONN in Buckhead, I think? Probably SR 316 for non-bannered routes? GA has way too many routes
Idaho: SH 40
Montana: MT 141
North Carolina: NC 241
New Mexico: NM 556
Nevada: SR 488
Oklahoma: SH 325 (or eastern SH 25 if you consider the two 25 segments different routes)
South Carolina: SC 182
Tennessee: SR 377
Texas: Spur 97
Utah: SR 184 (since decommissioned)
Washington: SR 520
Wisconsin: WIS 158
Wyoming: WYO 150

[jp the roadgeek]

Of the states I've clinched routes in:

CT: Either CT 120 or CT 364
DE: DE 92
MA: MA 49
MD: Either MD 781, MD 896 , or MD 924
ME: ME 111
NH: NH 140
NJ: NJ 94
NY: NY 346
PA: PA 896
RI: RI 78
VA: VA 9
VT: VT 11

[SkyPesos]

FL: 536
GA: 408 
MD: 295
MO: 364
NJ: 495
NY: 198
OH: 562
ON: 420
VA: 267
WA: 526

[Bickendan]

AZ: 64, 52.7%
AR: 549 Texarkana, now I-49. Next, 246 21.8%
BC: 91
CA: 57
CO: 142
ID: 72
IA: 27, 9.9%
KS: not been on any state highway
LA: 47, 20.2%
MI: 28, 75.4%
MN: 197
MS: MS highways not yet in TM
MO: 175
MT: 200, 2%
ND: 22 Byp Dickenson, 40%
NV: 172, 342, 430 (172 and 430 being original alignments of US 93/I-11, and US 395 from the same trip I got 342. Technically, I got 172 first, but it didn't exist at the time)
NM: 17
NY: 185
SD: 37 Truck (Huron), 20.1*
ON: 5, 99.1%
OR: 238
TX: 130, 24.4%
UT: 265, 89.4%
VT: 12A
WA: 504
WB: 13, est 30%
WI: 30
WY: 341

[Max Rockatansky]

Arizona:  AZ 51
California:  CA 177
New Mexico:  NM 26
Nevada:  NV 159
Utah:  UT 9
Washington:  WA 16
Oregon:  OR 62
Texas:  TX 54
Colorado:  CO 340

Beyond that I'm getting into territory I'm not sure about or happened so long ago that I don't remember what I clinched first.

[NWI_Irish96]

Indiana: IN 106
Michigan: M 103
Illinois: IL 21
Ohio: OH 814
Kentucky: KY 841
Colorado: CO 41
Wisconsin: WI 30
Arizona: AZ 68
Florida: FL 970
Texas: TX Spur 97
Utah: UT 162
Alabama: AL 167
New Mexico: NM 597
Washington: WA 104
Virginia: VA 400
Maryland: MD 218
South Carolina: SC 576
Mississippi: MS 67
Nevada: NV 172
District of Columbia: DC 295

[hotdogPi]

MA: MA 213 (since I live so close, it's short, and it's a freeway)
NY: NY 495
NJ: NJ 495
NH: NH 150, maybe? (If not, NH 97, but unlike 150, I haven't clinched the MA portion of the route.)
GA: GA 13 Connector (only)
QC: QC 368 (only)
CA: CA 73 (only)

These are all my first clinched route in a state (or province); for no state did I clinch an Interstate first.

[JayhawkCO]

AK: AK3 (2021)
AZ: AZ82 (1988)
CA: CA134 (2016)
CO: CO470 (1992)
DE: DE1A (2021)
FL: FL102 (1998)
GA: GA520 Business (2005)
ID: ID200 (2019)
IL: IL336 (2021)
KS: K-10 (2000)
KY: Pennyrile Parkway (if this is considered a state route?) (2003), otherwise None
LA: LA45 (2020)
MD: Baltimore-Washington Parkway (if this is considered a state route?) (1998), otherwise MD404 Business (Denton) (2021)
MN: MN316 (1984-ish)
MO: MO350 (2000)
MT: MT47 (1995)
NE: NE19 (2020)
NV: NV592 (2019)
NM: NM26 (1991)
OR: OR6 (2020)
SD: SD231 (2014)
TX: TX35 Business (Rockport) (2014)
UT: UT9 (2015)
WA: WA99 (2007)
WY: WYO10 (2020)

AB: AB93 (2006)
BC: BC13 (2007)
MB: MB75 (2006)
ON: ON402 (2003)
PQ: PQ35 (2003)
SK: SK16 (2006)

I have been to, but not clinched any state highways in AL, AR, CT, HI, IN, IA, ME, MA, MI, MS, NH, NJ, NY, NC, ND, OH, OK, PA, RI, SC, TN, VT, VA, WV, and WI.

These are all my first clinched route in a state (or province); for no state did I clinch an Interstate first.

For all states except FL, MN, and MT, I clinched an interstate before I clinched a state route.

Chris

[Scott5114]

OK: Probably 74B. First route I intentionally clinched would be 24.
KS: I think it was K-66. Could have been K-8 in Kiowa.
MO: Route 360
TX: TX 203
WI: WI 119

I don't think I've actually clinched any SRs in any other state.

[epzik8]

DE: DE 279 (2013)
DC: DC 295 (2007)
FL: FL 528 (2007)
MD: MD 646 (2002)
MO: MO 367 (2008)
NJ: NJ 347 (2008)
PA: PA 851 (2006)
SC: SC 22 (2005)
UT: UT 319 (2018)
VA: VA 205 (2016)

[deathtopumpkins]

It's hard to say with places we drove when I was a child, and even a lot since then, but I'll take a guess. I'm excluding anything that doesn't appear in TM as a state route (e.g. excluding NY parkways). Ones with a question mark are genuine guesses. Ones in italics are probable but not certain.

First clinches by state ordered by how many total miles I've driven there:
VA - 134
NY - 306
MA - 128?
ME - 103?
NH - 1A?
VT - 35
PA - none
NC - 168
CA - 37
CT - 9
OH - 420
CO - 93
FL - 202
IL - 390
OR - 58
MD - 295
WY - 22
IN - none
WV - none
UT - 95
KS - none
TN - 66
OK - none
TX - none
MO - 360
NE - none
NJ - 440
MI - 14
RI - 138?
ID - 31
NV - 372
NM - 502
IA - none
AR - none
SC - none
SD - 240
WI - none
GA - 404 Spur (Savannah)
AL - none
MN - none
KY - 3174
DE - 279
MS - none
MT - none
LA - none
AZ - none
DC - 295

[formulanone]

I didn't track every state route until I was driving.

AL: 251 
AR: 81 
AZ: 51 * 
CA: 56 
CO: 128 
CT: 35 
DE: 491 
FL: 91 (first that I can remember?)
GA: 316 
IA: 160 
ID: 128 
IN: 930
IL: 169 
KS: 196 
KY: 212 
LA: 21 (maybe some minor four-digit route?) 
MA: 25 
MD: 200 
ME: 168 
MI: 79 
MN: 301 
MO: 269 
NC: 772
ND: 210 
NE: 17J *
NH: 43 *
NJ: 21 
NM: 404
NV: none   
NY: 9R 
OH: 768 
OK: none
OR: none
PA: 576 
RI: 4 
SC: 903 
SD: 71 
TN: 334 ? 
TX: OSR  (or maybe Spur 347?)
UT: 280 *
VA: 148 
VT: 119 
WI: 30 
WV: 527 
WA: 16
WY: 219 

* the only one in that state which I've clinched

[JCinSummerfield]

First clinch?  either M-52 or M-14 in Michigan.

[plain]

VA 73 

[US 89]

GA: GA 13 Connector (only)

Which one? There are four of those.

[DJDBVT]

CT 15
MA 24
NH 12
NY 313
RI 24
VT 9

[hotdogPi]

GA: GA 13 Connector (only)

Which one? There are four of those.

The one closest to Atlanta.

[DandyDan]

MN- I don't know, but there's a good chance the now-decommissioned MN 110 was it. If it is required that it still exists, I think MN 282 is it, but it's possible the original MN 62 is it.
IL/WI- IL 76 and WI 140, all in one shot.
IA- The now-decommisioned IA 91, with IA 86 being the first one that I clinched which still exists.
NE- NE 85, a highway I heard called by that name exactly once.
SD- SD 32, unless my dad happened to drive something in the Black Hills when I was 5.
IN- IN 912 before it was demolished.
MI- MI 60, on my only trip to Michigan
NM- NM 7, the road to Carlsbad Caverns
KS- I believe K-10 was first, but it may have been K-63. It is definitely K-63 if you are only talking about the current route.
MO- MO 118

EDIT: After looking it up, found 2 other states
VA- VA 79 (on my DC trip the day we went to Shenandoah NP)
TX- FM 3255

[paulthemapguy]

Alabama 193, October 2014
Arizona 389, April 2017
California 75, 2004? 3?
Colorado 139, 2002
Idaho 32, August 2009
Illinois- no idea. The earliest one I can trace is probably IL-41 in 2007, but probably had IL-56 or 126 clinched way before then as a child.
Indiana 520 (haha), Sep 2013
Iowa 165, February 2016
Maryland 49, April 2021
Maine 233, Oct 2015
Michigan 38, July 2015
Minnesota 270, Sep 2019
Montana 200S, Aug 2018
North Carolina 114, 2005?
New Jersey 183, Oct 2015
Nevada 28, April 2015
New York 185, July 2008
Ohio- not sure, oldest traceable one was OH-369 in Oct 2015
Oregon 35, Aug 2018
SC-179 barely exists, but I clinched it in July 2019
SD-240, August 2009
Utah 162, June 2012
Virginia 174, April 2021
Washington 164, August 2011, on the way to Mount Rainier
Wisconsin 69 I think, maybe 2014?
Wyoming 22, August 2009