Counties reachable with a single route from your metro area

[CoreySamson]

Here's the Houston metro:



Total counties: 304
Excluding all future, former, and disconnected routes: 203

[WNYroadgeek]

Buffalo/Niagara Falls:

[SkyPesos]

Cincinnati map edit: While making my Brown County, OH map for the other thread, I realized that it's part of the Cincinnati metro area, and so are US 62 and US 68 because of that. Here's the revised map with those two US routes, bringing up the total to 29+DC states and 556 counties reachable from the Cincinnati MSA.

[hbelkins]

Cincinnati map edit: While making my Brown County, OH map for the other thread, I realized that it's part of the Cincinnati metro area, and so are US 62 and US 68 because of that. Here's the revised map with those two US routes, bringing up the total to 29+DC states and 556 counties reachable from the Cincinnati MSA.

Only some bureaucrat detached from reality would consider Brown County to be a part of the Cincy metro area. There's nothing "metro" about Brown County.

[paulthemapguy]

Chicago's is going to be painstaking to assemble, and downright stupid. I'd only include the 6-county immediate metro area.  Maybe I'll mess with this later if and when I don't have a boatload of work to do.

[Rothman]

Chicago's is going to be painstaking to assemble, and downright stupid. I'd only include the 6-county immediate metro area.  Maybe I'll mess with this later if and when I don't have a boatload of work to do.

See above.  Someone already did it.

[SkyPesos]

Only some bureaucrat detached from reality would consider Brown County to be a part of the Cincy metro area. There's nothing "metro" about Brown County.

I would say the Cincinnati metro area ends at around Batavia, going east on OH 32, which is still deep within Clermont County. I have no idea why Brown County is counted part of it, but I'm just going off the official borders for this map.

[NWI_Irish96]

Cincinnati map edit: While making my Brown County, OH map for the other thread, I realized that it's part of the Cincinnati metro area, and so are US 62 and US 68 because of that. Here's the revised map with those two US routes, bringing up the total to 29+DC states and 556 counties reachable from the Cincinnati MSA.

Only some bureaucrat detached from reality would consider Brown County to be a part of the Cincy metro area. There's nothing "metro" about Brown County.

One of the biggest factors that determine whether or not an "outer" county like Brown gets included in a metro area is the percentage of people who commute to the city. How rural the county may seem isn't really a factor. Apparently enough people in Brown County commute to Cincinnati to qualify.

There are quantifiable factors for inclusion, it's not arbitrary.

[Echostatic]

Austin's is quite lackluster and would be much duller if I-10/US 90 didn't briefly poke into Caldwell county.

[Ellie]

If you consider Washtenaw County, Michigan its own metro, anyway -- here's what I got.

[vilegloom]

I wouldn't be close to having the time to do this for Chicago, but I would think we could all agree it would have the most.

I had time!



I started with major interstates and ended with state routes, skipping disconnected routes and any overlaps. Didn't feel like counting the counties.

[CNGL-Leudimin]

US 66 would add Oklahoma, Texas, New Mexico and Arizona; leaving only Vermont, New Hampshire and Maine unreachable from anywhere in Chicago MSA on a single route.

[hotdogPi]

US 66 would add Oklahoma, Texas, New Mexico and Arizona; leaving only Vermont, New Hampshire and Maine unreachable from anywhere in Chicago MSA on a single route.

It looks like Delaware and Maryland are blank in the map above.

[CNGL-Leudimin]

Also true, I somehow took the entire state of Illinois (US 40 does hit both Maryland and Delaware, but not Chicago).

[flan]

Did my best w/ Minneapolis-St. Paul area. I didn't bother with former routes, though. Edit: accidentally forgot Fallon County, MT. Oops.

[Scott5114]

EDIT: @admins: Does a several thousand × several thousand non-SVG image (which is what you get after clicking) strain the servers? These maps are perfect for being SVGs, but somehow they're not.

I apparently never answered this. Since these images are hosted elsewhere (like on Imgur), it doesn't strain our servers at all. All you get from our server is a reference to the image (<img src="https://...">), and then your browser grabs the image from that other server and slaps it into place as part of the rendering routine.

This forum generates pages in XHTML 1.0 (released January 26, 2000), which has no real easy way to embed an SVG into a document. (The <img> tag doesn't work, because that wouldn't tell the browser it needs to render the SVG content.) HTML 5 has solved that problem with the <embed> tag, but SMF hasn't released a version that generates HTML 5 yet.