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Title: One specific route passing through the county seats of the same named county
Post by: roadman65 on November 01, 2014, 02:18:10 PM
I found it interesting that US 9 passes through both Newark, NJ and Elizabethtown, NY which are not only county seats of their respected counties, but of the same county of the same name.

Are there any other such occurrences?
Title: Re: One specific route passing through the county seats of the same named county
Post by: algorerhythms on November 01, 2014, 02:42:31 PM
This is an almost occurrence: US 220 passes through Cumberland, Maryland (seat of Allegany County) and Covington, VA (seat of Alleghany County).
Title: Re: One specific route passing through the county seats of the same named county
Post by: dfwmapper on November 01, 2014, 06:21:25 PM
Guessing there are many. First one I found was US 34 passing through Corning, IA, and Hastings, NE, which are both seats of Adams County.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:United_States_county_disambiguation_pages is a good place to start looking for counties of the same name.
Title: Re: One specific route passing through the county seats of the same named county
Post by: Thing 342 on November 01, 2014, 09:55:06 PM
US 60 passes through Amherst, Buckingham, Cumberland, and Powhatan, all seats of their namesake counties.
Title: Re: One specific route passing through the county seats of the same named county
Post by: dfwmapper on November 01, 2014, 10:50:55 PM
Quote from: Thing 342 on November 01, 2014, 09:55:06 PM
US 60 passes through Amherst, Buckingham, Cumberland, and Powhatan, all seats of their namesake counties.
The question was counties of the same name in different states (Essex County, NJ, and Essex County, NY, in the example), not counties where the county seat has the same name as the county.
Title: Re: One specific route passing through the county seats of the same named county
Post by: WNYroadgeek on November 01, 2014, 11:06:15 PM
NY/PA 5 enter both Erie and Buffalo, the county seats of each state's respective Erie County.
Title: Re: One specific route passing through the county seats of the same named county
Post by: pianocello on November 02, 2014, 12:37:55 AM
US 54 goes through Bowling Green, MO and Pittsfield, IL, both of which are seats of Pike County.
Title: Re: One specific route passing through the county seats of the same named county
Post by: DandyDan on November 02, 2014, 01:21:28 AM
US 30 goes through (or at least around) Marshalltown, Iowa and Plymouth, Indiana, both of which are county seats for Marshall County.  It also goes through North Platte, Nebraska and Kemmerer, Wyoming, which are both the seats of Lincoln County.
Title: Re: One specific route passing through the county seats of the same named county
Post by: jp the roadgeek on November 02, 2014, 02:01:50 AM
US 202 has an interesting one: It passes through Westchester County, NY, and the city of West Chester, PA, which is in Chester County.

US 1 passes through 3 different Middlesex Counties (NJ, CT, MA). It passes through the county seat in NJ (New Brunswick), barely misses MA (Cambridge), and CT doesn't have county seats.
Title: Re: One specific route passing through the county seats of the same named county
Post by: Scott5114 on November 02, 2014, 01:25:06 PM
US-66 went through Springfield MO and Springfield IL, seats of Greene and Sangamon counties, respectively.
Title: Re: One specific route passing through the county seats of the same named county
Post by: roadman65 on November 02, 2014, 03:11:01 PM
I completely forgot this one.  US 1 passes through both Augusta, GA and Rockingham, NC which both are county seats of Richmond County.
Title: Re: One specific route passing through the county seats of the same named county
Post by: bassoon1986 on November 02, 2014, 09:19:53 PM
An almost. US 65 goes through the seats of East Carroll Parish in LA and Carroll County in MO
Title: Re: One specific route passing through the county seats of the same named county
Post by: pianocello on November 03, 2014, 07:09:07 PM
Quote from: roadman65 on November 02, 2014, 03:11:01 PM
I completely forgot this one.  US 1 passes through both Augusta, GA and Rockingham, NC which both are county seats of Richmond County.

Bonus points: it also goes through Richmond, VA, which is an independent city. It doesn't go through the seat of Richmond County, VA, though.
Title: Re: One specific route passing through the county seats of the same named county
Post by: sandwalk on November 04, 2014, 11:27:37 AM
Close but not quite:

Interstate 90 passes through Erie County OH, Erie County PA, and Erie County NY.  However, I-90 is just a few miles outside of each county's county seat (Sandusky OH, Erie PA, and Buffalo NY).
Title: Re: One specific route passing through the county seats of the same named county
Post by: NWI_Irish96 on November 04, 2014, 12:00:06 PM
I-64 passes through Mount Vernon, Jefferson, IL and Louisville, Jefferson, KY
I-65 and US 31 both pass through Louisville, Jefferson, KY and Birmingham, Jefferson, AL
US 40 passes through Marshall, Clark, IL and Springfield, Clark, OH
US 40 passes through Washington, Washington, PA and Hagerstown, Washington, MD
Title: Re: One specific route passing through the county seats of the same named county
Post by: golden eagle on November 04, 2014, 06:35:42 PM
US 82 passes through Winona, MS; and Montgomery, AL, both which are in Montgomery County.
Title: Re: One specific route passing through the county seats of the same named county
Post by: codyg1985 on November 17, 2014, 12:22:08 PM
US 43 passes through Mobile, (just barely (https://www.google.com/maps/place/Mobile,+AL/@30.7416862,-88.0673051,13z/data=!4m2!3m1!1s0x889a4e1df14cf8a9:0x4ce80e5477899e1a)), Tuscaloosa, and Fayette Counties with county seats of the same name. There is also Lawrence County/Lawrenceburg, TN that US 43 passes through, but technically that's not the same. Mobile just barely counts since US 43 was truncated.