Interstate: I-43 when I was in College
US: Two doors down from US-40, but US-40 has since been moved off that route.
State: Right on IN-63 for about a year, but IN-63 has since been decommissioned off that route.
County: My childhood home was about three blocks from Dane County D
I'm sure we've done this before. Might be a few years ago. Cause I remember some members saying their address was a highway.
All distances as the crow flies:
Interstate: I-84 in my childhood (2.7 mi) and now (1.13 mi). I-91 (300 ft.) and I-76 (0.55 mi.) for short spells
US route: US 5 in my childhood (4 mi), now (5.9 mi), and for one short spell (2.44 mi), US 13 (0.23 mi) for the other
State route: CT 364 in my childhood (0.4 mi), CT 10 now (0.15 mi). CT 3 (0.4 mi) and PA 3 (700 ft) during those short spells.
County routes: Never lived in a state with county routes, but my best guess is the closest one to me now is Putnam CR 67 (about 40 mi).
Quote from: GaryV on September 04, 2020, 12:25:50 PM
I'm sure we've done this before. Might be a few years ago. Cause I remember some members saying their address was a highway.
We had a thread wherein people assigned a number to the street they lived on. Not sure about this exact topic, though. A quick search isn't turning up anything for me, anyway. But yeah, I feel like we've done this at some point.
All the places I've lived (ignoring county highways):
New Lenox, IL – 2 blocks from US-30 (but immediately across a railroad from it)
New Lenox, IL – 4½ blocks from US-30
Atwood, KS – 1 block from K-25
River Forest, IL (on campus) – 3 blocks from IL-43
Wheaton, IL –
on IL-38
Wheaton, IL – 1.1 miles (walking) from IL-64
Carol Stream, IL – 0.8 miles from IL-64
Wheaton, IL – 0.7 miles from IL-38
Wheaton, IL – 1 block (walking across private property) from IL-38
Herrin, IL – 0.8 miles from IL-148
Bel Aire, KS – 1.8 miles from K-96
Wichita, KS – 0.7 miles from I-135/US-81/K-15
Wichita, KS – 2½ blocks from US-54/US-400
Interstate – 0.7 miles, I-135
US Route – 2 blocks, US-30 (barely old enough to remember)
State Hwy – I've lived on IL-38
County Hwy – I'm not going to bother hunting down which streets near all my Illinois residences were county highways.
Interstate - 400 ft - I-80/94 - current
US Highway - 400 ft - US 6 - current
State Highway - 0 ft - IN 106 - 1983
County Highway - 600 ft - DuPage Co Hwy 15 - 2005
Quote from: cabiness42 on September 04, 2020, 01:01:36 PM
County Highway - 600 ft - DuPage Co Hwy 15 - 2005
OK, so you made me look it up.
Apparently, I've lived one block from DuPage CH-21, and also about 1½ blocks from DuPage CH-36, and also 3 blocks from Williamson CH-4/FAS-2903.
Interstate: 4-5 miles from I-39/90/94 currently, used to be 3ish miles from it
US: Used to be about 400 yards as the crow flies from US-51, but have since moved a little further away from it, though still within 3 miles
State: 1-2 miles from WI-19
Interstate - 2.0 mi - I-40 - current
US Highway - 1.5 mi - US 15/501 - current
State Highway - 200 ft - M-43 - in college ( Michigan )
County Hiqhway - 15 mi - F-41 - high school ( Michigan )
Quote from: dfilpus on September 04, 2020, 01:31:28 PM
County Hiqhway - 15 mi
Huh. That's pretty far for your nearest county highway.
With the exception of a few years in Manhattan, Kansas, my residence has never been more than 1.5 miles away from US 69, and that includes two apartments and two parents' houses. And for most of that time, I've been about a half-mile from it, or closer.
Quote from: kphoger on September 04, 2020, 01:35:23 PM
Quote from: dfilpus on September 04, 2020, 01:31:28 PM
County Hiqhway - 15 mi
Huh. That's pretty far for your nearest county highway.
In Michigan, there are very few designated county highways. The nearest county highways were in the next county south.
AR-16 3 different times, 2 of which were in college within 200 yards of it. Currently live 1 mile off it.
US-71 - 2 miles in the early years
AR-23 - 5 miles before parents divorced
AR-22 - within 1 mile 3 different times after divorce
AR-72 - 3 blocks from Bentonville square during the Wal-Mart ISD years
Until 2017, I had always lived off of the Lincoln Highway (NJ 27). Here, I currently live off of I-295 (East Beltway).
Just guesses, all much less than a mile except where noted:
Closest interstate: I-81. It was a few hundred feet out the backyard. I was also close to the Thruway as the crow flies (1.5 miles), I-280 in the Bay Area was close (San Mateo), I-66 was about half a mile away in Falls Church. I-495 was close in Greenbelt, MD.
Closest U.S. Route: US 11 was a block away. US 50 was quite near in Falls Church, VA.
Closest state route: Lived about 200 feet from NY 5 in one place and 550 feet from it in another. Pretty close to CA 1 when I lived in the Richmond District. Couple of blocks away from ID 33 in Rexburg. Few blocks from WI-35 in Superior. VA 7 was close in Falls Church...MD 201 and 193 when I lived in Greenbelt...MA 116 when living in Amherst...IN 45/46 in Bloomington (a couple of places...I think one place was maybe 50 feet closer than the other to them).
This is too hard. Feel like I'm missing a few.
County routes are for weenies.
The closest county route to me is Rensselaer (NY) CR 100, approximately 110 miles away.
Interstate: I could see the I-490/I-590 interchange from my window
US Route: one block off US 1
State: four different addresses, either on or a half-block away from PA 113
Interstate: less than a mile from I-494 in Bloomington as a kid
US highway: US 2 was out my window in college
State highway: MN 62, when I was a kid
County road: I live on one now
Found it:
https://www.aaroads.com/forum/index.php?topic=13189.0
I searched for "as the crow flies" and navigated from there.
Here's how far I was (as the crow flies) to highways:
Manistee, MI (until 2000): 0.7 miles from US-31
Manistee, MI (2000-present): 1.2 miles from US-31
Allendale, MI (college): ranging from 0.1 to 1.1 miles from M-45
Ypsilanti, MI (2017-18): 1.25 miles from I-94/US-12 (across a lake)
I lived near I-280 (CA), I-80 (CA), CA-37, CA-82, US-101 and US-50.
Current: I-5
Most recent past address and a couple of addresses before that: WA 513 (I-5 next closest interstate route)
Back to when I was growing up: CA 82 (US 101)
A little while while growing up: CA 9 (tossup between US 101 and I-280)
And the first place I clearly remember living: CA 123 (I-80)
The majority of my life has been spent within a block of US 101. Right now I could throw a stone and hit it but I won't for obvious reasons...LOL!
Rick
Quote from: nexus73 on September 05, 2020, 07:07:37 PM
The majority of my life has been spent within a block of US 101. Right now I could throw a stone and hit it but I won't for obvious reasons...LOL!
Let me know when you plan to start throwing stones, so I can take I-5 down to the S.F. Bay Area... ;)
Quote from: SEWIGuy on September 04, 2020, 12:24:34 PM
Interstate: I-43 when I was in College
US: Two doors down from US-40, but US-40 has since been moved off that route.
State: Right on IN-63 for about a year, but IN-63 has since been decommissioned off that route.
County: My childhood home was about three blocks from Dane County D
For a few months in 1980 in Sacramento, my driveway was the "take the turn too wide for the on ramp" to CASR-99.
For most of the 1980s in Sacramento, I lived with the two sides of my complex on CASR-16 and the back along US-50.
For the few months that I lived in Austin in 2015, my street address was
ON IH-35.
So, to a certain extent, I have, as John Cougar Melloncamp said, had "an Interstate running through my front yard".
Interstate: 680
US: Route 101 (several miles away)
State: CA 84 (the southern one)
County: Route J2 (also several miles away)
Closest state, US or Interstate highway to where I live would be M-58 which is one mile south of my house. Closest Interstate would be I-675 and the closest US highway would be US-23.
Under 1,000 ft to the median of I-5
I lived right on a state route when I was younger. Technically the address was for the side road, but the driveway was on the state route.
I don't miss it at all from a quality of life perspective. It was busy and noisy, especially at rush hour, with frequent accidents happening essentially right in the front yard. I do miss the comforting hum of traffic at night, though. I can still sometimes hear traffic in the distance from where I live now, but it's not the same.
Quote from: kphoger on September 04, 2020, 01:35:23 PM
Quote from: dfilpus on September 04, 2020, 01:31:28 PM
County Hiqhway - 15 mi
Huh. That's pretty far for your nearest county highway.
My nearest
signed county highway would be about that far away.
Interstate: I-69
US: US-127
State: KY-92
Parkway: Cumberland
County: A few
Mine are all less than three blocks away.
Interstate - 3 blocks away, I-35 in Mission, KS
US Highway - 1 block away, (tie) US59 in Lawrence, KS, US69 in Overland Park, KS
State Highway - 2 blocks away, (tie) CO30 in Aurora, CO, K-10 in Olathe, KS
County Road - My Back Yard Abutted It, Dakota County (Minnesota) 43 in Eagan, MN
Chris
Interstate: I-97
US: US 441
State: FL 188
County: Not motivated to look it up
Interestingly the three results are from three separate former residences.
I can look out my window to my apartment and see IA 122.
As for the rest:
Interstate: 2.4 miles from Lincoln Hall, my old dorm at Northern Illinois University, to I-88
US Route: 0.6 miles from where I lived in Cottage Grove, MN to US 61/10.
County: Can't say, as it depends on what each state says a county road is.
Interstate: I-84, 700 ft
US: US-30, 700 ft. If you don't want to count that multiplex, US-97 at 2500 ft
State: ID-45, 1900 ft. Honorable mentions to both ID-55 and OR-126, in the 2500 ft range
Also, other than the 2 houses I don't know the exact locations of I lived at from before I was 5 years old (though I do think they were pretty close as well), I've never lived more than about 1.2 miles from a numbered, state maintained, highway.
Mine are all from living in Chelmsford MA
I-495, less than a quarter of a mile away
US 3, a few miles northeast of me
MA 110, lived right on it so can't get closer than that
Since I lived in an area with some industry 110 was actually a good deal louder than 495.
I lived one block from US 60 in Ashland, KY in the 80's.
In the mid-90's in college I had an apartment that was a few blocks away from US 70N in one direction and TN 135 in another direction in Cookeville, TN.
In the early 00's I rented an apartment that was one mile from I-40 in Nashville.
The house I owned near Kingston Springs, TN from "˜03 to "˜11 was a little less than a mile from US 70.
Right now I'm about 3 miles from the closest signed numbered highway, but my neighborhood is right off of a state secondary road.
I lived a block from US 1 and 301 as a kid. Today I-95 is maybe half a mile from my house, and 1/301 is a little farther, in the opposite direction.
AR 8, old US 71 and I-44.
moto g stylus
My driveway was once on the 2 lane Trans Canada. Now the new 4 lane bypass is on a hill behind the house and I have to go 3 km west to an interchange or 3 km east.
An aside from my own story, a former co-worker of mine lived in 5 different places from birth to adulthood all around Worcester, MA. All of them were within 500 feet of US 20, but none were actually on it.
I have actually lived on three designated highways. I currently live on US-127 in Cincinnati. I live in a high-rise and from my balcony, I can see parts of both I-74 and I-75, but not the actual interchange where they meet.
I lived for a summer on M-185, and for an academic year on M-43.
I once lived where my yard backed up to a greenbelt that separated our neighborhood from MD-32. At various points in the early 1980s, I also lived within 1/2 mile of MD-216, I-95, US-40, US-29, MD-174, and the MD-3 freeway which is now I-97. I moved around a lot in my 20's.
- US 1 on Cudjoe Key about 300 feet away.
- FL 436 on Semoran Boulevard in Orlando about 500 feet away.
- US 60 in Tempe about 1,000 feet away.
- US 27 in Dewitt Township about 1,000 feet away.
- AZ 101 in Scottsdale about a quarter mile away.
- US 41 in Chicago about a quarter mile away.
- AZ 51 in Phoenix about a half mile away.
- I-90/94 and I-290 in Chicago about a half mile away.
- CA 43 in Hanford about third quarters of a mile away.
- I-69 in Dewitt Township about one mile away.
I want to say that CT 67/133 was about four miles away in New Milford. It was about four miles to either US 12 or I-275 in Canton Township. About four miles to US 19 or FL 589 in Spring Hill. About six miles to M-10 and I-696 in West Bloomfield. Presently CA 180 is three miles north of me in Fresno.
I live about a mile west of I-55. The closest to a highway I've ever lived is about 500 feet from US 49.
0.5 miles from the US 20/OH 18 concurrency
5.8 miles from the I-80/I-90 concurrency
Quote from: 1 on September 04, 2020, 03:38:27 PM
Found it:
https://www.aaroads.com/forum/index.php?topic=13189.0
Expanding from my reply in the above-thread
During my years in Marblehead, MA through 1990:
Nearest Interstate route: I-95, though the nearest portion wasn't complete until 1988
Nearest US route: US 1
Nearest State route: MA 114 (1965-1967 & resided along this stretch 1976-1990), MA 129 (1967-1976)
During my college years in Bristol, RI (1984-1988)
Nearest Interstate route: I-195
Nearest US route: US 6
Nearest State route: RI 114/136 (campus stretched along both routes)
My current years in PA (1990-present)
Nearest Interstate route: I-95
Nearest US route: US 13
Nearest State route: PA 420*
*from Oct. 1990 through Jan. 2020, I resided along SR 2017.
Interstate: I-40, surprisingly, at 1200 feet from ages to 0 to 6, considering that from ages 6 to 19 I lived 1600 feet from I-35.
US: US-270, since it's concurrent with I-40 there. I currently live a half-mile from US-77, which isn't concurrent with anything, so I feel like that's the "real" answer.
Oklahoma SH: 0.84 mile from SH-9.
Missouri Route: 2 miles from Route 13.
Interstate: 1.5 miles east of I-25 in Northglenn, CO 2006-2008
US: 1.5 miles north of US 20 near Wakeman, Ohio
State: I lived on Ohio Route 235 which is Main Street in Ada, Ohio during college.
County: 950 feet east of Simms Street (maintained by Jefferson County, Colorado)
Honorable mention: I grew up 10.8 miles south of US 6 in Ohio, and I currently reside 11.5 miles north of US 6 in Colorado.
All three hometowns:
Chicago--I-290, US 20 and IL 50
Los Angeles--I-5, US 101 and CA 170
Seattle--I-5, US 2 and WA 99
Quote from: frankenroad on September 09, 2020, 12:03:40 PM
I have actually lived on three designated highways. I currently live on US-127 in Cincinnati. I live in a high-rise and from my balcony, I can see parts of both I-74 and I-75, but not the actual interchange where they meet.
I lived for a summer on M-185, and for an academic year on M-43.
I once lived where my yard backed up to a greenbelt that separated our neighborhood from MD-32. At various points in the early 1980s, I also lived within 1/2 mile of MD-216, I-95, US-40, US-29, MD-174, and the MD-3 freeway which is now I-97. I moved around a lot in my 20's.
I can't believe I forgot to mention that both of the houses we lived in when I was growing up were within 1/4 mile of OH-4; one was east and one was west.
I lived on US 231 when I was living in a post-college apartment. The only thing separating my car parking spot from Northwestern Avenue was a sidewalk. US 231 has been rerouted since then and that railing down the middle of Northwestern Avenue wasn't there when I lived there:
https://www.google.com/maps/@40.4285314,-86.9109079,3a,75y,16.49h,86.32t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1st-2Mo0FVnqOIyJpoH35E8Q!2e0!7i16384!8i8192
I was living on Indiana SR 26 East in a grad dorm when they made a bunch of West Lafayette streets one-way (SR 26 is no longer signed there):
https://www.google.com/maps/@40.422182,-86.911593,3a,75y,358.29h,105.39t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1snPDdM6W1hhaqXRiH6DBclA!2e0!7i16384!8i8192
I grew up on a county road in a house that my parents live in. No, I'm not giving you their address.
Nowadays I live 2 miles as the car drives and half a mile as the crow flies from I-75.
Closest right now to Interstate 705; Tacoma, WA. Only about 2 miles from I-5 though.
At one point lived in WA-161 while in Puyallup, WA
I live off US-1 when I'm in Virginia.