Numbered here includes state, US or interstate routes but not county/locally numbered routes. Bannered routes count if they are state maintained. The highway "skirting" the municipality via the border touching but not crossing the highway counts as being on the highway. Please include the population and the rank of the municipality.
For Indiana it is Winona Lake, in Kosciusko County, the 117th largest municipality with a population of 4,908.
Reedley stands out in my area with a population of 25,227. CA 99, 201, 63 and 180 are all a pretty good clip from the city limit. Even County Route J19 strays a mile from the east city limit. There probably some cookie cutter suburb though in the Bay Area or Los Angeles that I'm not thinking with more people though.
For Minnesota it's Andover, #31, pop. 32601. It lies 0.5 miles north of US 10, 0.5 miles east of MN 47, and 1.5 miles west of MN 65.
For North Dakota it's Lincoln, #14, pop. 4257. It lies about 2 miles from unsigned ND 810, and 4 miles south of I-94.
Maywood, in Los Angeles's industrial area, has about the same population as Reedley.
In my original home state, Massachusetts, Dracut has around 33000 people.
Quote from: pderocco on July 22, 2025, 02:46:17 PMMaywood, in Los Angeles's industrial area, has about the same population as Reedley.
In my original home state, Massachusetts, Dracut has around 33000 people.
Dracut has routes 38, 110, and 113 within its boundaries.
Nantucket is the answer with 14,255 people, rank 145 of 351. I checked Dover, which is a case of "town line barely misses", but Nantucket is larger anyway. MA 99 clips the corner of Melrose.
Quote from: NWI_Irish96 on July 22, 2025, 01:50:08 PMNumbered here includes state, US or interstate routes but not county/locally numbered routes. Bannered routes count if they are state maintained. The highway "skirting" the municipality via the border touching but not crossing the highway counts as being on the highway. Please include the population and the rank of the municipality.
For Indiana it is Winona Lake, in Kosciusko County, the 117th largest municipality with a population of 4,908.
Would you want to count it, if it has an exit from a numbered highway, but one must travel "some distance" on a local (unnumbered road) to get to it? Also, do named settlements count even if not incorporated?
I went all of the way through California's top 100 and found that, not only were all 100 on numbered highways, but (I'm pretty sure) that all of them were on FREEWAYS!
Because of their FM and RM roads, it's likely Texas will go at least as deep and maybe deeper than California.
Thought I'd do some categories for Colorado. Largest not on a:
Interstate: Greeley - 108,795 (#10)
US Route: Parker - 58,512 (#19)
State Highway: Evans - 22,165 (#29)
Interstate OR a US Route, but is on a State Highway: Superior - 13,094 (#44)
Interstate OR a State Highway, but is on a US Route: Evans - 22,165 (#29)
US Route OR a State Highway, but is on an Interstate: I don't believe this exists in CO
Numbered route at all: Mount Crested Butte - 941 (#153)
There are 273 incorporated municipalities, just for scale.
If I counted correctly, there are only 18 municipalities in CO that aren't on a numbered route: Mount Crested Butte (941, #153), Bow Mar (853, #163), Central City (779, #167), Williamsburg (731, #171), Rockvale (511, #194), Coal Creek (364, #211), Jamestown (256, #226), Rye (206, #237), Ophir (197, #239), Grover (157, #244), Crestone (141, #246), Marble (133, #248), Montezuma (74, #260), Pitkin (72, #261), Starkville (62, #264), Hartman (56, #266), Bonanza (17, #271), Carbonate (0, #273).
Any other Colorado geeks can feel free to correct any mistakes I made.
Quote from: michravera on July 22, 2025, 03:09:35 PMAlso, do named settlements count even if not incorporated?
I didn't do any CDPs, only incorporated municipalities, for what it's worth.
In North Carolina, most minor roads outside of larger cities are state-maintained as part of the "SR" system, and the only municipality that truly has only locally-owned facilities is Bald Head Island with a permanent population in 2023 of about 280, but which can swell to over 5,000 during the peak summer season.
That being said, there are a handful of small towns that lack any primary highways. I think the biggest one is technically Pleasant Garden (5,057), but Google Maps shows two of US-421's ramps clipping its northeastern boundary. Foxfire (1,376), Varnumtown (538), Staley (406), Goldston (250), Proctorville (120), Marietta (107), and McDonald (94) would come in at second, third, fourth, fifth, sixth, seventh, and eighth, respectively.
Quote from: michravera on July 22, 2025, 03:09:35 PMBecause of their FM and RM roads, it's likely Texas will go at least as deep and maybe deeper than California.
The safe bet is that it will be a suburb of a major city.
Cockrell Hill, for example, has a population of more than 4000.
My gut tells me the odds are that in Virginia there aren't any. The Commonwealth handles all public roads except in independent cities and the counties of Arlington and Henrico. The latter two don't qualify because they both have Interstates running through them (among other roads disqualifying them). I haven't carefully studied the map of every independent city, but it appears that a lot of them have at least one US Highway, and even though it doesn't have one, Poquoson doesn't qualify under the rules of this thread because two primary routes (VA-171 and VA-172) pass through the city limits.
Quote from: michravera on July 22, 2025, 03:09:35 PMQuote from: NWI_Irish96 on July 22, 2025, 01:50:08 PMNumbered here includes state, US or interstate routes but not county/locally numbered routes. Bannered routes count if they are state maintained. The highway "skirting" the municipality via the border touching but not crossing the highway counts as being on the highway. Please include the population and the rank of the municipality.
For Indiana it is Winona Lake, in Kosciusko County, the 117th largest municipality with a population of 4,908.
Also, do named settlements count even if not incorporated?
No, no CDP's or other unincorporated places.
Lexington County, SC probably has the only three municipalities in the whole state not located along at least a primary state highway, and I live in one of them.
Pine Ridge (2020 pop. 2,167, including my family and I) is located south of Cayce and just west of US 21/176/321, and if I-77 were ever to be extended south, would be completely obliterated. So NIMBY to any southern I-77 extension! Widen 26 and 95 first since there is tons of existing median ROW on both! Anyway, the SC National Guard Pine Ridge Armory is located here, which also houses the state Emergency Management Division, so anytime a major disaster (e.g. hurricane) befells the state, the parking lot fills up and the Governor is probably on site, arriving by helicopter of course, despite being less than 20 minutes from the executive residence.
Gilbert (2020 pop. 571), located a mile or so south of US 1 west of Lexington, may be small, but every July 4 they host the Lexington County Peach Festival, which is one of the most popular yearly events in the area.
Summitt (2020 pop. 402) is a couple of miles west of Gilbert, is the smallest municipality in the county, and I don't believe is notable for anything other than the city limits being octagonal in shape but turned 22.5° so that four of its eight corners point to the cardinal directions.
Quote from: pderocco on July 22, 2025, 02:46:17 PMMaywood, in Los Angeles's industrial area, has about the same population as Reedley.
The interesting thing about Reedley is that despite not being served on the state highway system it is connected to 99 via Manning Avenue. Manning Avenue is a pretty decent divided expressway and probably would be state highway in a lot of other states. California has a lot of state highway-quality corridors of the like owned by city or county agencies.
Nevada only has 19 incorporated cities, and they are all on numbered highways. There are some other places that should be considered, such as the unincorporated Town of Minden which is the county seat of Douglas County, but those are all on numbered highways as well.
Aside from a few tiny clusters of ranches, I think the only named dots on the map of Nevada that aren't on numbered highways are old mining ghost towns.
Quote from: Max Rockatansky on July 22, 2025, 02:25:28 PMReedley stands out in my area with a population of 25,227. CA 99, 201, 63 and 180 are all a pretty good clip from the city limit. Even County Route J19 strays a mile from the east city limit. There probably some cookie cutter suburb though in the Bay Area or Los Angeles that I'm not thinking with more people though.
Quote from: pderocco on July 22, 2025, 02:46:17 PMMaywood, in Los Angeles's industrial area, has about the same population as Reedley.
In the L.A. area, Cypress (50,151) is the biggest one I could think of (it did have CA-214 née US-91 running through it at one point).
Because of the geography, the Bay Area's cities are pretty well stacked vertically, so they're mostly all speared by the north-south highways. The closest I can think of is Newark (47,529), which has I-880 and CA-84 as two of its boundaries, but no highway going into the city.
If they were incorporated, some of the eastern Sacramento suburbs like Carmichael, Orangevale, etc. would likely be contenders.
For Arizona, it appears the answer is Fountain Hills, which is the 32nd most populous municipality (out of 91) in the state, with a 2020 population of 23,820.
Arizona State Route 87 (the Beeline Highway) passes by the southeast corner of Fountain Hills but does not appear to enter the area within the city limits.
Wyoming's appears to be town of Bar Nunn with 2,981 people and the 22nd largest city in the state. It hugs right next to I-25, but doesn't have it in its boundaries.
My best guess for Wisconsin is Schofield, pop. 2157
*notes no one willing to sift through the 1,596 municipalities in NY*
Skimming through Arizona it appears to be now Cave Creek since Queen Creek now barely has AZ 24.
Quote from: kphoger on July 22, 2025, 03:42:36 PMQuote from: michravera on July 22, 2025, 03:09:35 PMBecause of their FM and RM roads, it's likely Texas will go at least as deep and maybe deeper than California.
The safe bet is that it will be a suburb of a major city.
Cockrell Hill, for example, has a population of more than 4000.
West University Place in the Houston area has a population of 14,955.
Quote from: Rothman on July 22, 2025, 07:24:55 PM*notes no one willing to sift through the 1,596 municipalities in NY*
City of Long Beach at #18, population 35,029 as of 2020.
West Virginia has seven.
- It's bizarre, but Stonewood (pop. 1759*) "borders" WV-20 but the official western boundary line is along Elk Creek (thus qualifying on a technicality).
- Similarly, Carpendale (pop. 847*) "borders" WV-28, but the eastern boundary is significantly further away from the road with a wooded buffer, as well as a powerline and gas transmission pipeline alongside.
- In a different twist, Clearview (pop. 459*) sits up on the hill overlooking WV-2 and the Ohio River. But it actually borders the upper stretch of the city of Wheeling that sits down along the river.
- Windsor Heights (pop. 339*) is just a bit north of Clearview in Brooke County, and it also sits up on the hill overlooking WV-2 and the Ohio River. But in this case, there is nothing important on Route 2 down below.
- Davy (pop. 189*) sits along the Tug Fork inland in McDowell County, but this area is nowhere near any "numbered roads".
- Rhodell (pop. 137*) is in Raleigh County and might be within view of WV-16. But I doubt it.
- Then there is the most famous ghost town on the East Coast. Thurmond (pop. 3*) is still incorporated and sits on the east side of the New River. It does have a passenger station on the Chesapeake and Ohio Railway mainline, but seldom gets any train stops.
*2023 population estimates
Quote from: Dirt Roads on July 22, 2025, 08:14:36 PMWest Virginia has seven.
- It's bizarre, but Stonewood (pop. 1759*) "borders" WV-20 but the official western boundary line is along Elk Creek (thus qualifying on a technicality).
- Similarly, Carpendale (pop. 847*) "borders" WV-28, but the eastern boundary is significantly further away from the road with a wooded buffer, as well as a powerline and gas transmission pipeline alongside.
- In a different twist, Clearview (pop. 459*) sits up on the hill overlooking WV-2 and the Ohio River. But it actually borders the upper stretch of the city of Wheeling that sits down along the river.
- Windsor Heights (pop. 339*) is just a bit north of Clearview in Brooke County, and it also sits up on the hill overlooking WV-2 and the Ohio River. But in this case, there is nothing important on Route 2 down below.
- Davy (pop. 189*) sits along the Tug Fork inland in McDowell County, but this area is nowhere near any "numbered roads".
- Rhodell (pop. 137*) is in Raleigh County and might be within view of WV-16. But I doubt it.
- Then there is the most famous ghost town on the East Coast. Thurmond (pop. 3*) is still incorporated and sits on the east side of the New River. It does have a passenger station on the Chesapeake and Ohio Railway mainline, but seldom gets any train stops.
*2023 population estimates
Rhodell disincorporated a couple years ago, so it no longer counts.
There are a couple others in West Virginia.
- Technically, Salem (2023 population 1,482) is also on this list. There aren't any numbered routes in town after WV 31 was truncated back to US 50 a couple years ago. Its main street through town was US 50 but that was relocated to a bypass in the 1960s.
- Grant Town in Marion County (population 674) also lacks a numbered route connection.
- Coalton (legally Womelsdorf) in Randolph County was never on a numbered route or even a main road for that matter. It's a couple miles off US 33's old alignment, which was bypassed by Corridor H about 35 years ago.
Quote from: NWI_Irish96 on July 22, 2025, 01:50:08 PMFor Indiana it is Winona Lake, in Kosciusko County, the 117th largest municipality with a population of 4,908.
I hate to "um, actually" you, but the mentions of small dense cities in suburban areas got me thinking about Lake County. Turns out Winfield has a population of 7,181 as of the 2020 census.
Quote from: thspfc on July 22, 2025, 06:49:10 PMMy best guess for Wisconsin is Schofield, pop. 2157
I found Kimberly (7,320) and Combined Locks (3,634) in the Appleton area. I haven't bothered to check the Madison or Milwaukee areas for small suburbs that might have been skipped by the state highways, so I wouldn't be surprised if that is ultimately beaten.
Iowa's appears to be Asbury near Dubuque, population 5,943.
Connecticut does not have any municipalities without a numbered route passing through it's boundaries.
Rhode Island only has one municipality without a numbered route: New Shoreham, the town out on Block Island.
In Alaska, Sitka (unified city/borough) would take the prize, with a 2020 population of 8458.
Kenai (home rule city, pop. 7424, within the Kenai Peninsula Borough, but less than a dozen miles on paved roads from AK 1) and Bethel (second-class city, pop. 6325, within the Bethel census area), get honorable mentions.
Quote from: pianocello on July 22, 2025, 09:14:09 PMQuote from: thspfc on July 22, 2025, 06:49:10 PMMy best guess for Wisconsin is Schofield, pop. 2157
I found Kimberly (7,320) and Combined Locks (3,634) in the Appleton area. I haven't bothered to check the Madison or Milwaukee areas for small suburbs that might have been skipped by the state highways, so I wouldn't be surprised if that is ultimately beaten.
Kimberly appears to border WIS 441. Combined Locks is a little bigger than Thiensville (3,290), so it may be the answer, but I haven't looked at every village. (And I don't even know if towns should count.) Also, state-maintained Business US 51 goes through Schofield so it's ineligible anyway.
My former home of Evanston is the largest in Illinois, and with 78,110 people, probably one of the largest in the nation. (I think we had a thread about that already, though, and somewhere on the East Coast was larger.)
Quote from: cockroachking on July 22, 2025, 07:55:29 PMQuote from: Rothman on July 22, 2025, 07:24:55 PM*notes no one willing to sift through the 1,596 municipalities in NY*
City of Long Beach at #18, population 35,029 as of 2020.
County Route D39.
For Iowa it looks like it's Carter Lake (pop. 3,791). East of the Missouri, the largest is Jesup (pop. 2,508).
Quote from: bm7 on July 23, 2025, 03:58:21 AMFor Iowa it looks like it's Carter Lake (pop. 3,791). East of the Missouri, the largest is Jesup (pop. 2,508).
Carter Lake has IA-165 (https://wiki.aaroads.com/wiki/Iowa_Highway_165).
I don't know what it would be for Nebraska, because everything over 100 has to be connected to the state highway system, even if it is just a spur route.
Quote from: Rothman on July 22, 2025, 11:47:47 PMQuote from: cockroachking on July 22, 2025, 07:55:29 PMQuote from: Rothman on July 22, 2025, 07:24:55 PM*notes no one willing to sift through the 1,596 municipalities in NY*
City of Long Beach at #18, population 35,029 as of 2020.
County Route D39.
The OP said not to count county/locally numbered routes.
Quote from: Rothman on July 22, 2025, 11:47:47 PMQuote from: cockroachking on July 22, 2025, 07:55:29 PMQuote from: Rothman on July 22, 2025, 07:24:55 PM*notes no one willing to sift through the 1,596 municipalities in NY*
City of Long Beach at #18, population 35,029 as of 2020.
County Route D39.
Quote from: Rothman on June 10, 2025, 09:57:08 PMAs was established a long time ago, county routes are for sissies.
Quote from: JayhawkCO on July 23, 2025, 08:04:30 AMQuote from: Rothman on July 22, 2025, 11:47:47 PMQuote from: cockroachking on July 22, 2025, 07:55:29 PMQuote from: Rothman on July 22, 2025, 07:24:55 PM*notes no one willing to sift through the 1,596 municipalities in NY*
City of Long Beach at #18, population 35,029 as of 2020.
County Route D39.
Quote from: Rothman on June 10, 2025, 09:57:08 PMAs was established a long time ago, county routes are for sissies.
Well-played.
Kansas' appears to be #19: Prairie Village, a suburb of Kansas City, pop. 22,957 as of the 2020 census.
Next might be #48: Valley Center, an outer suburb of Wichita, pop. 6822 as of the 2020 census but growing quite a bit since then.
Quote from: pianocello on July 22, 2025, 09:14:09 PMQuote from: NWI_Irish96 on July 22, 2025, 01:50:08 PMFor Indiana it is Winona Lake, in Kosciusko County, the 117th largest municipality with a population of 4,908.
I hate to "um, actually" you, but the mentions of small dense cities in suburban areas got me thinking about Lake County. Turns out Winfield has a population of 7,181 as of the 2020 census.
Quote from: thspfc on July 22, 2025, 06:49:10 PMMy best guess for Wisconsin is Schofield, pop. 2157
I found Kimberly (7,320) and Combined Locks (3,634) in the Appleton area. I haven't bothered to check the Madison or Milwaukee areas for small suburbs that might have been skipped by the state highways, so I wouldn't be surprised if that is ultimately beaten.
Iowa's appears to be Asbury near Dubuque, population 5,943.
The NB on-ramp to the WI 441 freeway at College Ave enters Kimberly even though the rest of the WI 441 ROW that is adjacent to it is entirely in Appleton.
Mike
Quote from: Scott5114 on July 23, 2025, 05:16:25 AMQuote from: bm7 on July 23, 2025, 03:58:21 AMFor Iowa it looks like it's Carter Lake (pop. 3,791). East of the Missouri, the largest is Jesup (pop. 2,508).
Carter Lake has IA-165 (https://wiki.aaroads.com/wiki/Iowa_Highway_165).
I blame Google Maps for not showing it there. Usually it's showing highways that don't exist that's the problem, not the other way around...
For Michigan, it's Oakland Township in Oakland County. Population of 20,067 in 2020. For a city it's Grosse Pointe Woods in Wayne County. Population of 16,135 in 2020. GPW does hit the service drive of I-94 but I-94 doesn't really serve the community.
I feel sure every incorporated town in Louisiana has a numbered highway. Louisiana has so many state highways, there's a good chance every census designated place has it too.
Ammon is ranked 15th in Idaho with 17,694 people. For those unfamiliar, it's basically just the eastern suburban development of Idaho Falls. At the closest, it lies about a mile south of US-26.
Largest for Illinois appears to be Winnetka at 12,744; though it does have unnumbered state-maintained roads. The boundary appears to get to about 500 feet from I-94/US 41 at the closest point.
Park Forest at 21,687 gets close, but it looks like the northern boundary does touch the US 30 ROW.
Quote from: Revive 755 on July 25, 2025, 10:52:11 PMLargest for Illinois appears to be Winnetka at 12,744; though it does have unnumbered state-maintained roads. The boundary appears to get to about 500 feet from I-94/US 41 at the closest point.
Park Forest at 21,687 gets close, but it looks like the northern boundary does touch the US 30 ROW.
Someone upthread said Evanston (78,110), which I think is correct. No US 41 or IL 58 crossings as in next door Skokie. Rt. 58 ends at US41, Skokie Blvd, then Dempster is a city street. Sheridan Rd used to be IL 42, but not since forever ago.
Quote from: Beeper1 on July 22, 2025, 09:17:33 PMConnecticut does not have any municipalities without a numbered route passing through it's boundaries.
Trivia: all 169 towns have at least 2 signed numbered routes. Before 1963, a single town (Beacon Falls) had just one signed route (CT 8). I think you have to go back to 1924, for towns like Scotland that were not yet on a signed route. The 1925 maps I have seem to show all towns connected.
I believe Hueytown, AL, is the largest city in Alabama without any kind of numbered highway going through it, as it has a population of 16,776 as of 2020. The eastern end of the city gets very close to I-20/I-59, though doesn't quite reach it.
In Washington, it seems to be University Place, a suburb of Tacoma (population approx. 35,000, #36). Sammamish (population approx. 67,000, #19) is really close, but it appears to just barely touch SR 202 at the north end, for a block or so.
San Fernando, California when I look at a map it does not touch I-210 and CA-118 directly but it's a city that is one of the smallest sized cities in LA County. (https://www.landsat.com/town-aerial-map/california/map/san-fernando-ca-0666140.jpg)https://www.landsat.com/town-aerial-map/california/map/san-fernando-ca-0666140.jpg
Here's another city in California that has no freeways in its city limits and it's Broadmoor, California. It has no freeways in its city limits but the nearest Freeway is Highway 280 and can easily mistake Broadmoor as a district in Daly City if one is passing through.
(https://www.landsat.com/town-aerial-map/california/map/broadmoor-ca-0608338.jpg)
Rio Linda, California in Sacramento County has to be one of the most notable areas to not have a numbered highway given that the nearest freeways I-80 and I-5 are in the city limits of Sacramento city proper.
For Maryland, looks like we have to go to Fairmount Heights (Prince Georges County) with a population of 1528.
Fairmount Heights ranks 85 out of 157 among Maryland municipalities. Maryland has surprisingly few places that are actually incorporated.
For Ohio, it's University Heights (population 13k). If we're allowing bordering numbered roads to count, it would be Upper Arlington, as US 33 forms the western edge of the city limits.
Quote from: bing101 on July 27, 2025, 11:58:13 AMHere's another city in California that has no freeways in its city limits and it's Broadmoor, California. It has no freeways in its city limits but the nearest Freeway is Highway 280 and can easily mistake Broadmoor as a district in Daly City if one is passing through.
(https://www.landsat.com/town-aerial-map/california/map/broadmoor-ca-0608338.jpg)
Broadmoor is not an incorporated city - upthread I mentioned if we were counting CDPs then some of the Sacramento suburbs would be in the running. You could also include Isla Vista on that list.
For incorporated cities, you could previously consider Paradise, which was around 26K before the 2018 fire. It was as low as 4,000 or so after and supposedly is back to around 9,000.
Does Evanston, IL (2020 USCensus - 78,110) currently have a numbered state highway in its city limits?
Mike
Quote from: mgk920 on July 29, 2025, 05:29:35 PMDoes Evanston, IL (2020 USCensus - 78,110) currently have a numbered state highway in its city limits?
Mike
No, it does not.
Quote from: US20IL64 on July 29, 2025, 10:56:12 PMI posted this on July 26th, I guess viewer didn't look at page 2:
"Someone upthread said Evanston (78,110), which I think is correct. No US 41 or IL 58 crossings as in next door Skokie. Rt. 58 ends at US41, Skokie Blvd, then Dempster is a city street. Sheridan Rd used to be IL 42, but not since forever ago."
Just a reminder that not everyone has the same forum settings. On my view, what you quoted is currently on page 1.
Sheridan Rd once was a numbered state highway, but IDOT gave it up many decades ago.
Mike
Quote from: mgk920 on July 30, 2025, 11:15:08 AMSheridan Rd once was a numbered state highway, but IDOT gave it up many decades ago.
Mike
IDOT may have decomissioned IL 42 and turned over parts of Sheridan Road corridor, but there are still long stretches that are under IDOT jurisdiction as an unmarked roadway:
- Devon Avenue in Chicago to the South Boulevard intersection in Evanston
- Winnetka Avenue (Winnetka/Kenilworth border) to the eastern/southern Lakeside Manor intersection in Highland Park
- The Lambert Tree/Lincolnwood Road intersection in Highland Park to the St. John Avenue intersection south of downtown Highland Park
- Elm Place intersection north of downtown Highland Park to the Walker Avenue/Lake View Avenue in Highwood
- The Moffet Road intersection at the Lake Forest/Lake Bluff border to the North Chicago boundary.
Largest in South Carolina is probably Pine Ridge. Nearly every town of any size more than a couple hundred is at least connected to a numbered state highway.
And even the smaller roads are state-maintained by the numbering of counties. Like Charleston is S-10.
I'm not even sure, honestly. Oregon does a good job at putting cities on their numbered highways, if I had to guess it would be Christmas Valley, but it might be something bigger, I'm still gonna go with Christmas Valley though.
Quote from: NWI_Irish96 on July 22, 2025, 01:50:08 PMnot county/locally numbered routes
Quote from: Sctvhound on August 01, 2025, 08:14:56 PMAnd even the smaller roads are state-maintained by the numbering of counties. Like Charleston is S-10.
Doesn't matter, because county-numbered routes don't count per OP.
Quote from: Beeper1 on July 22, 2025, 09:17:33 PMConnecticut does not have any municipalities without a numbered route passing through it's boundaries.
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True for the 169 towns. The one CT city not coterminous with its town, Groton, has numbered routes, as do 8 of the 9 boroughs. The one exception: Stonington, within town of same name, population 976, arguably a "municipality".
Quote from: DTComposer on July 28, 2025, 09:22:13 PMFor [California] incorporated cities, you could previously consider Paradise, which was around 26K before the 2018 fire. It was as low as 4,000 or so after and supposedly is back to around 9,000.
CA 191 ends within Paradise.
For Ontario, it's Clarence-Rockland with a 2021 population of 26,505. It includes the former Highway 17, which was downloaded in the late 90's.
There are multiple larger municipalities that border provincial highways only on the edge of the municipality, but I counted those as still being within the municipal borders.
The most populated municipality in Pennsylvania without a numbered highway is the borough of Lansdowne in Delaware County, although it is served by quadrant routes.
Clay, Alabama is not served by any state routes.
Right now I'm thinking that Combined Locks (incorporated village) is indeed the winner for Wisconsin.
Mike
Quote from: formulanone on August 07, 2025, 07:15:29 AMClay, Alabama is not served by any state routes.
Still smaller than Hueytown, admittedly, but interesting to note regardless.
Quote from: freebrickproductions on July 26, 2025, 11:23:42 PMI believe Hueytown, AL, is the largest city in Alabama without any kind of numbered highway going through it, as it has a population of 16,776 as of 2020. The eastern end of the city gets very close to I-20/I-59, though doesn't quite reach it.
Quote from: freebrickproductions on August 07, 2025, 04:14:28 PMQuote from: formulanone on August 07, 2025, 07:15:29 AMClay, Alabama is not served by any state routes.
Still smaller than Hueytown, admittedly, but interesting to note regardless.
Quote from: freebrickproductions on July 26, 2025, 11:23:42 PMI believe Hueytown, AL, is the largest city in Alabama without any kind of numbered highway going through it, as it has a population of 16,776 as of 2020. The eastern end of the city gets very close to I-20/I-59, though doesn't quite reach it.
You're right, I thought US 11 touched the border, but probably confused it with a "To" sign on 20/59.
Arkansas' leader in the clubhouse for decades is Shannon Hills (pop. 4,490), a community just inside Saline County and within the Bryant ISD. I'm guessing No. 2 is Cammack Village (pop. 778), an enclave within the city of Little Rock.
Quote from: Max Rockatansky on July 22, 2025, 07:32:39 PMSkimming through Arizona it appears to be now Cave Creek since Queen Creek now barely has AZ 24.
San Tan Valley just recently voted to incorporate. Assuming that actually comes to fruition, the new municipality would have an estimated population of about 103K, which is significantly bigger than Evanston, and, at the moment, no state highways enter the proposed city limits.