Largest cities without Interstate service

[Roadsguy]

Speaking of cities not served by Interstates, which is the biggest "regular" city in the country not served by an Interstate?

[agentsteel53]

Speaking of cities not served by Interstates, which is the biggest "regular" city in the country not served by an Interstate?

depends on your definition of "regular".  square footprint on the earth?  all citizens formally deemed "not insane", and have the certificate framed in their living rooms?

general consensus is Fresno, CA.

[jcarte29]

In North Carolina I would probably say Jacksonville, home of Camp Lejeune, is the biggest city not served by an interstate.

Might have been Goldsboro, but now it is served by I-795

[vtk]

So now we're doing largest cities in a particular state not served by an Interstate?  For Ohio: Portsmouth, Steubenville, and Bucyrus come to mind.  Maybe Xenia, or would that be considered part of Dayton for this discussion?

Of course, if we want to be anal and talk about the most populated incorporated municipalities which don't have an Interstate's interchange within their borders, we'd probably get a huge list of large suburbs.  So let's not do that.

[Alps]

So now we're doing largest cities in a particular state not served by an Interstate?

Would probably be preferable as its own thread... but I thought we did that already (but I can't find it)

[jp the roadgeek]

Candidates for the Northeast

CT: Bristol
RI: Newport
MA: Pittsfield, Cambridge
VT: Rutland, Bennington
NH: Nashua
ME: Presque Isle
NY: Poughkeepsie
NJ: Atlantic City
PA: Lancaster, Johnstown
DE: Dover
MD: Salisbury, Columbia

[TheHighwayMan3561]

MN: Technically it's Rochester, since I-90 stays fully south of the city limits. If you don't want to count Rochester or any Twin Cities suburbs, it falls to Mankato.

[roadman65]

Panama City, FL is one in the Sunshine State NOT served by an interstate.

Albany, GA is not served by one, but was supposed to have an x75 spur from Cordele, GA that got traded for GA 300 instead.

Brownsville, TX until I-69 makes its way south of Robstown, TX.

Dothan, AL is one that lacks an interstate, but has a  non freeway beltway though.

Traverse City, MI is another.

Portsmouth, OH if not mentioned already being that I-73 and I-74 will never be built through it.

Ukiah, CA
Eureka, CA
Santa Barbara, CA

[Mark68]

Greeley, CO.

I-25 runs about 15 miles to the west and several exits lead to Greeley (including US 34), but the interstate doesn't run through it. Other than that, La Junta, CO is nowhere near an interstate.

Bend, OR

Brigham City, UT

Roswell, NM

Sierra Vista or Lake Havasu City, AZ

Walla Walla, WA

[Kacie Jane]

Walla Walla, WA

Wenatchee was the first one I thought of, which is extremely close in population, but Bremerton beats both by about 7,000. source

[Road Hog]

Arkansas: Jonesboro (pop. 67,000) is the biggest city right now, but once I-555 is signed that honor will shift to Hot Springs (pop. 35K).

[WichitaRoads]

In Kansas, let's see:

Towns over 15,000 in population - approx. populations:

Manhattan (52,000) (close connections to I-70 by way of K-177 and K-18, but still 10-15 miles from an Interstate)
Hutchinson (41,000) (K-96 is freeway to US 50, and 50 is being "upgraded" a little)
Dodge City (25,000) and Garden City (24,000) (served by US 400 - which will most likely never see an upgrade to Interstate)
Pittsburg (21,000) (served by 69 and 400, close to Joplin and I-44)
Great Bend (15,000) (served by 281 and 56)

If I go any further, I'll be lisiting more burgs of little to no consequence outside of the regions of Kansas they sit in, or cities that are really just suburbs of KCK, like Overland Park or Olathe. (Besides, most of these are served by a 3di).

Most cities of consequence are served by either a mainline Interstate, or by a 3di - Wichita (375,000), KCK (145,000), Topeka (125,000), Lawrence (85,000), even Salina (47,000), Emporia (25,000), and Hays (20,000).

ICTRds

[Mark68]

Walla Walla, WA

Wenatchee was the first one I thought of, which is extremely close in population, but Bremerton beats both by about 7,000. source

Oh hell, I just wanted to type Walla Walla, WA.

[apjung]

The ones I can think of offhand:
Anchorage, AK
Fresno, CA
Bakersfield, CA
San Angelo, TX

[Mark68]

The ones I can think of offhand:
Anchorage, AK

Technically, there are interstates in Alaska. I believe Anchorage is served by two of them.

[vtk]

MN: Technically it's Rochester, since I-90 stays fully south of the city limits. If you don't want to count Rochester or any Twin Cities suburbs, it falls to Mankato.

I think we can count Rochester without being technicanal.  Suburban development doesn't come anywhere near I-90, and the mileage signs on I-90 give distance to "Rochester Exit" and not simply Rochester.

We shouldn't count Twin Cities suburbs because they are suburbs of a larger urban area which has several Interstates.

[oscar]

The ones I can think of offhand:
Anchorage, AK

Technically, there are interstates in Alaska. I believe Anchorage is served by two of them.

As well as Fairbanks.  That leaves Juneau as largest interstate-free in AK.

In Hawaii, either Hilo or Kailua-Kona. 

[mjb2002]

In SC: Greenwood, Myrtle Beach and Seneca come to mind.

[berberry]

Tupelo, Greenville, Greenwood and Natchez are the towns that pop to my mind for Mississippi.  Tupelo's situation is obviously temporary, and Greenville's probably is as well.  I know of no plans to extend any interstate highway to either Greenwood or Natchez, so those will likely endure as the largest towns in Mississippi without interstate highway service.

[Brandon]

I'm going to not include those served by a freeway of any kind, interstate or otherwise, if connected to the main freeway system of the state.

Illinois:
Freeport
Carbondale
Streator
Pekin (although closeness to I-474 may disqualify it)

Indiana:
Bloomington (until I-69 is finished)
Vincennes
Kokomo
Goshen

Michigan:
Marquette
Adrian
Traverse City

[SSOWorld]

Though not for long, Appleton, WI.  Kenosha is 5 mi from I-94, so I say close enough.
Dubuque, IA

[Takumi]

Lynchburg is Virginia's.

[ftballfan]

In Michigan:
If separate cities within major metro areas counted (all of these within Metro Detroit):
Sterling Heights (129,699)
Rochester Hills (70,995)
Pontiac (59,515)
Dearborn Heights (57,774)

Outside of Metro Detroit:
Midland (41,863)
Mount Pleasant (26,016)
Marquette (21,355)
Adrian (21,133)

[KEK Inc.]

Mentioned twice here, but I believe Fresno brags about it.

[roadman65]

In New Jersey, someone mentioned Atlantic City.  However Vineland is a large city that is not served by an interstate, even though it has freeway connection to it from the interstate system via NJ 55 connected to NJ 42 connected to Interstates 76 and 295.