Very small towns signed far away on distance signs

[Dirt Roads]

Marlinton is also the first incorporated place north of Lewisburg on 219, if I'm not mistaken. Of course, there is no prohibition on using non-incorporated places on interstate exits (you pass by exits for Dawson, Sam Black Church, and Alta before you get to Lewisburg if you're traveling east), but still.

Which reminds me:  For many years, Sam Black Church was shown as a destination eastbound on US-60 somewhere in Fayette County.  I can't remember where the sign was.  Of course, West Virginians knew that the purpose of the sign was to report the distance across the mountains before you hit I-64.  The population of Smoot is reported as 435 or 441 (neither sources are giving the year), and the village around Sam Black Church is a small portion of that (probably less than 100).  It's right at 50 miles from Gauley Bridge to I-64 and it seems to me that the old sign was west of there.

After completion of Corridor L, there was also a sign for Sam Black Church eastbound on US-60 in Hico.  That's about 36 miles.  That sign might still be there.  Somebody with GSV ought to check.

[hbelkins]

Marlinton is also the first incorporated place north of Lewisburg on 219, if I'm not mistaken. Of course, there is no prohibition on using non-incorporated places on interstate exits (you pass by exits for Dawson, Sam Black Church, and Alta before you get to Lewisburg if you're traveling east), but still.

Which reminds me:  For many years, Sam Black Church was shown as a destination eastbound on US-60 somewhere in Fayette County.  I can't remember where the sign was.  Of course, West Virginians knew that the purpose of the sign was to report the distance across the mountains before you hit I-64.  The population of Smoot is reported as 435 or 441 (neither sources are giving the year), and the village around Sam Black Church is a small portion of that (probably less than 100).  It's right at 50 miles from Gauley Bridge to I-64 and it seems to me that the old sign was west of there.

After completion of Corridor L, there was also a sign for Sam Black Church eastbound on US-60 in Hico.  That's about 36 miles.  That sign might still be there.  Somebody with GSV ought to check.

On a family vacation back in the very late 1960s or early 1970s, we returned home through West Virginia. I don't remember a lot about that trip, and I don't remember where I-64 ended back in those days, but my dad said it took four hours to drive from White Sulphur Springs to Charleston.

[JayhawkCO]

While not quite as far as some others in this thread, in La Junta, Colorado, there is a sign pointing towards Kim, Colorado which has 74 people and is 58 miles away.

Chris

[kphoger]

While not quite as far as some others in this thread, in La Junta, Colorado, there is a sign pointing towards Kim, Colorado which has 74 people and is 58 miles away.

Ah, Kim!  Home of the only gas station between Trinidad and Springfield (120 miles).  And it isn't open on week-ends.  Or evenings.

[JayhawkCO]

While not quite as far as some others in this thread, in La Junta, Colorado, there is a sign pointing towards Kim, Colorado which has 74 people and is 58 miles away.

Ah, Kim!  Home of the only gas station between Trinidad and Springfield (120 miles).  And it isn't open on week-ends.  Or evenings.

And named after a Rudyard Kipling novel!

Chris

[Scott5114]

Marlinton, WV, population 961, is signed 64 miles away on US 219.

That sure stretches the definition of "very small".  Marlinton has a couple of stoplights, a hospital, several restaurants, a grocery store, a school...

Population doesn't always map one to one with the amenities available in a small town. When I lived in Goldsby, its population was a few hundred more than Marlinton, and we didn't have any of that. (Toward the end of my time there, we got a few stoplights on the edge of town, associated with a freeway interchange, and a second restaurant. Still has no hospital or school, and the only thing resembling a grocery store is a new Dollar General.)