Small Cities that are main mileage control point over 200

[roadman65]

I was noticing that Bishop, CA along CA 14 is listed as the third and main control city along its mileage signs heading EB from I-5.  219 is listed on one of the signs for a city that has a population of 3,879.  Here is a photo courtesy of freewaydan showing that. https://www.flickr.com/photos/22306412@N07/13886865203/in/set-72157644032483263
Also, flaroads put one up in the Florida thread recently about Perry, FL being 214 which is another small city with a low population.  https://www.aaroads.com/forum/index.php?topic=2017.1625

How about any other small places that are on mileage signs with distances greater than 200 miles or more?

[oscar]

Alaska has many such examples.  For example, at the north end of the Dalton Highway (AK 11), the distance sign shows 240 miles from Deadhorse to Coldfoot (population 12). 



At the south end, the distance sign shows 414 miles to Deadhorse (population 4, not counting a few thousand temporary workers there at any given time depending on oil production activity). 



The Canadian Arctic, and highways in northern Quebec and Newfoundland/Labrador, will have similar signs showing long distances (> 300 km) to small towns.  For example, the distance sign at the south end of the Dempster Highway (YT 5/NT 8) shows 363 km to Eagle Lodge in Eagle Plains (population 8), and 735 km to Inuvik (population 3,430).



Unless there's a burning desire to take this topic out of the lower 48, I'll stop there.

[Mapmikey]

At 200 miles the criteria is a little too far but Virginia has numerous examples of small places being shown as the main mileage control point over 100 miles...

A couple of the smaller ones:

Technically, Yorktown, VA's population is about 200...signs begin at I-66 near Marshall - http://goo.gl/maps/r1rC3

Burkeville, VA has a population of almost 500...



Mapmikey

[hbelkins]

I was a bit surprised to see Galax on this sign:



2014 Hampton Roads-Delmarva Trip Day 4 - 085 by hbelkins, on Flickr

[roadfro]

Leaving Carson City on I-580/US 395 north, one sees this mileage sign for Reno, Susanville and Alturas (Street View). Alturas is 217 miles from this point.

Within Reno, Susanville is used as the control city. When this sign was first put up with the first leg of the Carson City Freeway (2006?), I had never even heard of Alturas. Alturas is in the far northeast corner of California. According to its Wikipedia page, it is a town of about 2800 people. I'm still not sure why it's signed as far south as Carson City, but only assume that it was the next major town of any kind of consequence on 395 north.

I would have put an interchange sequence sign there instead. Or maybe used Stead as the second city bumping Susanville to the bottom.

[oscar]

Leaving Carson City on I-580/US 395 north, one sees this mileage sign for Reno, Susanville and Alturas (Street View). Alturas is 217 miles from this point.

Within Reno, Susanville is used as the control city. When this sign was first put up with the first leg of the Carson City Freeway (2006?), I had never even heard of Alturas. Alturas is in the far northeast corner of California. According to its Wikipedia page, it is a town of about 2800 people. I'm still not sure why it's signed as far south as Carson City, but only assume that it was the next major town of any kind of consequence on 395 north.

US 395 misses Susanville's eastern city limits by about three miles.  Other than that technicality, Susanville is a much more familiar destination, and better control city, than Alturas.

[myosh_tino]

While Alturas only has a population of around 2800, it serves as the county seat for Modoc county.  It's also the largest city in Modoc county which has a total population of about 9700.