State with most consecutive US routes?

[hbelkins]

Can anyone top Arkansas? 61, 62, 63, 64, 65

Honorable mention to New Hampshire (1, 2, 3, 4) and Missouri (60, 61, 62, 63).

Historical winner -- Ohio (20, former 21, 22, 23, 24, former 25).

[hotdogPi]

Let's see what it's definitely not:

MA, CT, RI: MA has 1, 3, 5, 6, 7, 20, 44, 202. CT and RI are subsets.
NH, MO, OH: Mentioned in the OP.
AK, HI: Yeah, right.
ME: 1, 2, 201, 202, 302
VT: 2, 4, 5, 7, 302
NJ: Only odd-numbered routes are 1, 9, and 13. No group of five possible.

[Duke87]

ME: 1, 2, 201, 202, 302

This got me thinking as to what might be the highest numbered pair. 201 and 202 in Maine is a good one but 421 and 422 in Ohio beats it and appears to be the winner. 521 and 522 are the highest numbered pair of consecutive numbers used, but they don't enter any of the same states.

[Mapmikey]

ME: 1, 2, 201, 202, 302

This got me thinking as to what might be the highest numbered pair. 201 and 202 in Maine is a good one but 421 and 422 in Ohio beats it and appears to be the winner. 521 and 522 are the highest numbered pair of consecutive numbers used, but they don't enter any of the same states.

421 doesn't enter Ohio...

219, 220, and 221 in VA
223 and 224 in OH
270 and 271 in OK
411 and 412 in TN

Mike

[roadman65]

Texas has 81, 82, 83, 84.

[NE2]

Texas has 81, 82, 83, 84.

79 80 81 82 83 84 85

[hbelkins]

Texas has 81, 82, 83, 84.

79 80 81 82 83 84 85

With its size, Texas was a natural winner but I didn't know for certain which routes entered the state without looking at a map, and I was working from memory.

[roadman65]

I forgot about US 79.  I was thinking mainly of the 80's as they stand out.  However, with US 85 being silent now with I-10 and I-25, I did not realize it still does enter Texas.

[oscar]

I forgot about US 79.  I was thinking mainly of the 80's as they stand out.  However, with US 85 being silent now with I-10 and I-25, I did not realize it still does enter Texas.

US 85 does peel away from the Interstates in El Paso, and ends at one of the bridges into Mexico.

[roadman65]

El Paso once had more US routes than NYC ever had.  Actually it still has with US 54, US 62, US 85, and US 189.  New York City only has US 1 and 9, so El Paso doubles the country's largest city by twice.  Of course US 80, that no longer goes there, added it to five total!

[english si]

NYC is part of a state that has hated US routes since the beginning.

[DJDBVT]

Honorable mention to New Hampshire (1, 2, 3, 4) and Missouri (60, 61, 62, 63).

I believe that US 5 was routed through part of New Hampshire (Walpole to Charlestown?) for a couple of years in the late 1920s as well.

[JCinSummerfield]

El Paso doubles the country's largest city by twice

I don't know of any other way of doubling!

[hbelkins]

Wouldn't "doubling by twice" be quadrupling? 

[dgolub]

NJ: Only odd-numbered routes are 1, 9, and 13. No group of five possible.

Since when does US 13 enter New Jersey?  NJ 13 is a state route, and a tiny unsigned one at that.

[TravelingBethelite]

Connecticut, as far as I know, has 1, 5, 6, 7, 44, and 202.

[dgolub]

Connecticut, as far as I know, has 1, 5, 6, 7, 44, and 202.

Also US 1A, not that that really matters to this discussion.