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Number of counties served by interstates

Started by mtantillo, January 08, 2014, 09:04:42 PM

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SD Mapman

Quote from: TCN7JM on January 09, 2014, 09:36:22 PM
Quote from: agentsteel53 on January 09, 2014, 09:20:57 PM
Quote from: oscar on January 09, 2014, 09:13:28 PM
Nebraska:  16/93, or 17.2%.

that's what happens when the main north-south is on the other side of the river.

I'll bet North Dakota and South Dakota have a higher proportion.
You'd be correct, by my count:

North Dakota: 14/53, 26.4%

South Dakota: 21/66, 31.8%

Of course Nebraska's counties are also tiny compared to North Dakota's (which is why two main Interstates in ND run through less counties than NE with one).
Edit: Add missing comma because my OCD was going off.
Speaking of county size, Wyoming's percentage is 12/23 (52%). This is with THREE interstates. Compared with the East River counties in SD and ND, Wyoming's are huge.
(But I digress).
The traveler sees what he sees, the tourist sees what he has come to see. - G.K. Chesterton


Molandfreak

Quote from: Max Rockatansky on December 05, 2023, 08:24:57 PM
AASHTO attributes 28.5% of highway inventory shrink to bad road fan social media posts.

NE2

pre-1945 Florida route log

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DTComposer

Quote from: KEK Inc. on January 09, 2014, 05:05:54 PM
I-605: Los Angeles (1)

The terminus of I-605 (I-405/CA-22 interchange) and its first exit (Katella Avenue/Willow Street) are in Orange County, FWIW.

bassoon1986

Texas has interstates running through 92 of 254 counties for a percentage of 36%. I only counted for I-69 the portions that are official. That's a pretty good percentage for such a huge state.

roadfro

Quote from: Duke87 on January 09, 2014, 08:09:14 PM
So here's a question: what state has the highest percentage of its counties served by an interstate?

Connecticut has 7/8, or 87.5%. Can any other state beat that?
New Jersey has 18/21, or 85.7%. Close but no cigar.

And the obvious antithesis: what state has the lowest percentage of its counties served by an interstate? I'm guessing it'd have to be Hawaii, with 1/5, or 20.0%. Delaware has 1/3, or 33.3%, which is also pretty low.

Nevada has 17 counties, and a good chunk of them have an Interstate presence...more than I thought actually.

Nevada counties served by Interstates: 11/17 = 64.7%
  • Carson City (I-580), Churchill (I-80), Clark (I-15, I-215, I-515), Elko (I-80), Eureka (I-80), Humboldt (I-80), Lander (I-80), Lyon (I-80), Pershing (I-80), Storey (I-80...barely), Washoe (I-80).
    Nevada's counties without any stretch of Interstate: 6/17 = 35.3%
  • Douglas, Esmeralda, Lincoln, Mineral, Nye, White Pine

    Prior to the extension of I-580 to Carson City in 2012, the lists were 10/17 = 58.8% and 7/17 = 41.2%
Roadfro - AARoads Pacific Southwest moderator since 2010, Nevada roadgeek since 1983.

brownpelican

MISSISSIPPI

I-10
Hancock, Harrison, Jackson

I-20
Warren, Hinds, Rankin, Scott, Newton, Lauderdale

I-55
Pike, Lincoln, Copiah, Hinds, Rankin, Madison, Yazoo, Holmes, Carroll, Montgomery, Grenada, Yalobusha, Panola, Tate, DeSoto

I-59
Pearl River, Lamar, Forrest, Jones, Jasper, Clarke, Lauderdale

I-110
Harrison

I-220
Hinds, Madison

golden eagle

Six more Mississippi counties will be added when I-22 is officially in business, putting the state's total to 34, out of 82.

dfilpus

North Carolina is in transition: There are Future Interstates and Interstate extensions being built in counties currently without Interstates.

Counties w/Interstates: 43/100.
Counties getting interstates: 3/100. I 73: Rockingham. I 74: Scotland. I-140: Brunswick.
Counties without Interstates: 54/100.

NWI_Irish96

In Indiana, I know that I-74 barely clips the corner of Rush County but does not have an interchange there.
I-65 passes through a corner of Newton County without an interchange.

I can't think of another county in Indiana that has an interstate pass through it without an interchange.

Indiana: counties 100%, highways 100%
Illinois: counties 100%, highways 61%
Michigan: counties 100%, highways 56%
Wisconsin: counties 86%, highways 23%

JustDrive

I-80 in California nicks the southeast corner of Sierra County without any interchanges. 

SD Mapman

The traveler sees what he sees, the tourist sees what he has come to see. - G.K. Chesterton

hotdogPi

I believe that Massachusetts is served by an Interstate in every non-island county.
Clinched

Traveled, plus
US 13, 44, 50
MA 22, 35, 40, 107, 109, 126, 141, 159
NH 27, 111A(E); CA 133; NY 366; GA 42, 140; FL A1A, 7; CT 32; VT 2A, 5A; PA 3, 51, 60, QC 162, 165, 263; 🇬🇧A100, A3211, A3213, A3215, A4222; 🇫🇷95 D316

Lowest untraveled: 25

dfilpus

Quote from: 1 on February 05, 2014, 06:33:32 PM
I believe that Massachusetts is served by an Interstate in every non-island county.
Barnstable isn't really an island county.

Rupertus

Interesting. I'll do Michigan.

I-69: 8 (Branch, Calhoun, Eaton, Clinton, Shiawassee, Genesee, Lapeer, St. Clair)
I-75: 15 (Monroe, Wayne, Oakland, Genesee, Saginaw, Bay, Arenac, Ogemaw, Roscommon, Crawford, Otsego, Cheboygan, Emmet, Mackinac, Chippewa)
I-94: 9 (Berrien, Van Buren, Kalamazoo, Calhoun, Jackson, Washtenaw, Wayne, Macomb, St. Clair)
I-96: 10 (Muskegon, Ottawa, Kent, Ionia, Clinton, Eaton, Ingham, Livingston, Oakland, Wayne)
I-196: 5 (Berrien, Van Buren, Allegan, Ottawa, Kent)
I-194, I-275, I-296, I-375, I-475, I-496, I-675, I-696: no new counties

By my count that's 35 out of 83, for about 42%. Only 2 of those 35 are in the Upper Peninsula, which is almost 30% of the state's land area. None of these Interstates pass through a county without an exit, although I-75 comes within about 3/10 of a mile of clipping the corner of Gladwin County, near the Arenac-Ogemaw line (which I didn't know before this exercise). The shortest in a county is in my old home county, Emmet, which has only about 2 miles of I-75 before it heads up the Mackinac Bridge; however, there are 2 exits in those 2 miles, one of which (US 23) is somewhat important.



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