Town street clinching

[Pete from Boston]

While I have never really been part of the "clinching" mania, it did occur to me recently that I have driven on every street in the town I grew up in.  What towns have you "clinched" in this manner?

[Alps]

Livingston, NJ - mostly via bicycle
assorted rural townships (especially in Maine) with one or at most two roads

[dgolub]

I grew up in Port Washington, NY, and at some point I've probably been on just about every street in the town.

[agentsteel53]

the only town I have lived in in which I have clinched every route is Capulin, NM - 4 by 4 blocks; population 53.

[roadman65]

I cannot say I clinched every street in Orlando, but I have clinched the streets of my subdivision and every numbered route arterial in this city.

[NE2]

I clinched a trailer park during a yard sale.

Interpret that how you will.

[pianocello]

I've got Plain View, IA covered.   

FWIW, I think it's safe to say I've been on every street within a mile-and-a-half radius of my house in Davenport on at least a bike. I might also have clinched all of St. Johns, MI on various bike rides over the years, I just haven't kept track.

[golden eagle]

It's nearly impossible to clinch every road in Jackson, but I've clinched all four-lane roads and highways.

[Duke87]

For a lot of municipalities this is probably very difficult to do legally - most towns of significance have a private road somewhere, and some of them will be gated. And then you will have streets that are pedestrian only. But for the sake of this exercise, let's assume we're limiting the discussion to city-maintained streets which are open to cars. Even then, there is definitely no municipality out there where I have been down the entirety of every street, or even part of every street. I'm probably decently close on Stamford, CT (between having worked for the city for two summers and just doing a bunch of poking around in the 17 years give or take that I lived there), but not done.


Doing this for New York City would probably be a more daunting (and more tedious) task than clinching the entire state highway system for most states!

[1995hoo]

I clinched a trailer park during a yard sale.

Interpret that how you will.

I clinched a trailer park on my DMV road test to get my driver's license on my 16th birthday. Everyone at my high school knew precisely which roads that DMV branch used on the test and that they sent you through the trailer park mainly to see if you would speed (posted limit was 15 mph).

The trailer park is long gone now. Land was too valuable for that use and was redeveloped sometime during the 1990s.

Otherwise, as far as clinching all the roads in a town, living in the DC area that's not really all that practical. There are just too many streets. Can't think of any I've managed elsewhere. Maybe some small town on Cape Breton Island or the west coast of Newfoundland, but I don't recall for certain.

[bassoon1986]

I checked out my hometown (Blanchard, LA) on Google Maps and realized I'm pretty close to having the streets clinched there. Mainly because my parents had a newspaper route there over most of the area. There is one new part of a subdivision that I didn't know was even there. May have to check that out next time I'm home...

[hbelkins]

The county seat of my home county only has around 1,000 residents, and I have not clinched all the streets in town. That's not exactly an accomplishment to which I aspire.

[NE2]

The county seat of my home county only has around 1,000 residents, and I have not clinched all the streets in town. That's not exactly an accomplishment to which I aspire.

Scared of entering the hep cat side of town?

[Brandon]

The county seat of my home county only has around 1,000 residents, and I have not clinched all the streets in town. That's not exactly an accomplishment to which I aspire.

Scared of entering the hep cat side of town?

Is "hep cat" prog-speak for "minority"?

Don't be an asshole, Dan.  There are plenty of streets I haven't been down in my town in all sorts of neighborhoods.  Some I've never had a good reason to go down, some are cul-de-sacs that are pointless to go down.

[NE2]

I can be an asshole if I want, because I'm white and proud.

[hbelkins]

The county seat of my home county only has around 1,000 residents, and I have not clinched all the streets in town. That's not exactly an accomplishment to which I aspire.

Scared of entering the hep cat side of town?

We actually do have a "hep cat" side of town, if you want to call it that, since we don't have a huge black population, but I've been up that street many times. There are a few dead-end streets in the area called "Newtown" (why, I have no clue) and a couple of streets in an affluent neighborhood called Gourley Heights that I haven't been on, however.

[Molandfreak]

I have clinched the street network in Moland.

It's actually more fun than it sounds. There's a minimum maintenance road on the edge of town, which is basically just tire tracks.

Others: Stockholm, WI, Maple, WI, Elko, MN (prior to merging with New Market), Nerstrand, MN, New Trier, MN, Miesville, MN, Coates, MN, Ree Heights, SD, and Holabird, SD.

[DandyDan]

When I was a kid, my grandparents lived in Lismore, MN and my brother and I would stay with them for a week every year and I remember walking down every street in town, or at least all of them except for the north end of Main Street (or whatever they call it now).  I don't know if walking down every street in town counts, or if I have to drive it as far as the original poster is concerned.  I believe I only ever drove there once.

[Laura]

There are plenty of streets I haven't been down in my town in all sorts of neighborhoods.  Some I've never had a good reason to go down, some are cul-de-sacs that are pointless to go down.

Yep, this. I currently live in a suburban town full of mazes of cul-de-sacs and dead end streets. Unless I want to frustrate myself by seeing all of the places they should connect to each other but don't, I tend to stay away from them. (FYI, the disconnected routes are caused by NIMBYs and not anything racial. I live directly on one of the two main roads in this town.)


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[NE2]

Start biking for exercise and you'll be able to clinch a subdivision a day.

[Laura]

Start biking for exercise and you'll be able to clinch a subdivision a day.

That's a pretty good idea. I haven't biked much since I moved here, but really enjoyed it when I lived in the city proper.


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[english si]

I have driven on every street in the town I grew up in.

Ditto, but walking.

[Duke87]

Start biking for exercise and you'll be able to clinch a subdivision a day.

In the high school halls, or in the shopping malls?

[hbelkins]

Be cool or be cast out.

[SD Mapman]

Ree Heights, SD, and Holabird, SD.

That's not hard in any way, shape, or form whatsoever.

As for me, I've clinched Spearfish, SD, Conde, SD, Beulah, WY, and all those tiny towns in Crook County with one street.