Counties without a US route

[bassoon1986]

Louisiana:
Cameron
Plaquemines
Iberville
West Carroll
Assumption
East Feliciana
St. Helena

[Kacie Jane]

San Juan County, WA has no Interstates, U.S. highways, or state highways.

Technically incorrect- it doesn't have any physical state highways, but State Route 20 Spur is designated over the ferry routes that serve the county.

Ach... I said Island, but meant San Juan and/or forgot they were two separate counties. (Both qualify for the thread; Island has several state highways.)

[JustDrive]

California has:

Alameda (used to have 40, 50)
Alpine
Amador
Butte (used to have 99)
Calaveras
Colusa (used to have 99)
Contra Costa (used to have 40)
Fresno (used to have 99)
Glenn (used to have 99)
Imperial (used to have 80, 99)
Kings
Lake
Madera (used to have 99)
Merced (used to have 99)
Napa
Nevada (used to have 40)
Orange (used to have 91 and 101)
San Diego (used to have 80, 101, and 395)
San Joaquin (used to have 50, 99)
Santa Cruz
Shasta (used to have 99, 299)
Solano (used to have 40)
Stanislaus (used to have 99)
Sutter (used to have 99)
Tehama (used to have 99)
Trinity (used to have 299)
Tulare (used to have 99)
Tuolumne
Yuba (used to have 99)

[bing101]

Hawaii does not even have a US Route. But they have state routes.

[SSOWorld]

WI:
Burnett, Menominee, Adams, Green Lake, Door, Kewaunee, Sheboygan*, Ozaukee, Green

* - US-141 passed through this county before being replaced by I-43.

[hbelkins]

Looks like there are only six in West Virginia: Clay, Pleasants, Summers, Tyler, Webster and Wirt. And if I'm not mistaken, Wirt only went on this list because US 21 bit the dust. Ditto for Summers because it used to have Alt. US 50. And Clay and Summers have interstates.

Lincoln County (homeplace of my Elkins ancestors) gets clipped barely by US 119, but would have been without had not the new alignment been built.

[Big John]

WI:
Burnett, Menominee, Adams, Green Lake, Door, Kewaunee, Sheboygan*, Ozaukee, Green

* - US-141 passed through this county before being replaced by I-43.

Put the same asterisk for Ozaukee County.  US 141 went down all the way to Milwaukee.

[iowahighways]

Iowa: Appanoose, Butler*, Emmet, Guthrie**, Keokuk***, Monona****, Pocahontas, Taylor, and Van Buren.

*Had US 20 until 1986, and US 218 misses it by about a mile.
**I-80 and US 6 miss it by about a mile.
***Not the city of Keokuk, which is in Lee County and served by three US highways (61, 136, and 218)
****Has I-29 and had US 75 until 1984.

[txstateends]

TX:  Aransas, Bandera, Briscoe, Burleson, Chambers, Cochran, Delta, Galveston*, Grimes, Hansford, Hutchinson, Jim Hogg, La Salle**, Loving, Martin***, Matagorda, Midland***, Mitchell***, Ward***, Winkler

* -- previously had US 75; ** -- previously had US 81; *** -- previously had US 80

Out of 254 counties, only 20 don't have US highways; if not for truncations, there would only be 14 counties without a US highway presence.  Sounds like TX is quite represented by the .

[bugo]

Arkansas has several, and used to have more before US 63, 278, 371, and 412 were commissioned/extended.  Cleburne, Izard, Perry, Stone, and Yell Counties have never had US routes.  Bradley and Madison Counties didn't have a US highway until the extension boom of the '80s, '90s, and '00s.  Several counties like Logan, Newton, and Dallas County have US highways barely cutting through the corner of the county but most of the county is US route free.  If you went back to 1926 the list would be even longer.

[golden eagle]

I want to say we've had a similar thread in the past, but I couldn't find it after a quick search.


Mississippi also has some, all of which also lack Interstate routes:
- Attala
- Calhoun
- Neshoba
- Smith
- Winston

I seem to recall such a thread, too.

Leake County, MS, also doesn't have an US route.

[doorknob60]

Oregon:
Wallowa Co. (remote area, city of Enterprise and Joseph)
Jackson Co. (Medford, Ashland; formerly US-99)
Yamhill Co. (McMinnville; formerly US-99W)
Marion Co. (Salem, formerly US-99E)

That's all of them I could find. I find it funny that most of these are along the most populated areas of the state (which, to be fair, is former US-99), while the more remote counties in eastern Oregon all have at least one US route (except Wallowa). Those counties are larger in size though.

[sandiaman]

New Mexico:  Bernalillo (largest county in population) formerly US 66 & 85
                    Cibola (formerly US 66)
                    Los Alamos ( formerly none)
                    Harding (formerly none)
                    Mora (formerly US 85)
                    Sierra (formerly US 85 & 180)

[jbnv]

Louisiana:
Cameron
Plaquemines
Iberville
West Carroll
Assumption
East Feliciana
St. Helena

Also St. Bernard and Washington.

Iberville is interesting in that I-10 goes right through it, but it never had a US route.

St. Martin lucks out with a very short piece of US 90.

[TEG24601]

Washington:

San Juan County
Island County
Skagit County (formerly US 99)
Whatcom County (formerly US 99)
Pierce County (formerly US 99 and originally US 410)
Kitsap County
Wahkiakum County (Formerly US 830)
Cowlitz County (Formerly US 99/830)
Clark County (Formerly US 99/830)
Skamania County (Formerly US 830)

[bassoon1986]

Louisiana:
Cameron
Plaquemines
Iberville
West Carroll
Assumption
East Feliciana
St. Helena

Also St. Bernard and Washington.

Iberville is interesting in that I-10 goes right through it, but it never had a US route.

St. Martin lucks out with a very short piece of US 90.

Does St Bernard have a portion of Bus 90 running through it? Doesn't it and Orleans parish have some strange lines that don't follow the river?

I remember the US 90 snippet of St Martin Parish near Broussard. But the southern St Martin parish doesn't have any 

[jbnv]

Does St Bernard have a portion of Bus 90 running through it? Doesn't it and Orleans parish have some strange lines that don't follow the river?

There are quite a few zigzags in the parish lines in that area, but none of them give any part of BUS 90 to St. Bernard. Coming out of New Orleans and over the river on BUS 90, you enter Jefferson Parish at mid-river, go back into Orleans Parish shortly after coming over land, then re-enter Jefferson Parish for good shortly after passing over General Degaulle Dr.

For fun, you could exit at General Degaulle Dr. and folloow LA 407 south to LA 406 to Belle Chasse. If you do that, you'll pass through Orleans, Plaquemines (over the waterway), Orleans (407 ramp to 406), Plaquemines (after left turn), Orleans, Plaquemines.

As far as I can tell, no such fun for St. Bernard.

[icemandrake]

US-61 passes through East Feliciana between Baton Rouge and St. Francisville and US-90 passes through Assumption just outside of Morgan City.

[bugo]

Does St Bernard have a portion of Bus 90 running through it? Doesn't it and Orleans parish have some strange lines that don't follow the river?

There are quite a few zigzags in the parish lines in that area, but none of them give any part of BUS 90 to St. Bernard. Coming out of New Orleans and over the river on BUS 90, you enter Jefferson Parish at mid-river, go back into Orleans Parish shortly after coming over land, then re-enter Jefferson Parish for good shortly after passing over General Degaulle Dr.

For fun, you could exit at General Degaulle Dr. and folloow LA 407 south to LA 406 to Belle Chasse. If you do that, you'll pass through Orleans, Plaquemines (over the waterway), Orleans (407 ramp to 406), Plaquemines (after left turn), Orleans, Plaquemines.

As far as I can tell, no such fun for St. Bernard.

Uh, can't you read the topic?  We're talking about counties, not parishes.

</attempt at humor>

[bugo]

Is Haskell County the only county in Oklahoma without a US route?  Pontotoc County could technically qualify because US 377 north of Madill is not AASHTO approved.

[briantroutman]

Unless I'm missing something it looks like Pennsylvania has only one: Cameron. And that used to have US 120 until it was decommissioned in 1967.

[jbnv]

US-61 passes through East Feliciana between Baton Rouge and St. Francisville and US-90 passes through Assumption just outside of Morgan City.

Don't know how I missed both of these as I have driven both (the latter several times). 

[agentsteel53]

San Juan County, WA has no Interstates, U.S. highways, or state highways.

Technically incorrect- it doesn't have any physical state highways, but State Route 20 Spur is designated over the ferry routes that serve the county.

I had forgotten just how tough that county is to clinch.  I actually got it via the ferry from Victoria, back in 1998.

[Bitmapped]

Looks like there are only six in West Virginia: Clay, Pleasants, Summers, Tyler, Webster and Wirt. And if I'm not mistaken, Wirt only went on this list because US 21 bit the dust. Ditto for Summers because it used to have Alt. US 50. And Clay and Summers have interstates.

US 21 used to clip the corner of Wirt County.  Alt US 50 was in Pleasants County, not Summers.

[hbelkins]

Looks like there are only six in West Virginia: Clay, Pleasants, Summers, Tyler, Webster and Wirt. And if I'm not mistaken, Wirt only went on this list because US 21 bit the dust. Ditto for Summers because it used to have Alt. US 50. And Clay and Summers have interstates.

US 21 used to clip the corner of Wirt County.  Alt US 50 was in Pleasants County, not Summers.

That's true, I had Pleasants and Summers mixed up. Summers is a long way away from US 50.