Counties without a US route

[roadman65]

Excluding Hawaii, are there any state counties (or parishes as LA does not have counties) that have no US routes within them.

I have come up with these so far:

Cumberland, NJ
Nassau, NY
Suffolk, NY
Queens, NY
Kings, NY
Richmond, NY

Any other state counties?

[spooky]

Bristol, RI
Newport, RI

[Jim]

I'm guessing this will be a fairly long list.  Without thinking beyond counties that are right in my area, I came up with 3: Montgomery, Fulton and Hamilton counties in NY.

[Brandon]

Illinois:

Stark
Putnam (has I-180)
Menard
Calhoun
Macoupin (has I-55, formerly US-66; also formerly US-67)
Montgomery (has I-55, formerly US-66)
Crawford
Edwards
Wabash
Hamilton (formerly US-460)
Hardin
Pope
Randolph

[Mapmikey]

Virginia:

Craig
Charles City
Westmoreland
Dickenson (for now)

plus 3 independent cities:
Poquoson
Manassas
Manassas Park

Mapmikey

[oscar]

Excluding Hawaii, are there any state counties (or parishes as LA does not have counties) that have no US routes within them?

Alaska has boroughs and other county equivalents, none of which have US routes.

For a few more lower-48 examples, there are Storey County NV (not counting I-80 along its northern border); Alpine County CA; San Diego, Orange, Imperial, Alameda, and Contra Costa counties in CA (these five each have one or more Interstates); and Hinsdale County CO.  But there are many, many more, especially in California which doesn't have much of a US route network any more.

[texaskdog]

how about any without even any STATE highways?

[oscar]

how about any without even any STATE highways?

Alaska and Hawaii are the go-to places for that one, if you count only numbered highways:

Hawaii:  Kalawao County (Hawaii DOT maintains its roads as needed for the state Department of Health which administers the county, but none of those roads are numbered or included in the state highway system)

Alaska (all have unnumbered Alaska DOT&PF-maintained roads -- most roads of any significance in Alaska are state-maintained):

Northwest Arctic Borough
Aleutians East Borough
Lake and Peninsula Borough
Bristol Bay Borough
Kodiak Island Borough
City & Borough of Yakutat
City & Borough of Sitka
City & Borough of Wrangell

also a bunch of census areas within the Unorganized Borough (some other census areas in that borough have numbered state highways), if you choose to treat census areas as county equivalents:

Aleutians West
Nome
Wade Hampton
Bethel
Dillingham
Hoonah-Angoon
Prince of Wales-Hyder

[froggie]

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

In Vermont, only Lamoille County lacks US routes.

Minnesota has a dozen counties that lack US routes.  The counties I list below with an asterisk also lack Interstate routes:
- Carlton
- Cook*
- Isanti*
- Kanabec*
- Lake*
- Lake of the Woods*
- Martin
- Pine
- Pope*
- Rice
- Roseau*
- Watonwan*


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

[hbelkins]

Seems like we've had this discussion before.

There are several in my area of Kentucky: Lee, Owsley, Breathitt, Estill, Powell, Wolfe, Perry, Elliott, Martin, Knott, Lewis and Clinton come to mind immediately. There are others...

[Pete from Boston]

Nantucket, MA
Dukes, MA
Cumberland, NJ

[Mapmikey]

how about any without even any STATE highways?

Virginia did have this condition in the system's early days...

Charles City County had no primary routes from the system creation in January 1918 until June 1923 when VA 41 was commissioned.  Then they suffered the insult of their first state highway not connecting to any other state highway until January 1925.

Mapmikey

[BrianP]

MD: St Mary's, Calvert, Caroline

[vtk]

The discussion we had before was County Seats That Never Had A US Route. Slightly different query.

[Kacie Jane]

Just in the Puget Sound area, Pierce, Kitsap, Island, Shake, and Whatcom all do not. Further south, I think Cowlitz and Clark are both US Route free. Beyond that, I'd have to double check boundaries and whatnot.

[getemngo]

Michigan has a bigger club than I expected, and more counties are in it due to decommissionings and truncations than I thought:

Barry
Calhoun (lost 12, 27)
Chippewa (lost 2)
Eaton (lost 27)
Gladwin
Huron (lost 25)
Ionia (lost 16)
Lapeer
Leelanau
Luce
Macomb (lost 25)
Missaukee
Montmorency
Newaygo
Ogemaw
Oscoda
Otsego (lost 27)
Owosso
St. Clair (lost 25)
Sanilac (lost 25)
Tuscola

[2Co5_14]

Georgia: Baker, Calhoun, Candler, Cherokee, Elbert, Fayette, Franklin, Glascock, Hancock, Jasper,Macon, Marion, Pickens, Washington counties.
This is a relatively small proportion of Georgia's 158 counties.  I was surprised to see even that many, given how many US routes crisscross the state.

[NWI_Irish96]

Several in Indiana with no US highway:

Blackford
Brown
Crawford (but has an interstate)
Monroe (but will soon have an interstate)
Morgan (but has an interstate)
Ohio
Perry (but has an interstate)
Pike (but has an interstate)
Posey (but has an interstate)
Switzerland
Warrick (but has an interstate)

[Avalanchez71]

Loving County TX
Lake County TN

[formulanone]

Florida: Calhoun, Liberty, Union
Alabama: Wilcox, Clay

[rschen7754]

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

[corco]

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.

[Bruce]

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.

SR 20 really should end in the San Juans. It's a much better terminus than Discovery Bay.

[WNYroadgeek]

More for New YorK:

Orleans (though it used to have US 104)
Monroe (though it used to have US 15 and US 104)
Wayne (though it used to have US 104)
Allegany
Yates
Schuyler
Tompkins
Chemung

[kendancy66]

I county I live in Orange County in CA has no US routes.  It has 2 former routes that were decommissioned, US-91 and US-101 (Alt US-101 could count as a third former route)