Closest Highways You Have Lived Near

[SEWIGuy]

Interstate:  I-43 when I was in College
US:  Two doors down from US-40, but US-40 has since been moved off that route.
State:  Right on IN-63 for about a year, but IN-63 has since been decommissioned off that route.
County:  My childhood home was about three blocks from Dane County D

[GaryV]

I'm sure we've done this before.  Might be a few years ago.  Cause I remember some members saying their address was a highway.

[jp the roadgeek]

All distances as the crow flies:

Interstate: I-84 in my childhood (2.7 mi) and now (1.13 mi).  I-91 (300 ft.) and I-76 (0.55 mi.) for short spells

US route: US 5 in my childhood (4 mi), now (5.9 mi), and for one short spell (2.44 mi), US 13 (0.23 mi) for the other

State route: CT 364 in my childhood (0.4 mi), CT 10 now (0.15 mi).  CT 3 (0.4 mi) and PA 3 (700 ft) during those short spells. 

County routes: Never lived in a state with county routes, but my best guess is the closest one to me now is Putnam CR 67 (about 40 mi).

[kphoger]

I'm sure we've done this before.  Might be a few years ago.  Cause I remember some members saying their address was a highway.

We had a thread wherein people assigned a number to the street they lived on.  Not sure about this exact topic, though.  A quick search isn't turning up anything for me, anyway.  But yeah, I feel like we've done this at some point.



All the places I've lived (ignoring county highways):

New Lenox, IL – 2 blocks from US-30 (but immediately across a railroad from it)
New Lenox, IL – 4½ blocks from US-30
Atwood, KS – 1 block from K-25
River Forest, IL (on campus) – 3 blocks from IL-43
Wheaton, IL – on IL-38
Wheaton, IL – 1.1 miles (walking) from IL-64
Carol Stream, IL – 0.8 miles from IL-64
Wheaton, IL – 0.7 miles from IL-38
Wheaton, IL – 1 block (walking across private property) from IL-38
Herrin, IL – 0.8 miles from IL-148
Bel Aire, KS – 1.8 miles from K-96
Wichita, KS – 0.7 miles from I-135/US-81/K-15
Wichita, KS – 2½ blocks from US-54/US-400

Interstate – 0.7 miles, I-135
US Route – 2 blocks, US-30 (barely old enough to remember)
State Hwy – I've lived on IL-38
County Hwy – I'm not going to bother hunting down which streets near all my Illinois residences were county highways.

[NWI_Irish96]

Interstate - 400 ft - I-80/94 - current
US Highway - 400 ft - US 6 - current
State Highway - 0 ft - IN 106 - 1983
County Highway - 600 ft - DuPage Co Hwy 15 - 2005

[kphoger]

County Highway - 600 ft - DuPage Co Hwy 15 - 2005

OK, so you made me look it up.

Apparently, I've lived one block from DuPage CH-21, and also about 1½ blocks from DuPage CH-36, and also 3 blocks from Williamson CH-4/FAS-2903.

[thspfc]

Interstate: 4-5 miles from I-39/90/94 currently, used to be 3ish miles from it
US: Used to be about 400 yards as the crow flies from US-51, but have since moved a little further away from it, though still within 3 miles
State: 1-2 miles from WI-19

[dfilpus]

Interstate - 2.0 mi - I-40 - current
US Highway - 1.5 mi - US 15/501 - current
State Highway - 200 ft - M-43 - in college ( Michigan )
County Hiqhway - 15 mi - F-41 - high school ( Michigan )

[kphoger]

County Hiqhway - 15 mi

Huh.  That's pretty far for your nearest county highway.

[Ned Weasel]

With the exception of a few years in Manhattan, Kansas, my residence has never been more than 1.5 miles away from US 69, and that includes two apartments and two parents' houses.  And for most of that time, I've been about a half-mile from it, or closer.

[dfilpus]

County Hiqhway - 15 mi

Huh.  That's pretty far for your nearest county highway.

In Michigan, there are very few designated county highways.  The nearest county highways were in the next county south.

[MikieTimT]

AR-16 3 different times, 2 of which were in college within 200 yards of it.  Currently live 1 mile off it.
US-71 - 2 miles in the early years
AR-23 - 5 miles before parents divorced
AR-22 - within 1 mile 3 different times after divorce
AR-72 - 3 blocks from Bentonville square during the Wal-Mart ISD years

[kevinb1994]

Until 2017, I had always lived off of the Lincoln Highway (NJ 27). Here, I currently live off of I-295 (East Beltway).

[Rothman]

Just guesses, all much less than a mile except where noted:

Closest interstate: I-81.  It was a few hundred feet out the backyard.  I was also close to the Thruway as the crow flies (1.5 miles), I-280 in the Bay Area was close (San Mateo), I-66 was about half a mile away in Falls Church.  I-495 was close in Greenbelt, MD.

Closest U.S. Route:  US 11 was a block away.  US 50 was quite near in Falls Church, VA. 

Closest state route:  Lived about 200 feet from NY 5 in one place and 550 feet from it in another.  Pretty close to CA 1 when I lived in the Richmond District.  Couple of blocks away from ID 33 in Rexburg.  Few blocks from WI-35 in Superior.  VA 7 was close in Falls Church...MD 201 and 193 when I lived in Greenbelt...MA 116 when living in Amherst...IN 45/46 in Bloomington (a couple of places...I think one place was maybe 50 feet closer than the other to them).

This is too hard.  Feel like I'm missing a few.

County routes are for weenies.

[hotdogPi]

The closest county route to me is Rensselaer (NY) CR 100, approximately 110 miles away.

[jemacedo9]

Interstate:  I could see the I-490/I-590 interchange from my window
US Route:  one block off US 1
State:  four different addresses, either on or a half-block away from PA 113

[TheHighwayMan3561]

Interstate: less than a mile from I-494 in Bloomington as a kid
US highway: US 2 was out my window in college
State highway: MN 62, when I was a kid
County road: I live on one now

[hotdogPi]

Found it:

https://www.aaroads.com/forum/index.php?topic=13189.0

I searched for "as the crow flies" and navigated from there.

[ftballfan]

Here's how far I was (as the crow flies) to highways:
Manistee, MI (until 2000): 0.7 miles from US-31
Manistee, MI (2000-present): 1.2 miles from US-31
Allendale, MI (college): ranging from 0.1 to 1.1 miles from M-45
Ypsilanti, MI (2017-18): 1.25 miles from I-94/US-12 (across a lake)

[bing101]

I lived near I-280 (CA), I-80 (CA), CA-37, CA-82,  US-101 and US-50.

[kkt]

Current:  I-5

Most recent past address and a couple of addresses before that:  WA 513  (I-5 next closest interstate route)

Back to when I was growing up:  CA 82 (US 101)

A little while while growing up:  CA 9 (tossup between US 101 and I-280)

And the first place I clearly remember living:  CA 123 (I-80)

[nexus73]

The majority of my life has been spent within a block of US 101.  Right now I could throw a stone and hit it but I won't for obvious reasons...LOL!

Rick

[kkt]

The majority of my life has been spent within a block of US 101.  Right now I could throw a stone and hit it but I won't for obvious reasons...LOL!

Let me know when you plan to start throwing stones, so I can take I-5 down to the S.F. Bay Area...

[michravera]

Interstate:  I-43 when I was in College
US:  Two doors down from US-40, but US-40 has since been moved off that route.
State:  Right on IN-63 for about a year, but IN-63 has since been decommissioned off that route.
County:  My childhood home was about three blocks from Dane County D

For a few months in 1980 in Sacramento, my driveway was the "take the turn too wide for the on ramp" to CASR-99.
For most of the 1980s in Sacramento, I lived with the two sides of my complex on CASR-16 and the back along US-50.
For the few months that I lived in Austin in 2015, my street address was ON IH-35.

So, to a certain extent, I have, as John Cougar Melloncamp said, had "an Interstate running through my front yard".

[ari-s-drives]

Interstate: 680
US: Route 101 (several miles away)
State: CA 84 (the southern one)
County: Route J2 (also several miles away)