Small towns with a lot of freeway exits

[thspfc]

Beaver Dam, WI, population 16k, has six exits from US-151 northbound and five from US-151 southbound. Interestingly, only one of those interchanges is with a state-maintained highway.

[silverback1065]

Kokomo, Indiana has 6 with US 31

[STLmapboy]

The Hickory-Conover area in NC has 9 off I-40.
Austin, MN, has 7 closely-packed exits off I-90.

[ozarkman417]

Osage Beach, MO has 7 exits, but a Population of 4k.

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[hotdogPi]

I'm looking in New England and finding almost nothing. Part of the problem is that freeways change towns every 4 miles or so, and you're typically not going to have 6 interchanges within 4 miles.

Trumbull CT (36k) seems to have 14 interchanges within town limits. Colchester (16k) has 7.

[jeffandnicole]

My town has 6 interchanges off of I-295 and nothing notable; no exit references the town*; most exits don't reference even a section of the town.

A number of years back, the mayor did pester NJDOT to add the town to a sign in each direction, which was generally the center exit of the town.  When NJDOT did a full-scale sign replacement program for 295, they utilized older signage plans and mostly did replacement-in-kind based on those plans, which eliminated the town name once again.  The town never pursued the issue again.

[STLmapboy]

My town has 6 interchanges off of I-295 and nothing notable; no exit references the town*; most exits don't reference even a section of the town.

A number of years back, the mayor did pester NJDOT to add the town to a sign in each direction, which was generally the center exit of the town.  When NJDOT did a full-scale sign replacement program for 295, they utilized older signage plans and mostly did replacement-in-kind based on those plans, which eliminated the town name once again.  The town never pursued the issue again.

Which town?

[TheHighwayMan3561]

Austin, MN, has 7 closely-packed exits off I-90.

How small is small though? Austin's a regional hub of 23,000 with a global corporation's HQ.

It also has a dip in the speed limit on I-90 from 70 to 65.

Closely-packed, I see what you did there 

[hotdogPi]

Austin, MN, has 7 closely-packed exits off I-90.

How small is small though? Austin's a regional hub of 23,000 with a global corporation's HQ.

It also has a dip in the speed limit on I-90 from 70 to 65.

Closely-packed, I see what you did there 

23,000 is slightly more than the OP with an additional exit and way less than reply #1. It should qualify.

[Scott5114]

Goldsby, Oklahoma has four exits in city limits and a population of about 2500. Only one of these is actually signed for Goldsby, however.

[GaryV]

Mackinaw City, MI (pop about 800) has 3 exits nb, 2 sb.

[STLmapboy]

Austin, MN, has 7 closely-packed exits off I-90.

How small is small though? Austin's a regional hub of 23,000 with a global corporation's HQ.

It also has a dip in the speed limit on I-90 from 70 to 65.

Closely-packed, I see what you did there 

I actually didn't realize Hormel was based there until you mentioned that.

[wriddle082]

Tifton, GA has 8 exits from I-75.

Interesting fact:  I-75 through Tifton was the first rural section of I-75 in South GA to be widened to six lanes, as it was completed sometime in the late 80's.

[Sctvhound]

Lumberton, NC (town of a little over 20K) has 4 exits on I-95. Dunn, a town of less than half the size (9,718 in 2018) has six exits. Since NC has exits for all these small county roads that connect to US highways, that makes it easy for a small town to have a lot of exits.

[webny99]

No great examples come to mind for New York, in large part because of the Thruway. But even the other 2di's (I-81, I-86, I-87, I-88) don't have many closely spaced exits outside of the largest cities.

I suppose you could make a case for Corning, NY, 2010 pop. 11,181.
You've got (5) exits on I-86, (2) on I-99, plus the I-86/I-99 interchange itself.

[tdindy88]

Lebanon, Indiana (population 16,000) has four exits off of I-65, all a mile apart from each other. Northbound traffic is only served with three really though since the US 52 exit heads away from town but southbound I-65 does use four exits for the city. And a fifth exit could be considered a few miles away since it straddles the Lebanon/Whitestown border.

In comparison, Greenfield and Franklin, also suburban county seats and both boasting bigger populations only have one exit from their nearest interstate. Likewise, Lafayette, 35 miles up the road from Lebanon has only four exits despite being a much larger city with 100,000 in Lafayette and West Lafayette combined.

[3467]

Galesburg has 3 on the 34 freeway and 2 on I 74. Add 2 more for Knoxville 2900 which is attached to Galesburg about 30000 .
Then there is Kewanee about 12000 it's 11 to 30 miles from the exit but is on 3 74 exits and one on 80 . They could have arguably added 2 more but must have decided there were enough.

[STLmapboy]

Lots of Texas small towns have very frequent exits onto their frontage roads. Think Hillsboro with 5, Vidor with 5, Gainesville with 6, Greenville with 6, Sulphur Springs with 7, Huntsville with 7, Orange with 9 (the town line extends along 10). Although not technically a small town (30K people now), Seguin has 8.

[DJDBVT]

I'm looking in New England and finding almost nothing. Part of the problem is that freeways change towns every 4 miles or so, and you're typically not going to have 6 interchanges within 4 miles.

Closest thing I can find is Brattleboro (12k), with 3 exits off I 91.

[mapman]

Capitola, CA (about 11,000 population) has three interchanges, two of which are about 1,000 feet apart (41st Avenue and Bay Avenue/Porter Street).

[froggie]

I'm looking in New England and finding almost nothing. Part of the problem is that freeways change towns every 4 miles or so, and you're typically not going to have 6 interchanges within 4 miles.

Closest thing I can find is Brattleboro (12k), with 3 exits off I 91.

St. Johnsbury technically has 4 if you include the 91/93 junction, and with a smaller population than Brattleboro.

Littleton, NH has 4 along 93 with an even smaller population than St. J (5900 vs 7600).

[ThatRandomOshawott]

If I remember correctly, there is enough exits on Interstate 24 for Cadiz, KY (pop.: 2,558) for there to be a "Cadiz Next [number] Exits" sign.

[paulthemapguy]

I remember I-75 in western Ohio having many interchanges for some smaller towns.  Sidney, Troy, and Lima all have 4 interchanges each (Lima has 5 if you count Bluelick Road).

[dvferyance]

Beaver Dam, WI, population 16k, has six exits from US-151 northbound and five from US-151 southbound. Interestingly, only one of those interchanges is with a state-maintained highway.

Also Verona WI has 4 from US-151 population 13k. Also Pewaukee WI population around 22k if you count the 2 as one has 6 from I-94 as an additional 3 from WI-16 that is really 8 all together since one from I-94 is WI-16 itself.

[briantroutman]

Comparisons involving small towns–and using population of the incorporated municipality as the basis for determining size–get kind of hairy because of the varying natures of municipal incorporation among different states. Cusseta, Georgia, with roughly 11,000 residents spread out over nearly 250 rural square miles is arguably more of a "small town"  than urban Darby, PA, with its similarly sized population packed into less than one square mile and bound on all sides by dense municipalities (including the City of Philadelphia).

Then there's also the issue of determining which exits "belong"  to a town–is it only when the exit is located partially or fully within the incorporated municipal boundary? And what about interchanges that serve to connect regional traffic movements more so than providing local access?

For instance, the Borough of Media, PA has a population of about 5,300. There are no interchanges within the municipality itself, but there are a number of interchanges along both US 1 and I-476 within Media's environs: five if we count the terminus of the US 1 freeway as an interchange–six if we also count the grade-separated intersection of US 1 and PA 352 as another interchange. But 5,300 understates the population of Media in a practical sense. Its zip code covers over 35,000 people. And at the same time, US 1 and I-476 form something of a beltway around Media, so the US1/PA 252 and US 1/I-476 interchanges especially serve as key connections for countless trips from Newtown Square to the airport, from Havertown to Concordville, and so on.

Maybe the best example I can think of in Pennsylvania is Greensburg–population roughly 14,000. Assuming we don't have to stick to municipal boundaries, the town itself has seven interchanges providing local access along the 4.5 mile US 30 freeway bypass. If you stretch the definition to include the grade separated access road for the Westmoreland Mall, the number goes up to eight. And if you stretch that even further to include interchanges along PA Turnpike 66, the number could go up to twelve or more depending on which you wanted to define as serving Greensburg. But at that point, you'd also have to take into account that these interchanges span a roughly five-mile radius from the center of Greensburg and cover an area populated by around 50-60K people.