HIghway With the Shortest Trip Through a Jurisdiction

[ethanhopkin14]

How may highways out there spend an unusually short period of time in a jurisdiction, whether it be a city, county, state, province or country?  I don't know if I count townships since in the US the definition changes from state to state, and you can be nowhere near town X but be in the township. 

This made me think of it. Traveling US-84 to Lubbock, it just clips the northeast corner of Lynn County, Texas.  You cross the county line from Garza County to Lynn County here:

https://goo.gl/maps/rYsFC5SNSLDNenee8

Then 4.4 miles later you cross from Lynn County to Lubbock County.

I know that's nowhere near the shortest period of time a highway spends in a jurisdiction, but for Texas' expanse, it is a relatively speaking short distance. 

[jp the roadgeek]

I-684 spends about 2.1 miles in CT
I-86 has the little dip into PA near Waverly, NY that lasts about a mile
I-24 is in Georgia for 4 miles
US 522 spends 2.35 miles in MD
US 340's second foray into VA near Harper's Ferry lasts 0.57 miles
RI 114A is a total of 0.4 miles long and exists in 2 pieces (separated by about 2 miles of it passing through MA).

The shortest I've seen is CT 71 in Newington, CT.  It must spend a couple hundred feet in the town between Farmington and West Hartford near Westfarms Mall. 

[1995hoo]

I-95 and I-495 cross through 0.11 miles of District of Columbia airspace on the Wilson Bridge.

VA-231 passes through approximately 0.3 of a mile of Louisa County just to the southwest of Gordonsville. To make it even better, for a long time one of the county line signs had a spelling error ("Lousia County"), though it was fixed by the time the Google Street View car went through.

[WillWeaverRVA]

VA 102 crosses into West Virginia multiple times, and has two isolated Virginia segments that are 0.2 and 0.6 miles long.

[hotdogPi]

I don't think this got a definitive answer for this in another thread, although it was leaning toward no:

https://goo.gl/maps/8MWwkVdfP6dACKCP9

This is got to be the shortest distance through a town ever.  Enter Phillipsburg, and then go a very short distance and enter a new community.

MA 146 through Douglas a second time...

OpenStreetMap: About 250 feet southbound, but if you're going northbound, you have to be on the left half of the roadway.
Google Maps search: Southbound only, and you have to be in the southbound lanes.
Google Maps by clicking points: Doesn't quite enter the shoulder, so therefore not at all.
Bing Maps: Doesn't seem to understand that Massachusetts is divided into towns, not villages.
Apple Maps: By using "drop pin", it thinks that entire corner is in Uxbridge, not Douglas, even ignoring that nearby West St. becomes Uxbridge St. for a short distance.

Can someone provide a definitive answer on whether MA 146 enters Douglas twice?

[NWI_Irish96]

I-80/94/US 6 passes through 3/10 of a mile of Munster between the state line and Hammond.

[jmacswimmer]

I-70 barely clips the City of Baltimore (which is independent from Baltimore County) at a certain location where it has a park & ride

[US 89]

Inb4 I-95/495 DC

[SkyPesos]

Inb4 I-95/495 DC

I-95 and I-495 cross through 0.11 miles of District of Columbia airspace on the Wilson Bridge.

[kalvado]

I don't think this got a definitive answer for this in another thread, although it was leaning toward no:

https://goo.gl/maps/8MWwkVdfP6dACKCP9

This is got to be the shortest distance through a town ever.  Enter Phillipsburg, and then go a very short distance and enter a new community.

MA 146 through Douglas a second time...

OpenStreetMap: About 250 feet southbound, but if you're going northbound, you have to be on the left half of the roadway.
Google Maps search: Southbound only, and you have to be in the southbound lanes.
Google Maps by clicking points: Doesn't quite enter the shoulder, so therefore not at all.
Bing Maps: Doesn't seem to understand that Massachusetts is divided into towns, not villages.
Apple Maps: By using "drop pin", it thinks that entire corner is in Uxbridge, not Douglas, even ignoring that nearby West St. becomes Uxbridge St. for a short distance.

Can someone provide a definitive answer on whether MA 146 enters Douglas twice?

Locality tax maps may be your best bet:
https://www.axisgis.com/DouglasMA/

[hotdogPi]

I don't think this got a definitive answer for this in another thread, although it was leaning toward no:

https://goo.gl/maps/8MWwkVdfP6dACKCP9

This is got to be the shortest distance through a town ever.  Enter Phillipsburg, and then go a very short distance and enter a new community.

MA 146 through Douglas a second time...

OpenStreetMap: About 250 feet southbound, but if you're going northbound, you have to be on the left half of the roadway.
Google Maps search: Southbound only, and you have to be in the southbound lanes.
Google Maps by clicking points: Doesn't quite enter the shoulder, so therefore not at all.
Bing Maps: Doesn't seem to understand that Massachusetts is divided into towns, not villages.
Apple Maps: By using "drop pin", it thinks that entire corner is in Uxbridge, not Douglas, even ignoring that nearby West St. becomes Uxbridge St. for a short distance.

Can someone provide a definitive answer on whether MA 146 enters Douglas twice?

Locality tax maps may be your best bet:
https://www.axisgis.com/DouglasMA/

238-263 feet southbound, and a driver in the right lane going northbound will enter Douglas for under 2 feet.

[GaryV]

I-80 / I-90 Ohio Turnpike swipes 2 corners of Ottawa County (the border is a stair-step).  Once for about 1/2 mile and second for about 2 miles.

[ethanhopkin14]

To clarify, Texas State Highway Loop 168, the shortest signed highway in Texas at 361 feet would technically qualify since it is located completely in Tenaha.  This thread was made for roads that pass through a jurisdiction.  No one has suggested such a route, I just wanted to clarify. 

[CtrlAltDel]

As discussed many times on this forum, the right of way of US-56/US-64/US-412 just nicks Texas, although the roadway does not.

[ethanhopkin14]

As discussed many times on this forum, the right of way of US-56/US-64/US-412 just nicks Texas, although the roadway does not.

Yeah.  I mentioned as a surveyor, I believe the right-of-way entering Texas lands the highways in Texas.  I was largely outvoted. 

[SectorZ]

Vermont Route 26 is 69 (nice) feet long.

[kphoger]

As discussed many times on this forum, the right of way of US-56/US-64/US-412 just nicks Texas, although the roadway does not.

Yeah.  I mentioned as a surveyor, I believe the right-of-way entering Texas lands the highways in Texas.  I was largely outvoted. 

Oh yeah, I have a hard time considering the entire right-of-way as "the highway".  The UVC definition of the term includes the phrase "entire width between the boundary lines", so............    meh

[frankenroad]

OH-315 enters and leaves the city of Columbus several times between I-670 and the Delaware County line - a distance of about 12 miles.   At one point, the gap is about 200 feet.

[jp the roadgeek]

How did I forget MD 896

I-384 barely enters East Hartford, CT as it merges with I-84.

[noelbotevera]

Depending on how you define the NYC city line and the beginning of the Southern State Parkway, it spends a maximum of 0.3 miles in Queens. Once all ramps merge to form the parkway, and the first exit is reached, you're in Nassau County.

Similarly, the Cross Island Parkway spends under half a mile in Nassau County. Interestingly enough, this distance is long enough that there is an interchange with NY 25, which quickly enters NYC going west.

[SEWIGuy]

Heading south out of Duluth, MN-23 nicks a corner of Douglas County, WI after it crosses the St. Louis River before re-entering Minnesota after about a half mile.  There is no signage in Wisconsin and Minnesota handles the maintenance. 

[US 89]

Inb4 I-95/495 DC

I-95 and I-495 cross through 0.11 miles of District of Columbia airspace on the Wilson Bridge.

Goddammit. I swear I looked for it before posting that. 

[kphoger]

Curious to know...

Who maintains the portions of BC-97 that are north of the Yukon border?  For example, whose bridge is this?  Similarly, who maintains the portion of YK-1 that is south of the British Columbia border?

[debragga]

FM 1389 is in Dallas County for 0.2 miles, with most of that being a 90 degree curve:

https://www.google.com/maps/dir/32.6031533,-96.5222097/32.6056207,-96.5221989/@32.6042153,-96.5229285,17z/data=!4m2!4m1!3e0

[zzcarp]

I-71 in the Cleveland area passes through the village of Linndale for 0.2 miles. Even though there's no direct highway exit, the Linndale police fund their village by constantly running speed traps on I-71.