US 231 was included in the inaugural routes of Nov. 1926, but at the time it ran only from Montgomery AL to Marianna FL. US 241 was not among the original routes*, but neither was it far behind: it was commissioned in Mar. 1930. This was mostly done to appease certain Alabama interests who wanted a US route designation to be applied to their State Highway 1.
*For the sake of clarity, there actually was a US 241 that was commissioned in 1926 to run between Nashville TN and Hopkinsville KY. However, it was never signposted as such in Tennessee, and possibly not in Kentucky either. AASHO officially canceled the US 241[i] designation in Jun. 1929, and its number was recycled less than a year later and applied to the route discussed on this page. To avoid confusion, this route is sometimes differentiated as US 241[ii].
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Gaps, US 20[e], US 20[w], US 441[n], US 441[s], US 287[n], US 287[s], US 89[n], US 89[s], US 191[n], US 191[s], US 63, US 66, US 10, US 311, Rouses Point, US 175, New Orleans, US 167, US 21, US 91, US 189[i], Jacksonville, US 92, US 151, US 79, US 270, Yellowstone NE, Cody, US 420, US 320, US 310, US 16, US 116, Rockingham, US 6, Covington, US 41, Brady, US 22, Bay Area, US 222
This post is for the sake of those who may not have caught the references on the home page. Those phrases are from the lyrics to a 1980 song titled "Once in a Lifetime" by the Talking Heads. Here are the relevant stanzas:
Historically US 80 connected Dallas and Ft. Worth. Although US 80 was decommissioned along that segment in 1993, some evidence of US 80's historical presence in Ft. Worth survived for nearly another three decades. This photo was taken looking north on Beach Street:
Charles Turner, Jun. 2016
(most recently updated 2/12/2023, after Super Bowl LVII [57] was played)
When I was growing up in the 1970s, one of my favorite collections was a set of miniature plastic National Football League helmets. I recently happened to find them again, and now that nearly 50 years have passed, it is interesting to look back at what has changed in the NFL since then. During the '70s there were only 28 teams. So that was 14 teams per conference, which did not divide up very well. There were only three divisions in each conference, so two divisions consisted of five teams each, while one division consisted of four teams.
(last updated 9/6/2022)
1992 was the first time I went through Norton. At the time I was not yet what I would describe as a "roadgeek", but I still thought this sign was worth stopping for a photo: 
1992
Astoria, Chattanooga, US 90, US 129, US 221, US 121, US 80, US 33, US 641, US 136, US 14, Chicago, US 150, US 280, Dothan, US 95, US 97, Amarillo, Detroit, US 24, US 10, Grayling, US 131, US 23, US 31, US 151, US 65, US 69, US 77, St. Ignace, US 275, US 2 [w], US 18, Milwaukee, US 277, US 17, US 250, US 56, US 20, San Antonio, US 57, US 121[i], US 401[i], Bay Area, US 466
US 131, US 466, US 78, US 192, Astoria, US 57, US 3, US 90, Long Beach, US 167, US 130, Lewiston, US 521, Amarillo, US 8, US 98, US 65, US 156, US 371, US 71, US 278, US 18, US 52, US 83, US 85, US 281, US 312, Miles City, US 422, US 22, US 46, US 209, US 4, US 48, Niagara Falls, US 301, Portsmouth, US 15, US 95, US 2, Mackinaw City, St. Ignace, US 96, US 14, US 75, US 99
Prior to I-25, there was a different main highway that connected Denver to several of the Northern Front Range cities in Colorado. The number of this highway has changed a few times during the past century, but its general corridor has remained the same: it still runs through Ft. Collins, Loveland, Berthoud, Longmont, Lafayette, Broomfield, Westminster, and Denver. Not all of those cities had even been established at the time of the 1916 map shown below, but the highway corridor running along the Northern Front Range is readily apparent (going forward I will refer to this road as the NFRH, for "North Front Range Highway"):
Our planet is spheroidal in shape, which means its surface is curved. So making a map of the Earth's surface involves taking something that is curved and projecting it onto something flat (such as a piece of paper or a computer screen). But this flattening inherently causes some distortion from reality. It is not possible for any one map projection to preserve all of the following: 1.) direction, 2.) shape, 3.) area, and 4.) distance. So when a cartographer chooses a particular map projection, they are choosing to preserve one or more of those traits at the expense of others.
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