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Tioga County, New York Tioga County is a county in the U.S. state of New York. As of the 2020 census, the population was 48,455. Its county seat is Owego. Its name derives from an American Indian word meaning "at the forks", describing a meeting place. Tioga Coun ...

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Manual on Uniform Traffic Control Devices The ''Manual on Uniform Traffic Control Devices for Streets and Highways'' (usually referred to as the ''Manual on Uniform Traffic Control Devices'', abbreviated MUTCD) is a document issued by the Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) of the Unit ...

-standard yellow-on-blue pentagon shield. Even numbered routes are east–west in direction, while odd numbered routes are north–south. County routes in Tioga County are also assigned section numbers based on town. The second and third digits are the same for each road name on a given route, but the first digit varies by town. Routes in the town of Barton, the first of nine towns alphabetically in Tioga County, have section numbers beginning with "1" while routes in the town of Tioga, the last alphabetically, have section numbers beginning with "9". Routes in the other seven towns—

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, Owego, Richford, and Spencer—have section numbers beginning with "2" through "8", respectively. The section numbers, listed below as CH #, exist solely for inventory purposes and are not posted.

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