County route
A county highway (also county road or county route; usually abbreviated CH or CR) is a road in the United States and in the Canadian province of Ontario that is designated and/or maintained by the County (United States), county highway departm ...
s in
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. Tioga County is part of the Binghamton metropolitan area. The county is part of the Southern Tier region of ...
, are signed with the
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 Tioga may refer to:
United States communities
*Tioga, California, former name of Bennettville, California
*Tioga, Colorado
* Tioga, Florida
* Tioga, Iowa
* Tioga, Louisiana
* Tioga, Michigan
* Tioga, New York, a town in Tioga County
*Tioga County, ...
, the last alphabetically, have section numbers beginning with "9". Routes in the other seven towns—
Berkshire
Berkshire ( ; abbreviated ), officially the Royal County of Berkshire, is a Ceremonial counties of England, ceremonial county in South East England. It is bordered by Oxfordshire to the north, Buckinghamshire to the north-east, Greater London ...
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Candor
Candor or candour may refer to:
* Candor or parrhesia, the quality of speaking candidly in rhetoric
* ''Candour'' (magazine), a British far-right magazine
* "Candour", a song by Neck Deep from their 2014 album ''Wishful Thinking''
* Duty of cand ...
,
Newark Valley,
Nichols,
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.
Route list
See also
*
County routes in New York
*
List of former state routes in New York (201–300)
References
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External links
Empire State Roads – Tioga County Roads