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Map on the iPhone says 1350 miles across ontario and one day to cross.
An average of 56mph is optimistic in that distance while swerving around swamp donkeys.
 
Rand McNally says 374 across Washington at the widest point, as the crow flies, if you could talk one of them into flying that far.
 
When I lived in far nothern Wisconsin (Ashland) a great many of our Canadian friends would travel across US hwy 2 to get across Ontario. They would load up on cigs at the Indian smoke places and then pay the Can. duty. Even with the duty the cigs were cheaper than buying in Canads.
 
Illinois is 390 miles long and 210 miles wide

Near the geographic center of Illinois is a small village in Logan County called Chestnut

3 miles Northeast of the geographic center of Illinois
 
According to geodistance.com in Arkansas it's 270 miles from Oklahoma to the Mississippi river just south of the bootheel of Missouri. I live about halfway just north of the line.
 
In Ireland you can only ever get 60 miles from the sea! England looks much larger but with the help of the Bristol Channel you can only get 70 miles from the coast.
Sam
 
Driven it several times, 22 hours if you keep up your pace, with a couple of drivers. Lots of dead moose on the highways in the north. On way home from BC to NB on a 52 hour non-stop drive we made it to 1 km from home before a car passed us on double solid blind hill went 200 ft and smoked a moose. Cleaned the roof right back to the back window, gutted the moose into the car. Passenger footwell full up to the shifter.

We were ------ as we were tired and had to wait for ambulance. Guy was ------ as his other car had been written off by moose the week before.
 
I can't tell you how long but I know that Aitkin Minnesota is the geographical center of the universe. Actually the SW corner of Spirit Lake if you want to be exact.
There are Fords, Cases, Farmalls, a MinniMo, several ACs and even a Kubota in that area. But no JDs.
 
North Carolina is 150 miles from North to South, and 560 miles from East to West. (And I live right in the center), From sea level on the East to 6,684 high Mt. Mitchell in the West, which is the highest point East of the Mississippi.
 
Missouri is about 300 miles long and 240 miles wide. And dang hard to avoid St. Louis and Kansas City without taking a maze of backroads.
 
I can exit Illinois to wisc. in about ten min but it's about an all day job getting to the bottom.
 
I remember customers coming from the mid west to the company I worked for in Keene NH. they flew into Bradley Field near Hartford Conn.drove out of conn. thru mass. into Vermont then NH. 4 states in 1 1/2 hrs. they couldn'nt get over it that was unbelievable to them.
 
One other thing when you ask a New englander how far it is from place to place your answer will be in time such as Oh about an hour and a half.Or how far from the Mass State line to the canadian border oh about 5 1/2 hours ayhuh.
 
Atlas says I 75 is 471 miles north to south thru Florida and I 4 is only 132 miles east to west. But I will tell you this I left Pensacola in the panhandle hauling the counter weight off of a Manitowoc crane and delivered it to the Navy base at Key West. That was the longest trip I ever made and never left the state. Funny thing was the rest of the crane arrived by barge. they forgot to load the counter weights and had to pay me to haul them
 
From Luna Pier in the southeast corner of Michigan to Ironwood on the western edge of the Upper Peninsula, Mapquest says it's 634 miles and 11 hours driving time. It's about the same distance and time if you drive south from Luna Pier into Ohio, then through Indiana, Illinois and Wisconsin.

By the way, you know that song that goes "Just a city boy, born and raised in south Detroit"? Folks here don't call it that, we call it "Windsor, Ontario".
 
Yes, always went Hwy 2 one way and Hwy 17 north of Superior the other. Enjoyed the completely different scenery on north and south sides of Lake Superior. Ontario is a big province, two day drive from east to west.

JimB
 
"Here in Texas the saying is "The Sun has Riz...The Sun has Set...and here I iz in Texas Yet"!"

I had a truck like that once too.
 
Kansas is 400 and some change across East to West and 200 and a little from North to South (in miles). We do have a "mountain" - Mt. Sunflower - it is not as high as Denver as far as elevation. It looks kind of like a mound.
 
(quoted from post at 18:34:09 08/09/13) I was trapped in Rhode Island for 17 years. I-95 was 44 miles across the state from Central Falls to Westerly.
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In the Western Great Plains states it's that far to the nearest town.
 
It"s about 455 miles across Nebraska if you stay on I-80. About 355 if you cut out on I-76. I want to say about 230-240 miles across highway 83, about 70-80 miles less once you get to the panhandle. Moved out here from Pennsylvania, it"s almost as far the short way across here as the long way across back there.

Montana is about 700-710 miles across I-90 and I-94. That"s too far north for me though. Winter comes too early and summer too late. Two months north of Williston a couple years ago, came down here to southwest Nebraska in October, and worked into mid-December in a flannel and jeans.

Texas is about 890 miles across I-10. Had a neighbor once who went to driving truck, and had to go east a few exits from Houston to pick up a trailer. He figured out he went the wrong way somewhere around the New Mexico line.

Florida has to be about the boringest state there is to drive in, especially I95. Once you get through Jacksonville, there"s no hills to speak of, clear into Miami. Just signs, brush, and condos. Only good thing about it is you could get out around 10-1030 at night, set the cruise at 80, and let the kitty-cat stretch her legs.
 
Oh yeah, and Howard reminded me, you can load cattle on one pasture, drive 10-15 miles, and drop them less than a mile and a half from where you loaded them.
 
PA is roughly 300 mi west to east and 150 mi NS. The mainland of US is roughly 3000X1500, so Pa is 1/100th of the nation sizewise.
 
From the Southeast corner to the Northwest corner, Nebraska is actually close to 600 miles.

The company I inspect real estate properties for is headquartered in Cleveland, Ohio, and I'm out here in Nebraska doing what the computer tells me to.

Management in Cleveland looks at everything from a Cleveland perspective, and they haven't a clue as to the distances I cover here in Nebraska. In a conference call a couple of weeks ago, our VP of Operations commented that an inspector in a "very rural" area might cover up to ten counties. He has no idea what a very rural area is.

Coupla days ago, I drove 521 miles to inspect 6 houses. Got home at 9:30pm. My last stop was in Norfolk, two hours north of home, so I still had daylight in Norfolk.

My record is I once drove 630 miles round trip in one day to inspect two houses.
 
My brother, who used to live in Arizona, often told me there were counties in Arizona bigger than RI. I shut him up once by showing him the Worcester County, Massachusetts is bigger than RI.
 
Guys, The Geographic Center of Texas, the Lone Star State is about 18 miles North of Brady Tx. From Texline,Tx to Brownsville is right at 900 mi.
El Paso,Tx to Texarkana, Tx is about 814 mi.
Let me Lay it out to you this way, I put you at the Geographic Center just north of Brady You will have a Hard days drive to be setting in another State by Dark! You will need both Saddles full on your old Gas pickup. No Bragg, Just Fact!
Later,
John A.
I personally set
1 hr out of Down Town Austin
1+ "" "" " Waco
2 hrs out of San Antonio
2 "" "" " Brady
2 "" "" " Brownwood
2 "" "" " Stephenville (Cowboy Capitol of Tx)
2 "" "" " Bryan/College Station (aTm AggieLand)
3 hrs out of Abilene
3 "" "" " Sweetwater
3 "" "" " Ft Worth
3 "" "" " Dallas
4 hrs out of San Angelo
4 "" "" " Corpus Christy
4+ "" "" " Junction
5 hrs out of Lubbock ( Red Raider Land, Go Tech)
5 "" "" " Deep East Texas
6 hrs out of Plainview
6+ "" "" " Paris
6+ hrs out of Ft Stockton
7 hrs out of Marfa
8 hrs out of Amarillo
10hrs out of Stratford
10+ hrs out of Texline
10+ "" "" " Brownsville
10+ "" "" " El Paso
10+ "" "" " Texarkana
Yes We can Literally drive all day and not leave the Sate!
Later....
 
Back in college, November, 1960. I loaded up 3 friends and left Vermillion (USD) at 10:am. Pulled into Spearfish near the western border 510 miles and 7.5 hrs later. Never under 80 in a pretty new 57 power pak Chev. All two lane roads.
That's SE to NW crossing.
And we killed 4 big WT bucks.
 
Nobody has chimed in from California. From Yuma, Arizona to Smith River, CA is a whopping 1013 miles, 17 hours driving time. I don't think any other state in the lower 48 can top that, even the self-inflated state of Texas. (Texline to Brownsville is a measly 915 miles.)
 
NY state? 500+ miles? and isn't the Adirondack Park one of the largest in the lower 48? When you say your from NY people think of the city, its a big state with lots of everything .
 
From Table Head in Glace Bay to the other end of Nova Scotia in Yarmouth... probably about 900 km or 565 miles traveling our illustrious roads. Actual linear distance is considerably less than that....

Rod
 
Maybe someone from Rhode Island will jump in, but I live in Delaware.

About 35 miles wide at the widest point, about 9 miles wide at the narrow point. Its about 100 miles north to south.

The north end is pretty much one solid housing development and/or traffic jam. But the south end is still moderately rural (in an east coast sort of way) and highly productive agriculturally. A bit over a billion dollar a year Ag industry in the two southern counties. Not bad for 400,000 acres of farmland. (2007 Ag census)
 
The US Interstate Highway system was supposed to use metric sign measurements. One state, Alabama, complied. After 40 or so years Alabama asked for more highway funding so they could change all their signage to miles. Too many people complained about the metrics. Either couldn't figure it out or maybe it's a matter of scale? I routinely drive a distance equal to that between Brest and Krakow. Maybe Europeans don't do that???
 
Yes, but in comparison to what? New York State comes in at #27 in the list of 50 with 54,475 square miles. Wisconsin at #23 with 65,503 sq mi. As a matter of comparison, Texas has 268,601 sq miles versus France which has 211,207 sq miles.
 
793 miles from Colchester to Hearst if you take the shortcut through Michigan instead of through Ontario around Lake Huron and Georgian Bay.
Some logging and mining roads farther north from Hearst but they are rather dodgy.
Can't drive to Moosonee but can take the train. 650 miles as the crow flies from Colchestor.
Moosonee would be the farthest north access without using a boat, aircraft or an ATV cross country.
Can't find the info on the distance north to south borders of Ontario.
 
(quoted from post at 11:53:36 08/10/13) Yes, but in comparison to what? New York State comes in at #27 in the list of 50 with 54,475 square miles. Wisconsin at #23 with 65,503 sq mi. As a matter of comparison, Texas has 268,601 sq miles versus France which has 211,207 sq miles.
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And then we have Alaska which is about 2 1/2 times larger than Texas.
 
Yes We can Literally drive all day and not leave the Sate!
Later....[/quote]
Yep, I had a pickup like that once!
 
(quoted from post at 04:09:23 08/10/13) NY state? 500+ miles? and isn't the Adirondack Park one of the largest in the lower 48? When you say your from NY people think of the city, its a big state with lots of everything .
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People always think NYC, they forget the rest of the state. My patrol area was larger than the state of Mass when I worked the truck detail. When I was still doing the nasty side of cop work it was still 3x larger than Rhode Island. 1 guy in an area 110 miles x 88 miles....and a permanent population of under 2K. Yup, that's the part of NY you never hear about.
 
When Allan's windrower governor went bad someone suggested going to a surplus place in Lincoln. I think I looked it up and it's something like 450+ miles down there for him.

I haven't really done much exploring since I got out here but am working on getting new ball joints in the front of my pick-up, so who knows. And yeah, people can't believe how far things are out here. I took right to it. You know you've arrived when you look down and you're doing 70, on gravel, with the duramax, pulling 10 cows in a gooseneck, and think nothing of it. Dad freaked out when I hit 40 in the Amigo. I told him we aren't going to take all day to go to McCook, and that the little kick-out the rear-end just did on me was nothing, I didn't even have to turn the wheel or let off the throttle, she just straightened herself back out for me.

And a neighbor has some really big bins and a grain leg, we (the boss, actually) has some property 20 miles west where you can still see those bins, and they can be seen from about 30 miles down on the south side of the nnalert River, or so I've been told.

My aunt asked me about Imperial, said it was mentioned as being close to McCook in a book she was reading. I told her yeah, about an hour north and west. She lives near Dayton OH and was like "AN HOUR!"

If all goes well next year I may be able to get back east for a visit in late summer or fall, but I know I couldn't move back there.

Cherry county is 6,010 square miles. Thomas county is 714. Logan, 571, Lincoln, 2575, Frontier, 980, Red Willow, 718. That's 11,568 square miles in 7 counties, or the western 64 miles of the state of Pennsylvania.

Let's add in Hooker county at 722, McPherson at 860, and Hayes at 713, for an even 10 counties, and that's 13,863 square miles in 10 counties, or the western 77 miles of Pennsylvania.

If we use the figure of approximately 140 miles across Indiana (I-70 is somewhere around 155), that makes for nearly a 100-mile-wide swath across the center of Indiana. 31% of the state of Ohio. Or 2.5 states of Connecticut (5543 sq miles). Or a little more than the state of Maryland (12407 sq miles). Or 1.3 states of Massachusetts (10,555 sq miles).
 
The thruway is 470-something or 490-something, 492 is sticking in my mind. That's from the PA line at Northeast to NYC. I think it's the westound lanes are a half mile longer than the eastbound lanes at that point. They have the mile markers measured out properly on either side, figured that out one day while I was doing some local running.
 
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