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Green sign with the white words Clarkton 8 and Easton 31

A distance sign lists town names with numbers on the right. What do the numbers show?

  1. The exit number for each town
  2. The speed limit in each town
  3. The route number that leads there
  4. The distance to each place, to the nearest mile
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Correct answer: The distance to each place, to the nearest mile

A Distance sign shows up to three places. The number beside each name is the distance to that place in whole miles.

Source: Manual on Uniform Traffic Control Devices for Streets and Highways (MUTCD), 11th Edition with Revision 1 (FHWA, December 2025), Section 2D.43 Distance Signs (D2 Series), page 280

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Questions last reviewed: 18 October 2026