Lancaster County
A quarry six and a half miles away
The limestone quarry near this place, held by Allan Myers Materials with 11 people on the Mine Safety and Health Administration’s record, lies 6.54 miles from the Census centre.
The quarry is real and it is in this county; it is simply not on the doorstep.
A crossing rated at about one US ton, and why it counts for nothing
Beyond that, the local bridge record needs reading carefully or it misleads. Within ten miles the National Bridge Inventory records 301 structures — a circle that crosses a state line, so it is counted from every state file with structures inside it, not from Pennsylvania alone — and 22 of them are coded below legal loads.
The lowest rating among those is about one US ton, which a loaded pickup exceeds. That is not a restriction on this trade in any practical sense: it is a farm lane or a footbridge carried in the same inventory.
The figure that matters is the lowest one that clears the commercial floor, and that is about eighteen US tons. Ten of the 22 are county-maintained and the nearest is 1.61 miles away, all of it inside Lancaster County.
Farm country with a quarry every few miles
Those crossings are the give-away: this is farm country carrying an unusually dense run of stone. The Paradise Quarry is 6.8 miles off with 24 people, a yard 7.0 miles away at Lancaster, the Rohrers Quarry 11.2 miles out at Lititz with 28, the Hinkletown Quarry 12.4 miles off at Blue Ball and the Limeville Quarry 12.7 miles away at Gap.
Further out the Landisville Quarry works 13.9 miles off, a flour mill 14.3 miles away at Lititz, the Denver Quarry 16.3 miles out and the Wrightsville Quarry 16.4 miles away over in York County.
What that mix means for a truck is a deep local market and a lot of short lanes. The same yard often runs farm work and quarry work in the same week, and the trucks are specced to do both rather than either well.
Between the Paradise Quarry 6.8 miles off and the Rohrers Quarry 11.2 miles away the running is short and repetitive, and a farm truck here has usually done a share of quarry work too. Neither history counts against it.
A farm changes hands or a son does not want the truck, and in this county that happens on a lot of small holdings rather than in a few big fleets.
The other half is quarry work moving on. Between the Limeville Quarry 12.7 miles off and the Landisville Quarry 13.9 miles away a truck that stops suiting one lane does not always find another close by.