All exist in a 300-mile swath between Los Angeles (No. 2) and Modesto (No. 6), a city of 200, 000 in the Central Valley that was featured in the 1973 hit movie American Graffiti.
Crews in Lochaber were fighting a blaze stretching along a 10-mile front between Salen and Acharacle.
Last Thursday Bloomberg completely integrated Twitter into its terminals, creating a last-mile connection between companies, social media and Wall Street.
The Tube began service on 10 January 1863, covering a three-and-a-half mile journey between Paddington and Farringdon on the Metropolitan Line.
"It's hard to make a comparison between Three Mile Island, Chernobyl and Fukushima because the radioactive release is different and so is the population, " said John Large, a UK-based independent nuclear engineer.
"I had run a 20K but I couldn't tell the difference between a kilometer and a mile -- I thought I had done 20 miles so I thought I could do the other six quite easily, " he said.
Returning home, he bid to construct a 100-mile oil pipeline between Mumbai and Pune for state-owned Hindustan Petroleum.
To make matters more ticklish, there was a half-mile of unplowed driveway between us and the main road.
Works are under way to return trains to a 35 mile (56km) route between Edinburgh and Tweedbank, near Galashiels, by 2013.
The California Zephyr was launched in 1949 to lure the latter, taking them on a 2, 500-mile journey between the Windy City and the Californian coast in three days.
And what the data show is that not only are there big differences around the country, which we already knew, but often there can be huge differences between hospitals only a mile or two from one another.
On Perhentian Besar - the larger of the two islands - the main hub of activity ('activity' consisting primarily of lounging on the beach, swimming and watching fishing boats roll by) is a quarter-mile stretch of beach between Abdhul's Chalets and Tuna Bay Island Resort.
The tunnel will also create a 13-mile (21km) loop between Bath and Midford via the canal towpath in the city.
BBC: Combe Down tunnel has light and sound display installed
The Wilts and Berks Canal, completed in 1810, was a 52-mile (84km) link between the canal at Semington and the River Thames near Abingdon.
To really see the impact of regional airlines these days, just fly the longest flight in miles on a regional jet in the U.S. That's a 1, 501-mile United flight between Austin, Texas and San Francisco, which takes about four hours going west into the wind.
Within the concourse, you walk, sometimes as much as a half mile, or ten city blocks, between gates.
The Cotswold Way is a 102 mile (164 km) national trail between Bath and Chipping Campden in the Gloucestershire.
They were found at various points of a two-mile section of the river, between Bishopswood, Ross-on-Wye, and Lydbrook in Gloucestershire.
To the north, hopes are pinned to the construction of a 12km (7.4 mile) dam between the two sections of the sea.
Also on the agenda for the two-day meeting are a proposed continental bank, to rival institutions like the International Monetary Fund, and plans to build a 5, 000-mile natural gas pipeline between Venezuela and Colombia.
Interstate 70 was also snow-packed and a 90-mile stretch of that road was closed between Salina and Hays.
The scheme aims to reduce congestion on a 20 mile (32km) stretch of the A14 between Cambridge and Huntingdon.
Roads minister Stephen Hammond will oversee the start of work on a nine-mile (14.5km) section between Fiveways Roundabout at Mildenhall and Thetford.
BBC: A11 dual carriageway in Suffolk and Norfolk to be completed
That owes to a relative bandwidth mismatch between the backbone and the last mile.
The sites are almost midway between Lisburn and Belfast, about a quarter mile south of the Ballyskeagh Road.
It's the cue for effusive guide Fridjon Thorleifsson to introduce the surrounding Columbia Icefield, a 77-square-mile web of six silvery tentacles between Jasper and Banff, and the largest ice cap south of the Arctic Circle.
Plans were announced in 2004 for a 14-mile road to ease congestion on the M4 around Newport, between junctions 23 and 29.
The work is proposed for a 19-mile (30.6-km) stretch of motorway between Junction 28 in Derbyshire and Junction 31 in Nottinghamshire.
The agency reported the twister had winds between 111 and 135 mph as it caused a half-mile long damage path over 10 miles.
Levin says there is still a gap at the most expensive part of the network: the last mile between the Internet and the consumer.
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