Mineral Palace in context: Street-network sprawl trends

Mineral Palace in context

2345<19751976–19901991–20052006–2020SNDi of street additions
2345<19751976–19901991–20052006–2020SNDi of entire street network
Mineral PalaceColorado (Region)United States (Country)

The chart above shows SNDi trends for new street additions (left panel) and the entire network (right panel), with Mineral Palace plotted against Colorado and United States. All three follow the same trend in new construction, suggesting a shared regional pattern of development. Most recently, Mineral Palace's incremental SNDi fell from 4.84 to 4.65 between 1991-2005 and 2006-2020. In terms of the aggregate network, Mineral Palace ranked 1st out of 9 cities in Colorado and 38th out of 333 in United States as of 2020.

New Street Additions (2006–2020)

SNDi value
4.65
Rank in United States
227th of 333
Rank in Colorado
9th of 9

Entire Network (Aggregate)

SNDi value
2.01
Rank in United States
38th of 333
Rank in Colorado
1st of 9

Rankings go from most connected to most disconnected — rank 1 is the most connected.

What about similarly populated cities?

246<19751976–19901991–20052006–2020SNDi of street additions
246<19751976–19901991–20052006–2020SNDi of entire street network
Mineral PalaceNefteyuganskJangaon

While Nefteyugansk and Jangaon both built increasingly disconnected streets over time, Mineral Palace built increasingly disconnected streets from 1975 through 1991-2005, then improved in new street additions. For the full street network, though, all three cities follow the same trend. Mineral Palace and Nefteyugansk have been growing further apart in their street-network character since 1975.