By james art 
It’s been a while Barstow, California.
After several signs were stolen on Interstate 40 in New Hanover County, indicating 2,554 miles to the end of the road in the California city, another has appeared.
A sign was recently erected near the Murrayville Road overpass with “Barstow, CA 2554” on it – except now the distances to the much closer places of Benson and Raleigh are included.
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The last sign, which read only “Barstow, CA 2554,” was stolen in 2009. At the time, the North Carolina Department of Transportation said it would not make another replacement.
At the west end of I-40 is a “Wilmington, NC 2,554” sign in Barstow.
I-40 remains one of the longest in the interstate system. Only two are longer: I-80 from San Francisco to Teaneck, New Jersey at 2,899.59 miles and I-90 from Seattle to Boston at 3,020.44 miles.
While the local sign shows Barstow at 2,554 miles, the official distance for I-40 is 2,556.61 miles, according to the Federal Highway Administration.
The last extension of I-40 was completed in June 1990, connecting Raleigh to Wilmington.
This article originally appeared on the Wilmington StarNews: Another Barstow, CA sign appears on I-40 in Wilmington, NC