Zero Milestone

This article is about the monument in Washington, D.C.. For other similar monuments, see Zero mile marker. For other uses, see Zero Mile.
Zero Milestone face
Zero Milestone face. Washington DC.

Zero Milestone, facing the stone's northwest corner (2010)

The Zero Milestone is a zero mile marker monument in Washington, D.C., intended as the initial milestone from which all road distances in the United States should be measured when it was built. At present,[when?] only roads in the Washington, D.C., area have distances measured from it.