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Notes US 1: 2,369: 3,813 Fleming and Whitehead streets in Key West, FL: Route 161 at Canadian border in Fort Kent, ME: 1926: current Follows the East Coast of the United States, longest north-south US Highway US 2: 2,112: 3,399 I-5/SR 529 in Everett, WA: I-75 in St. Ignace, MI: 1926: current Western segment US 2: 460: 740 US 11 in Rouses Point, NY
Within the route log, "U.S. Route" is used in the table of contents, while "United States Highway" appears as the heading for each route. All reports of the Special Committee on Route Numbering since 1989 use "U.S. Route", and federal laws relating to highways use "United States Route" or "U.S. Route" more often than the "Highway" variants.
Notes: Outside cities, some towns, and two counties, every road is state-maintained. These roads are split into Primary and Secondary State Routes, and receive different levels of funding. Inside cities, most Primary State Routes are locally maintained. Highway names; Interstates: Interstate X (I-X) US Highways: U.S. Route X (US X) State
US 93 at Arizona state line near Boulder City, Nevada: US 95/SR 157 in Las Vegas, Nevada: 2017: current Unfinished in Nevada; Nevada only; planned in one more: Arizona I-12: 85.59: 137.74 I-10 in Baton Rouge, Louisiana: I-10/I-59 in Slidell, Louisiana: 1967: current Louisiana only I-14: 25.10: 40.39 US 190/US 190 Bus in Copperas Cove, Texas
In 1918, Wisconsin became the first state to number its highways in the field followed by Michigan the following year. [1] In 1926 the American Association of State Highway Officials (AASHO) established and numbered interstate routes (United States Numbered Highways), selecting the best roads in each state that could be connected to provide a national network of federal highways.
The highway system of the United States is a network of interconnected state, U.S., and Interstate highways. Each of the fifty states, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, American Samoa, Guam, the Northern Mariana Islands, and the U.S. Virgin Islands own and maintain a part of this vast system, including U.S. and Interstate highways, which are not owned or maintained at the federal level.
Some U.S. Routes are given directional suffixes to indicate a split of the main route — for instance, U.S. Route 25 (US 25) splits into US 25E (east) and US 25W (west) between Newport, Tennessee, and North Corbin, Kentucky, and US 9W is an alternate of U.S. Route 9 between Fort Lee, New Jersey, and Albany, New York.