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When it was realized that a national highway system was needed, the Federal Aid Highway Act of 1956 provided for a highway replacing the old US 66 which I-55 filled. I-55 was originally constructed in the 1960s, to extend a section of US 66 between I-294 and Gardner which had been converted into a freeway and had Interstate signage installed in 1960.
SH-55 begins at State Highway 34 in Carter, in eastern Beckham Co. It heads east for six miles (10 km), where it meets State Highway 6 and overlaps it to the south. After running along the Beckham/Washita Co. line, it splits off to the east near Retrop. It then meets State Highway 44 in Sentinel. Seven miles later it meets US-183 in Rocky.
United States Numbered Highways in Oklahoma are part of a nationwide network of roadways passing through the 48 contiguous states. These U.S. Highways are the second-highest category of road classifications in the Oklahoma road system, just below the Interstate Highways. U.S. Highways are marked with a number contained inside a white shield in ...
Still an active state highway with no number, Lincoln Boulevard in Oklahoma City SH-107 — — — — 1995 [154] 2000 [154] Temporary designation for 23rd Street while under construction in Oklahoma City SH-108: 24.00 [155] 38.62 US-64 east of Morrison: SH-51 east of Stillwater: 1955: current SH-109: 53.90 [156] 86.74 US-70 in Boswell
I-40 near Oklahoma City: I-44 in Luther: 2024 [4] current Redesignation of Kickapoo Turnpike; will be extended to I-35 in the future I-344: 31.0: 49.9 I-240 in Oklahoma City: I-35/I-44 near Oklahoma City 2024 [4] current Redesignation of John Kilpatrick Turnpike: I-440 — — in Oklahoma City: I-35 in Oklahoma City — c. 1965
The Pershing Map FDR's hand-drawn map from 1938. The United States government's efforts to construct a national network of highways began on an ad hoc basis with the passage of the Federal Aid Road Act of 1916, which provided $75 million over a five-year period for matching funds to the states for the construction and improvement of highways. [8]
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Within Farmington, the highway had a shared segment with what was then U.S. Highway 65 (now Minnesota Highway 3) to Elm Street in Hampton. From Farmington, U.S. Highway 55 headed westward to Burnsville via present-day 212th Street West, Lakeville Blvd, 210th Street West, Kenwood Trail, and Burnsville Parkway to Lyndale Ave (now Interstate 35W).