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This template will create a citation, with link, to the appropriate annual road map from the Washington State Department of Transportation and its predecessors. The template will fill in the author, date, title, location, and publisher as long as the year is provided. This template is based on {}, part of the Citation Style 1 format.
All state highways are designated by the Washington State Legislature and codified in the Revised Code of Washington (RCW), namely Chapter 47.17 RCW. These routes are defined generally by termini and points along the route; WSDOT may otherwise choose the details, and may bypass the designated points as long as the road serves the general vicinity.
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The highway system is defined through acts by the state legislature and is encoded in the Revised Code of Washington as State Routes (SR). It was created in 1964 to replace an earlier numbering scheme and ratified by the state legislature in 1970. The system's 196 highways are almost entirely paved, with the exception of a gravel section on SR 165.
Numbered Washington State routes as designated by the Washington State Department of Transportation (WSDOT). This includes all signed routes (such as Washington State Route 99), former routes (such as Primary State Highway 1 (Washington) or Washington State Route 111), and proposed routes (such as Washington State Route 704).
The United States Numbered Highway System was approved and established on November 11, 1926 by the American Association of State Highway Officials (AASHO) and included eleven routes traveling through Washington. [1] [3] In 1961, the state introduced a set of route markers in Olympia that were colored based on destination and direction rather ...
This road was approved and built in 1897, making it one of the oldest state roads in Washington state. [25] In 1905, the road became known as State Road 1 and was incorporated into the first state highway system. [26] By 1907, the road was named the White River – Natches Road and was shortened to end at Cedar Springs.