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This stretch of road is known as Maricopa Road (except for a brief portion signed as Smith Enke Road within the city of Maricopa) and serves as a direct route between the two towns as well as an access road for the Sonoran Desert National Monument. It was originally a dirt road from Gila Bend to Maricopa, it was upgraded to a state highway to ...
The Gila Bend Steam Locomotive Water Stop – was built in 1900 and is located near Murphy Street. Gillespie Dam Highway Bridge – Northwest of Gila Bend. The bridge was built in 1927 over the Gila River and is located on Old Highway 80 north of Gila Bend and south of Arlington between the Buckeye Hills and the Gila Bend Mountains in Maricopa ...
In Theba, US 80 split off again as the south frontage road east to I-8 Business through Gila Bend to AZ 85. AZ 85, between Gila Bend and Buckeye, is the only section of former US 80 west of Dallas not bypassed by an Interstate.
The first highway designated between Gila Bend and Tucson was the Lone Star Trail in 1925. This late auto trail utilized a route through Maricopa alongside the Southern Pacific Railroad between Gila Bend and Casa Grande. [5] Part of the Lone Star Trail was designated as Arizona State Route 84 by the Arizona State Highway Department on September ...
The road south of Gila Bend had also been improved to a gravel road. [8] In 1936, SR 85 was established, but it only extended as far north as Gila Bend and as far south as Ajo. [9] By 1938, SR 85 had been paved as well as the portion between Ajo and Why that would eventually become part of SR 85. The portion between Why and the border with ...
The annual rainfall is only about six inches and the nearest irrigational water is the Gila River. In prehistoric times the Gila flowed west out of the mountains of western New Mexico, made a big dogleg turn at the town of Gila Bend and continued west to empty into the Colorado River. The Hohokam people once lived and farmed here. Ruins of ...
NC 85 at the North Carolina state line near Chesterfield: 1938: 1961 SC 86: 12.090: 19.457 SC 8 / Sitton Road south of Easley: US 25 / Sandy Springs Road southeast of Golden Grove: 1938: current SC 87 — — SC 13 in Central: SC 81 northwest of Aaron 1940: 1947 SC 88: 14.350: 23.094 North Broad Street in Pendleton
The road headed north toward Tempe to U.S. Route 80. [14] Between 1951 and 1958, the road was extended south to its current terminus at SR 84; at this time, I-10 had still not been built, nor had the route become a state highway. [15] By 1971, I-10 was finished through the south and east edges of the Phoenix area. [16]