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Five miles (8.0 km) [2] after crossing the state line, it serves as the southern terminus for New Mexico State Road 92 (NM 92). US 70 does not have another highway junction for 21 miles (34 km), [2] where it meets New Mexico State Road 464 (NM 464) and New Mexico State Road 90 (NM 90) three miles (4.8 km) [2] north of Lordsburg.
The longest current U.S. Route in New Mexico is U.S. Route 70, spanning 448.264 miles (721.411 km) across southern New Mexico, while the shortest is U.S. Route 160, which clips the extreme northwestern corner of the state, measuring 0.86 miles (1.38 km) long between the Arizona and Colorado borders. [2]
In 1914, Arizona's highway system was further reorganized into a better-funded and organized network of early state highways. The Yuma–Duncan route between Globe and New Mexico was added to the newly designated Roosevelt Dam Highway. The rest of the new route ran from Mesa to Globe via the Apache Trail (now SR 88). [6]
The portion of US 80 between the Arizona state line and Anthony was decommissioned on October 6, 1989, while the remainder of the route through the state was removed October 12, 1991. [6] From 1927 to 1960, the section of I-10 between Road Forks and the Arizona state line was designated New Mexico State Road 14 (NM 14).
In 1927, a section between San Ysidro and Alameda was reassigned to Route 44. In 1929 the road was redesignated as Route 4. [3] After the Carlsbad Caverns National Park was established in 1923 a road was built connecting it to Route 18 (modern day US 62 /US 180). This road was designated as NM 7 in June 1929 by the New Mexico State Highway ...
The Border Highway Connector will be a 7.5-mile, four-lane highway going from Pete Domenici Highway, or NM136, in Santa Teresa to Anapra Road in Sunland Park, New Mexico, near Doniphan Drive in ...
Apr. 27—Interstate 40 in both directions near the New Mexico-Arizona state line remained closed Saturday following a freight train derailment and fire that forced evacuations in the surrounding ...
State Road 80 (NM 80) is 32.416-mile-long (52.168 km) north–south state road in southwestern New Mexico, between the Arizona state line near Rodeo and Interstate 10 (I-10) at Road Forks. Lying entirely within Hidalgo County, New Mexico, it is the only section of the old U.S. Route 80 (US 80) in New Mexico which still retains its number. The ...