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The U.S. state of Washington has over 7,000 miles (11,000 km) of state highways maintained by the Washington State Department of Transportation (WSDOT). [1] The highway system is defined through acts by the state legislature and is encoded in the Revised Code of Washington as State Routes (SR).
The Brier area was known for its mink farms and later gave way to suburban ranch houses in the 1950s and 1960s. [6] The Shasta Park subdivision was created in 1924 and further developed into smaller lots by the early 1950s. [5]: 9 Brier was named for an existing road that bisected the subdivision where the community was developed in the 1950s. [7]
The system spans 8.5% of the state's public road mileage, but carries over half of the traffic. [2] [3] All other public roads in the state are either inside incorporated places (cities or towns) or are maintained by the county. [4] The state highway symbol is a white silhouette of George Washington's head (whom the state is named after).
The U.S. Routes in Washington are segments of the United States Numbered Highway System that are owned and maintained by the U.S. state of Washington through the Washington State Department of Transportation (WSDOT).
Map of the United States with Washington highlighted Map of Washington with incorporated cities and towns highlighted in yellow. Washington is a state in the Pacific Northwest region of the United States.
The road network along the Snoqualmie River developed in the early 20th century to connect communities that had been established near a branch of the Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul and Pacific Railroad. These county roads were paved and added to the state highway system in 1937 as Secondary State Highway 15B (SSH 15B), which served as a connector ...
The Inland Empire Highway was shifted west in 1915 and several roads from Meyers Falls to Davenport became State Road 22 (SR 22) and crossed the Spokane River with the Detillion Bridge. [ 18 ] [ 19 ] [ 20 ] SR 22 remained unchanged through a 1923 restructuring of the state road system, [ 21 ] [ 22 ] but was extended north to the Canadian border ...
State Route 3 (SR 3) is a 59.81-mile-long (96.25 km) state highway in the U.S. state of Washington, serving the Kitsap Peninsula in Mason and Kitsap counties. The highway begins at U.S. Route 101 (US 101) south of Shelton and travels northeast onto the Kitsap Peninsula through Belfair to Gorst, where it intersects SR 16 and begins its freeway.