U.S. Route 62 in Oklahoma

U.S. Route 62 in Oklahoma

Infobox road
state=OK
type=US
route=62


map_notes=US-62 highlighted in red
maint=ODOT
length_mi=402.48
length_round=2
length_ref=cite web|author=Oklahoma Department of Transportation|title=State Highway System: Log of U.S. Highway 62|url=http://www.okladot.state.ok.us/memorial/highways/pdfs/logs/us62log.pdf|accessdate=2007-11-25]
direction_a=West
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direction_b=North
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In Oklahoma, U.S. Highway 62 runs diagonally across the state, from the Texas state line in far southwestern Oklahoma to the Arkansas state line near Fayetteville. US-62 spends a total of convert|402.48|mi|km in the Sooner State. The highway passes through fifteen of Oklahoma's counties. Along the way the route serves two of Oklahoma's largest cities, Lawton and Oklahoma City, as well as many regionally important cities, like Altus, Chickasha, Muskogee, and Tahlequah. Despite this, US-62 has no lettered spur routes like many other U.S. routes in Oklahoma do.

US-62 has been part of the Oklahoma highway network since 1930. With the advent of the Interstate system, the portion of its route through Oklahoma City was revised several times to adapt to the presence of the new freeways. The present-day route of US-62 includes concurrencies with I-44, I-240, I-35, and I-40.

Route description

outhwestern Oklahoma

US-62 enters Oklahoma in Harmon County, convert|5|mi|km west of Hollis.cite map|publisher=Oklahoma Department of Transportation|title=2007 Centennial State Map] It then passes through that town, the county seat, where it serves as the southern terminus of State Highway 30. US-62 meets the northern terminus of SH-5 in Gould. The highway passes through unincorporated McQueen convert|4|mi|km and then enters Jackson County. Just east of Duke, the route crosses SH-34. Nine miles (14.5 km) later, US-62 becomes a multilane highway and begins a concurrency with SH-6. The two highways travel together into Altus, where they intersect US-283. SH-6 follows US-283 northward out of town, while US-62 heads east towards Headrick. US-62 runs just north of that town before crossing the North Fork of the Red River onto the KiowaTillman County line.

US-62 continues eastward, sending US-62 BUS north to Snyder, which was the original US-62 alignment in the area. The county line then turns south of US-62, and the route has an interchange with US-183. US-62 heads farther east, meeting the other end of US-62 BUS convert|3|mi|kmcite map|publisher=Oklahoma Department of Transportation|title=Official State Map|edition=2008] later. US-62 serves as the southern terminus of the northern State Highway 54 convert|3|mi|km east of this. The road then enters Comanche County, where it serves as the southern border of Fort Sill. It serves as the southern terminus of another Oklahoma state highway, SH-115, near Cache. A few miles of the highway east of SH-115 is freeway-grade. Continuing east, US-62 becomes an expressway, Rogers Lane, that serves the north side of Lawton (along with several Ft. Sill gates). In eastern Lawton, the highway has an interchange with Interstate 44 and begins a concurrency with it (joining at Exit 40B), along with US-277 and US-281.

I-44/US-62/277/281 head northward through Fort Sill. At Exit 45, the freeway serves as the eastern terminus of State Highway 49. The three U.S. routes split off at Exit 46, with I-44 continuing onto the northern section of the H. E. Bailey Turnpike. US-277 splits off to the east convert|5|mi|km later. US-62/281 then meet SH-19 in Apache. SH-9 begins overlapping the two U.S. routes convert|10|mi|km north of Apache. The three routes continue into Anadarko, where State Highway 8 briefly joins the concurrency. US-283 and SH-8 split off to the north, while US-62/SH-9 head out of town to the east.

Central Oklahoma

US-62/SH-9 cross into Grady County just west of Verden. At the western limits of Chickasha, US-81 joins the concurrency. In downtown Chickasha, US-81 splits off to the south, and US-277 once again joins with US-62. In far eastern Chickasha, the routes have an interchange with I-44 (the H.E. Bailey Turnpike). US-62/277/SH-9 serve as the southern terminus of SH-92 and the western terminus of SH-39. The three highways then angle northeast towards Blanchard, where they are briefly joined by State Highway 76. Northeast of Blanchard, they are carried by an expressway. SH-9 splits off at a diamond interchange that also serves as the eastern terminus of the H.E. Bailey Turnpike Spur. The two U.S. routes continue north into Newcastle, running through town on a five-lane (two lanes in each direction plus center turn lane) alignment. On the northern rim of Blanchard, the two routes encounter I-44 once again, at the northern terminus of the Bailey Turnpike. US-62 joins eastbound I-44 toward Oklahoma City, while US-277 terminates at the interchange.

I-44/US-62 pick up State Highway 37 at Exit 107, and the three highways cross the Canadian River into Cleveland County and Oklahoma City. SH-37 then splits off at Exit 110. Just north of the Oklahoma County line, I-44 has an interchange at the western terminus of Interstate 240 at Exit 115, and US-62 follows it east to Exit 4B, where it begins to concur with I-35/US-77. I-35/US-62/77 head northward to the Fort Smith Junction. US-77 splits off to join with Interstate 235, while I-35/US-77 join with eastbound I-40/US-270. I-35/US-62 split off to the north after just over a mile. US-62 leaves I-35 at Exit 130, turning east onto N.E. 23rd St., an at-grade street

US-62 serves some of Oklahoma City's eastern suburbs, including far northern Midwest City, far southern Spencer, Nicoma Park, and Choctaw. In eastern Harrah, the route meets the west terminus of State Highway 270. The highway then crosses into far southern Lincoln County, where it crosses SH-120 at Midway. US-62 runs through two more unincorporated communities, Fowler and Jacktown; the latter is the site of the US-62/US-177 junction. US-62 enters Meeker convert|6|mi|km later, where it meets up with SH-18. convert|12|mi|km further east, in Prague, it encounters US-377/SH-99.

Green Country

US-62 enters eastern Oklahoma's Green Country as it crosses into Okfuskee County west of Paden. It begins to turn southeast, intersecting State Highway 48 west of Castle, before joining once again with I-40 near Okemah, at Exit 221. US-75 also joins the interstate, convert|10|mi|km farther east at Exit 231. The two U.S. routes split off at Exit 240B, where they continue the mainline of the Indian Nation Turnpike, which terminates at I-40. The two U.S. routes serve eastern Henryetta, and west of Dewar, they are the western terminus of U.S. Highway 266. In Okmulgee, US-62 turns east while US-75 continues north toward the Tulsa area. US-62 heads through Morris, where it intersects SH-52. The highway then has a convert|9|mi|km|sing=on overlap with SH-72, after which it begins a concurrency with US-64.

US-62/64 split up in Muskogee, where US-62 briefly shares pavement with US-69. On the east side of town, it has an interchange with the Muskogee Turnpike/SH-165 freeway. Near Ft. Gibson, US-62 begins to concur with State Highway 10, and the two routes stay joined through Tahlequah. US-62 starts to overlap State Highway 51 in Tahlequah as well; the two highways split up near Eldon. The route enters Adair County near Proctor. It intersects with US-59 in Westville before US-62 crosses the state line into Arkansas.

History

When US-62 was added to the system in 1930,cite web|last=Droz|first=Robert V.| url=http://www.us-highways.com/usbt.htm|title=U.S. Highways: From US-1 to (US-830)|date=2007-10-05|accessdate=2007-12-07] it had the same basic routing as it did today. In 1930, most of the highway was of gravel or earthen construction. The only portions of the highway that were paved were from Chickasha to Tabler, from Newcastle to Oklahoma City and Meeker, from Okemah to Morris, and from just south of the US-64 junction to Fort Gibson.cite map|publisher=Oklahoma Department of Highways|title=Map Showing Condition of Improvement of the State Highway System|edition=1931|url=http://www.odot.org/hqdiv/p-r-div/maps/state-maps/pdfs/1931.pdf|accessdate=2007-10-14] By 1948, the entire stretch of US-62 through Oklahoma had been paved.cite map|publisher=Oklahoma Department of Highways|title=Map of Oklahoma's State Highway System|edition=1948|url=http://www.odot.org/hqdiv/p-r-div/maps/state-maps/pdfs/1948.pdf|accessdate=2008-09-11]

Oklahoma City routing

On 1950-03-06, US-62 was rerouted through Oklahoma City.cite web|author=Oklahoma Department of Transportation, Planning & Research Division|url=http://www.okladot.state.ok.us/memorial/legal/us62.htm|title=Memorial Dedication & Revision History - US-62|accessdate=2007-12-08] US-62 followed Newcastle Boulevard into the city and turned eastbound onto S.E. 29th Street, which it followed to Robinson Avenue. It then turned north onto Robinson, which was also US-77, towards downtown. Through downtown, US-62 followed Robinson, while US-77 paralleled it one block to the east on Broadway. At N.E. 23rd Street, US-62 turned east, concurring with US-270, US-66 CITY, and the second State Highway 1. US-77 also ran along 23rd Street from Broadway to Lincoln Boulevard, where it split off to the north, along with US-66 CITY. US-62/270/SH-1 then continued along 23rd Street to Spencer.cite map|publisher=Oklahoma Department of Highways|title=Highways of Oklahoma (back side, Oklahoma City inset)|edition=1954|url=http://www.okladot.state.ok.us/hqdiv/p-r-div/maps/state-maps/pdfs/1954.pdf|accessdate=2007-12-08]

US-62 was realigned once again on 1955-04-06.

US-62 was realigned for a third time on 1961-09-04. This routing was only meant to be temporary, following Agnew, Exchange, and Reno Avenues to downtown.. This change was followed up by the 1963-09-04 rerouting, which put US-62 onto its present-day routing (though I-240 did not exist yet, and I-44 still ended at I-35). [cite map | publisher=Skelly Oil Company | title=Highway Map of Oklahoma | cartography=Diversified Map Co | edition=1966 | section=11C]

Junction list

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notes=Texas state line
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location=Hollis
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road=
notes=Southern terminus of SH-30
jctint|state=OK
location=Gould
mile=13.3
road=
notes=Northern terminus of SH-5
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county=Jackson
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mile=25.4
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mile=33.9
road=
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location=Altus
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road=
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type=mplex
mile=38.9
road= SH-6
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county=Kiowa
location=none
cspan=4
mile=56.3
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jctint|state=OK
location=Snyder
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road=
notes=Diamond interchange
jctint|state=OK
location=none
mile=63.2
road= US-62 BUS
jctint|state=OK
location=none
mile=65.8
road=
notes=Southern terminus of SH-54
jctint|state=OK
county=Comanche
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location=Cache
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notes=Diamond interchange, southern terminus of SH-115
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location=Lawton
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notes=Interchange
jctint|state=OK
location=Ft. Sill
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road=jct|state=OK|OK|49|city1=Medicine Park|city2=Carnegie
notes=Diamond interchange (I-44 exit 45), eastern terminus of SH-49
jctint|state=OK
location=none
type=mplex
mile=100.6
road= I-44
notes=Interchange (I-44 exit 46)
jctint|state=OK
location=Richards Spur
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mile=105.0
road= US-277
jctint|state=OK
county=Caddo
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location=Apache
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type=mplex
mile=113.9
road=
jctint|state=OK
type=mplex
mile=114.4
road= SH-19
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location=none
type=mplex
mile=124.6
road=
jctint|state=OK
location=Anadarko
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type=mplex
mile=133.0
road=
jctint|state=OK
type=mplex
mile=133.5
road= SH-8
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county=Grady
cspan=5
location=Chickasha
lspan=3
type=mplex
mile=149.3
road=
jctint
type=mplex
mile=151.1
road=
jctint
mile=152.6
road=
notes=Diamond interchange
jctint|state=OK
location=none
mile=154.3
road=
notes=Southern terminus of SH-92
jctint|state=OK
location=Tabler
mile=157.6
road=
notes=Western terminus of SH-39
jctint|state=OK
county=McClain
cspan=6
location=Blanchard
lspan=2
type=mplex
mile=169.1
road=
jctint|state=OK
type=mplex
mile=170.1
road= SH-76
jctint|state=OK
location=Newcastle
lspan=4
type=mplex
mile=174.8
road= SH-9/H.E. Bailey Norman Spur
notes=Diamond interchange
jctint|state=OK
mile=179.3
road=
notes=Eastern terminus of SH-130
jctint|state=OK
road= I-44
type=mplex
mile=181.9
notes=U.S. 277 ends
jctint|state=OK
type=mplex
mile=183.6
road=jct|state=OK|OK|37|dir1=west|city1=Tuttle|city2=Minco
notes=I-44 exit 107
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county=Cleveland
location=Okla. City
lspan=6
type=mplex
mile=186.4
road=jct|state=OK|OK|37|dir1=east|city1=Moore
notes=I-44 exit 110
jctint|state=OK
county=Oklahoma
cspan=6
type=mplex
mile=190.8
road=
notes=Western terminus of I-240, I-44 exit 115
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type=mplex
mile=195.4
road=/SH-3
jctint
type=mplex
mile=200.4
road=
notes=Southern terminus of I-235
jctint
type=mplex
mile=201.1
road= I-40/US-270
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type=mplex
mile=203.7
road= I-35
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location=Harrah
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notes=Western terminus of SH-270
jctint|state=OK
county=Lincoln
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location=Midway
mile=225.4
road=
jctint|state=OK
location=Jacktown
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location=Meeker
mile=236.8
road=
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location=Prague
mile=248.9
road=
jctint|state=OK
county=Okfuskee
cspan=5
location=none
mile=266.8
road=
jctint|state=OK
location=Okemah
lspan=3
type=mplex
mile=272.6
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notes=Northern terminus of SH-27
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type=mplex
mile=272.8
road= SH-56
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type=mplex
mile=273.4
road= I-40/SH-27
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location=Pharaoh
type=mplex
mile=283.5
road=jct|state=OK|US|75|dir1=south|city1=Wetumka
notes=I-40 exit 231
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county=Okmulgee
cspan=8
location=Henryetta
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mile=289.5
road=
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mile=292.1
road=Indian Nation Turnpike
notes=Northern terminus of turnpike
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type=mplex
mile=292.3
road= I-40
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mile=293.2
road= US-62 BUS/US-75 BUS
jctint|state=OK
mile=294.5
road=
notes=Western terminus of US-266
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location=Okmulgee
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jctint|state=OK
mile=307.0
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location=Morris
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notes=Northern terminus of SH-52
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county=Muskogee
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location=none
mile=331.5
type=mplex
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location=none
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road=
notes=Southern terminus of SH-162
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type=mplex
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type=mplex
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road= US-69
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type=mplex
mile=349.8
road= SH-16
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type=mplex
mile=351.5
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notes=Southern terminus of Muskogee Tpk, northern terminus of SH-165
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location=none
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type=mplex
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location=Ft. Gibson
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notes=Southern terminus of SH-80
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county=Cherokee
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location=Tahlequah
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type=mplex
jctint|state=OK
type=mplex
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road= SH-82
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type=mplex
mile=378.6
road= SH-10
jctint|state=OK
location=Eldon
type=mplex
mile=384.3
road= SH-51
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county=Adair
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location=Westville
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road=
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location=none
mile=402.5
road=
notes=Arkansas state line

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