California State Route 198

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SR 33)
Major junctions
West end US 101 near San Lucas
Major intersections
East endGenerals Highway in Sequoia National Park
Location
CountryUnited States
StateCalifornia
CountiesMonterey, Fresno, Kings, Tulare
Highway system
← SR 197→ US 199
Coalinga
Looking west on Route 198 a few miles west of Coalinga, California

State Route 198 (SR 198) is an east–west

SR 99
.

The highway that would become SR 198 was approved for construction in the 1910s through three

bond issues
, and was added to the state highway system in 1934. Parts of the highway were upgraded to freeway during the 1960s. Another portion was converted to an expressway in between Hanford and Visalia, and was completed in late 2012.

Route description

The road begins at a remote interchange with

US 101 south of King City in the Salinas River Valley. Leaving US 101, SR 198 passes through the Priest Valley, climbs the Diablo Range as a two-lane road and crosses over an unnamed pass. It then descends along Warthan Canyon to the town of Coalinga in the agricultural Central Valley, where it briefly runs concurrently with SR 33. On both sides of Coalinga the road passes through the enormous Coalinga Oil Field.[2]

SR 198 then intersects

SR 180 to the north.[3]

SR 198 is part of the California Freeway and Expressway System,[4] and east of I-5 is part of the National Highway System,[5] a network of highways that are considered essential to the country's economy, defense, and mobility by the Federal Highway Administration.[6] SR 198 is eligible to be included in the State Scenic Highway System,[7] but it is not officially designated as a scenic highway by the California Department of Transportation.[8]

History

All of SR 198 was added to the state highway system in the three

$13 million (equivalent to $105 million in 2023[14]) and was scheduled to be completed by 1964.[15] The freeway through Visalia was completed by 1965, with an expressway connecting it to US 99. Also completed was the expressway heading west out of Hanford, with part of it access-controlled west of Lemoore.[16][17]

Construction began in November 2009 on a project to widen a two-lane, 10-mile (16 km) section of SR 198 between SR 43 and SR 99 into a four-lane expressway. The $60 million project was completed in December 2012.[18]

Future

The Kings County Association of Governments has plans to improve the state highways within the county. Developers are interested in building distribution warehouses in Kings County because of its strategic location midway between the Los Angeles and San Francisco Bay areas, but they are currently turned off by the lack of freeway access. For SR 198, the plan is to extend the freeway segment from Naval Air Station Lemoore to I-5. However, Kings County voters have shown little interest in passing any transportation taxes to fund these projects.[19]

Major intersections

Except where prefixed with a letter, postmiles were measured on the road as it was in 1964, based on the alignment that existed at the time, and do not necessarily reflect current mileage. R reflects a realignment in the route since then, M indicates a second realignment, L refers to an overlap due to a correction or change, and T indicates postmiles classified as temporary (for a full list of prefixes, see California postmile § Official postmile definitions).[1] Segments that remain unconstructed or have been relinquished to local control may be omitted. The numbers reset at county lines; the start and end postmiles in each county are given in the county column.

CountyLocationPostmile
[1][20][21]		Exit
[22]		DestinationsNotes
Monterey
MON R0.00-25.79		San LucasR0.00Lockwood-San Lucas Road, Bunte RoadContinuation beyond US 101
R0.11 US 101Interchange; west end of SR 198; US 101 exit 273
​14.00
 SR 25 north – Pinnacles National Park, Hollister		Southern terminus of SR 25
Fresno
FRE 0.00-42.73		Coalinga22.37

 Polk Street to SR 33 south – Stratford, Taft
22.65
15.71[N 1]


 SR 33 south (Fifth Street) to I-5 south / Coalinga Plaza (Fifth Street)		West end of SR 33 overlap
​24.32[N 1]
22.66


 SR 33 north (Coalinga-Mendota Road) to I-5 north / Shell Road – Mendota, Los Banos, Fresno		East end of SR 33 overlap
​26.81
Los Angeles
Interchange; I-5 exit 334
​34.66
Five Points, Huron
Kings
KIN 0.00-28.33		Lemoore Station3.01Lemoore NAS (Reeves Boulevard)
​West end of freeway
4.9973Stratford (Jackson Avenue)Eastbound signage
Avenal (Avenal Cutoff Road)Westbound signage
LemooreR8.9077 SR 41 – Lemoore, Paso Robles, Fresno
​7819th Avenue
R10.567918th Avenue, Lemoore Avenue –
Central Lemoore
​R12.1181Houston Avenue, D Street – Lemoore
ArmonaR14.778314th Avenue – Armona
R15.7584Hanford-Armona Road, 13th Avenue – Armona
HanfordR16.918512th Avenue
R17.918611th AvenueEastbound exit and westbound entrance
R18.387ARedington Street –
Central Hanford
Westbound exit and entrance
R18.5187Douty Street –
Central Hanford
No westbound exit
R18.9687B10th AvenueWestbound exit and eastbound entrance
​Short gap in freeway
R20.9889 SR 43 – Selma, Corcoran
​​East end of freeway
Tulare
TUL 0.00-44.16		​​West end of freeway
Los Angeles, Sacramento
Signed as exits 101A (south) and 101B (north) westbound; former US 99; SR 99 north exits 96-97, south exit 97
R4.80102Plaza Drive (
CR J19
)
5.76103Shirk Road
6.76104Akers Street
7.76105ADemaree Street
R8.75105B
 SR 63 south (Mooney Boulevard) – Tulare		West end of SR 63 overlap
R9.97107A
Central Visalia
East end of SR 63 overlap
R10.73107BBen Maddox Way – Woodlake
R11.72108
CR J15) – Visalia
Western terminus of SR 216
​R13.74110Road 156 – Ivanhoe
CR J23
)
​​East end of freeway
​R18.76
CR J27) – Exeter, Lindsay, Porterville
Northern terminus of SR 65 south segment
​R19.76
Kings Canyon
Southern terminus of SR 245
Lemon Cove27.96
 SR 216 west – Woodlake		Eastern terminus of SR 216
Sequoia National Park boundary44.16Generals HighwayEast end of SR 198; continuation beyond the Sequoia National Park boundary
1.000 mi = 1.609 km; 1.000 km = 0.621 mi
  1. ^ a b Indicates that the postmile represents the distance along SR 33 rather than SR 198.

See also

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References

  1. ^ a b c California Department of Transportation. "State Truck Route List". Sacramento: California Department of Transportation. Archived from the original (XLS file) on June 30, 2015. Retrieved June 30, 2015.
  2. ^ a b Google (21 July 2012). "State Route 198" (Map). Google Maps. Google. Retrieved 21 July 2012.
  3. ^ Staff. "Directions – Sequoia & Kings Canyon National Parks". National Park Service. Retrieved 21 July 2012.
  4. ^ "Article 2 of Chapter 2 of Division 1". California Streets and Highways Code. Sacramento: California Office of Legislative Counsel. Retrieved February 6, 2019.
  5. ^ Federal Highway Administration (March 25, 2015). National Highway System: California (South) (PDF) (Map). Scale not given. Washington, DC: Federal Highway Administration. Retrieved September 16, 2017.
  6. ^ Natzke, Stefan; Neathery, Mike & Adderly, Kevin (June 20, 2012). "What is the National Highway System?". National Highway System. Washington, DC: Federal Highway Administration. Retrieved July 1, 2012.
  7. ^ "Article 2.5 of Chapter 2 of Division 1". California Streets & Highways Code. Sacramento: California Office of Legislative Counsel. Retrieved February 6, 2019.
  8. ^ California Department of Transportation (August 2019). "Officially Designated State Scenic Highways and Historic Parkways" (XLSX). Sacramento: California Department of Transportation. Retrieved September 16, 2017.
  9. ^ Howe & Peters, Engineers' Report to California State Automobile Association Covering the Work of the California Highway Commission for the Period 1911-1920, pp. 11-16
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  11. ^ California State Assembly. "An act to add Section 253 and Article 3 (commencing with Section 300) to Chapter 2 of Division 1 of, and to repeal Section 253 and Article 3 (commencing with Section 300) of Chapter 2 of Division 1 of, the..." 1963 Session of the Legislature. Statutes of California. State of California. Ch. 385 p. 1185.
  12. ^ California State Assembly. "An act to amend Sections 306, 320, 332, 351, 362, 365, 369, 374, 382, 388, 397, 407, 408, 409, 410, 415, 422, 435, 440, 446, 453, 456, 460, 467, 470, 476, 487, 492, 493, 494, 506, 521, 528, and 529..." 1959 Session of the Legislature. Statutes of California. State of California. Ch. 1062 p. 3112.: "Route 10 from Route 238 [I-5] near Coalinga to Sequoia National Park."
  13. ^ "Highway Route 198 East of Visalia Is Approved". Los Angeles Times. 20 January 1961. p. 27.
  14. Gross Domestic Product deflator
    figures follow the MeasuringWorth series.
  15. ^ "$13 Million Freeway Outlined". Los Angeles Times. 19 September 1958. p. 24. {{cite web}}: Missing or empty |url= (help)
  16. ^ California State Highways (Map). California Division of Highways. 1961.
  17. ^ California (Map). Shell Oil Company. 1965.
  18. ^ Eiman, Mark (December 19, 2012). "Caltrans celebrates Hanford Expressway opening". The Sentinel. Hanford, California. Retrieved December 19, 2012.
  19. ^ Nidever, Seth (September 7, 2013). "Road map for the future?". The Sentinel. Retrieved March 23, 2016.
  20. ^ California Department of Transportation (July 2007). "Log of Bridges on State Highways". Sacramento: California Department of Transportation.
  21. ^ California Department of Transportation, All Traffic Volumes on CSHS, 2005 and 2006
  22. California Numbered Exit Uniform System, State Route 198 Freeway Interchanges
    , Retrieved on 2009-02-07.

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