New York State Route 251

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Victor
Location
CountryUnited States
StateNew York
CountiesMonroe, Ontario
Highway system
← NY 250→ NY 252

New York State Route 251 (NY 251) is an east–west

hamlet of Mendon within the town of the same name. The route, a two-lane, rural highway for much of its length, also intersects NY 15 and NY 64, two north–south highways leading to the Southern Tier and the Finger Lakes
, respectively. Two sections of the route—from south of Scottsville to Rush and from Mendon to western Victor—follow linear east–west alignments. All but 3 miles (5 km) of the route are located in Monroe County.

From 1911 to 1921, the north–south section of modern NY 251 near Scottsville was part of Route 15, an unsigned

NY 15 from 1924 to 1930. In the 1930 renumbering of state highways in New York, NY 251 was assigned to an alignment extending from Gates to Victor via Scottsville, utilizing modern NY 386
north of Scottsville and its current alignment east of the village. NY 251 was truncated to begin at NY 383 in Scottsville on July 1, 1977, at which time the former routing of NY 251 between Scottsville and Gates became part of an extended NY 386.

Route description

NY 251 running east at NY 15A of the town of Rush

NY 251 begins at an intersection with

grade crossing with the Livonia, Avon and Lakeville Railroad and the adjacent Rochester & Genesee Valley Railroad Museum.[3]

Just west of the Ontario County line on NY 251 eastbound in Mendon

Midway through the town of Rush, NY 251 widens from two to four lanes and meets

collector/distributor roads paralleling I-390 from NY 251 to NY 15. Past NY 15, the route reverts to a two-lane highway and veers southeast to parallel Honeoye Creek into the hamlet of Rush. Here, the route passes through a more populated area as it intersects NY 15A in the center of the community, at which point it becomes Rush–Mendon Road. NY 251 continues to follow Honeoye Creek through progressively less developed areas and into the town of Mendon, where the creek curves southward toward Honeoye Falls at Rochester Junction. The highway, however, turns northeastward to meet NY 65 at a roundabout. The northeasterly routing of NY 251 continues to Mendon Center, a small hamlet near the southern tip of Mendon Ponds Park, where it turns eastward once more.[3]

NY 251 continues across open fields to the densely populated hamlet of Mendon, where it has a junction with

grade crossing and ends at a junction with NY 96 northwest of the village of Victor.[3]

History

Reference marker
for NY 251 on NY 386 in Chili

The westernmost portion of what is now NY 251 between

NY 15.[8] In the 1930 renumbering of state highways in New York, NY 15 was rerouted between Victor and Pittsford to follow current NY 96. The former routing of NY 15 from Victor to Mendon became part of NY 251,[9] a new highway extending from NY 15 in Victor to NY 33 in Gates via Chili and Scottsville. West of Scottsville, NY 251 was routed on modern NY 383 and NY 386.[2][10]

From 1930

Greece prior to the change.[15]

Major intersections

CountyLocationmi[1]kmDestinationsNotes
MonroeScottsville0.000.00
 NY 383 (Main Street) to NY 386 – Rochester, Mumford		Western terminus
NY 940H)
Northern terminus of unsigned NY 940H; formerly part of NY 35
I-90 – Rochester, Avon
Exit 11 (I-390)
5.048.11
I-390
north		To I-390 north only signed westbound
6.3310.19 NY 15A (East Henrietta Road)
Mendon10.0316.14 NY 65 (Clover Street)Roundabout
13.9022.37 NY 64 (Mendon Road)Hamlet of Mendon
Town of Victor
17.7928.63
 NY 96 (Pittsford Victor Road) to New York Thruway		Eastern terminus
1.000 mi = 1.609 km; 1.000 km = 0.621 mi

See also

References

  1. ^ a b "2008 Traffic Data Report for New York State" (PDF). New York State Department of Transportation. June 16, 2009. p. 277. Retrieved January 10, 2010.
  2. ^ a b Dickinson, Leon A. (January 12, 1930). "New Signs for State Highways". The New York Times. p. 136.
  3. ^ a b c d Microsoft; Nokia (August 13, 2015). "overview map of NY 251" (Map). Bing Maps. Microsoft. Retrieved August 13, 2015.
  4. ^ New York State Department of Transportation (January 2017). Official Description of Highway Touring Routes, Bicycling Touring Routes, Scenic Byways, & Commemorative/Memorial Designations in New York State (PDF). Retrieved January 9, 2017.
  5. ^ State of New York Department of Highways (1909). The Highway Law. Albany, NY: J. B. Lyon Company. p. 59. Retrieved November 8, 2010.
  6. St. Paul, MN
    : West Publishing Company. p. 390. Retrieved July 31, 2009.
  7. ^ New York State Legislature (1921). "Tables of Laws and Codes Amended or Repealed". Laws of the State of New York passed at the One Hundred and Forty-Fourth Session of the Legislature. Albany, NY: J. B. Lyon Company. pp. 42, 56. Retrieved November 8, 2010.
  8. ^ "New York's Main Highways Designated by Numbers". The New York Times. December 21, 1924. p. XX9.
  9. ^
    1930 renumbering
  10. Standard Oil Company of New York
    . 1930.
  11. Standard Oil Company
    . 1937.
  12. ^ New York Road Map for 1938 (Map). Cartography by General Drafting. Esso. 1938.
  13. Shell Oil Company
    . 1940.
  14. ^ New York with Pictorial Guide (Map). Cartography by General Drafting. Esso. 1942.
  15. ^ New York State Department of Transportation (August 24, 1977). Description of Touring Routes in New York State for the Interstate (I), Federal (US) and State (NY) Route Number Systems.

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