New York State Route 318

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Seneca Falls
town line
Location
CountryUnited States
StateNew York
CountiesOntario, Seneca
Highway system
← NY 317→ NY 319
← NY 390NY 390A→ NY 391

New York State Route 318 (NY 318) is an east–west

Seneca Falls. All but 0.70 miles (1.13 km) of the 10.90-mile (17.54 km) route is located in Seneca County
.

The origins of NY 318 date back to the 19th century when the highway was part of a road connecting the village of Phelps to a bridge over the Seneca River near Cayuga Lake. It was mostly designated as Route 6-a, an unsigned legislative route, by the New York State Legislature in 1911. The section of Route 6-a from West Junius to Halsey Corners was designated as New York State Route 291 (west of Magee) and part of NY 89 (east of Magee) as part of the 1930 renumbering of state highways in New York. NY 291 was removed in the 1940s.

The alignments of NY 89 and NY 414 north of Seneca Falls were largely flipped in the 1950s, placing both highways on their modern alignments. Part of NY 89's former routing became a short-lived extension of New York State Route 390. All of NY 89's former routing from Magee to Halsey Corners was designated as NY 318 c. 1963. NY 318 was extended west to NY 14 in the 1970s over former NY 291.

Route description

NY 318 begins at an intersection with

toll barrier for New York State Thruway (I-90) exit 42. The route heads eastward, crossing the Norfolk Southern Railway Corning Secondary line before passing into Seneca County[4] a mere 0.70 miles (1.13 km) from NY 14.[1]

NY 318 as seen from NY 14 northbound

Now in the town of

outlet stores situated between NY 318 and the Thruway. Past the outlet mall, the route continues through largely rural surroundings to the community of Stone Church Corner, where it briefly curves to the northeast before veering back to the east as it enters the town of Tyre.[4]

Eastern terminus of NY 318

Roughly 0.5 miles (0.8 km) from the town line, NY 318 enters the hamlet of Magee, a small community centered around NY 318's junction with

Seneca Falls town line. NY 318 ends 1.35 miles (2.17 km) later at an intersection with US 20 and NY 5. The junction is only 0.1 miles (0.16 km) west of where US 20 and NY 5 meet NY 89 at Halsey Corners, a point just west of the Montezuma National Wildlife Refuge and northwest of Cayuga Lake.[4]

History

Origins

On April 16, 1825, the New York State Legislature passed an act permitting the construction of a "free bridge" over the Seneca River.[5] The bridge was ultimately constructed just north of Cayuga Lake near the site of the modern US 20 and NY 5 river crossing.[6] A road was later built to connect the bridge to the village of Phelps by way of West Junius and Magee. The highway became known as the "free bridge state road".[7] In 1908, the portion of the road from the free bridge to Halsey Corners was included as part of Route 6, an unsigned legislative route defined by the New York State Legislature as beginning in Buffalo and ending in Albany.[8] The remainder of the old free bridge highway was designated as Route 6-a in 1911.[7]

NY 318 at NY 414 in Magee. This intersection was the original western terminus of NY 318.

When the first set of posted routes in

Capital District. The remainder of the old highway—namely Route 6-a from West Junius to Halsey Corners—did not initially receive a designation.[9]

Designations

The entirety of old Route 6-a between West Junius and Halsey Corners was assigned a designation as part of the

village of Seneca Falls and NY 89 east of Magee, was assigned NY 390.[10] In the mid-1930s, the portion of Gravel Road between US 20 and NY 5 and NY 89 was designated as NY 390A. The route was a spur route of NY 390 in name only as NY 390A never connected to NY 390.[12][13] The NY 291 designation was deleted in the early 1940s.[14][15]

The alignments of NY 89 and NY 414 north of

CR 101 (Gravel Road), respectively.[22]

Major intersections

CountyLocationmi[1]kmDestinationsNotes
I-90 Toll / New York Thruway – Buffalo, Albany
Western terminus; exit 42 (I-90 / Thruway)
Hamlet
of West Junius
SenecaTyre6.7910.93
 NY 414 to New York Thruway – Waterloo, Seneca Falls, Clyde		Hamlet of Magee
CR 101
)		Former northern terminus of NY 390A; hamlet of Nichols Corners
10.9017.54
 US 20 / NY 5 to NY 89 – Auburn, Seneca Falls, Montezuma National Wildlife Refuge		Eastern terminus; hamlet of Halsey Corners
1.000 mi = 1.609 km; 1.000 km = 0.621 mi

See also

References

  1. ^ a b c "2008 Traffic Data Report for New York State" (PDF). New York State Department of Transportation. June 16, 2009. pp. 292–293. Retrieved December 9, 2009.
  2. ^
    Rand McNally and Company. Sinclair Oil Corporation
    . 1962.
  3. ^ a b New York Happy Motoring Guide (Map) (1963 ed.). Cartography by General Drafting. Esso. 1963.
  4. ^ a b c Microsoft; Nokia (November 1, 2015). "overview map of NY 318" (Map). Bing Maps. Microsoft. Retrieved November 1, 2015.
  5. ^ New York State Legislature (1825). Laws of the State of New York passed at the Forty-Eighth Session of the Legislature. E. Croswell. p. 277. Retrieved June 16, 2009.
  6. ^ Automobile Blue Book. Vol. 1. Automobile Blue Book Publishing Co. 1919. p. 696. Retrieved June 16, 2009.
  7. ^ a b State of New York Commission of Highways (1919). The Highway Law. Albany, NY: J. B. Lyon Company. p. 73. Retrieved June 16, 2009.
  8. ^ State of New York Department of Highways (1909). The Highway Law. Albany, NY: J. B. Lyon Company. p. 57. Retrieved June 16, 2009.
  9. ^ "New York's Main Highways Designated by Numbers". The New York Times. December 21, 1924. p. XX9.
  10. ^
    Standard Oil Company of New York
    . 1930.
  11. 1930 renumbering
  12. Texas Oil Company
    . 1934.
  13. Standard Oil Company
    . 1936.
  14. Shell Oil Company
    . 1940.
  15. ^ New York with Pictorial Guide (Map). Cartography by General Drafting. Esso. 1942.
  16. ^ New York with Special Maps of Putnam–Rockland–Westchester Counties and Finger Lakes Region (Map) (1958 ed.). Cartography by General Drafting. Esso. 1958.
  17. Gulf Oil Company
    . 1960.
  18. ^ New York and Metropolitan New York (Map) (1961–62 ed.). Cartography by H.M. Gousha Company. Sunoco. 1961.
  19. ^ New York (Map). Cartography by Rand McNally and Company. Mobil. 1965.
  20. ^ New York (Map) (1969–70 ed.). Cartography by General Drafting. Esso. 1968.
  21. ^ "Waterloo trustees must decide on street". Finger Lakes Times. January 15, 1985. p. 9. Retrieved April 21, 2017.
  22. ^ Seneca Falls Digital Raster Quadrangle (Map). 1:24,000. New York State Department of Transportation. 1978. Retrieved June 16, 2009.

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