Oklahoma State Highway 115
Route information | ||||
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Maintained by ODOT | ||||
Length | 57.2 mi (92.1 km) | |||
Existed | 1957[1]–present | |||
Major junctions | ||||
South end | US 62 northwest of Cache | |||
SH-9 in Mountain View | ||||
North end | SH-152 north of Cowden | |||
Location | ||||
Country | United States | |||
State | Oklahoma | |||
Highway system | ||||
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State Highway 115 (abbreviated SH-115 or OK-115) is a 57.2 mile[2] (92 km) long state highway in western Oklahoma, passing through Comanche, Kiowa, and Washita Counties as well as the Wichita Mountains Wildlife Refuge. The highway has no lettered spur routes.
Most of the highway was established in 1957 as a gravel roadway. Between then and 1967, it was gradually paved. A portion of the highway through the Wichita Mountains was removed from the route in the mid-1960s, but was re-added in 1984.
Route description
State Highway 115 begins at an interchange with
After leaving the refuge, SH-115 passes through the town of
Approximately 3 miles (4.8 km) north of Mountain View, SH-115 turns east for one-mile (1.6 km) before resuming a due north course. The highway bridges Spring Creek, a tributary of the Washita River, then curves to the northeast. After turning back to the north, the road passes through
History
The first portion of what would become SH-115 was added to the state highway system in 1939 as part of SH-49. At this time, SH-49 began at US-62 in Cache proper (US-62 had not yet been shifted to the freeway north of town), entered the Wichita Mountains National Wildlife Refuge, then emerged near Medicine Park and followed the remainder of SH-49's present day routing.[4]
The majority of SH-115, the entire extent from the SH-49 junction in the National Wildlife Refuge to Cowden Junction, was commissioned in 1957. As originally added to the system, only the portion of highway between the northern SH-19 junction and the Washita River bridge was paved. The remainder of the route, comprising the entirety of its route within Comanche and Washita Counties, was gravel.[1] The section of SH-49 connecting to Cache to the refuge was renumbered to be part of SH-115 in 1962, giving the highway the same basic routing that it has today.[5] The remaining gravel portions of highway were paved between 1965 and 1967.[6]
In 1964, the portion of gravel roadway through the Wichita Mountains between Meers and the Comanche–Kiowa County line was removed from SH-115.[7] The SH-115 designation would not be restored to this section of highway until 1984, by which time it had been paved.[8]
Junction list
County | Location | mi[2] | km | Destinations | Notes |
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Comanche | Cache | 0.0 | 0.0 | US 62 | Southern terminus; diamond interchange |
Wichita Mtns. NWR | 4.8 | 7.7 | SH-49 west | Southern end of SH-49 concurrency | |
8.1 | 13.0 | SH-49 east | Northern end of SH-49 concurrency | ||
Kiowa | | 26.7 | 43.0 | SH-19 west | Southern end of SH-19 concurrency |
| 27.7 | 44.6 | SH-19 east | Northern end of SH-19 concurrency | |
| 41.2 | 66.3 | SH-9 east – Anadarko | Southern end of SH-9 concurrency | |
Mountain View | 42.4 | 68.2 | SH-9 west – Gotebo, Hobart | Northern end of SH-9 concurrency | |
Cordell, Binger | Northern terminus | ||||
1.000 mi = 1.609 km; 1.000 km = 0.621 mi
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References
- ^ a b 1958 Oklahoma Road Map (PDF) (Map). Oklahoma Department of Highways. Retrieved 2011-02-11.
- ^ a b c d e Stuve, Eric. "OK-115". OKHighways.com.[self-published source]
- ^ a b c d Oklahoma Atlas and Gazetteer (Map). 1:200,000. DeLorme. 2006.
- ^ Map Showing Condition of Improvement of the State Highway System (PDF) (Map) (April 1940 ed.). Oklahoma Department of Highways. Retrieved 2011-02-11.
- ^ Oklahoma 1963 (PDF) (Map). Oklahoma Department of Highways. Retrieved 2011-02-11.
- ^ Oklahoma-1967 (PDF) (Map). Oklahoma Department of Highways. Retrieved 2011-02-11.
- ^ Oklahoma-1965 (PDF) (Map). Oklahoma Department of Highways. Retrieved 2011-02-11.
- ^ Official State Map (PDF) (Map) (1985 ed.). Oklahoma Department of Transportation. Retrieved 2011-02-11.
- ^ Oklahoma Atlas and Gazetteer (Map). 1:200,000. DeLorme. 2006. p. 50. § 10I.