U.S. Route 231 in Florida

U.S. Highway 231
U.S. Highway 231
Route information
	Maintained by FDOT
Length	66.591 mi (107.168 km)
Existed	1926–present
Major junctions
South end	6th Street in Panama City;
	US 98 in Panama City; SR 20 near Fountain; SR 8 / US 90 in Cottondale;
North end	SR 1 near Campbellton
Location
Country	United States
State	Florida
Counties	Bay, Jackson
Highway system
	United States Numbered Highway System; List; Special; Divided; Florida State Highway System; Interstate; US; State Former; Pre‑1945; ; Toll; Scenic;

U.S. Route 231 (US 231) in

United States Highway. It runs 52 miles (84 km) from Panama City north to the Alabama State Line in Bay and Jackson Counties

. The entire route is also unsigned State Road 75 (SR 75), and is a four-lane highway throughout the state whether the road is divided or not.

Route description

Panama City and Bay County

U.S. Route 231 begins its northward journey in

County Road 2321 (formerly SR 77A). Still along the same trajectory, it has a short concurrency with County Road 2293 between Titus Road and John Pitts Road, the latter of the two which also contains County Road 2315 (former State Road 719

).

The road and the tracks cross bridges over

County Road 167 (formerly State Road 167) in Betts. CR 167 provides one last chance to enter neighboring Calhoun County

. All other intersections at this point are local streets and dirt roads. The road moves northeast as it inches closer to the Bay-Calhoun County Line, but instead crosses the Bay-Jackson County Line just north of a power line right-of-way.

Jackson County

Whereas US 231 runs along the northeastern edge of Bay-Calhoun County Line as it left Bay County, it runs along the western edge of the Washington-Jackson County Line county as it enters Jackson County. What would appear to be a former segment of the road can be found between Freeman Road and Lakepoint Road, as it curves far away from Compass Lake, only to run along the east side of the same A&SAB railroad line it ran along the west side of in most of Bay County. The north end of Lakepoint Road can be found at the shared intersection with Pikes Pond Road. North of there, the road moves away from the tracks again near a side road and former segment called "Blossom Loop" on the southbound side and enters

County Road 280

(Corbin Road), which leads into Washington County.

A surprisingly unusual full traffic signal can be found at the intersection of Green Circle Parkway, formerly Farren Ranch Road, a local street converted to the entrance to the

County Road 169

then US 231 becomes a divided highway north of the city limits and curves to the northeast again.

After an intersection with the entrance to a trailer park along the southbound lane, the road encounters two intersections with

County Road 162 (Main Street/Jacob Road), and opens up once again, although occasionally this farmland is interrupted by small random parcels of woodland. Between Misty Trail and New Bethel Road, Route 231 curves to the west where the divided highway ends just before another bridge over the A&SAB railroad line as it enters Campbellton. Returning to ground level, the road then curves north as it approaches State Road 273. and a former section of State Road 2, both of which have local extensions cut off on the opposite sides of the intersections^[6] that were cut off at Route 231 and converted into dead end streets. Merely yards later in front of a large farm and feed warehouse, the road intersects State Road 2

, the northwest corner of which contains the local post office.

North of Campbellton, the road divides again for one last time north of Dothan Street as it curves around the west bank of Brantley Pond then returns to the same alignment after the intersection of Rambo Road. Though a

Alabama State Route 1

.

Major intersections

County	Location	mi^[1]	km	Destinations	Notes
Bay	Panama City	0.000	0.000	6th Street and Harrison Avenue	Southern terminus of US 231
		0.620	0.998	CR 28 (11th Street)
		1.124	1.809	SR 30A ) – Beaches
		1.164	1.873	SR 391 north (Harrison Avenue) – Junior Museum of Bay County
		1.938	3.119	SR 77 (Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard) – Lynn Haven, Chipley, BMC Gooding Institute
		2.644	4.255	SR 368 west (23rd Street)
	CR 389 north (East Avenue) – Lynn Haven, Cedar Grove
	CR 389 north (East Avenue) – Lynn Haven, Cedar Grove	4.043	6.507	CR 2312 west (Baldwin Road)
		5.225	8.409	Tyndall AFB, Mexico Beach
	College Station	7.434	11.964	SR 390 west – Lynn Haven
	College Station	7.529	12.117	CR 2321 north – Deer Point Dam
		9.038	14.545	CR 2293 west (Titus Road)
		9.115	14.669	CR 2315 south (Star Avenue)
	Bayou George	10.426	16.779	CR 2301 north
	CR 388 west
		25.223	40.592	SR 20 – Ebro, Clarksville, Panama City Beach, Beaches, Dog Track
	CR 167 north – Panama Beach Raceway, Florida Caverns State Park
Jackson		35.630	57.341	Lake Point Road - Compass Lake	former US 231 / SR 75
		39.463	63.510	Lake Point Road - Compass Lake	former US 231 / SR 75
	CR 1656 east (Third Avenue)
	CR 1656 east (Third Avenue)	44.086	70.950	CR 276 west (Park Avenue)	south end of CR 276 overlap
	CR 276 east (Kynesville Road) – Marianna, Florida Caverns State Park	north end of CR 276 overlap
		46.138	74.252	CR 280 west (Corbin Road)
		48.013	77.269	I-10 (SR 8) – Pensacola, Tallahassee	Exit 130 (I-10)
	Falling Waters State Recreation Area
	Falling Waters State Recreation Area	51.871	83.478	CR 169 north (Peanut Road) – Graceville
		54.824	88.231	SR 73 south – Marianna, Florida Caverns State Park
		58.259	93.759	CR 162 – Jacob City, Greenwood, NFREC-Marianna Beef Unit and Bull Test
	Campbellton	63.104	101.556	SR 273 south – Chipley
	Campbellton	63.191	101.696	SR 2 – Graceville, Malone
	SR 1) – Dothan	Alabama state line
1.000 mi = 1.609 km; 1.000 km = 0.621 mi Concurrency terminus

History

US 231 was established in Florida in 1926, but the original southern terminus was in Marianna where the west end of the US 90/SR 73 concurrency is today. This would change in 1954 when it was rerouted to Panama City.

Beginning in 1956, signs for U.S. Highways in Florida had different colors for each highway. The shield for US 231 was yellow with black lettering and a white outline, until the state was forced by the federal government to conform to standards that required consistent black-and-white signs in 1993.

In the 1990s and early 21st century, residents of Dothan, Alabama across the state line sought to transform US 231 into a spur of an interstate highway. This same proposal also included the upgrading of US 231 in Florida. The proposal was never implemented.