Talk:History of state highways in Virginia

Eventual fate of the two-digit routes

 * State Route 1 (Virginia 1918-1923), State Route 31 (Virginia 1923-1933), replaced by U.S. Routes
 * State Route 2 (Virginia 1918-1923), State Route 32 (Virginia 1923-1933), replaced by U.S. Routes
 * State Route 3 (Virginia 1918-1923), State Route 33 (Virginia 1923-1933), replaced by U.S. Routes
 * State Route 4 (Virginia 1918-1923), State Route 34 (Virginia 1923-1933), replaced by U.S. Routes
 * State Route 5 (Virginia 1918-1923), State Route 35 (Virginia), still exists
 * State Route 6 (Virginia 1918-1923), State Route 36 (Virginia 1923-1933), replaced by U.S. Routes
 * State Route 7 (Virginia 1918-1923), State Route 37 (Virginia 1923-1933), State Route 3 (Virginia) (mostly - why?) still exists
 * State Route 8 (Virginia 1918-1923), State Route 38 (Virginia 1923-1933), mostly replaced by U.S. Routes and extensions
 * State Route 9 (Virginia 1918-1923), State Route 39 (Virginia 1923-1933), mostly replaced by U.S. Routes
 * State Route 10 (Virginia) still exists
 * State Route 11 (Virginia 1918-1933), State Route 64 (Virginia 1933-1940), State Route 70 (Virginia) still exists (though it disappeared for a bit)
 * State Route 12 (Virginia 1918-1933), mostly replaced by U.S. Routes
 * State Route 13 (Virginia) still exists (but shouldn't)
 * State Route 14 (Virginia 1918-1933), replaced by U.S. Routes
 * State Route 15 (Virginia 1923-1933), replaced by U.S. Routes and extensions
 * State Route 16 (Virginia 1918-1940), State Route 27 (Virginia 1940-1953), eliminated
 * State Route 17 (Virginia 1918-1933), replaced by several routes
 * State Route 18 (Virginia 1918-1933), mostly replaced by U.S. Routes
 * State Route 19 (Virginia 1918-1933), State Route 6 (Virginia) still exists
 * State Route 20 (Virginia 1918-1933), State Route 40 (Virginia) (why?) still exists
 * State Route 21 (Virginia 1918-1933), replaced by U.S. Routes
 * State Route 22 (Virginia 1918-1933), replaced by U.S. Route extensions
 * State Route 23 (Virginia 1918-1933), State Route 8 (Virginia) still exists
 * State Route 24 (Virginia 1918-1933), replaced by U.S. Routes
 * State Route 25 (Virginia 1918-1933), State Route 9 (Virginia 1933-1940), State Route 123 (Virginia) (mostly) still exists
 * State Route 26 (Virginia 1918-1933), replaced by U.S. Routes
 * State Route 27 (Virginia 1918-1940), State Route 170 (Virginia 1940), absorbed by SR 168
 * State Route 28 (Virginia) still exists
 * State Route 29 (Virginia 1923-1933), State Route 14 (Virginia) still exists
 * State Route 30 (Virginia) still exists
 * State Route 40 (Virginia 1923-1933), replaced by U.S. Routes
 * State Route 41 (Virginia 1923-1933), State Route 5 (Virginia) (why?) still exists
 * State Route 42 (Virginia) still exists
 * State Route 43 (Virginia 1928-1933), split up
 * State Route 44 (Virginia 1928-1933), replaced by U.S. Routes and part of SR 49
 * State Route 45 (Virginia) still exists
 * State Route 46 (Virginia 1928-1933), absorbed by SR 16
 * State Route 47 (Virginia 1928), absorbed by SR 48
 * State Route 47 (Virginia 1930-1933), State Route 97 (Virginia) still exists
 * State Route 48 (Virginia 1928), absorbed by SR 40
 * State Route 49 (Virginia) still exists
 * State Route 50 (Virginia 1928-1933), State Route 2 (Virginia) still exists
 * State Route 51 (Virginia 1928-1950), eliminated
 * State Route 52 (Virginia 1928-1933), replaced by U.S. Routes
 * State Route 53 (Virginia 1928-1933), absorbed by SR 30
 * State Route 54 (Virginia 1928-1933), State Route 7 (Virginia) (mostly - why?) still exists
 * State Route 55 (Virginia) still exists
 * State Route 56 (Virginia) still exists
 * State Route 57 (Virginia) still exists
 * State Route 58 (Virginia pre-1933), State Route 94 (Virginia) still exists
 * State Route 59 (Virginia pre-1933), absorbed by SR 49

1918 map
07-1922-01 has a map at the end, labeled Proposed "State Highway System" for Virginia, as Recommended by the State Roads Committee, January, 1918. Routes are split into primary and secondary. Numbers are not given; some I give here are post-1923. Concurrencies that are known to have existed are not shown.
 * 1 primary NC (Virgilina) - DC
 * 2 primary Wylliesburg - MD
 * 3 primary NC - WV (northeast of Winchester)
 * 4 primary Cape Charles - MD
 * 5 primary Courtland - Petersburg
 * 6 primary WV - DC
 * 7 primary Winchester - Reedville
 * 8 primary Fredericksburg - Mathews
 * 9 primary WV (west of Monterey) - Hampton
 * 9 primary? Williamsburg - Jamestown
 * 9 primary? Williamsburg - Yorktown - Shacklefords (07-1921-03 3-4 groups it as Gloucester Point to Saluda)
 * 9 primary?? West Point? - Saluda
 * unknown (post-1928 605) secondary? Burgess - White Stone?
 * 10 primary KY or TN (Cumberland Gap) - Virginia Beach
 * 106 primary Abington - Dickensonville?
 * 11 primary Pennington Gap - WV
 * 11Z/114 secondary Coeburn - Grundy
 * 1141 secondary Clintwood - KY
 * 12 primary Meadowview - Suffolk
 * 12Z/15 secondary NC - Wytheville
 * 13 primary Farmville - Richmond, secondary Richmond - Tappahannock
 * 14 primary NC - WV
 * 15/331 secondary WV - Woodstock
 * 16 primary New Market - Madison Mills
 * 17 secondary Covington - Gordonsville
 * 18 secondary NC - Afton
 * 19 secondary Dixie - Richmond
 * 20 secondary Brookneal - Richmond
 * 21 secondary? Manassas? - DC
 * 22 secondary Salem - WV
 * 23 secondary Meadows of Dan - WV
 * 24 secondary NC - Emporia
 * 25 ? (04-1922-01 18 has SR 25 in Manassas, with SR 21 still going via Vienna and the Chain Bridge, but earlier stuff has SR 21 there)
 * 26 secondary Pulaski - Bland (numbered 26 by 11-1921-02 17)
 * 27 NC - Norfolk (numbered 27 by 04-1921-02)

39 has a rather strange routing east of Richmond. --NE2 20:17, 17 August 2006 (UTC)

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