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Texas state line west of Erick: Arkansas state line west of Fort Smith, Arkansas: 1959: current I-42: 166: 267 I-35 in Noble County, Oklahoma: Arkansas state line in Siloam Springs, Arkansas: proposed — Future Interstate I-44: 328.53: 528.72 Texas state line north of Burkburnett, Tex. Missouri state line west of Joplin, Mo. 1964: current
The overwhelming majority of roads in the United States are owned and maintained by state and local governments. Federally maintained roads are generally found only on federal lands (such as national parks) and at federal facilities (like military bases). The Interstate Highway System is partly funded by the federal government but owned and ...
Interstate and U.S. Highways are continuous with surrounding states, while state highways are not (though Oklahoma and another state's department of transportation may coordinate numbering). The majority of the numbered highways within Oklahoma are maintained by the Oklahoma Department of Transportation (ODOT).
Texas state line in Texhoma: Kansas state line northeast of Tyrone: 1926: current US 56: 71.17 [4] 114.54 New Mexico state line southwest of Felt: Kansas state line south of Elkhart, Kan. 1956: current US 59: 216.47 [5] 348.37 Arkansas state line southeast of Page: Kansas state line north of Welch: 1935: current US 60: 352.39 [6] 567.12
Interstate Highways financed with federal funds are known as "chargeable" Interstate routes, and are considered part of the 42,000-mile (68,000 km) network of highways. Federal laws also allow "non-chargeable" Interstate routes, highways funded similarly to state and US Highways to be signed as Interstates, if they both meet the Interstate ...
The highway system of the United States is a network of interconnected state, U.S., and Interstate highways. Each of the fifty states, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, American Samoa, Guam, the Northern Mariana Islands, and the U.S. Virgin Islands own and maintain a part of this vast system, including U.S. and Interstate highways, which are not owned or maintained at the federal level.
The Federal Aid Road Act of 1916 was the first law to fund federal highways, and several Federal-Aid Highway Acts were passed through the 20th century to build on this law. [ 10 ] [ 11 ] The Federal-Aid Highway Act of 1944 authorized the construction of interstate highways , and the federal government set standards with input from state ...
In 1918, Wisconsin became the first state to number its highways in the field followed by Michigan the following year. [1] In 1926 the American Association of State Highway Officials (AASHO) established and numbered interstate routes (United States Numbered Highways), selecting the best roads in each state that could be connected to provide a national network of federal highways.