U.S. Highway 59

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United States Highway 59 is a north-south United States highway (though it is signed east-west in parts of Texas). A latecomer to the US numbered route system, US 59 is now a border-to-border route. It parallels U.S. Highway 75 for nearly its entire route, never much more than 100 miles away, until it veers southwest in Houston, Texas.

In Houston, residents often refer to highways by name. To the north, US 59 is the Eastex Freeway. To the south, the Southwest Freeway.

Contents 1 Termini 2 Historic termini 3 Business U.S. Highway 59 4 Alternate routes 5 States traversed 6 Related US Routes 7 Notes 8 Sources and external links

Termini

As of 2004, the highway's northern terminus is 9 miles north of Lancaster, Minnesota at the Canadian border, where it continues as Provincial Highway 59. Its southern terminus is in Laredo, Texas at an intersection with Interstate 35 and U.S. Highway 83, just short of the Mexican border.

Historic termini

From 1934 to 1935, the US 59 designation referred to a 50-mile-long route across southeastern Minnesota, from Lake City, Minnesota to the Iowa border just short of Chester, Iowa. That entire route is now part of U.S. Highway 63, and nowhere close to the present US 59, established in 1935.

Business U.S. Highway 59

• Texarkana Texas (decommissioned)
• Carthage, Texas
• Nacodoches, Texas
• Lufkin, Texas

Alternate routes

Though it is not signed as an Alternate US Route, Arkansas State Highway 59 parallels US 59 between Siloam Springs and Fort Smith. US 59 and U.S. Highway 412 are co-signed in Oklahoma for 10 miles, then US 59 turns south right at the Arkansas border. One mile into Arkansas, AR 59 also turns south from US 412. US 59 bears east to Sallisaw, Oklahoma, while AR 59 hugs the border to Fort Smith. From there, the official US 59 is 10 miles west down U.S. Highway 271 (in Oklahoma), or 60 miles south down U.S. Highway 71 (at Mena, Arkansas).

States traversed

The highway passes through the following states:

• Minnesota
• Iowa
• Missouri
• Kansas
• Oklahoma
• Arkansas (with U.S. Highway 270 from the Oklahoma State Line to Acorn and U.S. Highway 71 from Acorn to Interstate 30 at Texarkana.
• Texas

Related US Routes

• U.S. Highway 159
• U.S. Highway 259
• List of United States Highways

Notes

• US-59 originally crossed into North Dakota from Pembina until the early 1950's.
• A large portion of US-59 is proposed to become part of the future extension of Interstate 69 through Texas.

Sources and external links

• Endpoints of US highways: US 59 (I) and US 59 (II) (used with permission)

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