Arizona State Route 93
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| State Route 93 |
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| Existed: | 1946[2] – 1984[1] | ||||||||||||
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| South end: | United States-Mexico border in Nogales | ||||||||||||
| North end: |  US 66 in Kingman |
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State Route 93, also known as SR 93, is a former state highway in Arizona that existed from 1946 to 1984. One possible reason why the route was deleted was because it used other existing state routes along the majority of its route between Kingman and Noagles. (US 60, SR 87, SR 387, SR 84, US 89) and the Interstate system was being constructed in Arizona.
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[edit] Route description
The northern terminus of SR 93 was located in in Kingman. It followed present day U.S. Route 93 from Kingman southeastward to Wickenburg, Arizona. From Wickenburg it overlapped US 60 towards the southeast to Mesa, Arizona where SR 93 turned south and overlapped SR 87. It split off on its own on what is present day SR 587 to the south of Interstate 10. SR 93 continued south of I-10 along a present day Gila Indian route which but dead ends at a washout. Historically, SR 93 continued south beyond this point, but the rest of the road to Casa Grande is abandoned. It joined State Route 387 north of Casa Grande to State Route 84 and headed southeast to U.S. Route 89 in Tucson and continued south to Nogales.[3]
[edit] History
State Route 93 was a state highway in Arizona that existed from 1946 to 1985. The route was cosigned with other highways along nearly all of its route from Kingman to the border at Nogales. SR 93 was the original designation for the highway from Kingman to Wickenburg, which was built in 1946. At some point prior to 1964 the northern terminus of the SR 93 was moved south to the unnamed desert junction with US 89 just north of Wickenburg, and the southern terminus of US 93 was moved south to the U.S. 89 junction. At that junction a southbound driver would pass from US 93 onto SR 93. When US 89 was reduced to state highway status in the 1990s, US 93's southern terminus was moved south five miles to US 60 in Wickenburg.
At its original northern terminus in Kingman, State Route 93 branched off of US 66 (Andy Devine Avenue) at Louise Avenue, which is several miles east of where US 93 and US 466 branched northwest to Boulder City and Las Vegas. The old two-lane SR 93 headed east, south of and parallel to the new alignment of Interstate 40. It made a 90 degree turn to the south about 15 miles east of Kingman ... and when the Interstate was built a new 93 was built to connect with the new freeway at DW Ranch Rd. (I-40 exit 59). The old road turnoff from the current US 93 alignment is still apparent 4.9 miles south of the I-40/US 93 interchange.
From Wickenburg to the southeast, SR 93 was co-signed with US 60, US 70 and US 89 to Phoenix, via Grand Avenue. At Grand Avenue's terminus at Van Buren Street and Seventh Avenue (Five Points), the quartet of highways picked up US 80 from San Diego. The co-signing continued through Tempe on Mill Avenue and Apache Trail, and Mesa's Main Street (but (without B-10, which went south from Phoenix on 48th Street to join the freeway at Broadway Road.).
At downtown Mesa's Country Club Drive, SR 93 made a south turn and was co-signed with SR 87. About five miles south of Chandler, SR 87 forked off to the southeast and SR 93 had its own unshared road south about 30 miles south to Casa Grande. But the middle section of this road was abandoned when it was overlapped by the adjacent I-10 freeway in 1970. The old road continues a bit south of I-10's Casa Blanca Road interchange as a Gila Indian road, but dead ends and is blocked by a canal built in the 1980s. The rest of the road to its junction with existing SR 387 is abandoned - the abandoned stub road can be seen forking to the northwest from 387 just south of the interstate's overpass.
When SR 93 was delisted, the road from Route 87 south of Chandler down to the 10 interchange at Casa Blanca Road was numbered State Route 587. The southern stub of old 93, from I-10 to downtown Casa Grande, was posted State Route 387.
From Casa Grande southeast, SR 93 overlapped State Route 84 parallel to the Southern Pacific tracks through Eloy to Picacho, where SR 84 (and SR 87 coming in from Coolidge) both terminated at the junction just north of the old railroad overpass (State Route 84 now terminates in Casa Grande).
SR 93 was cosigned with I-10 to Miracle Mile in Tucson, was cosigned with Business Loop 10 on Miracle Mile West (now the southern-most leg of SR 77]. and then cosigned again with US 80, US 89 and SR 789 from north of downtown Tucson south to South Tucson, and was co-signed with US 89 and SR 789 to the Grand Avenue border gate in Nogales. The 1960-era highway exists nearly unchanged from Tucson to Green Valley, east of the new Interstate 19 in Tubac and Amado, and in Nogales.
SR 93 was co-signed with all of those highways, including I-10 and I-19, until it was eliminated in 1985.
[edit] References
- ^ Arizona Department of Transportation. ADOT Right-of-Way Resolutions 1984-12-A-083, 1984-12-A-084, 1984-12-A-085, 1984-12-A-086. Retrieved on 2008-04-28.
- ^ Arizona Department of Transportation. ADOT Right-of-Way Resolutions 1946-P-041. Retrieved on 2008-04-28.
- ^ Rand McNally. Road Map of Arizona [map]. (1961)
