New York State Route 430
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| NY Route 430 |
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| Senator Jess J. Present Memorial Highway | |||||||||||||
| Length: | 38.49 mi[1] (61.94 km) | ||||||||||||
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| Formed: | 1930s[2] (1930 as NY 75[3]) | ||||||||||||
| West end: |  PA 430 at Mina |
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| Major junctions: |
 NY 76 in Sherman NY 394 in Mayville  I-86 / NY 17 in Bemus Point |
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| East end: |  NY 60 in Jamestown |
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| Counties: | Chautauqua | ||||||||||||
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New York State Route 430, also known as Senator Jess J. Present Memorial Highway,[4] is a state highway located entirely within Chautauqua County, New York. Its western terminus is located at the Pennsylvania stateline near the hamlet of Findley Lake in the town of Mina. The eastern terminus is located in the city of Jamestown at the junction with NY 60 (North Main Street).
Municipalities NY 430 runs through include (from west-to-east) the village of Sherman, the village of Mayville, the hamlet of Maple Springs, the village of Bemus Point, and the city of Jamestown.
Besides NY 60, NY 430 intersects with NY 76 (in Sherman) and NY 394 (in Mayville).
I-86/NY 17 is intersected multiple times: in Sherman via NY 76, twice in Bemus Point (once by way of a short expressway designated unsigned New York State Route 954J, part of the former alignment of NY 17 around Chautauqua Lake and also via an interchange located southwest of NY 954J), and in Jamestown via Strunk Road. NY 430 also runs along the eastside of Chautauqua Lake, and services both Long Point State Park and Midway Park.
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[edit] Route description
West of Mayville, NY 430 is a largely rural route connecting Erie, Pennsylvania, (via Pennsylvania Route 430) to Mayville via Sherman; however, east of Mayville, the route is a primary arterial serving the northern and eastern shores of Chautauqua Lake.
[edit] Western Chautauqua County
NY 430 begins at the Pennsylvania state line in rural western Chautauqua County as a continuation of Pennsylvania Route 430, which begins roughly 13 miles (21 km) to the west in Erie. The route proceeds eastward through the westernmost portion of the town of Mina to the hamlet of Findley Lake, a small community located at the northern tip of the lake of the same name, where NY 430 briefly overlaps with NY 426 through the community. While NY 426 leaves NY 430 to follow the eastern edge of the lake southward toward French Creek, NY 430 continues to the northeast, passing through the hamlet of Mina and over the Southern Tier Expressway (Interstate 86/NY 17) on its way to the town of Sherman and the village of the same name.
Within the village of Sherman, NY 430 becomes Main Street and intersects NY 76 west of the village center. The two routes overlap for a single block before separating at the heart of the village, with NY 76 continuing southward to an interchange with the Southern Tier Expressway just outside of the village and, farther south, to its southern terminus at NY 474 in Clymer. NY 430, however, exits Sherman to the east before turning northward to parallel an old railroad bed northward into the town of Chautauqua. At the hamlet of Summerville, NY 430 curves to the northeast, generally following the former rail line into Mayville, a village situated at the northwestern tip of Chautauqua Lake. In the center of the village, NY 430 intersects NY 394 at an intersection that once was the eastern terminus of NY 430. Now, however, NY 430 continues northeast past NY 394 and out of Mayville.
[edit] Chautauqua Lake
East of Mayville, NY 430 parallels the northern and eastern shoreline of Chautauqua Lake, providing access to several lakeside residences and communities along the route. Roughly halfway down the length of the lake in Ellery, NY 430 passes both Midway State Park, a local amusement park, and Long Point State Park. South of Long Point, NY 430, a two-lane undivided roadway up to this point, becomes a limited-access highway as it approaches Bemus Point. NY 430 exits from the road soon after while the expressway heads south as NY 954J for another 1.62 miles (2.61 km) to exit 10 on the Southern Tier Expressway.[5]
NY 430, once more a surface road, heads southwest on Lakeside Drive to Bemus Point, a village located at the narrowest point of Chautauqua Lake between Mayville and Jamestown. Due to the narrow width of the lake at Bemus Point, a ferry once ran from the end of Lakeside Drive to the Harmony hamlet of Stow; however, it has since been replaced with the Chautauqua Lake Bridge on the Southern Tier Expressway farther south. NY 430, however, turns southeast at Main Street and interchanges with the aforementioned expressway at the eastern end of the Chautauqua Lake Bridge near the southern edge of Bemis Point. Past the exit, NY 430 parallels both the Southern Tier Expressway and Chautauqua Lake to Jamestown, where NY 430 meets I-86 and NY 17 one final time at exit 11 (via Strunk Road) before terminating at NY 60 (North Main Street) north of downtown.
[edit] History
When state highways in New York were first signed in 1924, what is now NY 430 between Mayville and Jamestown was designated as part of NY 17.[6] This section of NY 17 was unchanged in the 1930 renumbering;[7] however, a previously unnumbered roadway leading from NY 17 in Mayville to Findley Lake via Sherman was designated as New York State Route 75.[3] By 1935, NY 75 had been renumbered to NY 430.[2]
NY 430 remained unchanged until the 1950s when the route was extended eastward to the Pennsylvania state line, where it then continued to Erie as Pennsylvania Route 430.[8][9] The route was later extended eastward to Jamestown in the late 1970s after NY 17 was rerouted onto the new Southern Tier Expressway from Bemus Point to Jamestown. Originally, NY 17 and NY 430 overlapped each other between Mayville and modern NY 954J;[10][11] the concurrency was eliminated in the early 1980s when the remainder of the expressway between Bemus Point and Findley Lake was completed.[12]
[edit] Major intersections
| County | Location | Mile[1] | Roads intersected | Notes |
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| Chautauqua | Mina | 0.00 | PA 430 |
Continuation into Pennsylvania |
| 1.27 |  NY 426 north |
Hamlet of Findley Lake; western terminus of overlap | ||
| 1.53 | NY 426 south |
Hamlet of Findley Lake; eastern terminus of overlap | ||
| Village of Sherman | 9.47 | NY 76 north |
Western terminus of overlap | |
| 9.57 |    NY 76 south to I-86 / NY 17 |
Eastern terminus of overlap | ||
| Mayville | 18.50 | NY 394 |
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| Bemus Point | 28.82 | I-86 / NY 17 via NY 954J |
Interchange | |
| 30.26 | I-86 west / NY 17 west |
Exit 9 (I-86/NY 17) | ||
| Jamestown | 36.61 | I-86 / NY 17 via Strunk Road |
Exit 11 (I-86/NY 17) | |
| 38.49 | NY 60 |
[edit] References
- ^ a b Traffic Data Report - NY 427 to NY 908F (PDF). NYSDOT (2007-07-16). Retrieved on 2008-02-02.
- ^ a b Sun Oil Company. Road Map & Historical Guide - New York [map]. Cartography by Rand McNally and Company. (1935)
- ^ a b Pennsylvania Department of Highways. Tourist Map of Pennsylvania [map]. (1930) Retrieved on 2008-02-11.
- ^ New York Law: Highway: State Routes: Portion of the state highway system to Be Designated the "Senator Jess J. Present Memorial Highway"
- ^ 2006 Traffic Data Report for New York State (PDF) p. 346. New York State Department of Transportation (2007-07-16). Retrieved on 2008-02-11.
- ^ "New York's Main Highways Designated by Numbers", New York Times, 1924-12-21, p. XX9.
- ^ Leon A. Dickinson. "New Signs for State Highways", New York Times, 1930-01-12, p. 136.
- ^ Sunoco. New York [map]. Cartography by Rand McNally and Company. (1952)
- ^ Pennsylvania Department of Highways. Official Map of Pennsylvania [map]. (1960) Retrieved on 2008-02-11.
- ^ Exxon. New York [map], 1977-78 edition. Cartography by General Drafting. (1977)
- ^ Pennsylvania Department of Transportation. Commonwealth of Pennsylvania Official Transportation Map [map]. (1980) Retrieved on 2008-02-11.
- ^ Rand McNally. New York [map]. (1985) ISBN 0-528-91040-X.
