New York State Route 436
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| NY Route 436 |
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| Length: | 23.80 mi[1] (38.30 km) | ||||||||||||
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| Formed: | 1972[2][3] | ||||||||||||
| West end: |  NY 39 in Lamont |
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| East end: |  NY 36 in Dansville |
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| Counties: | Wyoming, Livingston | ||||||||||||
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New York State Route 436 is an east-west state highway in western New York, USA. The eastern terminus is at New York State Route 36 in the Village of Dansville. The western terminus is in the Pike hamlet of Lamont, where it ends at New York State Route 39.
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NY 436 runs for 23.8 miles across Wyoming and Livingston counties, linking NY 36 and NY 39, both major arterials through Western New York and the Southern Tier. The route also passes through Letchworth State Park near its southern tip.
[edit] Wyoming County
In the hamlet of Lamont, NY 436 breaks from NY 39, proceeding east on County Route 38 for a short distance to New York State Route 19A. NY 436 turns south onto the route, forming a concurrency with NY 19A around the western and southern edges of Letchworth State Park before entering the park near Portageville. NY 19A and NY 436 exit the park outside of Portageville, remaining concurrent for another 125 yards before splitting on the western edge of Portageville. NY 19A takes the southern path out of town, paralleling the Genesee River as it travels southward while NY 436 turns east into the hamlet.
NY 436 occupies the northernmost road in Portageville between NY 19A and Main Street, where NY 436 abruptly turns north and crosses the Genesee River gorge, reentering Letchworth State Park and passing into Livingston County in the process.
[edit] Livingston County
The route roughly parallels the southern extent of the park as it turns a full 180 degrees to mirror the alignment of the nearby Genesee River. Near the point where the route takes on a southeasterly alignment, NY 439 passes under the Norfolk Southern Southern Tier Line.
Shortly after exiting the park, NY 436 straightens out and takes an easterly alignment to an intersection west of the Portage hamlet of Oakland, where the road meets the northern terminus of New York State Route 70. From here, NY 436 curves to the northeast for a short distance before resuming its eastward routing.
East of Oakland in the village of Nunda, NY 436 gains a name for the first time, becoming Portage Road as it enters the village. On the opposite side of an intersection with New York State Route 408 in the village center, NY 436 becomes Mill Street. At the village line, NY 436 fittingly becomes Nunda-Dansville Road for the two communities that the road links.
A mile east of NY 408, NY 436 dips a mile to the south before curving back to the east, an alignment that the route generally maintains to Dansville, where NY 436 terminates at NY 36 three-tenths of a mile east of an overpass separating NY 436 from Interstate 390.
[edit] History
The modern routing of NY 436 east of Portageville was originally designated as NY 39 in the 1930 renumbering. West of Portageville, NY 39 continued to Pike along Griffith Road.[4] Between 1938 and 1946, the routings of NY 39 and NY 245 (which followed modern NY 39 from Pike to Leicester) were swapped north and east of Pike, placing NY 245 on the portion of NY 39 east of the village.[5][6]
NY 245 remained unchanged until 1972 when it was truncated to its current western terminus in Naples. The former routing of NY 245 between Pike and Dansville was then redesignated as NY 436.[2][3] By 1976, NY 436 had been rerouted to follow its current alignment west of Portageville.[7]
[edit] Major intersections
| County | Location | Mile[1] | Roads intersected | Notes |
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| Wyoming | Lamont | 0.00 | NY 39 |
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| Town of Pike | 1.79 |  NY 19A north |
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| Portageville | 3.92 | NY 19A south |
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| Livingston | Town of Portage | 7.24 |  NY 70 |
Northern terminus of NY 70 |
| Village of Nunda | 9.94 |  NY 408 |
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| Dansville | 23.80 | NY 36 |
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[edit] References
- ^ a b Traffic Data Report - NY 427 to NY 908F (PDF). NYSDOT (2007-07-16). Retrieved on 2007-11-19.
- ^ a b Humble Oil & Refining Company. New York [map]. Cartography by General Drafting. (1971)
- ^ a b Exxon. Eastern United States [map], 1972-73 edition. Cartography by General Drafting. (1972)
- ^ Automobile Legal Association (ALA) Automobile Green Book, 1930/31 and 1931/32 editions, (Scarborough Motor Guide Co., Boston, 1930 and 1931). The 1930/31 edition shows New York state routes prior to the 1930 renumbering
- ^ Automobile Legal Association (ALA) Automobile Green Book, 1938/39 edition, (W.A. Thibodeau, 1938).
- ^ Rand McNally Road Atlas. Rand McNally (1946). Retrieved on 2007-09-10.
- ^ United States Geological Survey. Portageville, NY Quadrangle [map], 1:24,000, 7.5 Minute Series (Topographic). (1976)
