Oklahoma State Highway 58

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State Highway 58

Section 1

Length:

73 mi (117.5 km)

South end:

State Highway 49 in Medicine Park

North end:

Blaine–Custer county line

Section 2

Length:

106 mi (170.6 km)

South end:

US-270/281/SH-3/33

North end:

Kansas state line

Oklahoma State Highways

SH-56

US-59

State Highway 58 is the name of two state highways in Oklahoma. One of them runs for 73 miles^[1] (117.5 km) from Medicine Park to the Blaine–Custer County line near Hydro, and the other connects US-270/281/SH-3/33, running 106 mi^[2]. The northern section has one lettered spur route, SH-58A.

1 Route description
- 1.1 Southern section
- 1.2 Northern section
2 History
3 SH-58A
4 Junction list
- 4.1 Southern section
- 4.2 Northern section
5 References
6 External links

[edit] Route description

[edit] Southern section

The southern SH-58 begins at an intersection with State Highway 49 in Medicine Park, in Comanche County. It heads north from here, passing Lake Lawtonka, before meeting State Highway 19 which it overlaps for four miles. After splitting off, it meets State Highway 9 in Carnegie. After passing through the unincorporated community of Alfalfa, the highway has a two-mile concurrency with State Highway 152.

After splitting from SH-152 near Eakly, SH-58 heads north to have an interchange with Interstate 40 and passes through Hydro. Nine miles later, it terminates at the Custer County line to become a county road which eventually connects to State Highway 54.

[edit] Northern section

The northern SH-58 begins at US-270/281/SH-3/33 west of Watonga. It meets State Highway 51 near Canton and continues north through Longdale. In Fairview, it shares a brief concurrency with U.S. Highway 60. Beginning in Fairview and heading east, it has a concurrency with State Highway 8, which it switches places with (SH-8 previously running to the east of SH-58, and north of this, running to the west of SH-58).

SH-58 continues north from here, meeting US-60 again near Ringwood. It then has a brief concurrency with State Highway 45 near Helena. Near Jet, it overlaps U.S. Highway 64 and SH-8. North of Cherokee, US-64 splits off and State Highway 11 joins the three-route concurrency. Finally, north of Driftwood, SH-58 splits off on its own and passes through Byron and Amorita.

SH-58 terminates at the Kansas state line, where it becomes a low-grade county road, from which commercial traffic is banned.

[edit] History

SH-58 was first commissioned some time between March 1, 1930 and December 1, 1931. The original extent of SH-58 was much shorter than the present highway. In 1931, SH-58 was a dirt road extending from SH-8 east of Fairview north to Ringwood.^[3] Prior to receiving the SH-58 designation, this section of road was part of US-164 and the first SH-13.^[4] In 1930, US-164 was decommissioned, due to an extension of US-60.^[5] When US-60 replaced US-164 through the area, it was changed to the more westerly route it takes in the present day. The section of old U.S. highway that no longer had a designation became SH-58.^[3]

Throughout the 1930s, SH-58 was expanded in both directions. The first addition to the highway came some time during the first half of 1932, when the highway was extended north to Helena. No east-west highway existed here yet, leading to a spur end.^[6] The highway was extended to the south to Canton between May 1936 and April 1937.^[7] SH-58 was extended north to the Kansas state line, sometime between April 1937 and April 1938.^[8] This final extension brought SH-58's northern section to its present-day termini, and no major changes to the northern section have occurred since.

SH-58's southern section was first established on October 16, 1945, when SH-54 was given a new alignment further to the west; its old alignment was redesignated as SH-58.^[9] The original routing of SH-58's southern section began at US-277 in Cyril, continued west through Apache, and turned north at the present-day western intersection of SH-58 and SH-19. SH-58 continued north along its present alignment to Hydro, where it ended at US-66/SH-1.

In 1955, SH-19 was established through southern Caddo County, taking over the east-west section of SH-58. Thus, SH-58 was truncated to where it intersected with SH-19 (the present day western end of their concurrency).^[10] SH-58 was extended to its present terminus north of Hydro the next year.^[11] SH-58 was further extended in 1964, bringing the southern terminus to its present location near Medicine Park.^[12] No further routing changes have occurred since then.

[edit] SH-58A

SH-58 has one spur, SH-58A, which runs from SH-58 near Longdale to Canton Lake and ends at SH-51.

[edit] Junction list

[edit] Southern section

County	Location	Mile^[1]	Roads intersected	Notes
Comanche	Medicine Park	0.0	SH-49	Southern section's southern terminus
Caddo		13.6	SH-19
		17.5	SH-19
	Carnegie	30.5	SH-9
		43.8	SH-152
		45.6	SH-152
	Hydro	63.0	I-40	Interchange
Blaine	No junctions
Blaine–Custer county line		73.0		Southern section's northern terminus

[edit] Northern section

County	Location	Mile^[1]	Roads intersected	Notes
Blaine		0.0	US-270/281/SH-3/33	Northern section's southern terminus
	Canton	14.8	SH-51
		15.8	SH-51
		19.3	SH-58A	Northern terminus of SH-58A
Major		27.1	SH-51A	Northern terminus of SH-51A
		32.9	US-60
	Fairview	33.9	US-60/SH-8
		42.8	SH-8
	Ringwood	52.7	US-60/US-412
Alfalfa		62.7	SH-45
	Helena	63.7	SH-45
		73.2	US-64
		79.1	SH-8
	Ingersoll	88.3	US-64/SH-11
	Driftwood	95.3	SH-8/11
		106.0	S.W. 140 Ave. (Harper County road)	Kansas state line; northern terminus of northern section