Talk:Oregon Route 58

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[edit] History notes

Almost completely unimproved at first.

  • Two roads existed west of Lowell; the route via Jasper Road and Jasper Lowell Road was never Hwy 18.
  • Roughly current OR 58 from Goshen to Dexter
  • northeast to Lowell somehow, presumably covered by the lake
  • Boundary Road and North Side Road to Oakridge, probably realigned post-damming
  • Kitson Springs Road and Rigdon Road, probably realigned post-damming
  • NF-398 over Emigrant Pass and north of Summit Lake, then NF-60 south of Crescent Lake, and east to Crescent via the road south of Little Odell Butte and Crescent Cutoff Road

--NE2 00:11, 1 October 2007 (UTC)

[1] shows that the old route is still driveable. --NE2 01:11, 1 October 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Oregon Central Military Road

The road was also named Drew's Road (after C.S. Drew), and several natural features along the route bear that name.

  • Began at Eugene; followed old Hwy 18 to near Crescent Lake
  • Turned south roughly along OR 58 and US 97, then across the middle of the Klamath Marsh (Military Crossing Road? looks more like 7633 actually), then possibly 4536, Williamson River Road, and Lone Pine Road
  • North bank of the Sprague River and its south fork from near Lone Pine to past Bly, then roughly along OR 140 through Drews Gap to east of Lakeview, and Plush Cutoff Road to Plush
  • Crossed between Hart Lake and Crump Lake
  • East of Hart Mountain, north of Spanish Lake, and on D L Spring Road and Old Military Road
  • Past Andrews, Whitehorse Ranch, then Crooked Creek Range Road, along Crooked Creek and Jordan Creek, the latter on Old ION Highway to Arock, then via US 95 and Yturri Boulevard to Idaho, where an extension connected to the Oregon Trail southern alternate route (SH-78) near Hemingway Butte and continued across the river near SH-45 and then northeast to Boise. (1879 map)

[edit] Improvement status

  • 1922: 100 mi, all "not graded to state standards"
  • 1924: 103 mi, 8 with rock or gravel
  • 1926: 103 mi, 8.9 with unoiled rock or gravel
  • 1928: 99 mi, 8.1 with oiled rock of gravel, 7.1 graded to state standards
  • 1930: 99 mi, 8.1 with oiled rock or gravel, 9.2 with unoiled rock or gravel, 7.0 graded to state standards
  • 1932: 86 mi, 8.1 oiled, 13.1 unoiled, 8.8 graded
  • 1934: 89 mi, 8.1 oiled, 22.1 unoiled, 38.5 graded, 20.3 unimproved
  • 1936: 87.2 mi, 20.1 oiled, 31.4 unoiled, 29.4 graded, 6.3 unimproved
  • 1938: 87.2 mi, 20.1 oiled, 33.7 unoiled, 29.8 graded, 3.6 unimproved
  • 1940: 87 mi, 85.81 oiled, 1.19 unoiled
  • 1942: 87 mi, all oiled
  • 1944, 1946: 86.65 mi, 4.11 bituminous macadam, 82.54 oiled
  • 1948: 86.66 mi, 4.11 bituminous macadam, 82.55 oiled
  • 1950: 86.33 mi, 28.54 bituminous macadam, 57.79 oiled
  • 1952, 1954: 85.57 mi, 12.73 bituminous pavement, 49.43 bituminous macadam, 23.41 oiled
  • 1956: 86.38 mi, 30.14 bituminous pavement, 27.98 bituminous macadam, 28.26 oiled
  • 1958: 86.38 mi, 0.11 concrete pavement, 52.24 bituminous pavement, 25.69 bituminous macadam, 8.34 oiled
  • 1960, 1961, 1963: 86.38 mi, 0.11 concrete pavement, 55.51 bituminous pavement, 25.50 bituminous macadam, 5.26 oiled
  • 1965: 86.38 mi, 0.11 concrete pavement, 74.46 bituminous pavement, 10.69 bituminous macadam, 1.12 oiled

That's the end of the scans. It appears that in 1967 it was all paved in some form. --NE2 18:59, 1 October 2007 (UTC)