Utah State Route 57
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| State Route 57 |
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| Defined by Utah Code §72-4-111, maintained by UDOT | |||||||||
| Length: | 10.691 mi[1] (17.205 km) | ||||||||
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| Formed: | 1927[2] | ||||||||
| South end: |  SR-10 near Castle Dale |
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| Major junctions: |
 SR-29 in Orangeville |
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| North end: | Wilberg Mine near Orangeville | ||||||||
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State Route 57 (abbreviated as U-57 or SR-57) is a state highway in Emery County in the U.S. state of Utah. It runs for 10.69 miles (17 km) from the junction with SR-10 three miles south of Castle Dale to the Wilberg Coal Mine, northwest of Orangeville.
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[edit] Route description
SR-57 begins at the junction with SR-10 near the Hunter Power Plant, three miles southwest of Castle Dale, and runs almost straight north for almost four miles until it nears Orangeville. It then bypasses Orangeville heading northwest. At the junction of SR-10 it turns north again and then moves in a north-northwest direction until it reaches its terminus at the southern edge of the Wilberg Mine, about 10 miles northwest of Orangeville (the Wilberg Mine is the location of the fire that took twenty seven lives in 1984).
[edit] History
Originally, on March 7, 1927, the route went from the old junction with SR-29 in the north part of Orangeville to junction with SR-10 south of Castle Dale. This was affirmed by the legislature in 1953. In the 1963 the legislature flipped the route from south to north, but the path was unchanged. On May 10, 1983 the legislature approved that the route would be extended to the Wilberg Mine. The new route would by-pass the town of Orangeville to the west, to keep the large semi-trucks hauling coal from the Wilberg, Cottonwood, and Trail Mountain mines to the Hunter Power Plant from going through the center of Orangeville.[3]
[edit] Major intersections
| County | Location[4] | Mile[1] | Junction | Notes |
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| Emery | 0.000 | SR-10 (State Street) – Emery, Price |
Southern terminus | |
| Orangeville | 6.588-6.852 | SR-29 |
Grade-separated intersection | |
| 10.691 | Wilberg Mine | Northern terminus |
[edit] See also
[edit] References
- ^ a b State Route 57 Highway reference. Utah Department of Transportation.
- ^ State Route 57 History. Utah Department of Transportation.
- ^ Utah Department of Transportation. State Route History (Adobe Acrobat *.PDF document). Retrieved on 2007-03-18.
- ^ State Highway Map. Utah Department of Transportation. Retrieved on 27 May 2008.
