Oklahoma State Highway 152

State Highway 152
Route information
Maintained by ODOT
Length: 149.6 mi (240.8 km)
Major junctions
West end: TX-152
East end: I-44/SH-3 in Oklahoma City
Highway system

Oklahoma State Highways
Oklahoma turnpike system

SH-151 SH-153

State Highway 152 (SH-152 or OK-152) is a state highway running through west-central Oklahoma. At a length of 149.6 miles (240.76 km), it is the longest three-digit state highway in Oklahoma.[1] It runs from State Highway 152 at the Texas State Line to Interstate 44 near Will Rogers World Airport in Oklahoma City. It has no lettered spur routes.

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Route description

SH-152 begins at the Texas state line in Roger Mills Co.. It runs just north of the county line, crossing State Highway 30, and continues east until it meets SH-6's northern terminus, where it turns toward the southeast, entering Beckham Co.. It straightens out to head through Sayre running east–west, where it meets both U.S. Highway 283 and Interstate 40. Six miles later it crosses State Highway 34 and six miles (10 km) after that it meets SH-6 again.

SH-152 then crosses into Washita County and intersects State Highway 44 and 42. It then meets US-183 in a roundabout in Cordell. East of Cordell, it has a 7-mile (11 km) concurrency with the northern State Highway 54 and, after it splits off, it intersects State Highway 115.

Right after entering Caddo County, it has a 2-mile (3.2 km) concurrency with State Highway 58, and then it meets State Highway 146 near Binger. At Binger, it begins to overlap U.S. Highway 281 and SH-8. It splits off on its own again five miles (8 km) later. 9 miles (14 km) later, it meets the western State Highway 37 at Cogar, which it then overlaps for 11 miles (18 km). (Located at this intersection is an abandoned Apco station, which was used in a scene from the movie "Rain Man"). North of Minco, it meets US-81. At this T-intersection, SH-37 heads south and SH-152 heads north.

After crossing the Canadian River into Canadian County, SH-152 splits off from US-81 in Union City. It passes the southern terminus of State Highway 92 in Mustang. In downtown Mustang, it overlaps SH-4.

In Oklahoma County, it heads northeast to connect to the Airport Road freeway, which provides access to Will Rogers World Airport, the main airport for Oklahoma City and most of central Oklahoma. SH-152 then ends at Interstate 44.

History

The first addition of any part of what is now SH-152 to the state highway system occurred between May 1, 1926 and November 1, 1927. Sometime between these dates, State Highway 41 was commissioned to run between US-66 in Sayre and SH-2 (now US-81) near Minco.[2] Highway 41 followed this routing until the mid-1930s, when SH-41 was extended to Oklahoma City. The extension occurred sometime between August 1933 and October 1935.[3] SH-41's eastern terminus now fell at the intersection with US-62/277.[4] The current western terminus was established between April 1938 and April 1939, when the highway was extended west from Sayre, through Sweetwater, to the Texas state line, where it connected to Texas's SH-152.[5]

On December 6, 1954, SH-41 in its entirety was renumbered to SH-152.[6] This change was done to continue the numbering of TX-152, which connects to the highway at the Texas–Oklahoma state line.[1]

US-62 was moved to the Will Rogers Expressway (present day I-44 south of I-240) on September 4, 1963.[6] SH-152 was extended over former US-62/277 to end at the intersection of S.W. 29th Street and May Avenue in Oklahoma City. At the time, this intersection carried SH-3 and SH-74.[7] On March 5, 1979, the eastern terminus was pushed back a half-mile west, to the intersection of Interstate 44 and S.W. 29th.[6]

The most recent alteration to SH-152 came on February 2, 2004. On this date, SH-152 was removed from Newcastle Boulevard and placed on the newly-extended Airport Road freeway.[6] The freeway previously carried no numbered route designation. This placed the highway's eastern terminus at its current location, and no changes have been made since.

Junction list

County Location Mile[1] Destinations Notes
Roger Mills
  0.0 TX-152 Texas state line, western terminus
Sweetwater 5.1 SH-30  
  9.1 SH-6 Northern terminus of SH-6
Beckham
Sayre 25.5 I-40 BUS/US-283  
26.6 I-40 Interchange, I-40 exit 23
  33.1 SH-34  
  39.0 SH-6  
Washita
  52.0 SH-44  
Dill City 54.0 SH-42 Northern terminus of SH-42
Cordell 62.3 US-183  
  69.9 SH-54  
  76.9 SH-54  
  77.9 SH-115 Northern terminus of SH-115
Caddo
  84.0 SH-58  
  85.8 SH-58  
  94.8 SH-146 Northern terminus of SH-146
Binger 99.1 US-281/SH-8  
  103.8 US-281/SH-8  
Cogar 112.6 SH-37  
Grady
Minco 123.4 US-81/SH-37  
Canadian
Union City   US-81  
  137.6 SH-92 Southern terminus of SH-92
Mustang 139.6 SH-4  
140.6 SH-4  
Freeway begins; becomes Airport Rd.
Oklahoma Okla. City Council Rd.
MacArthur Blvd. south
MacArthur Blvd. north
Meridian Ave. south – Airport
Meridian Ave. north
I-44 west/SH-3 east – Lawton
149.6 I-44 east/SH-3 west – Tulsa, Downtown Eastern terminus

References

  1. ^ a b c Stuve, Eric. "OK-152". OKHighways. http://www.okhighways.com/ok152.html. Retrieved 2006-06-08. 
  2. ^ Oklahoma State Highway Department. Oklahoma State Highway System (Map) (1927 ed.). http://www.okladot.state.ok.us/hqdiv/p-r-div/maps/state-maps/pdfs/1927.pdf. Retrieved 2009-01-28. 
  3. ^ Oklahoma Department of Highways. Map Showing Condition of Improvement of the State Highway System (Map) (October 1935 ed.). http://www.odot.org/hqdiv/p-r-div/maps/state-maps/pdfs/1934.pdf. Retrieved 2009-01-28. 
  4. ^ Standard Oil. Oklahoma (Map). Cartography by Rand McNally (1961 ed.). 
  5. ^ Oklahoma Department of Highways. Map Showing Condition of Improvement of the State Highway System (Map) (April 1939 ed.). http://www.odot.org/hqdiv/p-r-div/maps/state-maps/pdfs/1939.pdf. Retrieved 2009-01-28. 
  6. ^ a b c d Oklahoma Department of Transportation, Planning & Research Division. "Memorial Dedication & Revision History - SH-152". http://www.okladot.state.ok.us/memorial/legal/sh152.htm. Retrieved 2009-01-28. 
  7. ^ Skelly Oil Company. Highway Map of Oklahoma (Map). Cartography by Diversified Map Co (1966 ed.). Section 11C. 

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