State Highway 45 | ||||
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Route information | ||||
Maintained by ODOT | ||||
Length: | 64.7 mi (104.1 km) | |||
Existed: | 1926[1] – present | |||
Major junctions | ||||
West end: | SH-14 in Waynoka (concurrent with US-281) | |||
East end: | US-60/US-64/US-81 north of Enid | |||
Highway system | ||||
Oklahoma State Highways
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State Highway 45 (SH-45 or OK-45) is a state highway in Oklahoma. It runs 64.7 miles (104.1 km) west-to-east through Woods, Alfalfa and Garfield counties.[2]
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SH-45 begins at the US-281/SH-14 junction in Waynoka. US-281 and SH-45 share a concurrency for the first 12 miles (19 km) east of Waynoka, then US-281 turns to the north, leaving SH-45 to continue to the east, 12 miles (19 km) to Carmen.
Two miles east of Carmen, SH-34 joins SH-8 for a three-mile (5 km) concurrency to the south, where SH-43 resumes its eastward travel. SH-58 joins SH-43 for a one-mile (1.6 km) concurrency just south of the town of Helena, and at Goltry, SH-45 jogs south a few miles before turning back to the east and heading for its junction with SH-132 at Carrier.
Continuing to the east, SH-45 travels eight more miles from Carrier, before reaching its terminus at US-60/64/81 at the north edge of Enid.
SH-45 was first added to the state highway system between May 1926 and November 1927. The original routing of the highway was from Waynoka to SH-8 in Carmen.[1]
Before 1963, the section of present-day SH-45 between SH-58 and SH-132 was part of the original SH-38.[3] In 1963, all of this SH-38 west of Carrier was renumbered to SH-45 (a north–south section of SH-38 that connected Carrier to US-60 became part of a SH-132 extension). The same year, SH-45 was extended westward to Waynoka.[4] In either 1971 or 1972, the highway was extended eastward to its present terminus on the northern outskirts of Enid.[5] No major changes have occurred since.
County | Location | Mile[2] | Destinations | Notes |
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Woods |
Waynoka | 0.0 | US-281/SH-14 | Western terminus. Southern terminus of SH-14. |
12.1 | US-281 | |||
Alfalfa |
26.1 | SH-8 | ||
29.1 | SH-8 | |||
Helena | 38.1 | SH-58 | ||
39.1 | SH-58 | |||
Garfield |
Carrier | 56.0 | SH-132 | |
56.8 | SH-132 | |||
Enid | 64.7 | US-60/64/81 | Eastern terminus | |
1.000 mi = 1.609 km; 1.000 km = 0.621 mi |