Florida State Road 5
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| Route information | ||||
| Maintained by FDOT | ||||
| Length: |
536.724 mi[1] (863.774 km) 6.784 miles (10.918 km) signed | |||
| Existed: | 1945 renumbering (definition) – present | |||
| Major junctions | ||||
| South end: |
 US 1 / Fleming Street in Key West | |||
  US 98 / SR 80 in West Palm Beach | ||||
| North end: |
  US 17 / SR 25 in Kingsland, GA | |||
| Highway system | ||||
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State Road 5 (SR 5) is a mostly-unsigned state highway in the state of Florida. It is mainly signed as US 1 from its south end in Key West, Florida to Jacksonville, Florida, and US 17 from Jacksonville to the Georgia state line at the Saint Marys River. US 1 is SR 15 northwest from Jacksonville.
However, from northern Lantana through Lake Worth to Belvedere Road in West Palm Beach, SR 5 is separate from US 1, which runs to the west on the older but wider Dixie Highway. Here, SR 5 runs along a road named Olive Avenue.
Route description
SR 5 uses the parallel Olive Avenue from just north of County Road 812 (Lantana Road) in Lantana until Belvedere Road in West Palm Beach, where it turns west one block to rejoin Dixie Highway and US 1. Olive Avenue and Dixie Highway are parallel and extremely close to each other for this entire length. Olive Avenue is also signed as Federal Highway, but this name is not used as much.
History
Until around 2004, Olive Avenue carried northbound US 1 (and SR 5) north from Dixie Highway (new US 1 / SR 805) to SR A1A. In 2004, US 1 was re-routed onto Dixie Highway without SR 5. Afterwards, FDOT started periodically relinquishing SR 5 in fragments between July 1, 2004 and April 7, 2011. FDOT has relinquished all of former SR 5 in the city of West Palm Beach. Therefore, SR 5 has a gap starting at the West Palm Beach-Lake Worth city line, and resumes at the US 1 intersection with Belvedere Road in West Palm Beach.
Major intersections
| County | Location | mi[1] | km | Destinations | Notes | ||
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| Monroe | Key West | 0.000 | 0.000 | US 1 / Fleming Street | Southern terminus of concurrency with US 1 | ||
| See US 1 (mile 0.000-216.945) | |||||||
| Palm Beach | Lantana | 216.945 | 349.139 | US 1 north (Dixie Highway / SR 805) | Northern terminus of concurrency with US 1; southern terminus of SR 805 | ||
| Lake Worth | 218.590 | 351.787 |  SR 802 east (Lake Avenue) | One-way eastbound | |||
| 218.639 | 351.865 | SR 802 west (Lucerne Avenue) | One-way westbound | ||||
| 219.391 | 353.076 |  10th Avenue to I-95 | |||||
| C-51 Canal | 220.596 | 355.015 | Bridge (end state maintenance) | ||||
| West Palm Beach | 221.300 | 356.148 | Forest Hill Boulevard | To SR 882 | |||
| 222.721 | 358.435 |  US 98 / SR 80 (Southern Boulevard) to I-95 / Turnpike | |||||
| 223.729 | 360.057 | Olive Avenue | Former US 1 North | ||||
| 223.834 | 360.226 | US 1 south (Dixie Highway / SR 805) to I-95 / Belvedere Road | Resume state maintenance; southern terminus of concurrency with US 1; northern terminus of SR 5 | ||||
| See US 1 (mile 223.789-507.69), US 17 (mile 286.263-317.070) | |||||||
| Nassau | Wilds Landing | 536.724 | 863.774 | US 17 north / SR 25 north – Kingsland, Brunswick | St. Marys River crossing into Georgia | ||
1.000 mi = 1.609 km; 1.000 km = 0.621 mi
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References
- 1 2 FDOT straight line diagrams, accessed March 2014