U.S. Route 270 (US 270) is a spur of US 70. It travels for 643 miles (1,035 km) from Liberal, Kansas at US 54 and US 83 to White Hall, Arkansas at Interstate 530 (I-530) and US 65. It travels through the states of Arkansas, Oklahoma, and Kansas. It travels through the cities of Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, Hot Springs, Arkansas, and McAlester, Oklahoma.
 U.S. Route 270 | |
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 US-270 highlighted in red | |
| Route information | |
| Auxiliary route of US 70 | |
| Length | 643 mi (1,035 km) |
| Existed | 1930[citation needed]–present |
| Major junctions | |
| West end |   US-54 / US-83 in Liberal, KS |
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| East end |   I-530 / US 65 at White Hall, AR |
| Location | |
| Country | United States |
| States | Kansas, Oklahoma, Arkansas |
| Highway system | |
Route description
editKansas
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US 270 begins in the southeast part of Liberal, Kansas, at an intersection with US 83 (running north–south through the intersection) and US 54. US 270 follows the south leg of this intersection, following US 83 south. US 270 only spends 3 miles (4.8 km) in Kansas before crossing into Oklahoma. Seward County is the only Kansas county that US-270 serves.
Oklahoma
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US 270 enters Oklahoma in Beaver County, the eastern third of the Oklahoma Panhandle. From here it continues east along US 64, then south towards Beaver, the county seat, along SH-23. South of Beaver, the road joins with US 412 (OK) and SH-3, the latter of which US 270 will overlap with through most of northwest Oklahoma. After leaving the Panhandle and picking up US 183 near Fort Supply, the highways turn southwest towards Woodward. US 412 splits away in Woodward. US 270, concurrent with US 183 and SH-3, proceed southeast toward Seiling. West of Seiling, US 183 splits off to the south, but in Seiling, it is replaced by US 281. The routes continue southwest to Watonga, where US 270/281 turn south along SH-8, while SH-3 continues due east to concur with SH-33. In Geary, US 270 splits off on an independent alignment, looping through Calumet before joining with Interstate 40.
US 270 remains concurrent with I-40 from Exit 115 through Exit 181, a distance of 66 miles (106 km). US 270, attached to I-40, runs through the core of the Oklahoma City Metro area, passing through the western suburbs of El Reno and Yukon into Oklahoma City proper. The partnership runs just south of Downtown and the Bricktown entertainment district on the Crosstown Expressway. Major interchanges with I-44 and I-35 (the latter involving a concurrency with the interstate and its accompanying US Highway, US 62) are found in the city. I-40/US 270 also serve two eastern suburbs of Oklahoma City, Del City and Midwest City and form the northern boundary between Midwest City's civilian areas and Tinker Air Force Base. US-270 finally exits from I-40 on the west side of Shawnee.
US 270 serves most of the towns anchoring the area east of Oklahoma City, including Shawnee, Tecumseh, Seminole, Wewoka, and Holdenville. It continues southeast to the city of McAlester, a major southeastern Oklahoma city. It also serves many of the small towns east of McAlester, such as Krebs, Alderson, Bache, Haileyville, and Hartshorne.
After passing through Hartshorne, the roads curves to the northeast before turning onto a due east course taking it through Wilburton, Red Oak, and Wister. In Wister, it turns south, running across Wister Lake's dam, and proceeding southeast to Heavener. There, it meets US 59, which it will follow for the rest of its time in Oklahoma. The town highways head south from Heavener, passing through the Wister Wildlife Management Area before entering the Ouachita National Forest. The route serves as the northern terminus of US 259 near Page. The road then squeezes into a valley between Black Fork Mountain and Rich Mountain. In this valley, it crosses the state line into Arkansas.
Arkansas
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US 270 enters Arkansas with US 59, and runs east to Acorn, where it meets US 71. The route then travels 15 miles north on US 71 to Y City where it splits off and continues east. The route then meets AR 88 in Pencil Bluff and AR 27 in Mt. Ida before heading to Hot Springs. Entering the city, US 270 meets US 70 southwest of town and runs concurrent with it around Hot Springs using the Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Expressway before leaving the freeway and running along Malvern Avenue southeast of the city. US 270 intersects with I-30 just outside Malvern, running a short distance northeast on the freeway before interchanging with the George Hopkins Loop bypass and running south around the city. After meeting with US 67 east of town, the alignment then turns east-southeast meeting AR 229 in Poyen and AR 190/AR 291 in Prattsville before crossing paths with US 167 in Sheridan. The route trails east towards Pine Bluff terminating at and interchanging with I-530/US 65 in White Hall.
Directly east of this interchange, the highway used to continue along Sheridan Road before terminating at AR 365/Dollarway Road in northwest Pine Bluff. This former section of the route is now signed AR 365 Spur.
History
editThe route was extended into Arkansas in 1931, supplanting State Road 8 from Oklahoma to Acorn and State Road 6 between Y City and Hot Springs.[1] The roadway was mostly gravel or graded earth, with some segments in the Ouachita Mountains still under construction upon designation.[2] In 1935, the US 270 designation supplanted the remainder of State Road 6 between Hot Springs and US 65 west of Pine Bluff.[3] By this time, the entire route was gravel surfaced.[4]
Between February 1937 and January 1938, US-270 was extended into Kansas, and overlapped K-27 from Johnson north to US-50 in Syracuse, where it terminated.[5][6] KDOT requested that US-270 be extended north along K-27 to I-70 south of Goodland. This request was denied by the American Association of State Highway Officials in an October 14, 1967 meeting.[7] In a November 14, 1980 resolution, the American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials approved a request by KDOT to truncate US-270 to its current terminus in Liberal.[8] Then in a May 18, 1981 resolution, US-270 was truncated to Liberal and the designation was removed from K-27.[9]
Future
editIn Arkansas, it has been proposed that part of AR-51 will become part of US-270. On I-30's current concurrency with US-270, going east, drivers can take exit 99 and make a right on US-270 East. If drivers make a left when they take exit 99, they must make a left to get on I-30 West/US-270 West because there is currently no outlet past that. That road has been proposed to be extended to AR-51. This will form the future northern terminus of AR-51. This means that drivers can make a left to get on AR-51 South and will have to make a right to get on US-270 West. Then, US-270 will meet the current US-270. Drivers can make a left to get on the future US-270 Business East and must make a right to get on US-270 West, just like AR-51 did. From east to west, the future US-270 will go through the cities of Rockport, Butterfield, and Magnet Cove.[citation needed]
Major intersections
edit| State | County | Location | mi[10][11] | km | Exit | Destinations | Notes | |
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| Kansas | Seward | Liberal | 0.00 | 0.00 |  US-54 (Pancake Boulevard) / US-83 north (Country Estates Road) – Garden City, Guymon OK, Meade | Western end of US-83 concurrency; western terminus | ||
| Oklahoma | Beaver | |    US 64 west / US 83 south – Perryton, Guymon | Eastern end of US-83 concurrency; western end of US-64 concurrency | ||||
| |   US 64 east / SH-23 north – Buffalo | Eastern end of US-64 concurrency; western end of SH-23 concurrency | ||||||
| Elmwood |   US 412 west / SH-3 west / SH-23 south – Booker Tx., Guymon | Eastern end of SH-23 concurrency; western end of US-412/SH-3 concurrency | ||||||
| Harper | Log Cabin Corner |  US 283 – Laverne, Shattuck | ||||||
| May |  SH-46 – Buffalo, Gage | |||||||
| Ellis |
No major junctions | |||||||
| Woodward | |  US 183 north – Buffalo | Western end of US-183 concurrency | |||||
| Woodward |  SH-15 west (Oklahoma Avenue) – Shattuck | |||||||
 US 412 east (Oklahoma Avenue) / SH-34 north (9th Street) – Enid | Eastern end of US-412 concurrency; western end of SH-34 concurrency | |||||||
| | SH-34 south – Elk City, Vici | Eastern end of SH-34 concurrency | ||||||
| |  SH-50 north – Mooreland | |||||||
| Woodward–Major county line | | US 183 south – Taloga, Clinton | Eastern end of US-183 concurrency | |||||
| Dewey | Seiling |   US 60 east / US 281 north – Waynoka, Fairview | Western end of US-60/US-281 concurrency | |||||
  US 60 west / SH-51 west (Shepherd Street) to US 183 – Vici | Eastern end of US-60 concurrency; western end of SH-51 concurrency | |||||||
| | SH-51 east – Canton, Southard | Eastern end of SH-51 concurrency | ||||||
| Blaine | |   SH-33 west / SH-58 north – Canton, Thomas | Western end of SH-33 concurrency | |||||
| Watonga |  SH-3 east / SH-33 east / SH-8 north – Kingfisher, Okeene | Eastern end of SH-3/SH-33 concurrency; western end of SH-8 concurrency | ||||||
| Geary |   US 281 south / SH-8 south to I-40 – Anadarko | Eastern end of US-281/SH-8 concurrency | ||||||
| Canadian | | Western end of freeway section | ||||||
| | 115 |  I-40 west – Amarillo | Western end of I-40 concurrency | |||||
| see I-40 | ||||||||
| Pottawatomie | Clarks Heights | 181 |     I-40 east / US 177 north / SH-3E east to SH-270 – Okemah, Stillwater, Fort Smith | Eastern end of I-40/SH-3 concurrency; western end of US-177/SH-3W concurrency | ||||
| Eastern end of freeway section | ||||||||
| Shawnee |   US 270 Bus. east (Kickapoo Spur) | Interchange | ||||||
 US 270 Bus. west / SH-18 north (Farrall Avenue) | Interchange | |||||||
| Tecumseh | Tecumseh (Broadway) | Interchange | ||||||
  US 177 south / SH-3W east / SH-9 west – Sulphur, Ada, Norman | Eastern end of US-177/SH-3W concurrency; western end of SH-9 concurrency; interchange | |||||||
| |  SH-9A south – Harjo, Maud | Western end of SH-9A concurrency | ||||||
| Earlsboro | SH-9A north – Earlsboro | Eastern end of SH-9A concurrency | ||||||
| Seminole | Seminole | SH-3E west (Boren Boulevard) – Shawnee | Western end of SH-3E concurrency | |||||
  US 377 / SH-3E east / SH-99 (North Milt Phillips) | Eastern end of SH-3E concurrency | |||||||
| SH-9 east – Eufaula | Eastern end of SH-9 concurrency; former northern terminus of SH-270A | |||||||
| | US 270 Bus. east – Wewoka | |||||||
| |  SH-59 | Interchange | ||||||
| Wewoka |  US 270 Bus. west / SH-56 – Wewoka, Ada | |||||||
| Hughes | Holdenville |  US 270 Bus. east / SH-48 to SH-9 – Holdenville | ||||||
| | US 270 Bus. west – Holdenville | |||||||
| Horntown |  US 75 north – Lamar, Tulsa | Western end of US-75 concurrency | ||||||
| |  US 75 south / SH-1 west – Coalgate, Calvin, Ada | Eastern end of US-75 concurrency; western end of SH-1 concurrency; interchange | ||||||
| |  SH-31A south – Stuart | |||||||
| Pittsburg | |    Indian Nation Turnpike to US 69 – Henryetta, Tulsa, Paris | Indian Nation Turnpike exit 70 | |||||
| McAlester |  SH-31 west (North West Street) | Western end of SH-31 concurrency | ||||||
| US 69 Bus. (Main Street) | ||||||||
| US 69 – Muskogee, Eufaula, Atoka, Durant | Interchange | |||||||
| Krebs | SH-31 east – Krebs | Eastern end of SH-31 concurrency; interchange | ||||||
| Haileyville |  SH-63 west – Kiowa | Western end of SH-63 concurrency | ||||||
| | SH-1 east / SH-63 east – Talihina | Eastern end of SH-1/SH-63 concurrency | ||||||
| Latimer | Wilburton |  SH-2 south – Clayton, Talihina | Western end of SH-2 concurrency | |||||
| SH-2 north – Robbers Cave, Kinta | Eastern end of SH-2 concurrency | |||||||
| Red Oak |  SH-82 south (Southeast 2nd Street) – Talihina | Western end of SH-82 concurrency | ||||||
| | SH-82 north – Lequire, Stigler | Eastern end of SH-82 concurrency | ||||||
| Le Flore | Fanshawe |  US 271 south – Talimena Drive, Talihina | Western end of US-271 concurrency | |||||
| Wister | US 271 north – Poteau | Eastern end of US-271 concurrency | ||||||
| Heavener |  US 59 north – Poteau | western end of US-59 concurrency | ||||||
 SH-128 east – Waldron | ||||||||
| |  US 259 south – Broken Bow | |||||||
| Arkansas | Polk | Rich Mountain | 6.88 | 11.07 |   AR 272 to AR 88 – Talimena Scenic Drive, Queen Wilhelmina State Park | |||
| Acorn | 15.656 | 25.196 |   US 59 south / US 71 south – Mena, Texarkana | Eastern end of US 59 concurrency; western end of US 71 concurrency | ||||
| Scott | "Y" City | 31.07 | 50.00 | US 71 north | Eastern end of US 71 concurrency | |||
 I-49 | Proposed | |||||||
| Montgomery | Pencil Bluff | 53.45 | 86.02 | AR 88 east – Sims | Western end of AR 88 concurrency | |||
| 53.79 | 86.57 | AR 88 west – Oden, Pine Ridge, Mena, Queen Wilhelmina State Park | Eastern end of AR 88 concurrency | |||||
| | 58.17 | 93.62 |  AR 298 north – Sims | |||||
| | 62.15 | 100.02 |   AR 27 north / AR 379 (Southfork Road) – Story | Western end of AR 27 concurrency | ||||
| Mount Ida | 63.70 | 102.52 | AR 27 south – Glenwood | Eastern end of AR 27 concurrency | ||||
| | 72.35 | 116.44 |  AR 949-2 (Ouachita Shores Parkway) – Denby Point Recreation Area | |||||
| | 73.56 | 118.38 |  AR 949-3 (Shangri-La Drive) – Tompkins Bend Recreation Area | |||||
| Joplin | 74.57 | 120.01 |  AR 949-4 (Mount Harbor Road) – Joplin Recreation Area | |||||
| Garland | | 85.82 | 138.11 |  AR 227 south (Sunshine Road) – Sunshine | ||||
| | 86.03 | 138.45 |  AR 926 (Brady Mountain Road) – Brady Mountain Recreation Area | |||||
| Piney | 94.69 | 152.39 | AR 227 north – Mountain Pine, Lake Ouachita State Park | |||||
| Hot Springs | 95.79 | 154.16 | Western end of freeway section | |||||
| 1 |  US 270B east – Hot Springs | Western terminus of US 270B | ||||||
| 96.60 | 155.46 | 2 |   US 70 west / US 70B east (Airport Road) – Glenwood | Western end of US 70 concurrency; western terminus of US 70B | ||||
| 98.46 | 158.46 | 3 | McLeod Street | |||||
| 99.53 | 160.18 | 4 | AR 88 (Higdon Ferry Road) | |||||
| 100.35 | 161.50 | 5 |  AR 7 (Central Avenue) | Signed as exits 5A (south) and 5B (north) | ||||
| 102.61 | 165.13 | 7 |  AR 128 (Carpenter Dam Road) | |||||
| 104.57 | 168.29 | 9 | US 70 east / US 270B west (Malvern Avenue) – Little Rock | Eastern end of US 70 concurrency; eastern terminus of US 270B | ||||
| Eastern end of freeway section | ||||||||
| | 108.17 | 174.08 |  AR 171 north | |||||
| Hot Spring | Magnet Cove | 110.34 | 177.58 |  AR 51 south – Butterfield | ||||
| | 116.73 | 187.86 | AR 51 north – Butterfield | |||||
| Rockport | 117.76 | 189.52 | Western end of freeway section | |||||
| 98 |  I-30 west / US 270B east – Malvern, Texarkana, Dallas | Western end of I-30 concurrency; signed as exits 98B (west) and 98A (east) | ||||||
| 119.26 | 191.93 | 99 | I-30 east – Benton, Little Rock | Eastern end of I-30 concurrency | ||||
| Eastern end of freeway section | ||||||||
| Malvern |  US 67 / US 270B west – Glen Rose, Perla, Malvern | |||||||
| Grant | Poyen |  AR 229 – Haskell, Leola | ||||||
| Prattsville |  AR 291 north | Western end of AR 291 concurrency | ||||||
| AR 291 south – Jenkins Ferry State Park | Eastern end of AR 291 concurrency | |||||||
 AR 190 east | ||||||||
| Sheridan |  US 167 – Little Rock, El Dorado | |||||||
 AR 46 west (Rose Street) – Jenkins Ferry State Park, Grant County Museum | ||||||||
 US 167B (Rock Street) to I-530 – Fordyce | ||||||||
| AR 46 east | ||||||||
| Jefferson | |  AR 104 east – Samples | ||||||
| White Hall | I-530 (US 65) – Little Rock, Pine Bluff | I-530 exit 34 | ||||||
  AR 365S east (Sheridan Road) to US 65B – White Hall | Continuation east | |||||||
1.000 mi = 1.609 km; 1.000 km = 0.621 mi
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Special routes
editHot Springs business route
edit U.S. Highway 270B | |
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| Location | Hot Springs, Arkansas |
| Length | 8.90 mi (14.32 km) |
| Existed | June 5, 1991[12]–present |
U.S. Highway 270B is a 8.90-mile-long (14.32 km) business route in Garland County, Arkansas. It runs through downtown Hot Springs, Arkansas.
Major intersections
editThe entire route is in Hot Springs, Garland County.
| mi[11] | km | Destinations | Notes | ||
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| 0.000 | 0.000 |  US 270 west – Mount Ida | Western terminus | ||
| US 270 east – Malvern, Little Rock | Westbound exit and eastbound entrance; exit 1 on US 270 | ||||
| 1.687 | 2.715 | US 70B west (Airport Road) – Glenwood | Western end of US 70B concurrency | ||
| 3.77 | 6.07 | AR 7 (Central Avenue) – Business District | |||
| 4.25 | 6.84 | US 70B east (East Grand Avenue) | Eastern end of US 70B concurrency | ||
| 7.00 | 11.27 | AR 128 west (Carpenter Dam Road) | Eastern terminus of AR 128 | ||
| 8.90 | 14.32 | US 70 / US 270 (Malvern Avenue) – Glenwood, Mount Ida, Benton, Little Rock | Eastern terminus; exit 9 on US 70/US 270 | ||
1.000 mi = 1.609 km; 1.000 km = 0.621 mi
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Malvern business route
edit| U.S. Highway 270B | |
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| Location | Malvern, Arkansas |
| Length | 2.628 mi[11] (4.229 km) |
| Existed | January 11, 2006[13]–present |
U.S. Highway 270B is a business route of US 270 in Malvern, Arkansas, the small-town county seat of Hot Spring County. Created in 2006 from a former alignment of the parent route, US 270B passes through downtown Malvern, before forming an overlap with US 67.
Major intersections
editThe entire route is in Malvern, Hot Spring County.
| mi[10] | km | Destinations | Notes | ||
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| 0.00 | 0.00 | I-30 / US 270 – Texarkana, Hot Springs, Little Rock | Western terminus | ||
| 2.63 | 4.23 |  US 67 south (Page Avenue) / AR 9 (Main Street) | Western end of US 67 concurrency | ||
| 5.53 | 8.90 | US 67 north / US 270 – Glen Rose, Sheridan | Eastern terminus; eastern end of US 67 concurrency | ||
1.000 mi = 1.609 km; 1.000 km = 0.621 mi
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Other loops and spurs
editThis article may be confusing or unclear to readers. (February 2015) |
- Seminole, Oklahoma; Short highway connecting U.S. 270 to OK-9. This highway is disputed as a state or U.S. highway, as both signs are posted.
- Magnet Cove, Arkansas (decommissioned)
References
edit- ^ Arkansas State Highway Commission (June 1, 1931). Official Highway Service Map (TIF) (Revised). Scale not given. Little Rock: Arkansas State Highway Commission. Retrieved December 9, 2020 – via Arkansas GIS Office.
- ^ Arkansas State Highway Commission (January 1, 1932). Official Highway Service Map (TIF) (Map). Scale not given. Little Rock: Arkansas State Highway Commission. Retrieved December 9, 2020 – via Arkansas GIS Office.
- ^ Arkansas State Highway Commission (April 1935). Map of the State Highway System of Arkansas (TIF) (Map). Scale not given. Little Rock: Arkansas State Highway Commission. Retrieved December 9, 2020 – via Arkansas GIS Office.
- ^ Arkansas State Highway Commission (1935). Official Highway Service Map (TIF) (Map). Scale not given. Little Rock: Arkansas State Highway Commission. Retrieved December 9, 2020 – via Arkansas GIS Office.
- ^ State Highway Commission of Kansas (1937). Kansas State Highway System (PDF) (Map). Scale not given. Topeka: State Highway Commission of Kansas. Retrieved February 28, 2021.
- ^ State Highway Commission of Kansas (1938). Kansas State Highway System (PDF) (Map). Scale not given. Topeka: State Highway Commission of Kansas. Retrieved February 28, 2021.
- ^ U.S. Route Numbering Subcommittee (October 14, 1967). "U.S. Route Numbering Subcommittee Agenda Showing Action Taken by the Executive Committee" (Report). Washington, DC: American Association of State Highway Officials. p. 354 – via Wikisource.
- ^ Special Committee on U.S. Route Numbering (November 14, 1980). "Route Numbering Committee Agenda" (PDF) (Report). Washington, DC: American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials. p. 522 – via Wikimedia Commons.
- ^ State Highway Commission of Kansas (January 4, 1939). "Resolution to withdraw a US Numbered Route from the State Highway System in several counties in Kansas". Topeka: State Highway Commission of Kansas. Archived from the original on May 3, 2021. Retrieved February 28, 2021.
- ^ a b Arkansas State Highway and Transportation Department (2015). "Arkansas Road Log Database". Arkansas State Highway and Transportation Department. Archived from the original (MDB) on August 29, 2017. Retrieved March 27, 2016.
- ^ a b c Arkansas Centerline File (GIS Map) (Map) (Updated ed.). Various. Arkansas GIS Office. December 13, 2019 [September 29, 2014]. Retrieved March 14, 2020.
- ^ "Minutes of the Meeting of the Arkansas State Highway Commission" (PDF). Little Rock: Arkansas State Highway Commission. 1990–1999. p. 142-143. OCLC 21798861. Archived from the original (PDF) on July 21, 2019. Retrieved December 9, 2020.
- ^ Arkansas State Highway Commission (2009). "Minutes of the Meeting of the Arkansas State Highway Commission" (PDF). Little Rock: Arkansas State Highway Commission. pp. 831–832. OCLC 21798861. Archived from the original (PDF) on March 24, 2016. Retrieved March 14, 2020.
External links
edit| Browse numbered routes | ||||
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←  K-269 | KS | →  K-271 | ||
←  SH-266 | OK | →  SH-270 | ||
←  AR 269 | AR | →  US 271 | ||