Arkansas Highway 42

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Highway 42

Arkansas Highway 42
Route information
Maintained by ArDOT
Length53.541 mi [1]  (86.166 km)
ExistedApril 1, 1926 [2] –present
Major junctions
West endArkansas 37.svg AR 37 near Beedeville
Major intersections
East endBarton Street in Turrell
Location
Country United States
State Arkansas
Counties Jackson, Cross, Crittenden
Highway system
← Arkansas 41.svg AR 41 → Arkansas 43.svg AR 43

Highway 42 (AR 42, Ark. 42, and Hwy. 42) is an east–west state highway of 53.69 miles (86.41 km) in Northeast Arkansas. The highways begins in the corn and cotton fields of the Mississippi Alluvial Plain at Highway 37, crosses the Crowley's Ridge and ends in the St. Francis Lowlands. The highway is a rural, two-lane road with relatively low traffic serving a sparsely populated agricultural area of Arkansas. Highway 42 is one of the original state highways created during the 1926 Arkansas state highway numbering, and has remained largely unchanged since bridge construction and an eastward extension in 1938. It is maintained by the Arkansas Department of Transportation (ARDOT).

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Route description

Highway 42 runs in southeastern Jackson County, within a historic and cultural region known as the Arkansas Delta. The western terminus is at Highway 37 south of Beedeville and just east of the Cache River National Wildlife Refuge; Highway 42 runs due east as a section line road to a junction with Highway 145 before entering Cross County. [3]

Entering Cross County, Highway 42 bridges Bayou DeView before entering the small town of Hickory Ridge. Shortly after entering town, the highway crosses the Union Pacific Railway tracks and intersects US Highway 49 (US 49, Flora Street). [4] Highway 42 continues east, serving as the northern terminus of Highway 259 at the eastern city limits before continuing east as a section line road, curving to maintain alignment near Brushy Creek Wildlife Management Area and serving as the northern terminus of Highway 193 on its way through sparsely populated agricultural land. Shortly after crossing the L'Anguille River, Highway 42 enters the small town of Cherry Valley. Highway 42 intersects Highway 1 at a skew intersection, beginning a concurrency east with Highway 1 Business (AR 1B). As the routes approach downtown Cherry Valley, Highway 1B turns northward, with Highway 42 continuing east across the Union Pacific Railway tracks and across the loess hills of Crowley's Ridge. [5]

Highway 42 in Twist Twist AR 2.jpg
Highway 42 in Twist

Along the eastern edge of Crowley's Ridge, Highway 42 intersects Highway 163 (Crowley's Ridge Parkway) [6] in the unincorporated community of Birdeye before entering the St. Francis Lowlands. Highway 42 crosses two man-made drainage ditches and their levees (the St. Francis Bay Ditch and Cross County Ditch) before intersecting Highway 75 and crossing the St. Francis River at Coldwater. The route continues eastward, passing through Twist and entering Crittenden County. [7]

Eastern terminus at Barton Street in Turrell Turrell AR 12.jpg
Eastern terminus at Barton Street in Turrell

Highway 42 passes through agricultural lands to intersect Highway 149 at Three Forks. The two highways form a concurrency heading northeast for 3.0 miles (4.8 km), until Highway 42 turns right, ending the concurrency. Highway 42 continues east as a section line road, intersecting Highway 118 near Heafer and crossing Big Creek twice before an intersection with Interstate 55 (I-55) in Turrell. It continues east in Turrell, intersecting Highway 77 and the BNSF Railway tracks before turning north toward downtown Turrell. Becoming Hammond Street, Highway 42 briefly straddles the border between Turrell and the Wapanocca National Wildlife Refuge, intersecting the road leading to the NWR Headquarters before returning within the city limits. Highway 42 follows the BNSF tracks north to Barton Street, where it terminates. [8] [9]

The ArDOT maintains Highway 42 like all other parts of the state highway system. As a part of these responsibilities, the department tracks the volume of traffic using its roads in surveys using a metric called average annual daily traffic (AADT). The ArDOT estimates the traffic level for a segment of roadway for any average day of the year in these surveys. The peak traffic volume is within Cherry Valley, estimated at 1,500 vehicles per day (VPD), followed by 920 VPD along the segment in Hickory Ridge. The remainder of the segments have traffic volumes below 800 VPD. [10] For reference, the American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials (AASHTO) classifies roads with fewer than 400 vehicles per day as a very low volume local road.

No segment of Highway 42 has been listed as part of the National Highway System, [1] a network of roads important to the nation's economy, defense, and mobility. [11]

History

During the 1926 Arkansas state highway numbering, State Road 42 was designated between the current western terminus at Highway 37 to Highway 16 (present-day US 64) near Parkin. [2] By 1938, bridge construction had been completed, allowing an extension through Coldwater to Three Forks. Highway 42 replaced Highway 75 between Three Forks and US 61 in Turrell, with the former segment from Coldwater to US 64 in Parkin becoming Highway 75. [12] The bridge over the St. Francis River was lost in 1950, [13] [14] a replacement was opened to the south at Coldwater in 1968. [15]

The Arkansas General Assembly deleted the extension between Three Forks and Turrell in favor of extending Highway 149 by Act 383 of 1951. At the request of the Crittenden County Judge, the State Highway Commission studied the roadway and reinstated the extension during a meeting August 25-28, 1953. [16] After hearing a presentation during their meeting on August 26, 1954, the Highway Commission offered a swap to the Crittenden County Judge to remove the recently re-designated segment in favor of paving a few other roads in the vicinity and accepting them into the highway system. [17] The offer was revised on March 9, 1955 to only extend Highway 42 from US 61/US 63 (present-day I-55) to downtown Turrell. [18]

Major intersections

Mile markers reset at some concurrencies. [a 1]

CountyLocationmi [1] [20] kmDestinationsNotes
Jackson ​0.000.00Arkansas 37.svg AR 37  – Mc Crory, Newport Western terminus
​3.145.05Arkansas 145.svg AR 145
Cross Hickory Ridge 7.5412.13US 49 (AR).svg US 49 (Flora Street) – Jonesboro, Brinkley
8.2213.23South plate.svg
Arkansas 259.svgTo plate.svg
Arkansas 364.svg AR 259 south to AR 364 		Northern terminus of AR 259
​12.3519.88South plate.svg
Arkansas 193.svg AR 193 south		Northern terminus of AR 193
Cherry Valley 21.00333.801Arkansas 1.svgNorth plate.svg
Arkansas 1B.svg AR 1  / AR 1B north – Jonesboro, Wynne 		Southern terminus of AR 1B; western end of AR 1B concurrency
21.3434.34North plate.svg
Arkansas 1B.svg AR 1B north		Eastern end of AR 1B concurrency
​26.6842.94Arkansas 163.svg AR 163 (Crowley's Ridge Parkway) – Bay Village, Levesque
Coldwater 33.5353.96Arkansas 75.svg AR 75  – Marked Tree, Parkin
33.56–
33.62		54.01–
54.11		Bridge over the St. Francis River
Crittenden Three Forks 43.69370.317South plate.svg
Arkansas 149.svg AR 149 south (Barton Street) – Earle 		Western end of AR 149 concurrency
​0.0000.000North plate.svg
Arkansas 149.svg AR 149 north (Barton Street) – Marked Tree 		Eastern end of AR 149 concurrency
​3.285.28Arkansas 118.svg AR 118  – Tyronza
Turrell 7.6612.33I-55.svgUS 78 (AR).svg I-55  / US 78  – Blytheville, Memphis I-55 exit 21
9.1914.79Arkansas 77.svg AR 77
9.84815.849End state maintenance at Barton StreetEastern terminus
1.000 mi = 1.609 km; 1.000 km = 0.621 mi

See also

Notes

  1. ↑ Although Arkansas highways normally terminate when intersected by a route of greater importance, Highway 149's history as a former alignment of US 49 is reflected when intersecting state highways of a lesser number. Although routes of a lower number and the same class usually take priority at a concurrency, Highway 149 has preference to Highway 42. [19]

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References

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  2. 1 2 Arkansas State Highway Department (April 1, 1926). State of Arkansas Showing System of State Highways (TIF) (Map). 1:500,000. Little Rock: Arkansas State Highway Commission. Retrieved November 27, 2019– via Arkansas GIS Office.
  3. ↑ Transportation Planning and Policy Division (August 30, 2016) [December 28, 2011]. General Highway Map, Jackson County, Arkansas (PDF) (Map) (Revised ed.). 1:62,500. Arkansas State Highway and Transportation Department. OCLC   913479483 . Retrieved November 23, 2019.{{cite map}}: |author= has generic name (help)
  4. ↑ Transportation Planning and Policy Division (August 2016). Map of Hickory Ridge, Cross County, Arkansas (PDF) (Map). 1:12,000. Little Rock: Arkansas State Highway and Transportation Department. §§ B1-B4. Retrieved November 23, 2019.{{cite map}}: |author= has generic name (help)
  5. ↑ Transportation Planning and Policy Division (August 2016). Map of Cherry Valley, Cross County, Arkansas (PDF) (Map). 1:12,000. Little Rock: Arkansas State Highway and Transportation Department. §§ B1-B4. Retrieved November 23, 2019.{{cite map}}: |author= has generic name (help)
  6. ↑ America's Byways. Crowley's Ridge Parkway, Arkansas Section (Map). 1" = 20 miles. Washington DC: United States Department of Transportation Federal Highway Administration. Archived from the original on November 23, 2014. Retrieved November 24, 2019.
  7. ↑ Transportation Planning and Policy Division (October 2, 2014) [July 11, 2007]. General Highway Map, Cross County, Arkansas (PDF) (Map) (Revised ed.). 1:62,500. Arkansas State Highway and Transportation Department. OCLC   911045270 . Retrieved November 24, 2019.{{cite map}}: |author= has generic name (help)
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  10. ↑ System Information & Research Division (2018). Annual Average Daily Traffic Estimates (GIS Map) (Map). Various. Arkansas Department of Transportation. Retrieved November 27, 2019.
  11. ↑ Natzke, Stefan; Neathery, Mike & Adderly, Kevin (June 29, 2017). "What is the National Highway System?". National Highway System. Federal Highway Administration . Retrieved July 15, 2018.
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  15. ↑
  16. ↑ "Minutes" (1953–69) , pp. 2278–2280.
  17. ↑ "Minutes" (1953–69) , p. 2159.
  18. ↑ "Minutes" (1953–69) , p. 1965.
  19. ↑ Transportation Planning and Policy Division (July 26, 2019). State Highway Route and Section Map, Crittenden County, Arkansas (PDF) (Map). Little Rock: Arkansas Department of Transportation. Retrieved November 24, 2019.{{cite map}}: |author= has generic name (help)
  20. ↑ Arkansas Centerline File (GIS Map) (Map) (Updated ed.). Various. Arkansas GIS Office. August 1, 2019 [September 29, 2014]. Retrieved November 23, 2019.
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