New Mexico State Road 264

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State Road 264
Route information
Maintained by NMDOT
Length 15.945 mi [1] (25.661 km)
Major junctions
West endArizona 264.svg SR 264 at the Arizona state line at Tse Bonito
East endUS 491.svg US 491 at Yah-ta-hey
Location
Counties McKinley
Highway system
  • State Roads in New Mexico
← New Mexico 263.svg NM 263 NM 266 New Mexico 266.svg →

State Road 264 (NM 264) is a state highway in the U.S. state of New Mexico. The highway extends 15.945 miles (25.661 km) from the Arizona state line at Tse Bonito, where the road continues west as Arizona State Route 264 (AZ 264), east to U.S. Route 491 (US 491) at Yah-ta-hey. NM 264 connects the Navajo Nation capital of Window Rock immediately west of the state line with US 491 north of Gallup in western McKinley County.

A state highway, state road, or state route is usually a road that is either numbered or maintained by a sub-national state or province. A road numbered by a state or province falls below numbered national highways in the hierarchy. Roads maintained by a state or province include both nationally numbered highways and un-numbered state highways. Depending on the state, "state highway" may be used for one meaning and "state road" or "state route" for the other.

U.S. state constituent political entity of the United States

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New Mexico State of the United States of America

New Mexico is a state in the Southwestern region of the United States of America; its capital and cultural center is Santa Fe, which was founded in 1610 as capital of Nuevo México, while its largest city is Albuquerque with its accompanying metropolitan area. It is one of the Mountain States and shares the Four Corners region with Utah, Colorado, and Arizona; its other neighboring states are Oklahoma to the northeast, Texas to the east-southeast, and the Mexican states of Chihuahua to the south and Sonora to the southwest. With a population around two million, New Mexico is the 36th state by population. With a total area of 121,592 sq mi (314,920 km2), it is the fifth-largest and sixth-least densely populated of the 50 states. Due to their geographic locations, northern and eastern New Mexico exhibit a colder, alpine climate, while western and southern New Mexico exhibit a warmer, arid climate.

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Route description

NM 264 begins at the Arizona–New Mexico state line just northwest of the unincorporated village of Tse Bonito. The highway continues west as AZ 264 into Window Rock, the capital of the Navajo Nation. NM 264 begins within the main body of the Navajo Nation but heads southeast out of the Native American reservation and passes through Tse Bonito. The highway is four lanes, either divided or with a center turn lane, for its entire length, and it passes through an area of checkerboard land ownership in which alternating sections of land have Navajo and non-Navajo ownership. NM 264 passes to the north of Rock Springs, and the route passes through the village of Yah-ta-hey immediately before it reaches its eastern terminus at a trumpet interchange with US 491. The interchange primarily serves the movement between NM 264 and US 491 south toward Gallup, although the U.S. Highway is entirely four lanes from Gallup north to Shiprock. [2]

Checkerboarding (land) pattern of land ownership

Checkerboarding refers to a situation where land ownership is intermingled between two or more owners, resulting in a checkerboard pattern. Checkerboarding is prevalent in the Western United States due to its extensive use in railroad grants for western expansion, although it had its beginnings in the canal land grant era.

Section (United States land surveying) square subdivision of a U.S. survey township

In U.S. land surveying under the Public Land Survey System (PLSS), a section is an area nominally one square mile, containing 640 acres, with 36 sections making up one survey township on a rectangular grid.

Rock Springs, New Mexico CDP in New Mexico, United States

Rock Springs is a census-designated place (CDP) in McKinley County, New Mexico, United States. The population was 558 at the 2000 census.

Junction list

The entire route is in McKinley County.

Locationmi [1] kmDestinationsNotes
Tse Bonito 0.0000.000Arizona 264.svg SR 264 west – Window Rock, Ganado Western terminus; Arizona state line
Yah-ta-hey 15.94525.661US 491.svg US 491  – Gallup, Shiprock Eastern terminus; trumpet interchange
1.000 mi = 1.609 km; 1.000 km = 0.621 mi

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References

  1. 1 2 Statewide Planning Bureau (June 8, 2016). "TIMS Road Segments by Posted Route/Point with AADT Info: NM Routes" (PDF). New Mexico Department of Transportation. p. 55. Retrieved June 21, 2016.
  2. ↑ Statewide Planning Bureau. Official Highway Map of New Mexico (PDF) (Map) (2016 ed.). New Mexico Department of Transportation. § C1. Retrieved June 21, 2016.
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