Arkansas Highway 22
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| Route information | ||||
| Maintained by AHTD | ||||
| Length: | 75.60 mi[1] (121.67 km) | |||
| Existed: | 1926 – present | |||
| Major junctions | ||||
| West end: |
.svg.png){kind=small}  US 64 / US 71B in Fort Smith | |||
 .svg.png){kind=small} I-540 / US 71 in Fort Smith .svg.png){kind=small} AR 549 / Future I-49 in Barling AR 23 in Caulksville | ||||
| East end: |
 AR 7 in Dardanelle | |||
| Location | ||||
| Counties: | Sebastian, Franklin, Logan, Yell | |||
| Highway system | ||||
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Highway 22 (AR 22, Ark. 22, and Hwy. 22) is an east–west state highway in the Arkansas River Valley. The highway runs 75.60 miles (121.67 km) from US Highway 64/US Highway 71B (US 64/US 71B) east to Highway 7 in Dardanelle. The highway is one of the original 1926 state highways, and is maintained by the Arkansas State Highway and Transportation Department (AHTD).
Route description
The route begins in Fort Smith at US 64/US 71B. It runs east, crossing I-540/US 71. AR 22 concurs with AR 255 through Fort Chaffee and intersects AR 96 east of the installation. The route next enters Charleston where it meets AR 217 before crossing AR 41 in Branch.[2] County Line High School is located on this highway near Branch.
Caulksville brings a junction with AR 23, and meetings with AR 109, AR 288, and AR 309 occur in Paris. AR 22/AR 109/AR 288 run together until Subiaco, when the route loses AR 288 but crosses AR 197.[3] AR 22 eventually loses AR 109 at Midway, running alone to Dardanelle.[4] The route terminates at AR 7 after a very brief concurrency with AR 155.[5]
The road itself is fairly straight and in reasonably good repair. Passing can be safely accomplished in several stretches of Highway 22 despite a lack of constructed passing areas.
History
The route was one of the original 1926 Arkansas state highways. AR 22 ran from Fort Smith to Dardanelle along a routing very similar to the modern-day routing of AR 22. One surviving element of the original alignment survives in Yell County west of Dardanelle; it consists of CR 906, a 0.25-mile (0.40 km) stretch of concrete pavement 18 feet (5.5 m) wide. This segment was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2008.[6] A surviving section built in 1930 is also found in New Blaine.
Major intersections
| County | Location | mi | km | Destinations | Notes |
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| Sebastian | Fort Smith | 0.00 | 0.00 | US 64 / US 71B (Garrison Avenue / Towson Avenue / North 11th Street) – National Historic Site, National Cemetery | |
| 3.67 | 5.91 |   I-540 to I-49 / I-40 / US 71 – Van Buren | I-540/I-49 exit 8 | ||
| Barling | 7.07 | 11.38 |  AR 253 south | ||
| 8.07 | 12.99 |  AR 255 north | |||
| 8.38 | 13.49 |  AR 59 north – Van Buren, Trimble Lock & Dam, Springhill Park | |||
| 8.65 | 13.92 | AR 549 south / Future I-49 | Opened to traffic and signed as AR 549, northbound segment into Crawford County unbuilt; future I-49 exit 193 | ||
| Central City | 11.00 | 17.70 | AR 255 south – Vache Grasse Park | ||
| Diamond Grove | 14.04 | 22.60 |  AR 96 – Lavaca, Greenwood | ||
| | 16.33 | 26.28 | AR 255 north – Lavaca | ||
| | 20.20 | 32.51 |  AR 252 west | ||
| Franklin | Charleston | 23.58 | 37.95 |  AR 217 north (Greenwood Street) – Vesta | |
| 24.33 | 39.16 | AR 217 south (South Rattlesnake Road) | |||
| Branch | 29.21– 29.81 | 47.01– 47.97 |  AR 41 – Chismville, Cecil | Officially designated exception | |
| Logan | Ratcliff | 32.61 | 52.48 |  AR 398 west | |
| Caulksville | 33.81 | 54.41 | AR 23 – Ozark, Booneville | ||
| Paris | 39.69 | 63.87 |  AR 369 south (South Charcoal Plant Road) | ||
  AR 109 south / AR 309 (Elm Street) – Mount Magazine State Park | |||||
| Subiaco |  AR 197 north – Scranton | ||||
| Midway | AR 109 north – Clarksville, Cane Creek Recreation Area, Dublin Recreation Area | ||||
| New Blaine | AR 197 north – Shoal Bay Recreation Area | ||||
| Delaware |  AR 393 north – Delaware Recreation Area | ||||
| Yell | Dardanelle |  AR 155 west – Mount Nebo State Park | |||
 AR 7 to AR 27 south – Ola, Danville, Russellville | |||||
1.000 mi = 1.609 km; 1.000 km = 0.621 mi
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See also
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Arkansas portal -
U.S. Roads portal - National Register of Historic Places listings in Yell County, Arkansas
References
- ↑ System Information and Research Division (2014). "Arkansas Road Log Database" (MDB). Little Rock: Arkansas State Highway and Transportation Department. Retrieved March 27, 2016.
- ↑ Arkansas State Highway and Transportation Department. AHTD Sebastian County map Retrieved on 2009-10-05.
- ↑ Arkansas State Highway and Transportation Department. AHTD Franklin County map Retrieved on 2009-10-05.
- ↑ Arkansas State Highway and Transportation Department. AHTD Logan County map Retrieved on 2009-10-05.
- ↑ Arkansas State Highway and Transportation Department. AHTD Yell County map Retrieved on 2009-10-05.
- ↑ "NRHP nomination for Old Arkansas 22-Dardanelle Segment" (PDF). Arkansas Preservation. Retrieved 2016-04-28.