New Mexico State Road 2

State Road 2
Route information
Maintained by NMDOT
Length:	32.859 mi[1] (52.881 km)
Major junctions
South end:	US 285 near Artesia
	NM 249 in Hagerman NM 256 near Roswell
North end:	US 285 near Roswell
Location
Counties:	Eddy, Chaves
Highway system
State Roads in New Mexico Interstate US State Minor Scenic ← NM 1 NM 3 →

New Mexico State Road 2 travels southeast from U.S. Route 285, outside of Roswell, New Mexico, passing through Midway. While in Dexter, it turns right as Old Dexter Highway and passes through Greenfield, Hagerman, and Lake Arthur, before ending back at US 285.

History

1926 specification shield for Route 2 and later State Road 2.

Later shield for NM 2, until its replacement by US 285 in the mid 1930s.

Prior to 1927, the Route 2 designation had been applied to a highway from the Texas state line near Carlsbad to Route 1 in Santa Fe. After 1927, State Road 2 ran from the Texas line southeast of Malaga to the Colorado border northeast of Chama. This newer routing replaced the original Route 8 between Santa Fe and Española and Route 36 from Española to Colorado. NM 2 was approximately 425 miles long. In the mid 1930s, it was decommissioned and replaced by US 285. In the early 1950s, US 285 was rerouted south of Roswell. NM 2 was recommissioned along the older routing. US 285 was rerouted again between Roswell and Artesia in the mid 1960s. The older routing was at first designated US 285 Alternate, but was renumbered as an extension of NM 2 by the 1970s. Part of the original US 285 re-alignment south of Roswell was cut off by the mid 1960s extension north of Artesia. This cutoff became a spur of NM 2. During the 1988 Renumbering, NM 2 was truncated. The route north of the spur was renumbered as NM 256 and mainline NM 2 was extended over the spur.^[2]

Major intersections

County	Location	mi[3]	km	Destinations	Notes
Eddy	​	0.000	0.000	US 285 (Roswell Highway) – Artesia, Roswell	Southern terminus
	​	5.993	9.645	NM 438 west (East Pearson Road)
Chaves	Lake Arthur	8.822	14.198	NM 507 east (Eleventh Street)
	​	9.097	14.640	NM 557 west (Pueblo Road)
	Hagerman	16.412	26.413	NM 558 west (East Morgan Street)
		16.663	26.816	NM 249 east (East Aberdeen Street) – Maljamar
	​	18.422	29.647	NM 340 west (East Chickasaw Road)
	Dexter	22.860	36.790	NM 339 south (South Lincoln Avenue)
		23.057	37.107	NM 190 east (First Street)
	​	23.918	38.492	NM 340 south (Cherokee Road) / NM 560 west (East Shawnee Road)
	​	31.058	49.983	NM 256 north (Old Dexter Highway)
	​	32.859	52.881	US 285 (Southeast Main Street) – Artesia, Roswell	Northern terminus
1.000 mi = 1.609 km; 1.000 km = 0.621 mi

See also

• U.S. Roads portal
• New Mexico portal

References

1. "Posted Route–Legal Description" (PDF). New Mexico Department of Transportation. March 16, 2010. p. 1. Retrieved December 21, 2013.
2. Riner, Steve (21 May 2009). "Details of New Mexico State Routes 1-25". NM Highways. Retrieved 5 April 2016.
3. "TIMS Road Segments by Posted Route/Point with AADT Info; NM, NMX-Routes" (PDF). New Mexico Department of Transportation. April 3, 2013. pp. 1–2. Retrieved December 21, 2013.

External links

Route map: Bing / Google

Geographic data related to New Mexico State Road 2 at OpenStreetMap