Utah State Route 37

Infobox road
state=UT
type=SR
route=37
section=109
maint=UDOT


length_mi=12.351
length_round=3
length_ref=Utah Department of Transportation, [http://www.udot.utah.gov/main/f?p=100:pg:2814615533739116:::1:T,V:814, Highway Reference Information] : [http://www.udot.utah.gov/main/uconowner.gf?n=7017121893253495 SR-37] , updated 2008-05-01, accessed June 2008]
established=1915 as a state highway; 1927 as SR-37
direction_a=South
terminus_a=jct|state=UT|SR|126 in Sunset
junction=jct|state=UT|SR|108 in Clinton
jct|state=UT|SR|97 in Hooper
direction_b=North
terminus_b=jct|state=UT|SR|108 in Roy
previous_type=SR
previous_route=36
next_type=SR
next_route=38

State Route 37 (SR-37) is a state highway in the U.S. state of Utah, forming a 270° loop through the western part of the Ogden-Clearfield metropolitan area. The route is convert|12.35|mi|km|2.

When the road was added to the state highway system in 1915 and numbered in 1927, it formed a connection from Ogden to Hooper. However, after a series of changes, SR-37 does not enter Ogden and extends further south to Sunset.

Route description

SR-37 begins at SR-126 (Main Street) in Sunset, just west of I-15, though the nearest access to the Interstate is more than a mile (1.5 km) away. It first heads west on 1800 North, passing through Clinton and West Point before turning north at 5000 West, which becomes 5900 West when it crosses from Davis County into Weber County. Beyond Hooper, SR-37 turns east onto 4000 South, which leads through West Haven and to the border with Roy at SR-108. SR-37 ends there, but the road continues to SR-126 at Ogden-Hinckley Airport, 3.5 miles (5.5 km) north of SR-37's south end.Google Maps street maps and USGS topographic maps, accessed May 2008 via [http://mapper.acme.com/ ACME Mapper] ]

The entire route is located in the flat plain between Ogden Bay in the Great Salt Lake and the Wasatch Range. The area was formerly served by the Denver and Rio Grande Western Railroad's Hooper Branch from Roy.

History

The road from Ogden southwest to Hooper, via 24th Street, Midland Drive, 4000 South, and 5900 West, was added to the state highway system in 1915,Utah Department of Transportation, [http://www.udot.utah.gov/main/f?p=100:pg:5285268476414239680:::1:T,V:1348, Highway Resolutions] : PDFlink|1= [http://www.udot.utah.gov/main/uconowner.gf?n=200609140943201 Route 37] |2=711 KB, updated October 2007, accessed May 2008] Utah Department of Transportation, [http://www.udot.utah.gov/main/f?p=100:pg:5285268476414239680:::1:T,V:1348, Highway Resolutions] : PDFlink|1= [http://www.udot.utah.gov/main/uconowner.gf?n=200609140944151 Route 38] |2=8.82 MB, updated October 2007, accessed May 2008] and assigned the SR-37 designation by the state legislature in 1927. [cite UTSR law|year=1927|quote=37. From Ogden southwesterly to Hooper.] The legislature added a connection from SR-1 (US-91, now SR-26) at "Death Curve" in Roy north along 1900 West, Hinckley Drive, and Pennsylvania Avenue to SR-37 at Hooper Junction in 1923 [cite UTSR law|year=1923|quote=(s) From a point on the Salt Lake-Ogden State road, known as "Dead Man's Curve" in Weber county; thence northerly to intersection with Ogden-Hooper State road.] and numbered it State Route 38 in 1927. [cite UTSR law|year=1927|quote=38. From a point on the Salt Lake-Ogden State road, known as "death curve" in Weber county, thence northerly and easterly to junction with Ogden-Hooper State road.] The piece of SR-37 east of Hooper Junction, mostly on 24th Street, was transferred to SR-38 in 1931. [cite UTSR law|year=1931|quote=(37) From Hooper junction on route 38 to Hooper. (38) From a point on the Salt Lake-Ogden State road, known as "Death Curve" in Weber county, northerly and easterly via Hooper junction to Ogden.] That same year, State Route 105 was created, initially running from SR-1 (now SR-126) in Sunset east to SR-49 (now US-89 ) in South Weber. [cite UTSR law|year=1931|quote=(105) From junction with route 1 at Sunset easterly to junction with route 49 at South Weber.] It was extended west from Sunset to South Hooper in 1933, [cite UTSR law|year=1933|chapter=30|quote=(105) From junction with route 1 at Sunset easterly to junction with route 49 at South Weber and from Sunset westerly to South Hooper.] and in 1941 the original portion east of Sunset, which now lies inside Hill Air Force Base, was deleted. [cite UTSR law|year=1941|chapter=34|quote=Route 105. From junction with route 1 at Sunset westerly to South Hooper.] SR-37 and SR-105 were connected in 1935 by SR-195, which connected to the former at Hooper, the latter at South Hooper, and continued south and east to SR-108 in Syracuse. [cite UTSR law|year=1935|quote=Route 195. From Hooper on route 37 southerly to Syracuse.] A 1945 extension of SR-37 absorbed SR-105 and part of SR-195, creating the present three-quarter loop, though it was about three miles (5 km) longer than the present extent, due to the north end being at Hooper Junction. [cite UTSR law|year=1945|quote=Route 37. From Hooper Junction on route 38 westerly via Kanesville to Hooper, thence south to South Hooper, thence east to Sunset on route 1." "Route 195. From Syracuse on route 108 west two and one-half miles, thence north to route 37.] In 1953, the north-south piece of SR-38 on 1900 West (south of Nye's Corner, the intersection with Hinckley Drive) became an extension of SR-84 (now SR-126).

Until 1964, SR-39 left downtown Ogden by heading east on 24th Street, north on Harrison Boulevard (now SR-203), and east on Valley Drive to Ogden Canyon. That year, it was moved to a new connection from 12th Street to the canyon. The portion on 24th Street became an extension of SR-37 to SR-203, which also replaced the easternmost portion of SR-38 between Hooper Junction and Washington Boulevard (SR-1/US-89). This left SR-38 as a short route on Hinckley Drive and Pennsylvania Avenue between SR-84 at Nye's Corner and SR-37 at Hooper Junction. With the construction of I-15, Pennsylvania Avenue was no longer useful as a state highway, and so it was given to the city of Ogden in 1966. The remainder of SR-38, on Hinckley Drive, became an extension of SR-79. The state legislature truncated SR-37 to its present length in 1969. The portion from Hooper Junction (where I-15 now crossed) to SR-1 (US-89) in Ogden became a new SR-53, the piece southwest of SR-84 became an extension of SR-108, and the roadways in between and east of SR-1 were removed from the state highway system.

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