New York State Route 436

This article is about the current alignment of NY 436. For the former alignment of NY 436 in Onondaga County, see New York State Route 436 (1950s–1960s).

NYS Route 436
Route information
Maintained by NYSDOT and Wyoming County
Length:	23.80 mi[3] (38.30 km)
Existed:	ca. 1972[1][2] – present
Major junctions
West end:	NY 39 in Pike
	NY 408 in Nunda
East end:	NY 36 in Dansville
Location
Counties:	Wyoming, Livingston
Highway system
Numbered highways in New York Interstate • U.S. • N.Y. (former) • Reference • County ← NY 434 NY 437 →

New York State Route 436 (NY 436) is an east–west state highway located in the western portion of New York in the United States. It extends for 23.80 miles (38.30 km) from an intersection with NY 39 in the Pike hamlet of Lamont to a junction with NY 36 in the village of Dansville. In between, the route passes through Letchworth State Park near its southern tip and serves the village of Nunda, where it meets NY 408. NY 436 also passes through the hamlet of Portageville, located at the southern end of Letchworth State Park on NY 19A, which NY 436 overlaps north of the community. Most of NY 436 is a two-lane highway that traverses largely rural areas of Wyoming and Livingston Counties.

The portion of NY 436 between Portageville and Nunda was originally part of Route 43, an unsigned legislative route, during the 1910s and 1920s. In the 1930 renumbering of state highways in New York, all of modern NY 436 east of Portageville became part of NY 39, which initially went east from the now-hamlet of Pike to Dansville. NY 39 was replaced east of Pike with NY 245 ca. 1940 after the alignments of the two routes were mostly swapped. NY 245 was truncated to begin in Naples ca. 1972, at which time the Pike–Dansville segment of its former routing became NY 436. The westernmost piece of NY 436 was altered in the mid-1970s to use NY 19A and a Wyoming County-maintained road to reach NY 39.

Route description

Portageville area

NY 436 begins at an intersection with NY 39 in Lamont, a hamlet within the town of Pike in Wyoming County. It initially heads eastward on Denton Corners Road, overlapping with County Route 38 (CR 38) as it traverses a mixture of open fields and farmland and enters the town of Genesee Falls. After 1.75 miles (2.82 km), NY 436 intersects NY 19A at a four-way intersection. While CR 38 continues eastward into Letchworth State Park, NY 436 turns to the south, initially following NY 19A around the southwestern tip of the park. Both routes eventually enter the park, however, as they approach the hamlet of Portageville, a community situated at the park's southern end. At this point, the mostly east–west NY 436 leaves the predominantly north–south NY 19A, allowing the latter to take the southern path out of town and parallel the Genesee River as it travels southward. NY 436, meanwhile, turns eastward to follow the northern edge of Portageville.^[4]

South end of the NY 19A / NY 436 overlap in Portageville

The route occupies the northernmost road in Portageville between NY 19A and Main Street, one that is initially devoid of development due to its proximity to the Genesee River gorge. As NY 436 approaches Main Street, it trends slightly southward to serve a small handful of homes. At Main Street, NY 436 abruptly turns north and crosses the Genesee River gorge, reentering Letchworth State Park as it passes into Livingston County and the town of Portage. Across the river, the route gradually turns to the east as it ascends the side of the gorge and passes under the Norfolk Southern Railway-owned Southern Tier Line. NY 436 leaves both Letchworth State Park and the Genesee River shortly afterward.^[4]

Nunda to Dansville

East of the park, NY 436 straightens out and takes an easterly alignment across open, cultivated fields to an intersection west of the Portage hamlet of Oakland, where the road meets the northern terminus of NY 70. From here, NY 436 curves to the northeast for a short distance before resuming its eastward routing through the small hamlet of Oakland and into the town of Nunda. Just 1 mile (1.6 km) east of Oakland is the village of Nunda, which NY 436 enters as Portage Road. It proceeds eastward into the village center, where it connects to NY 408, the village's main north–south highway. While NY 408 heads through Nunda's linear commercial district, NY 436 continues east through a more residential portion of the village as Mill Street.^[4]

Westbound on NY 436 through a rural, hilly portion of the town of Nunda

Outside of Nunda, NY 436 switches names once again to Nunda–Dansville Road, named for the two communities that the last segment of the road links. 1 mile (1.6 km) east of NY 408, NY 436 dips to the south for another mile, ascending in elevation as it climbs the side of a ridge overlooking the village of Nunda. It curves back to the east at the top of the ridge and generally maintains an east–west alignment for the rest of its length. The route winds its way across a mixture of farmlands and undeveloped areas in the towns of Ossian and North Dansville to the village of Dansville, where NY 436 passes under Interstate 390 on Ossian Street before ending two long blocks later at Dock Street, designated as NY 36. At this point, NY 36 leaves Dock Street and continues eastward on Ossian Street toward the village center.^[4]

History

The portion of modern NY 436 between Portageville Road northeast of Portageville and NY 408 in Nunda was originally designated as part of Route 43, an unsigned legislative route, by the New York State Legislature in 1911. The route also included the section of modern NY 408 linking Nunda to Mount Morris.^[5] On March 1, 1921, the route was extended southwestward along what is now NY 436 to meet Route 16 (now NY 19A) in Portageville.^[6] When the first set of posted routes in New York were assigned in 1924, no part of today's NY 436 was assigned a designation;^[7] in fact, by 1926, only two segments were state-maintained: the piece originally designated as part of legislative Route 43 and the section that now overlaps with NY 19A.^[8]

Eastern terminus of NY 436 in Dansville, as seen from NY 36 northbound

In the 1930 renumbering of state highways in New York, the Portageville–Nunda leg of former legislative Route 43 became part of the new NY 39, which continued west to the now-hamlet of Pike along Griffith Road and east on current NY 436 to Dansville. Also assigned as part of the renumbering was NY 245, a route extending from then-NY 39 in Pike to Perry Center on modern NY 39 and NY 246.^[9] Ca. 1934, NY 245 was rerouted to follow a new highway (modern NY 39) northeast from Perry to a new terminus at Pine Tavern.^[10][11] The alignments of NY 39 and NY 245 east of Pike were mostly swapped ca. 1940, placing NY 39 on its modern alignment and NY 245 on the east–west highway linking Portageville to Dansville. NY 245 initially bypassed Griffith Road by way of NY 436's modern routing on NY 19A and Denton Corners Road;^[12][13] however, NY 245 was reconfigured to use NY 39's old alignment along Griffith Road instead by 1947.^[14]

NY 245 was routed off Nunda–Dansville Road for a brief period during the 1950s. It was realigned in the late 1940s to follow NY 408 north from Nunda to the hamlet of Brooks Grove, where it would continue to Dansville by way of overlaps with NY 258 and NY 36.^[14][15] NY 245 was returned to its original alignment between the two locations in the late 1950s.^[16][17] The Pike–Dansville portion of NY 245 remained virtually unchanged until ca. 1972, when NY 245 was truncated to begin at its junction with NY 21 in Naples. The former routing of NY 245 between Pike and Dansville was subsequently redesignated as NY 436.^[1][2] NY 436 was rerouted follow its current alignment west of Portageville in the mid-1970s.^[18][19] The piece of NY 436 east of NY 408 in Nunda was county-maintained until April 1, 1983, when the state of New York acquired the highway as part of a highway maintenance swap between the state and Livingston County.^[20]

Major intersections

County	Location	Mile[3]	Destinations	Notes
Wyoming	Town of Pike	0.00	NY 39	Hamlet of Lamont
		1.79	NY 19A north	Northern terminus of NY 19A / NY 436 overlap
	Genesee Falls	3.92	NY 19A south	Hamlet of Portageville; southern terminus of NY 19A / NY 436 overlap
Livingston	Town of Portage	7.24	NY 70	Northern terminus of NY 70
	Village of Nunda	9.94	NY 408
	Dansville	23.80	NY 36 to I-390
1.000 mi = 1.609 km; 1.000 km = 0.621 mi

References

New York Roads portal

1. ^ ^{a b} Humble Oil & Refining Company (1971). New York (Map). Cartography by General Drafting. 
2. ^ ^{a b} Exxon (1972). Eastern United States (Map). Cartography by General Drafting (1972–73 ed.). 
3. ^ ^{a b} "2008 Traffic Data Report for New York State" (PDF). New York State Department of Transportation. June 16, 2009. pp. 314–315. https://www.nysdot.gov/divisions/engineering/technical-services/hds-respository/NYSDOT_Traffic_Data_Report_2008.pdf. Retrieved January 10, 2010. 
4. ^ ^{a b c d} Yahoo! Inc. Yahoo! Maps – overview map of NY 436 (Map). Cartography by NAVTEQ. http://maps.yahoo.com/#mvt=h&lat=42.57369&lon=-77.904185&zoom=13&q1=42.592826%2C-78.103327&q2=42.560292%2C-77.705073. Retrieved December 4, 2010. 
5. ^ New York State Department of Highways (1920). Report of the State Commissioner of Highways. Albany, New York: J. B. Lyon Company. p. 559. http://books.google.com/books?id=Sj4CAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA559. Retrieved December 4, 2010. 
6. ^ New York State Legislature (1921). "Tables of Laws and Codes Amended or Repealed". Laws of the State of New York passed at the One Hundred and Forty-Fourth Session of the Legislature. Albany, New York: J. B. Lyon Company. pp. 42, 70. http://books.google.com/books?id=6pE4AAAAIAAJ&pg=PA42. Retrieved December 4, 2010. 
7. ^ "New York's Main Highways Designated by Numbers". The New York Times: p. XX9. December 21, 1924. 
8. ^ State of New York Department of Public Works (1926). Official Map Showing State Highways and other important roads (Map). Cartography by Rand McNally and Company. 
9. ^ Automobile Legal Association (ALA) Automobile Green Book, 1930–31 and 1931–32 editions, (Scarborough Motor Guide Co., Boston, 1930 and 1931). The 1930–31 edition shows New York state routes prior to the 1930 renumbering
10. ^ Texas Oil Company (1933). Texaco Road Map – New York (Map). Cartography by Rand McNally and Company. 
11. ^ Texas Oil Company (1934). Road Map of New York (Map). Cartography by Rand McNally and Company. 
12. ^ Standard Oil Company (1939). New York (Map). Cartography by General Drafting. 
13. ^ Gulf Oil Company (1940). New York Info-Map (Map). Cartography by Rand McNally and Company. 
14. ^ ^{a b} Sinclair Oil Corporation (1947). New York Road Map and Pictorial Sight-Seeing Guide (Map). Cartography by Rand McNally and Company. 
15. ^ Esso (1949). New York (Map). Cartography by General Drafting (1950 ed.). 
16. ^ Esso (1958). New York with Special Maps of Putnam–Rockland–Westchester Counties and Finger Lakes Region (Map). Cartography by General Drafting (1958 ed.). 
17. ^ Gulf Oil Company (1960). New York and New Jersey Tourgide Map (Map). Cartography by Rand McNally and Company. 
18. ^ Shell Oil Company (1973). New York (Map). Cartography by H.M. Gousha Company (1973 ed.). 
19. ^ Exxon (1977). New York (Map). Cartography by General Drafting (1977–78 ed.). 
20. ^ New York State Legislature. "New York State Highway Law § 341". http://public.leginfo.state.ny.us/LAWSSEAF.cgi?QUERYTYPE=LAWS+&QUERYDATA=$$HAY341$$@TXHAY0341+&LIST=LAW+&TARGET=VIEW. Retrieved December 4, 2010. 

External links

• New York Routes – New York State Route 436
• New York State Highway Termini – New York State Route 436