U.S. Route 277

Infobox U.S. Route
article_route=277

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length_mi=633Droz, Robert V. [http://www.us-highways.com/usbt.htm U.S. Highways : From US 1 to (US 830)] . Accessed 20 February 2006.]
length_km=1,019
yrcom=1930
direction_a=South
direction_b=North
to=Jct|state=OK|I|44|US|62 at Newcastle, OK
from=Jct|state=TX|US|83 at Carrizo Springs, TX
spur_of=77

U.S. Route 277 is a north-south United States Highway. It is a spur of U.S. Route 77. It runs for 633 miles (1,019 km) across Oklahoma and Texas. US 277's northern terminus is in Newcastle, Oklahoma at Interstate 44, which is also the northern terminus of the H.E. Bailey Turnpike. Its southern terminus is in Carrizo Springs, Texas at U.S. Route 83. It passes through the states of Oklahoma and Texas.

Most of U.S. 277's route through the two states overlaps other U.S. highways. Those include U.S. 62 from Newcastle to Chickasha, Oklahoma, U.S. 62 and U.S. 281 from five miles west of Elgin, Oklahoma to Lawton, U.S. 281 from Lawton to Wichita Falls, Texas, U.S. 82 from Wichita Falls to Seymour, Texas, and U.S. 83 from Anson, Texas to Abilene, Texas. Through the Lawton area and again from Randlett, Oklahoma to near downtown Wichita Falls, U.S. 277 is also co-signed with I-44.

Route description

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OK
124.1 [Stuve, Eric. [http://www.okhighways.com/us277.html U.S. 277] . "OKHighways". Accessed 22 February 2006.]
199.7
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TX
508.9
819.0

Texas

Oklahoma

History

When US 277 was commissioned in 1930, it ended at the U.S.-Mexico border in Del Rio, Texas. It was extended southeast to its present terminus in 1952.

ee also

Related routes

* U.S. Route 77
* U.S. Route 177
* U.S. Route 377

References

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