Georgia US 82 Proposed extension of US 82 from Waycross begins at junction with US 1 and 84 thence northeast over State Route 38 through Blackshear, Patterson and Jessup thence over US 25 and 301 to Ludowici thence continuing over State Route 38 through Hinesville to US 17 in Midway. On November 24, 1956, AASHO's Route Numbering Committee approved another extension: 82 Extended from Tuscaloosa, Alabama to Waycross, Georgia, by way of Centerville, Montgomery, Union Springs, Eufaula, Alabama, Georgetown, Georgia, Cuthbert, Dawson, Albany, Sylvester, Tifton, Alapaha, Pearson, and Waycross, Georgia. Route Numbering Committee approved an extension of U.S. Mississippi Columbus 22, Starkville 28, Eupora 30, Winona 27, Greenwood 30, Indianola 24, Greenville 27.įurther shortening had occurred by the 1942 log (904 miles).Īt AASHO's mid-summer meeting in 1948, the U.S. The log in that State showed some mileage changes: numbered highways in 1939, the route was listed as 924 miles long, apparently because of improved roadway alignment in Mississippi. 385 in Lubbock.īy the time of the official AASHO log of U.S. The extended route was 946 miles long between U.S. Texas New Boston 12, De Kalb 30, Clarksville 33, Henrietta 19, Wichita Falls 57, Seymour 24, Benjamin 33, Guthrie 36, Dickens 59, Lubbock. Mississippi Columbus 15, Artesia 13, Starkville 33, Eupora 30, Winona 29, Greenwood 35, Indianola 28, Greenville 10.Īrkansas Lake Village 34, Hamburg 55, El Dorado 36, Magnolia 26, Lewisville 32, Texarkana 30. In June 1934, AASHO approved extension of the route at the request of the State highway agencies in Alabama and Texas: (The numbers represent mileage from city to city.) Mississippi Beginning at Columbus 15, Artesia 13, Starkville 33, Eupora 30, Winona 29, Greenwood 35, Indianola 26, Greenville (ferry) 10.Īrkansas Lake Village 34, Hamburg 55, El Dorado 36, Magnolia 26, Lewisville 32, Texarkana. AASHO had been repulsing such efforts for several years.Īfter receiving a companion application from Arkansas, AASHO's Executive Committee approved the new two-State U.S. numbered roads to feed traffic to their privately owned bridges. No information is at hand in reference to privately owned toll bridges.ĪASHO added the reference to privately owned toll bridges because the owners of such bridges had been badgering the Executive Committee of AASHO to add U.S. It is a logical route and would provide an east and west road in a large territory not now occupied by a numbered route. We have no requests from either Alabama or Arkansas for this route but we are informed that the State Highway Department of Arkansas has consulted with the Mississippi Department favorably on this subject. Numbered route across the State from Greenville to Columbus proposing that it should be extended eastward to Birmingham, Alabama, and westward through Arkansas. routes, to designate a route in cooperation with Alabama. It first appeared in 1932 when Mississippi State highway officials asked the American Association of State Highway Officials (AASHO), which controlled the numbering of U.S. The number was set aside for later use as the network of good roads improved. wiki-commons:Special:FilePath/US_82_(TX)_map.When the Joint Board on Interstate Highways released its report on October 30, 1925, the proposed network of U.S.Highway that begins on the New Mexico border and heads east through West Texas and Lubbock to the Arkansas border at Texarkana.