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State Highway 99 (SH-99) is a north–south state highway through central Oklahoma. It runs from the Texas state line at Lake Texoma to the Kansas state line near Lake Hulah. It is 241.5 miles (388.7 km) long. The highway overlaps U.S. Highway 377 (US-377) for over half its length.
State Highway 99 | ||||
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| Maintained by ODOT | ||||
| Length | 241.5 mi[1] (388.7 km) | |||
| Existed | May 17, 1938[2]–present | |||
| History | Previously SH-48 January 19, 1927 – May 16, 1938[3] | |||
| Major junctions | ||||
| South end |  US 377 at the Texas state line | |||
| North end |  K-99 at the Kansas state line | |||
| Location | ||||
| Country | United States | |||
| State | Oklahoma | |||
| Counties | Marshall, Johnston, Pontotoc, Seminole, Pottawatomie, Lincoln, Payne, Creek, Pawnee, Osage | |||
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SH-99 continues as K-99 after crossing the border into Kansas. This road continues for 233 miles (375 km) to the Nebraska border, where it becomes Nebraska Highway 99, which lasts an additional 14 miles (23 km). Thus, SH-99 is part of a triple-state highway numbered "99", which lasts a total of 488 miles (785 km).
SH-99 began as SH-48, a short highway connecting Ada to Holdenville. This highway was gradually expanded until it became a border-to-border route. In 1938, it was renumbered to match K-99, which was renumbered from K-11 the same day.
US-377 crosses Lake Texoma on a bridge from Grayson County, Texas into Marshall County, Oklahoma. This is the southern terminus of SH-99, which will overlap with US-377 all the way to the U.S. Highway's northern terminus in Stroud, a distance of 139.91 miles (225.16 km).[4] The highways' first junction in Oklahoma is with SH-32 seven miles (11 km) south of Madill. Five miles (8.0 km) north of this intersection, US-377/SH-99 serves as the northern terminus for SH-99C, a child route of SH-99. The route then heads into Madill, where it forms a brief concurrency with US-70 and SH-199. US-377/SH-99 heads northeast out of town and enters Johnston County.[5]
West of Tishomingo, US-377/SH-99 picks up SH-22, which follows them east to the county seat. The same junction in Tishomingo where SH-22 splits away is also the northern terminus of SH-78. Eight miles (13 km) north of Tishomingo, the highway sharess a short concurrency with SH-7. US-377/SH-99 goes 18 miles (29 km) without another highway junction, which is with SH-99A, a spur to unincorporated Harden City.[5]
The highway interchanges with SH-3, a freeway at this point, near Ahloso. US-377/SH-99 merges onto the freeway, which becomes the Richardson Loop around the west side of Ada. At the southwest corner of the loop, SH-1 joins. Two miles (3.2 km) further north, an interchange serves as the western terminus of SH-19; also at this interchange, SH-3 splits into SH-3E and SH-3W, the latter of which exits the highway to overlap with SH-19. At the next interchange, SH-1 splits off, and the freeway downgrades to expressway.[5]
The highway crosses the Canadian River into Seminole County north of Byng. Just after the bridge, US-377/SH-3E/99 intersects SH-39 and SH-56; this is their eastern and western termini respectively. Near Bowlegs, SH-59 joins the concurrency, splitting off again after 3 miles (4.8 km). As the road enters Seminole, it has an interchange with US-270, where SH-3E splits off. SH-9 also is accessible by interchange in Seminole. US-377/SH-99 encounters another spur of the latter, SH-99A, in unincorporated Little. The routes then have an interchange at Interstate 40 (I-40), exit 200.[5]
US-377/SH-99 crosses over the North Canadian River and cross a panhandle of Pottawatomie County before entering Lincoln County. Just north of the county line, the highway passes through Prague. The route does not encounter another highway for 19 miles (31 km), after which lies the town of Stroud, the northern terminus of US-377.[6]
In Stroud, SH-99 has two highway junctions, one of which is the northern terminus of US-377. In central Stroud, the highway meets SH-66, formerly the celebrated Route 66. An interchange with I-44 (Turner Turnpike) is 0.4 miles (0.64 km) north of the SH-66 junction.[1]
Signage in Stroud is unclear on where the northern terminus of US-377 is, implying that it continues north of SH-66 to at least I-44. ODOT sources differ on where the northern terminus of the highway is. According to the Control Section Map Book, the north end of US-377 is at SH-66.[6] Another map published by ODOT of Stroud implies that the route extends north of the ramps to and from I-44 to at least the bridge over the turnpike.[7] The US-377 highway log shows US-377 ending at I-44.[4] The inset strip map of the Turner Turnpike on the ODOT state map omits US-377 entirely.[5]
About 17 miles (27 km) north of Stroud, the now-independent SH-99 meets SH-33, which it overlaps for two miles (3.2 km) to the town of Drumright. SH-99 bypasses Drumright to the northwest, after which it meets up with an old alignment leading back to Drumright and SH-33, now numbered SH-99B but unsigned.[8] After turning back north, it crosses the Cimarron River at Oilton, and has an interchange with the Cimarron Turnpike between Jennings and Hallett.[9]
It is then concurrent with US-64 for six miles (9.7 km) before passing through Cleveland, where it crosses the Arkansas River. Throughout its final 55 miles (89 km), in Osage County, the highway passes through a relatively sparse region, though it meets SH-20 in Hominy and overlaps SH-11 south of Pawhuska (the county seat) and US-60 north of the city. Its final junction is with SH-10 10 miles (16 km) south of the Oklahoma–Kansas state line.[10]
State Highway 99 traces its roots back to the first State Highway 48, which was first established on January 19, 1927.[3] This highway connected Ada to Holdenville; it roughly followed present-day SH-99 until about two miles (3.2 km) north of the Canadian River, it then turned east and passed a mile (1.6 km) south of the unincorporated town of Vamoosa, after which it followed the route of today's SH-56. After 10 miles (16 km), it passed through Sasakwa, in which it turned north and ended at the original SH-3, at the intersection called "Five-Mile Corner", west of Holdenville.[11] The 1928 state highway map shows the highway extended to SH-9 (now US-62) near Prague along the present-day SH-99 alignment, with the Canadian River crossing as a toll bridge.[12] By January 1, 1929, the route had been realigned to pass through Konawa.[13] The old designation between the Canadian River and SH-3 was replaced shortly after by SH-56.
In 1931, SH-48 was greatly expanded. The route was extended northward to US-66 in Stroud.[14] At its southern end, it was extended along a new alignment, which began at SH-19, present day SH-3, southeast of Ada and ran through Tishomingo and Madill to end at the Red River northwest of Denison, Texas, where it met Texas State Highway 91. Also that year, a second section of SH-48 was established, taking over a large portion of what was then SH-25; the remainder of the route was integrated into US-60.[14]
On March 1, 1932, a new section of road was designated as State Highway 48, connecting Stroud to SH-33 west of Drumright.[3] As a result, the SH-48 designation was able to follow existing roads to link up with its previously-disconnected northern section. Thus, SH-48 became a border-to-border highway, linking Texas and its SH-91 to K-11 at the Kansas state line.[15]
On May 17, 1938, both Kansas and Oklahoma renumbered K-11 and OK-48 respectively to bear the number 99, providing continuity between the states.[2] At this time, SH-99 followed the same basic corridor of the present-day route from Madill north to Kansas. However, SH-48's designation was still in use from May 1938 to February 1941. The SH-48 designation was then made into the route passing through Konawa, which the SH-99 designation bypassed. After SH-48 was discontinued, however, it would only remain discussed for just under three years, SH-48 resurfacing for a route only 13 miles (21 km) east of SH-99.[3] The portion of SH-48 from SH-99 to Konawa would later become part of SH-39.[2]
In January 1944, Denison Dam was placed into operation, creating Lake Texoma. As a result, a portion of SH-99 between Madill and Texas was inundated.[16] On May 5, 1958, the route was realigned to once again reach Texas;[2] it now crossed a bridge further upstream, connecting to Texas State Highway 10,[17] which was subsequently renumbered to Texas State Highway 99.[18]
The existing route of SH-99 (concurrent with SH-3) veered west by about 4 miles (6.4 km) to once again serve the town of Konawa before cutting back northeast to continue the highway's previous heading.[5][19] This was remedied on December 9, 1968, when the highway was changed to a straighter alignment bypassing Konawa. The old road heading west into Konawa became part of SH-39.[2]
Another bypass occurred in 1977, this time in Drumright. SH-99 was changed to bypass the town on February 7, 1977, and the old alignment that was not part of SH-33 became SH-99B.[2]
The Oklahoma Department of Highways had proposed portions of State Highway 99 for inclusion in the United States Numbered Highway System several times. One such application made in 1953 suggested that the entirety of SH-99 become a U.S. Route, while another suggested a northern terminus at US-64 near Cleveland. On June 18, 1964, the American Association of State Highway Officials (AASHO, later the American Association of State Highway and Transpiration Officiations, AASHTO) accepted an extension of US-377 from Texas to US-70 in Madill. The Department of Highways, and later the Department of Transportation, submitted an application to extend US-377 from Madill to US-64 in Cleveland eight times between December 1964 and 1980.[20]
In 1991, ODOT signed the route to Stroud along SH-99 without AASHTO approval.[21]
SH-99 has two lettered spurs:
All exits are unnumbered.
| County | Location | mi[1] | km | Destinations | Notes |
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| Lake Texoma | 0.0 | 0.0 |  US 377 south | Continuation into Texas | |
| Willis Bridge; Oklahoma–Texas line; southern end of US-377 concurrency | |||||
| Marshall | | 9.2 | 14.8 |  SH-32 – Lebanon, Kingston | |
| | 14.2 | 22.9 |  SH-99C south – Lebanon | Northern terminus of SH-99C | |
| Madill | 16.0 | 25.7 |   US 70 east (1st Street south) – Kingston, Durant | Southern end of US-70 concurrency | |
| 16.5 | 26.6 |   US 70 west / SH-199 west (1st Street north) – Mannsville, Ardmore | Northern end of US-70 concurrency; southern end of SH-199 concurrency | ||
| SH-199 east – Little City | Northern end of SH-199 concurrency | ||||
| Johnston | Tishomingo | 29.1 | 46.8 |  SH-22 west – Ardmore | Southern end of SH-22 concurrency |
| 30.2 | 48.6 |  SH-22 east / SH-78 south (Main Street) | Northern end of SH-22 concurrency | ||
| | 38.8 | 62.4 |  SH-7 west – Reagan, Sulphur | Southern end of SH-7 concurrency | |
| | 39.7 | 63.9 | SH-7 east – Atoka | Northern end of SH-7 concurrency | |
| Pontotoc | | 57.4 | 92.4 |  SH-99A east | Western terminus of SH-99A |
| Ahloso | 65.6 | 105.6 |  SH-3 east – Coalgate, Atoka | Interchange, south end of SH-3 overlap; south end of freeway section | |
| Ada | Stonecipher Boulevard | ||||
| 67.6 | 108.8 | SH-3 west (J.A. Richardson Loop west) – Shawnee, Oklahoma City | Northbound left exit and southbound left entrance; north end of freeway section; northern end of SH-3 concurrency | ||
| 70.2 | 113.0 |  SH-1 east – McAlester | Southern end of SH-1 concurrency | ||
| 72.2 | 116.2 |    SH-1 west / SH-3E (J.A. Richardson Loop south) to SH-3W / SH-19 – Pauls Valley, Shawnee | Interchange; northern end of SH-1 concurrency; southern end of SH-3E concurrency | ||
| Canadian River | Abbott-Haney Bridge | ||||
| Seminole | | 82.8 | 133.3 |    SH-39 west / SH-56 north – Konawa, Wewoka | Western terminus of SH-56; eastern terminus of SH-39 |
| Bowlegs | 97.2 | 156.4 |  SH-59 east – Bowlegs, Wewoka | Southern end of SH-59 concurrency | |
| | 99.9 | 160.8 | SH-59 west – Maud | Northern end of SH-59 concurrency | |
| Seminole | 102.3 | 164.6 |   US 270 west / SH-3E (Broadway Avenue) | Northern end of SH-3E concurrency | |
| 103.9 | 167.2 |  SH-9 (Wrangler Boulevard) – Norman, Eufaula | |||
| Little | 110.9 | 178.5 | SH-99A – Shawnee, Cromwell | ||
| | 113.4 | 182.5 |  I-40 – Oklahoma City, Fort Smith | Interchange; I-40 exit 200 | |
| North Canadian River | Seminole–Pottawatomie county line | ||||
| Lincoln | Prague | 120.9 | 194.6 |  US 62 (Main Street) | |
| Stroud | 139.5 | 224.5 |  SH-66 (Main Street) | Former US 66 | |
| 139.9 | 225.1 |    US 377 ends / I-44 / Turner Turnpike – Oklahoma City, Tulsa | Toll entrance to I-44/Turner Tpke.; I-44 exit 179; ODOT lists this as northern terminus of US-377[4] | ||
| Payne | | 156.0 | 251.1 |  SH-33 west – Cushing | Southern end of SH-33 concurrency |
| Creek | Drumright | 158.1 | 254.4 |   SH-33 east / SH-33 Truck begins – Drumright, Tulsa | Northern end of SH-33 concurrency, southern end of SH-33 Truck concurrency; western terminus of SH-33 Truck |
| 160.4 | 258.1 |  SH-33 Truck east (SH-99B south) to SH-16 | Northern end of SH-33 Truck concurrency | ||
| | 168.6 | 271.3 |  SH-51 – Yale, Stillwater, Mannford, Tulsa | ||
| Pawnee | | 175.7 | 282.8 |   US 412 / Cimarron Turnpike – Enid, Tulsa | Cimarron Turnpike exit 48 |
| | 180.3 | 290.2 |  US 64 west – Pawnee | Southern end of US-64 concurrency | |
| Cleveland | 186.5 | 300.1 |  US 64 east to SH-48 – Tulsa | Northern end of US-64 concurrency | |
| Arkansas River | Bridge | ||||
| Osage | Hominy | 196.3 | 315.9 |  SH-20 – Fairfax, Skiatook | |
| | 210.0 | 338.0 |  SH-11 east – Barnsdall | Southern end of SH-11 concurrency | |
| Pawhuska | 215.3 | 346.5 |  US 60 west / SH-11 west – Pawhuska, Ponca City | Northern end of SH-11 concurrency, southern end of US-60 concurrency | |
| | 220.8 | 355.3 | US 60 east – Bartlesville | Northern end of US-60 concurrency | |
| | 231.2 | 372.1 |  SH-10 east | Western terminus of SH-10 | |
| | 240.9 | 387.7 | K-99 north | Continuation into Kansas | |
1.000 mi = 1.609 km; 1.000 km = 0.621 mi
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