Roadklahoma: Defunct Oklahoma State Highways

For various reasons, some state highways no longer exist. Sometimes they're upgraded to a US highway, sometimes they're moved due to new highways in the surrounding area, sometimes they're just renamed. Occasionally, a decommissioned highway number is reused in a totally different part of the state.

Using several road maps from different eras I plan to use this area to show as many former state highways as I can come across, accompanied on many cases with a pic of the map showing the highway, as well as what happened to the highway. I am using an inverted version of my state highway shield design to display the numbers.

	RENAMED: OK-2 at one time went all the way to the Texas State Line, duplexed with US-271 south of Antlers, where its current southern terminus is, and 2A was an offshoot of that road. When OK-2 was decommed from Antlers to Texas, 2A became an orphan, so it was rechristened OK-271A
	*DECOMMISSIONED DUE TO REROUTING:* Sheridan Road in Lawton, from OK-7 to a Fort Sill entrance. OK-7, which had extended to the far western side of Lawton, was decommissioned back to this point, and OK-7 replaced OK-7A to Fort Sill. Recently, this was de-signed as well, and OK-7 now ends at I-44.
	RENAMED: More than one state map has shown this highway thru downtown Duncan as 7A. It is currently known alternately as OK-7B and Business-OK-7.
	*APPARENT DECOMMISSIONS:* Both highways went from the parent road, OK-19, to nearby towns: 19C to Alex & 19D to Bradley. Even though the Official State Map for 2003-2004 still show the highways, there are no assurance, junction or directional signs anymore along the parent road.
	*RENAMED:* When OK-33 was decommissioned from Sapulpa to the Arkansas State Line due to continuous duplexing in that range, 33C was adopted by the new highway's name, US-412, and became OK-412A.
	*APPARENT DECOMMISSIONS:* Both highways went from the parent road, OK-34, to nearby towns: 34A to Willow & 34B to Brinkman. Even though the Official State Map for 2003-2004 still show the highways, there are no assurance, junction or directional signs anymore along the parent road.
	*APPARENT DECOMMISSION:* Road travelled approx. 2 miles from US-60 to Osage Hills State Park. Even though the Official State Map for 2003-2004 still shows the highway, no assurance, junction or directional signs exist anymore along either the original route nor US-60.
	DECOMMISSIONED: Gore Blvd in Lawton, from 52nd St to what is now I-44. Not only does this road no longer exist, neither does OK-36 reach as far north as Lawton these days.
	*DECOMMISSIONED:* Road went from OK-53 to Comanche Lake, southeast of Duncan. In February 2004 the Oklahoma Department of Transportation removed the road from the state highway network. Click here for my 53A page back when the highway was in existence. Not to be confused with the OK-53A that goes to Gene Autry, OK, which is still around.
	DECOMMISSIONED: Started just east of where OK-59A met what is now OK-3W, travelled south to Roth, east to Fittstown, south for 3 miles along what is now OK-99/US-377, east to Jesse, then north to a couple of miles north of Stonewall, then east, where is ended at OK-48 just south of Lula. Except for the three miles of duplexing along OK-99, and a mile in Roff along what is now OK-1, none of this road is signed today.
	RENAMED: one of the few cases of the offspring outliving its parent highway, the map at right shows 61A still going from Fittstown to Harden City, long after OK-61 was just a memory. Time, however, caught up to 61A as well, as it has been rechristened the southern OK-99A
	RENAMED: This short highway through Wellston was known as OK-66 back when the parent road was still US-66. With the demotion of the US highway to a state route, this road was renamed 66B, the name is still has today.
	RENAMED: This short highway that marked the start of the Northwest Expressway in Oklahoma City was known as OK-66A back when the parent road was still US-66. The name was changed, likely to better reflect the designation of the remainder of the Northwest Expressway. It is now OK-3A.
	*APPARENT DECOMMISSION:* Road travelled approx. 1 mile from US-70 to the town of Devol, south of Lawton and just north of the Red River. Even though the Official State Map for 2003-2004 still shows the highway, no assurance, junction or directional signs exist anymore.
	*APPARENT DECOMMISSION:* Road travelled from I-35 Exit 95 to OK-74, and is the primary route for I-35 southbound traffic to go to Purcell. No 74G signs exist anymore along the entire route. The BGSs for Exit 95 have been changed from "OK-74G" to read "TO US-77"
	*RENAMED:* When a second OK-75A was created in northeastern Oklahoma (as a downgrade of Alternate-US-75), this one in the southern part of the state was rechristened SH-91, on both sides of the Red River (the road had continued into Texas as TX-75A; it is now TX-91)
	*DECOMMISSIONED:* Road went from US-77 to Falls Creek, north of Ardmore. In February 2004 the Oklahoma Department of Transportation removed the road from the state highway network. Click here for my 77D page back when the highway was in existence.
	*DECOMMISSIONED:* Road went from the 129th W Avenue exit of US-64/US-412/Keystone Expressway west of Sand Springs to OK-97 north of Sand Springs. In January 2004 the Oklahoma Department of Transportation decommissioned OK-97T, almost exactly a year after the highway was created. Click here for my 97T page back when the highway was in existence.
	*DECOMMISSIONED DUE TO REROUTING:* Road continued the route of OK-16, from it's terminus in Drumright, north to OK-99, which then went along the route now known as Truck-33. Replaced by a reroute of the parent road (OK-99 now continues along OK-33, then turns north along where 99B was).
	*APPARENT DECOMMISSION:* Road travelled approx. 2 miles from OK-99 north of Hominy to the Connor Correctional Center and back to the parent road. All related signage has been removed. In fact, the northern end of ex-99D is no longer a thru road.
	DECOMMISSIONED: Road went approx. five miles from US 70 between Madill & Kingston, to Little Glasses Park on Lake Texhoma. The Official State Map for 2003-2004 is the first that no longer shows the highway, and all signage has been removed on the roads.
	DECOMMISSIONED DUE TO REROUTING: This road existed northeast of Ponca City, while US-60 & OK-11 duplexed the same road a few miles to the south. It was eventually realized that the duplexing was unnecessary, and OK-11 was rerouted to take the place of OK-119.
	*APPARENT DECOMMISSION:* Road went from the midway point of OK-84 to downtown Henryetta. No assurance or junction signs exist anymore on either end, and more recent road maps don't show the signage.
	RENAMED: OK-43's western terminus was truncated to Coalgate, so 143 was rechristened OK-31B.
	*DECOMMISSIONED:* Went from US-59 north of Heavener to the Runestone Historical Site. Road still exists, but not as a signed highway.
	DECOMMISSION DUE TO REROUTING: Used to loop around northeast Stillwater until the main north-south highway through that town, US-177, was rerouted along there. For a while the road shown on the map at right as US-177 (the skinny red line) became a Business route, but that was eventually dropped.
	RENAMED, THEN DECOMMISSIONED: Went from OK-98 into Wright City. Was later renamed OK-98S, but all signage for that, too, has been removed. Additionally, OK-98 doesn't go north away from Wright City these days, but continues eastward, about halfway to Glover, then turns to the northeast until it reaches OK-3.
	*APPARENT DECOMMISSION:* Road travelled approx. 1 mile from the duplexed US-277/281 to the town of Geronimo, south of Lawton. Even though the Official State Map for 2003-2004 still shows the highway, no assurance, junction or directional signs exist anymore.

Last updated 9 February 2004.