Highway 262 (AR 262, Ark. 262, and Hwy. 262) is an east–west
state highway
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s in
Woodruff County, Arkansas. The route is maintained by the
Arkansas Department of Transportation (ARDOT).
Route description
Highway 262 is located in the
Western Lowlands Holocene Meander Belts ecoregion within the
Mississippi Alluvial Plain, broad, nearly level, agriculturally-dominated
alluvial plain
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with flat, clayey, poorly-drained soils commonly called the Arkansas Delta in the state.
No segment of Highway 262 has been listed as part of the
National Highway System,
a network of roads important to the nation's economy, defense, and mobility.
Highway 261 begins at
Highway 33 near
Dixie, an
unincorporated community in western
Woodruff County near the
Cache River National Wildlife Refuge
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. The highway runs due west (though signed east) as a
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across flat fields used for
row crops, turning north at
McClelland and passing a camp or lodge. The highway begins running north, roughly 1 mile (1.6 km) east of the
White River, which also serves as the
White County line. Highway 262 turns east and terminates at an intersection with Highway 33 north of
Gregory.
The ARDOT maintains Highway 262 like all other parts of the state highway system. As a part of these responsibilities, the Department tracks the volume of traffic using its roads in surveys using a metric called
average annual daily traffic (AADT). ARDOT estimates the traffic level for a segment of roadway for any average day of the year in these surveys. As of 2017, AADT was estimated as 80 vehicles per day (VPD) near Dixie and 150 VPD near the eastern terminus.
For reference, the
American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials (AASHTO), classifies roads with fewer than 400 vehicles per day as a ''very low volume local road''.
History
The
Arkansas General Assembly
The General Assembly of Arkansas is the state legislature of the U.S. state of Arkansas. The legislature is a bicameral body composed of the upper house Arkansas Senate with 35 members, and the lower Arkansas House of Representatives with 100 ...
passed the Act 148 of 1957, the Milum Road Act, creating of new state highways in each county. Under the Act, the highway was created along a county road between Dixie and McClelland by the
Arkansas State Highway Commission on December 9, 1959.
The route was extended north to Highway 33 on April 24, 1963 during a period of state highway system expansion.
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Major intersections
See also
References
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Transportation in Woodruff County, Arkansas