Route 284 is a 7.03-mile (11.31 km)
state highway
A state highway, state road, or state route (and the equivalent provincial highway, provincial road, or provincial route) is usually a road that is either ''numbered'' or ''maintained'' by a sub-national state or province. A road numbered by a ...
in
New Jersey,
United States, running from
Route 23 in
Sussex
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north to the
New York
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state line in
Wantage Township. From there,
New York State Route 284
New York State Route 284 (NY 284) is a north–south state highway located entirely within Orange County, New York, in the United States. It begins just south of the village of Unionville at the New Jersey state line in the town of M ...
(NY 284) continues north to
U.S. Route 6 (US 6) at
Slate Hill. The route is a connector to Unionville, and intersects with an old alignment of its original designation, Route 84. Route 284 was first a part of
Route 8 in the 1920s, becoming Route 8N in 1927 and Route 84 in 1942 before being assigned its current number in 1966.
Route description
Route 284 begins at a signaled intersection in
Sussex
Sussex (), from the Old English (), is a historic county in South East England that was formerly an independent medieval Anglo-Saxon kingdom. It is bounded to the west by Hampshire, north by Surrey, northeast by Kent, south by the English ...
with Route 23.
The route proceeds northward, intersecting with Sussex County Route 643 at less than a half-mile into the highway. Route 284 leaves the borough of Sussex and enters
Wantage Township, intersecting with Layton Road, Janice Drive, and Possum River Road. Route 284 passes to the south of a lake, crosses over a branch of the
Wallkill River and intersects with County Route 642 (Bassets Bridge Road). Just after the intersection with Route 642, the rural highway crosses over Quarryville Brook. At , Route 284 intersects with an old routing of its original designation, Route 84. The original alignment merges in with Route 284 less than a mile later. After crossing the Wallkill River branch again and the
Appalachian Trail, Route 284 leaves New Jersey for
New York
New York most commonly refers to:
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and becomes NY 284.
History
Route 8, one of the routes assigned before the 1927 renumbering, ran largely along the present
Route 23 corridor, but at Sussex it turned north rather than continuing northwest through
High Point State Park.
The section from Sussex north to the state line was taken over by the state in 1919. In the
1927 renumbering, the majority of Route 8 became Route 23.
The part north of Sussex was proposed to become part of
Route 31, but that was instead moved to the present
Route 94 corridor in the final version of the bill. As Route 8 north of Sussex was not assigned a number, the
State Highway Commission appended a suffix of N (to distinguish it from new
Route 8), forming Route 8N.
The connecting route in New York had been numbered
New York State Route 8
New York State Route 8 (NY 8) is a north-south state highway in the central part of New York in the United States. It runs in a southwest-to-northeast direction from the Southern Tier to the northern part of Lake George. The souther ...
to match New Jersey, but in the
1930 renumbering
In January 1930, the U.S. state of New York implemented a major renumbering of its state highways. Many previously existing numbered routes were renumbered or realigned. At the same time, many state highways that were previously unnumbered recei ...
it became
New York State Route 84
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When in Port Harcourt or Ahoad ...
, in order to free up the number 8 for a longer route. New Jersey renumbered its Route 8N to Route 84 in March 1942 to match, in part to provide a single number for military caravans during
World War II.
[Road Numbers Changed, '' The New York Times, March 20, 1942]
The final renumbering was made in 1966, when
Interstate 84 (I-84) opened in New York. As the new I-84 was close to the older Route 84, Route 84 was renumbered in both New York and New Jersey to 284.
Major intersections
See also
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References
External links
New Jersey Highway Ends - 284
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Transportation in Sussex County, New Jersey