State Highway 37 (SH-37) is a
state highway
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in
Power County in southern
Idaho
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,
United States
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that spans north-south from the
Oneida
Oneida may refer to:
Native American/First Nations
* Oneida people, a Native American/First Nations people and one of the five founding nations of the Iroquois Confederacy
* Oneida language
* Oneida Indian Nation, based in New York
* Oneida Na ...
–Power county line to
Interstate 86 (I-86).
Route description
The SH-37 begins at the Oneida County line on the Rockland Highway, just southwest of Buck Peak. (From the southern terminus of SH-37 the Rockland Highway continues south to
Holbrook Holbrook may refer to:
Places
England
*Holbrook, Derbyshire, a village
*Holbrook, Somerset, a hamlet in Charlton Musgrove
*Holbrook, Sheffield, South Yorkshire, a former mining village in Mosborough ward, now known as Halfway
*Holbrook, Suffolk, a ...
and the western terminus of
SH-38.) The route heads northwest briefly before turning north to pass through the
unincorporated community
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of
Roy
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. It then continues north through farmland and passes through the town of
Rockland Rockland may refer to:
People
*Per Bergsland, nicknamed Peter Rockland, one of three successful escapees from Stalag Luft III (the "Great Escape")
Places
;In Canada
*Rockland, Greater Victoria
*Rockland, Nova Scotia
*Rockland, Ontario
;In the Uni ...
before ending at a
diamond interchange
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Design
The freeway itself is grade-separated from the minor road, one crossing the other over a bridge. Approaching the ...
with
I-86
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* Interstate 86 (Pennsylvania–New York)
* Interstate 86 (Idaho)
* Interstate 84 (Pennsylvania–Massachusetts), section east of East Hartford, Connect ...
(Exit 36), about south of the
Snake River
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, about northeast of
Neeley, and about southwest of
American Falls
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.
History
By 1927 the SH-37 designation had been assigned to a route south east of
Coeur d'Alene in the northern part of the state. (By 1927 the north-south route through Malad City was designated as
SH-21, but by 1937 it had been changed to
SH-36.)
Between 1927 and 1937, the SH-37 designation was assigned to the highway which had been, by 1927, designated as
SH-33. This highway followed the current routing of SH-37 from a point southwest of American Falls (on what was then
US-30N, but now I-86) south through Rockland and on through Roy, but then continued on to Holbrook, and then finally heading east to
Malad City (on what is now SH-38).
Also between 1927 and 1937, the SH-38 designation had been applied to a highway (which, by 1927, had been previously designated as
SH-32) that began in
Roy
Roy is a masculine given name and a family surname with varied origin.
In Anglo-Norman England, the name derived from the Norman ''roy'', meaning "king", while its Old French cognate, ''rey'' or ''roy'' (modern ''roi''), likewise gave rise to ...
and headed east and then northeast to
Arbon
, neighboring_municipalities= Egnach, Roggwil TG, Berg SG, Steinach, Horn
, twintowns = Langenargen (Germany), Binn (Switzerland)
Arbon is a historic town and a municipality and district capital of the district of Arbon in the canton ...
, north to
Pauline (along what is now the Arbon Highway) and then (along what is now the Bannock Highway) north to
Crystal
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, and on to terminate in at the former routing of
US-91 in
Portneuf.
By 1956, the southern terminus of SH-38 had changed from SH-37 in Roy to SH-37 east of Holbrook (via
Buist to Arbon)
Eventually, the routing of SH-38 was changed to its current route, with the roads through Buist, Arbon, and Crystal to Portneuf being entirely removed from the state highway system; as well as the section that was previously part of SH-37 between Holbrook and the Power County-Oneida County line.
Major intersections
See also
*
List of state highways in Idaho
The Idaho Transportation Department (ITD) is responsible for the establishment and classification of a state highway network, including of roads that are classified as Interstate Highways, U.S. Highways, and state highways within the state of Id ...
*
List of highways numbered 37
The following highways are numbered 37:
Australia
* Newcastle Inner City Bypass
* Nubeena Road (TAS)
Canada
* Alberta Highway 37
* British Columbia Highway 37
* Winnipeg Route 37
* Ontario Highway 37
* Saskatchewan Highway 37
* Yukon Highway 37 ...
References
External links
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Idaho Transportation Department Route 37 Milepoint LogIdaho Transportation Department Reports on ID 37
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Transportation in Oneida County, Idaho
Transportation in Power County, Idaho