Oregon Route 164 is an
Oregon 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 ...
running from
Interstate 5 in
Marion County north of
Millersburg to I-5 at Millersburg in
Linn County. OR 164 is known as the Jefferson Highway No. 164 (see
Oregon highways and routes). It is long and runs north–south, primarily functioning as a loop road to
Jefferson Jefferson may refer to:
Names
* Jefferson (surname)
* Jefferson (given name)
People
* Thomas Jefferson (1743–1826), third president of the United States
* Jefferson (footballer, born 1970), full name Jefferson Tomaz de Souza, Brazilian foo ...
.
OR 164 was established in 2002 as part of Oregon's project to assign route numbers to
highways that previously were not assigned.
Route description
OR 164 begins at an intersection with I-5 approximately north of Millersburg. It heads southeast and south to Jefferson, and then turns southwest to rejoin I-5 at Millersburg.
History
The Jefferson Highway was designated as
US 99E
The following roads have been numbered 99E:
United States
* U.S. Route 99E (central California)
U.S. Route 99 (US 99) was the main north–south United States Numbered Highway on the West Coast of the United States until 1964, running from ...
in 1926. After the completion of the
Willamette Valley section of Interstate 5 in the 1960s, US 99E between
Salem
Salem may refer to: Places
Canada
Ontario
* Bruce County
** Salem, Arran–Elderslie, Ontario, in the municipality of Arran–Elderslie
** Salem, South Bruce, Ontario, in the municipality of South Bruce
* Salem, Dufferin County, Ontario, part ...
and
Albany was realigned to travel as one co-signed road with the new
freeway.
OR 164 was assigned to the Jefferson Highway in 2002.
Major intersections
References
{{Reflist
* Oregon Department of Transportation, Descriptions of US and Oregon Routes, https://web.archive.org/web/20051102084300/http://www.oregon.gov/ODOT/HWY/TRAFFIC/TEOS_Publications/PDF/Descriptions_of_US_and_Oregon_Routes.pdf, page 27.
* Oregon Department of Transportation, Jefferson Highway No. 164, ftp://ftp.odot.state.or.us/tdb/trandata/maps/slchart_pdfs_1980_to_2002/Hwy164_1997.pdf
164
Year 164 ( CLXIV) was a leap year starting on Saturday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Macrinus and Celsus (or, less frequently, year 917 ''Ab urbe condit ...
Transportation in Marion County, Oregon
Transportation in Linn County, Oregon