Primary State Highways in the U.S. state of

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, are numbered and maintained by the

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as a system of

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s. Primary State Routes receive more funding than Secondary State Routes and are numbered as

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or State Routes with numbers from 1 to 599. State Route 785 and State Route 895 are also primary routes, numbered as

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spurs. Former numbers are reused often; only 29 of the numbers from 1 to 421 are not in use, with only seven of these under 260. __TOC__

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References

* , revised July 1, 2003
Virginia Highways Project

1930s county maps
* {{cite web, url=http://www.virginiadot.org/info/2009_traffic_data_by_jurisdiction.asp, title=2009 Traffic Data, publisher=Virginia Department of Transportation, year=2009

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See also

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