State Road 19 (NM 19) is a
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 the US state of
New Mexico. Its total length is approximately . NM 19's western terminus is at
NM 209 in
Clovis
Clovis may refer to:
People
* Clovis (given name), the early medieval (Frankish) form of the name Louis
** Clovis I (c. 466 – 511), the first king of the Franks to unite all the Frankish tribes under one ruler
** Clovis II (c. 634 – c. 657), ...
, and the eastern terminus is at
FM 2013.
History
Before 1940 it was originally part of
NM 2 then later
U.S. Route 285
U.S. Route 285 is a north–south United States highway, running 846 miles (1,362 km) through the states of Texas, New Mexico and Colorado. The highway's southern terminus is in Sanderson, Texas at an intersection with U.S. Route 90. US ...
(US 285). It was renamed NM 19 in 1940 when US 285 was rerouted through
Tres Piedras. Then in the 1950s it was renamed
NM 17 to match
Colorado State Highway 17 (SH 17).
State Road 40 (NM 40) was first established in the 1920s as a road from
Weed eastward to
Dunken. This was removed from the state highway system in the 1930s. This road still exists as forest roads.
Later in the 1950s, NM 40 was used for a highway from
Broadview eastward to
Hollene. In 1970 NM 40 was renumbered as NM 19 around 1970 to avoid confusion with
Interstate 40 (I-40).
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Major intersections
See also
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References
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Nineteen or 19 may refer to:
* 19 (number), the natural number following 18 and preceding 20
* one of the years 19 BC, AD 19, 1919, 2019
Films
* ''19'' (film), a 2001 Japanese film
* ''Nineteen'' (film), a 1987 science fiction film
Music ...
Transportation in Curry County, New Mexico