New York State Route 272 (NY 272) is a north–south

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in the western portion of

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in the United States. It extends for just over along the Orleans– Monroe county line from an intersection with

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in Clarkson to the Lake Ontario shoreline just north of an interchange with the Lake Ontario State Parkway in the

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hamlet of Troutburg. The route is two lanes wide for its entire length and passes through mostly rural areas, save for the hamlet of Morton at a junction with Kenmore and Morton Roads (the latter being former NY 360). NY 272 was assigned as part of the 1930 renumbering of state highways in New York and has not been altered since.

Route description

NY 272 begins at an intersection with

( Ridge Road) on the Orleans– Monroe county line, which also separates the towns of Clarkson and Murray. The two-lane route heads north, passing through open fields and over Sandy Creek to intersect

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at Kendall Mills, a hamlet in the town of

. NY 18 briefly overlaps NY 272 northward but veers west off the county line and into Kendall south of the dual-town hamlet of Morton. The number of homes and businesses along NY 272 begins to rise during the stretch between Kendall Mills and Morton. NY 272 north in Morton

NY 272 directly serves Morton, a small community situated equally in the town of Kendall and the town of Hamlin. In the center of Morton, NY 272 intersects Morton Road (unsigned County Route 279 and formerly NY 360), which approaches NY 272 from the Monroe County side. North of Morton, the amount of development along the road declines sharply as it heads toward Lake Ontario. NY 272 meets the Lake Ontario State Parkway at an interchange south of the shoreline near the west end of

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. This is the last signed highway that NY 272 intersects; however, NY 272 officially continues to the lakeside hamlet of Troutburg in the town of Hamlin, where it terminates at a dead end at the southern lakeshore. NY 272 is one of only two

s in

that are located wholly along a county boundary. Incidentally, the other one is NY 269 on the other side of Orleans County, which delimits the boundary between Orleans and

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Counties.

History

The portion of the Orleans– Monroe county line road north of Ridge Road was added to the state highway system in stages during the late 1900s and early 1910s. The section north of the Clarkson–

town line cost $39,531.05 (equivalent to $ in ) to improve to state highway standards and was accepted into the system on December 1, 1909, as the unsigned State Highway 398 (SH 398). To the south, the piece between Ridge Road and the south end of SH 398 cost $20,199.14 (equivalent to $ in ) to bring up to standards and was included in the system on November 12, 1913, as SH 588. Neither SH 398 nor SH 588 were assigned a posted designation until the 1930 renumbering of state highways in New York, when they were collectively designated as NY 272.

Major intersections

The entire route is located on the Orleans– Monroe county line.

References

External links

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Transportation in Orleans County, New York Transportation in Monroe County, New York

Route description

History

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