State Highway 5 (SH-5 or OK-5) is the name assigned to two distinct

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s in the U.S state of

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. One runs for through extreme southwestern Oklahoma, passing through Harmon and Jackson Counties. The other is long and runs through southwest Oklahoma, connecting US-283 south of Altus to US-70 at Waurika.

Route description

Western section

File:Oklahoma 5 1924.svg The western SH-5 begins at U.S. Highway 62 in

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and runs south until just past Lincoln, where it turns east. It then ends at State Highway 6 in

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, just seven miles (11 km) north of the Texas border. The western SH-5 was once known as SH-90. Both the now-separate western and eastern sections of SH-5 were formerly part of a continuous SH-5 across Southwest Oklahoma. From 1958 to 1969, SH-5 continued east from Eldorado over an unpaved roadway to a junction with US-283 east of

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, and then turned north on a route shared with US-283 to the current west terminus of the eastern SH-5 at its junction with US-283 south of Altus and west of Tipton and continued east over the current eastern SH-5. The former Eldorado to Elmer section of SH-5 was removed from the state highway system in 1969 and continues in use as a county road under the jurisdiction of Jackson County.

Eastern section

The eastern SH-5 starts between Altus and

at US-283. It heads east from here to Tipton, where it turn south and SH-5C splits off. South of Tipton, SH-5 turns east again to intersect

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in Frederick. 19 miles (30.5 km) later, it has a two-mile (3.2 km)

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with State Highway 36. The highway splits off to the east from here, sharing a three-mile (4.8 km) concurrency with US-277/ 281 and an interchange with Interstate 44 (which is also the Walters toll plaza of the

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). Five miles (8 km) east of where this three-route concurrency breaks up, SH-5 turns south in Walters, with the mainline being taken over by

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. SH-5 heads east again toward Temple, where it has a brief concurrency with State Highway 65, and then turns southeast to pass through Hastings before ending at

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Spurs

SH-5 has three lettered spur routes. *SH-5A connects SH-5 south of Walters to US-277/281 south of Cookietown. *SH-5B does not connect directly with SH-5. It runs from SH-5A south to US-70 at

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. *SH-5C runs from SH-5 at Tipton to US-183 in

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Junction list

Western section

Eastern section

References

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