Oregon Route 542 (OR 542) is an Oregon

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OR 42 Oregon Route 42 (OR 42) is an Oregon state highway which runs between U.S. Route 101 on the Oregon Coast, near Coos Bay, and Green, a few miles south of Roseburg on Interstate 5. OR 42 traverses the Coos Bay–Roseburg Highway No.&nbs ...

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. OR 542 is known as the Powers Highway No. 242 (see Oregon highways and routes). It is long and runs north–south, entirely within Coos County. OR 542 was established in 2003 as part of Oregon's project to assign route numbers to highways that previously were not assigned, and, as of August 2018, was unsigned.

Route description

OR 542 begins at an intersection with OR 42 approximately two miles southeast of Myrtle Point and heads south through Broadbent,

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to Powers, where it ends at an intersection with Railroad Avenue and Powers South Road.

History

OR 542 was assigned to the Powers Highway in 2003.

Major intersections

References

{{Attached KML, display=inline,title * 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 32. * Oregon Department of Transportation, Powers Highway No. 242, ftp://ftp.odot.state.or.us/tdb/trandata/maps/slchart_pdfs_1980_to_2002/Hwy242_2001.pdf

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Transportation in Coos County, Oregon