State Highway 117 (abbreviated SH-117) is a

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in the

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metropolitan area. The majority of the highway is in

Creek County Creek County is a county located in the U.S. state of Oklahoma. As of the 2010 census, the population was 69,967. Its county seat is Sapulpa. Creek County is part of the Tulsa, OK Metropolitan Statistical Area. History European explorers tr ...

, with the easternmost in

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. SH-117 has one lettered spur in the city of Sapulpa, Oklahoma.

Route description

SH-117 begins at SH-66 just west of

Sapulpa Sapulpa is a city in Creek and Tulsa counties in the U.S. state of Oklahoma. The population was 20,544 at the 2010 United States census, compared to 19,166 at the 2000 census. The population as of 2022 is 22,205. As of 2019, the estimated popul ...

. It briefly runs in an arc curving southeast-to-east before heading seven miles (11 km) east. SH-117 ends in Glenpool at

US-75 U.S. Route 75 is a major north–south United States Numbered Highways, U.S. Highway that extends in the central United States. The highway's northern terminus is in Noyes, Minnesota, at the Canada–United States border, Canadian border, wh ...

. SH-117 is known as Taft Avenue in Creek County, and 121st Street South in Tulsa County.

History

SH-117 was extended east along US-75, 71st Street South, and Peoria Avenue in Tulsa to Interstate 44 in 1983, coinciding with the imminent opening of the 71st Street bridge across the

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. The eastern end was truncated back to its original ending at US-75 before 1990.

Junction list

Spurs

SH-117 has one lettered spur, SH-117A, which connects SH-117 to SH-66 along Mission Street in Sapulpa. It is long and lies entirely within Sapulpa city limits and Creek County.

References

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Transportation in Creek County, Oklahoma Transportation in Tulsa County, Oklahoma