State Route 84 (SR 84) is a primary
state highway
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in the U.S. state of
Virginia. Known as Mill Gap Road, the state highway runs from the
West Virginia state line near
Mill Gap, where the highway continues west as
West Virginia Route 84
West Virginia Route 84 is an east–west state highway located within Pocahontas County, West Virginia. The western terminus of the route is at West Virginia Route 92 in Frost. The eastern terminus is at the Virginia state line five miles ...
(WV 84), east to
U.S. Route 220 (US 220) at
Vanderpool.
Route description
SR 84 begins at the top of
Allegheny Mountain, which coincides with the Virginia – West Virginia state line and the
Eastern Continental Divide
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. The highway continues west as WV 84, which descends the west side of the mountain to its terminus at
WV 92 in
Frost
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. The state highway passes through a pair of
hairpin turns as it descends to Townsend Draft. At the draft's mouth at Back Creek, SR 84 turns north and follows Back Creek to Mill Gap, where the highway turns east and follows East Back Creek through its
water gap between Little Mountain and Lantz Mountain. The state highway turns north and follows the valley through the hamlet of Mill Gap to Meadowdale. There, SR 84 turns east and follows the
Jackson River through Vanderpool Gap between Monterey Mountain and Back Creek Mountain to its eastern terminus at US 220 (Jackson River Road) in the hamlet of Vanderpool south of the
Highland County seat
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Types of seat
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of
Monterey.
History
Until 1933, SR 84 was part of
State Route 39
The following highways are numbered 39. For a list of roads called ''N39'', see List of N39 roads.
Australia
* Newell Highway
* Goulburn Valley Highway
*
**Gore Highway
**Leichhardt Highway
Canada
* Alberta Highway 39
* British Columbia Hig ...
. It became State Route 271 in the
1933 renumbering, and in the
1940 renumbering it was renumbered State Route 84 to match
West Virginia Route 84
West Virginia Route 84 is an east–west state highway located within Pocahontas County, West Virginia. The western terminus of the route is at West Virginia Route 92 in Frost. The eastern terminus is at the Virginia state line five miles ...
.
Although SR 39 was defined (as SR 9) in 1918,
its location west of Monterey was not finalized to follow the present SR 84 until 1923.
Major intersections
References
External links
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Virginia Highways Project: VA 84
084
Area codes 084 and 086 are Nigerian telephone area codes serving the cities of Port Harcourt and Ahoada in Rivers State. They fall under the Southeast Zone in the National Numbering Plan (NNP) restructured in 2003.
When in Port Harcourt or Ahoad ...
State Route 084