State Route 16 (SR-16) is a state highway in northeastern

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, running for in Rich County from the

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state line near Woodruff to Sage Creek Junction. It serves as part of a road from Evanston, Wyoming to

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Route description

SR-16 begins at the Wyoming state line south of Woodruff, as an extension of WYO 89, and heads northwest to Woodruff, where it turns north through the town center. SR-16 then continues north to Randolph, running through the town center. North of Randolph, it runs generally north-northeast to end at an intersection with SR-30 at Sage Creek Junction.

History

A 1921 law added the portion of the road from Evanston, Wyoming to

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in Utah to the state highway system, as well as the branch towards

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. The State Road Commission assigned the State Route 3 designation to the highway that decade,

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1926 and in 1927 the legislature officially adopted the number for the main route and the spur. The spur was split off as SR-51 in 1931, but the remainder stayed as SR-3 until 1962, when it was renumbered SR-16. In the 1977 renumbering, only the section south of Sage Creek Junction remained, as the rest became SR-30 (signed since 1966) and US-89 (signed since the 1930s). , updated September 2007, accessed May 2008

Major intersections

References

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