State Route 344 (SR 344) is an east-west
state highway
A state highway, state road, or state route (and the equivalent provincial highway, provincial road, or provincial route) is usually a road that is either Route number, numbered or maintained by a sub-national state or province. A road numbered ...
lying entirely in
Columbiana County
Columbiana County is a county located in the U.S. state of Ohio. As of the 2020 census, the population was 101,877. The county seat is Lisbon and its largest city is Salem. Created in 1803, the county name is derived from that of 15th-centur ...
,
Ohio
Ohio ( ) is a U.S. state, state in the Midwestern United States, Midwestern region of the United States. It borders Lake Erie to the north, Pennsylvania to the east, West Virginia to the southeast, Kentucky to the southwest, Indiana to the ...
. Its western terminus is at
State Route 14 and
State Route 9 in downtown
Salem, and its eastern terminus is along a concurrency with
State Route 164 in downtown
Columbiana.
History
SR 344 was originally established, in 1935, originally routed from
SR 45, west of
Leetonia, to
Columbiana.
Between 1979 and 1981, the route was extended to
Salem along what was
SR 558, SR 558 was also rerouted to the south along some of the former SR 344. In that same year, the highway was rerouted between former SR 558 and
Leetonia along a previously unnumbered road.
No significant changes have taken place to this state route since 1981.
Major intersection
References
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344
Year 344 ( CCCXLIV) was a leap year starting on Sunday of the Julian calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Leontius and Bonosus (or, less frequently, year 1097 ''Ab urbe condita''). The denomination 344 for this y ...
Transportation in Columbiana County, Ohio