State Route 532 (SR 532) is a north–south
state highway
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in the northeastern portion of the
U.S. state
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of
Ohio
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. The highway runs from its southern terminus at a signalized intersection with
U.S. Route 224 (US 224) on the
Summit
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–
Portage
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county line approximately south of
Mogadore
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on the border of
Springfield Township and
Suffield Township to its northern terminus at a
diamond interchange
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Design
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with
Interstate 76
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(I-76), at its exit 29 within the
Tallmadge city limits.
SR 532 was established in the late 1930s. Once a connector route that linked Akron to
SR 8, the route is now merely a short connector linking I-76 to US 224. The portion of SR 532 that was removed from the state highway system continues from I-76 to the center of Tallmadge as Southeast Avenue. The route straddles the Summit–Portage county line from its southern terminus to where it bends into Summit County near the northern village limits of Mogadore.
Route description
This state highway is not included as a component of the
National Highway System, a system of routes identified as being most important for the economy, mobility and defense of the country.
History
The SR 532 designation was established in 1937. Originally, the highway began at the intersection of Canton Road, at the time a segment of SR 8, and Tisen Road south of Mogadore. It followed Tisen Road east to where it turns north on the Summit–Portage county line and defaults into Portage Line Road, continuing north from that point up to US 224. SR 532 then utilized its entire present alignment, continuing northwest of where the I-76 interchange is located today along Southeast Avenue up to the downtown Tallmadge
traffic circle
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. It continued from there northwest along Northwest Avenue and Tallmadge Road to the present
SR 59 intersection, which at the time was a part of
SR 5, in
Cuyahoga Falls
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. SR 532 ran
concurrent
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with SR 5 along Front Street northeast. Departing from SR 5, SR 532 traveled north out of Cuyahoga Falls by following Bailey Road to the northwest and the north, then turning to the southwest on Graham Road and traveling along that road a short distance to Wyoga Lake Road. The route then went north along Wyoga Lake Road to where it meets Akron-Cleveland Road, which in 1937 was a part of SR 8. That intersection marked the endpoint of SR 532.
The shortening of SR 532 began in 1942, when the portions of the highway south of US 224 along Tisen Road and Portage Line Road were removed from the state highway system.
Then, by 1981, with the impending completion of the SR 8 freeway in the vicinity of Cuyahoga Falls, all of SR 532 to the northwest of I-76 through Tallmadge and Cuyahoga Falls was eliminated. Consequently, at that point the state highway took on the status of short connector route between US 224 and I-76 that it has today.
Major intersections
References
External links
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State Route 532 Endpoint Photos
532
Transportation in Portage County, Ohio
Transportation in Summit County, Ohio