State Roads in Florida 1177532 223424698 2008-07-04T00:43:00Z Joeeesch 6910821 {{infobox state highway system| shields=[[Image:Florida blank.svg|88px]] [[Image:Toll Florida blank.svg|56px]]| caption=Standard (left) and [[toll road|toll]] (right) State Road shields| state=State Road X (SR X)| interstate=Interstate X (I-X)| us=U.S. Highway X (US X)| notes=State Roads are generally state-maintained. }} [[Image:Florida State Roads 15 and 408.jpg|thumb|200px|right|The two kinds of State Road shield that are currently used]] [[Image:Old style Florida SR 471 shield.jpg|thumb|150px|right|An older [[Florida State Road 471|State Road 471]] shield, with a design used until around 1980. Note that the current design lacks the [[Florida Keys]].]] Roads maintained by the [[Florida Department of Transportation]] or a [[toll road|toll]] authority are referred to officially as '''State Roads''', abbreviated '''SR'''. State Roads are always numbered; in general, the numbers follow a grid. Odd numbered roads run north-south, and even numbered roads run east-west. One- and two-digit numbers run in order from [[Florida State Road 2|2]] in the north to [[Florida State Road 94|94]] in the south, and [[State Road A1A (Florida)|A1A]] (formerly [[Florida State Road 1|1]]) in the east to [[Florida State Road 97|97]] in the west ([[Florida State Road 99|99]] used to exist but is now a county road). The major cross-state roads end in 0 and 5. Most routes of the form X00 are major diagonal routes; an even first digit indicates a southwest-to-northeast direction, and an odd first digit indicates a northwest-to-southeast direction. Other three-digit numbers are placed in horizontal bands based on the first digit: {| class="wikitable" | 1 || north of [[Florida State Road 10|10]] |rowspan=9|[[Image:1946 numbering.jpg|thumb|Numbering plan (1946)]] |- | 2 || between [[Florida State Road 10|10]] and [[Florida State Road 20|20]] |- | 3 || between [[Florida State Road 20|20]] and [[Florida State Road 40|40]] |- | 4 || between [[Florida State Road 40|40]] and [[Florida State Road 50|50]] |- | 5 || between [[Florida State Road 50|50]] and [[Florida State Road 60|60]] |- | 6 || between [[Florida State Road 60|60]] and [[Florida State Road 70|70]] |- | 7 || between [[Florida State Road 70|70]] and [[Florida State Road 80|80]] |- | 8 || between [[Florida State Road 80|80]] and [[Florida State Road 90|90]] |- | 9 || south of [[Florida State Road 90|90]] |} Three-digit numbers increase from east to west across the band; [[Florida State Road 30|30]] is skipped because it runs along the [[Gulf of Mexico|Gulf Coast]] in the [[Florida panhandle|panhandle]] and doesn't go all the way across the state. When the grid was [[1945 Florida State Road renumbering|first laid out in 1945]], the rules were almost perfectly followed. However, over the years, as routes have been added, there has not always been room to follow the grid. Even given this, some placements, such as [[Florida State Road 112|112]] (in the 8 band), [[Florida State Road 752|752]] (in the 2 band), and [[Florida State Road 602|602]] (in the 1 band) seem to defy reason. The [[Pensacola, Florida|Pensacola]] area has a collection of these "misplaced" street numbers. When FDOT added route numbers to a collection of [[Miami-Dade County, Florida|Miami-Dade County]] streets in 1980, most of them received 9## designations regardless of the band that they occupied. Every section of [[U.S. Highway system|U.S. Highway]] and [[Interstate Highway]] has a State Road number assigned to it, usually unsigned (for example, [[Interstate 4 (Florida)|Interstate 4]] is also unsigned [[Florida State Road 400|SR 400]]). In addition to some named toll roads (for example, [[Florida State Road 91|91]] and [[Florida State Road 821|821]], which make up [[Florida's Turnpike]]) some minor State Roads are also unsigned (like [[Florida State Road 913|SR 913]] and [[State Road 5054 (Florida)|SR 5054]]). ==History== [[Image:FL C18.jpg|thumb|150px|Old [[Florida State Road 18|State Road 18]] shield, modified when the road was given to the county.]] [[Image:Ssr367.jpg|thumb|150px|Old Secondary State Road ([[Florida State Road 367|"SR S-367"]]) sign in [[Shell Point, Florida|Shell Point]].]] [[Pre-1945 Florida State Roads|Prior to the]] [[1945 Florida State Road renumbering|1945 renumbering]], State Roads were given numbers in the order they were added to the system. The 1945 renumbering removed a lot of roads that had never been built and added some that had not existed prior to 1945. Until the early 1980s, the [[Florida Department of Transportation]] continued to add State Roads to the system. At some point, they began to classify roads into primary, secondary, and local roads. Primary roads would continue to be state-maintained. Secondary roads would have an S before the number, and would only be state-maintained during a construction project. Local roads would be completely removed from the system. In 1977, FDOT changed the division of roads into state/county/local. Most secondary routes and some primary routes were given to the counties, and occasionally a new state road was taken over; some main roads in incorporated areas were given to the localities. The secondary signs had the S changed to C (for county) and a small COUNTY sticker added to the bottom. As signs grew old, they were replaced with the standard [[MUTCD]] county road pentagon. While this occurred throughout the State of Florida, the part of the state south of [[Florida State Road 70|SR 70]] was hit particularly hard by the [[Former Florida State Roads in southern Florida|transition from State to County control and maintenance]]. In the early 1980s several state roads were renumbered; in the latter half of the 1990s, budget cuts and other factors prompted a series of truncations of several state roads, primarily in urban areas and [[Former State Roads in east central Florida|the Space Coast and the Treasure Coast]]. The trend seems to have been reversed since 2002 as new state road designations have been added as a result of construction of new highways, most notably in the [[Jacksonville, Florida|Jacksonville]], [[Orlando, Florida|Orlando]], and the [[Tampa, Florida|Tampa]]-[[St. Petersburg, Florida|St. Petersburg]] [[metropolitan area]]s. =="Interrupted" State Roads == While most State Roads are contiguous, there is a relative handful of routes that have interruptions in their designations. *The most famous of the set is [[State Road A1A (Florida)|SR A1A]], which exists in seven separate pieces along the Atlantic coast from [[Fernandina Beach, Florida|Fernandina Beach]] to [[Key West, Florida|Key West]]. *[[Florida State Road 2|State Road 2]] has two sections separated by the State of Georgia. The western segment extends westward from [[State Route 91 (Georgia)|Georgia 91]] as it crosses the [[Chattahoochee River]] and has its western terminus at [[Florida State Road 81|SR 81]] near [[Sweet Gum Head, Florida|Sweet Gum Head]]; the eastern segment crosses the [[Okefenokee Swamp]] to connect separated segments of [[State Route 94 (Georgia)|Georgia 94]]. *[[Florida State Road 15|State Road 15]] has two sections bridged by ''County'' Road 15 and US [[U.S. Route 192 (Florida)|192]]/[[U.S. Route 441 (Florida)|441]]. With the exception of a small section in the Orlando area, SR 15 is unsigned for the entire route as it is a secret FDOT designation for US 441 south of [[Holopaw, Florida|Holopaw]], [[U.S. Route 17 (Florida)|US 17]] between Orlando and Jacksonville, and US [[U.S. Route 1 (Florida)|1]]/[[U.S. Route 23 (Florida)|23]] north of Jacksonville. *The two separate sections of [[Florida State Road 17|SR 17]] formed when [[U.S. Route 27 (Florida)|US 27]] was rerouted in [[Highlands County, Florida|Highlands County]], where it passes through [[Avon Park, Florida|Avon Park]] and [[Sebring, Florida|Sebring]], and in [[Polk County, Florida|Polk County]], from [[Haines City, Florida|Haines City]] to [[Frostproof, Florida|Frostproof]]. Originally signed Alternate US 27, it is now just signed SR 17. *Two sections of [[Florida State Road 44|State Road 44]] are separated in Lake County by [[U.S. Route 441 (Florida)|US 441]] and County Road 44. *[[Florida State Road 54|State Road 54]] has a gap in eastern Pasco County, between the western terminus of [[Florida State Road 56|State Road 56]] and [[Florida State Road 581|Bruce B. Downs Boulevard]] in [[Wesley Chapel, Florida|Wesley Chapel]]. It also contains a former segment between [[U.S. Route 301 (Florida)|301]] in [[Zephyrhills, Florida|Zephyrhills]] and [[U.S. Route 98 (Florida)|US 98]] in [[Polk County, Florida|Polk County]]. *There are two separate segments of [[Florida State Road 61|State Road 61]] in the [[Tallahassee, Florida|Tallahassee]] area. *[[Florida State Road 78|State Road 78]] spanned southwestern Florida from the northern tip of [[Lake Okeechobee]] to [[Tamiami Trail|US 41]] on the [[Gulf of Mexico|Gulf Coast]], but in the late 1970s, FDOT slapped an S-prefix on the designation of the section between [[Florida State Road 29|SR 29]] and [[Florida State Road 31|SR 31]]... and started a process that converted the segment into ''County'' Road 78 connecting the remaining pieces of SR 78. *Until 1993, [[Florida State Road 84|State Road 84]] traversed the state from Atlantic coast to Gulf coast. When an upgraded [[Alligator Alley]] became part of [[Interstate 75 (Florida)|Interstate 75]], the unsigned FDOT designation of SR 93 was applied to the toll road, and the end pieces of SR 84 retained their number - and their signage. SR 84 is also a pair of frontage roads that run parallel to I-75 and I-595 from the West Arvida Parkway exit to just west of Florida's Turnpike, with a short gap before the eastern end piece emerges from I-595 as its own road east of US 441. *In the Jacksonville area, [[Florida State Road 115|SR 115]] travels along Southside Boulevard north from US 1, then follows a pair of Alternate [[U.S. Highways]], [[U.S. Route 1 Alternate (Jacksonville, Florida)|US 1 Alt.]] and [[U.S. Route 90 Alternate (Jacksonville, Florida)|US 90 Alt.]] to [[Interstate 95 in Florida|Interstate 95]] (hidden [[Florida State Road 9|SR 9]]), where the southern segment of SR 115 ends. Three miles to the north on I-95 is a second section of SR 115, extending to US 1-23 near [[Callahan, Florida|Callahan]]. *There are two separate roads in [[Okaloosa County, Florida|Okaloosa County]] with the [[Florida State Road 189|SR 189]] designation: a bypass around [[Fort Walton Beach, Florida|Fort Walton Beach]] and a road going from [[Baker, Florida|Baker]] to the State of [[Alabama]]. *In [[Winter Haven, Florida|Winter Haven]], [[U.S. Route 17 (Florida)|US 17]] connects the two separate sections of [[Florida State Road 540|SR 540]]. *A major gap exists along [[Florida State Road 582|SR 582]] between [[U.S. Route 19 (Florida)|US 19]] in Tarpon Springs and [[U.S. Highway 41 Business (Tampa, Florida)|US BUS 41]] in Tampa. *Two sections of [[Florida State Road 811|SR 811]], both of which roughly parallel US 1, are found in [[Fort Lauderdale, Florida|Ft. Lauderdale]] and near [[Palm Beach Gardens, Florida|Palm Beach Gardens]] and [[Jupiter, Florida|Jupiter]]. *At one time, [[Florida State Road 865|SR 865]] extended from [[Estero Island]] (near [[Fort Myers Beach, Florida|Fort Myers Beach]]) to [[Tice, Florida|Tice]]. Today SR 865 consists of two separate sections (one north-south, the other east-west) connected by a stretch of County Road that was originally part of SR 865. *[[Florida State Road 909|State Road 909]], also known as West Dixie Highway to the residents of [[North Miami, Florida|North Miami]], has a two-block-long hiatus, where drivers are greeted with "TO West Dixie Hwy/TO 909" signs as they drive a short stretch of [[Florida State Road 922|Northeast 125th Street]] (SR 922) connecting the pieces. ==See also== {| width="100%" cellpadding="4" cellspacing="0" |- | width="40" style="width:40px; text-align:center" bgcolor="#EFEFEF" | [[Image:I-4.svg|40px]] | width="200" bgcolor="#EFEFEF" |[[List of Interstate Highways in Florida|Interstate highways]] | bgcolor="#EFEFEF"|A list of interstate highways within Florida. |- | width="40" style="width:40px; text-align:center" bgcolor="#FEFEFE" | [[Image:US 98.svg|40px]] | width="200" bgcolor="#FEFEFE" |[[List of U.S. Highways in Florida|U.S. highways]] | bgcolor="#FEFEFE"|A list of U.S. highways within Florida. |- | width="40" style="width:40px; text-align:center" bgcolor="#EFEFEF" | [[Image:Florida 4.svg|40px]] | width="200" bgcolor="#EFEFEF" |[[List of State Roads in Florida|State roads]] | bgcolor="#EFEFEF"|A list of all state roads within Florida. |- | width="40" style="width:40px; text-align:center" bgcolor="#FEFEFE" | [[Image:Florida's Turnpike shield.png|40px]][[Image:Toll Florida 869.svg|38px]] | width="200" bgcolor="#FEFEFE" |[[List of Toll Roads in Florida|Toll roads]] | bgcolor="#FEFEFE"|A list of toll roads within Florida. |- | width="40" style="width:40px; text-align:center" bgcolor="#EFEFEF" | [[Image:Brevard County Road 511 FL.svg|40px]] | width="200" bgcolor="#EFEFEF" |[[County roads in Florida|County roads]] | bgcolor="#EFEFEF"|A list of all county roads within Florida. |} *[[1945 Florida State Road renumbering]] *[[Pre-1945 Florida State Roads]] ==External links== *[http://www.dot.state.fl.us/ Florida Department of Transportation] *[http://www.fhwa.dot.gov/programadmin/toll_Rds.html US Department of Transportation: Active FHWA Toll Facility Agreements] *[http://www.fhp.state.fl.us/traffic/trooproad_names.html Florida Highway Patrol State Road Listings by Troop] *[http://web.archive.org/web/20031205040333/web.mit.edu/spui/www/flsr/sr.html Unofficial Florida route log] *[http://mdo20.0catch.com/route/fl/flsign.html Road Signs of Florida] by Mark O'Neil *[http://www.southeastroads.com/florida.html AARoads Florida Highways Page] *[http://www.us-highways.com/flausa.htm Florida Highways Page] {{US state highways}} [[Category:State highways in Florida| ]] [[Category:Lists of roads|Florida]]