Oregon Route 42N - Revision history

Jonathan: Replace 1955 state highway map with April 1955 map that shows OR-42N

2026-02-15T01:50:44Z

Replace 1955 state highway map with April 1955 map that shows OR-42N

Jonathan: Adjusted state route links in routebox

2022-09-24T07:46:15Z

Adjusted state route links in routebox

Jonathan: Moved OR-42N shield further up the page

2021-02-06T08:33:54Z

Moved OR-42N shield further up the page

Jonathan: /* Rediscovery */

2021-02-06T07:24:16Z

Rediscovery

Jonathan: Initial creation of OR-42N page

2021-02-05T09:31:51Z

Initial creation of OR-42N page

New page

{{Routebox|type=OR|number=42N|shield_variant=1948|name=Oregon Route 42N|highway=Coos Bay-Roseburg Highway #35|map=OR_42N-map.jpg|maintained_by=Oregon State Highway Department|length=≈3.77|created=1954|removed=1956?|start_terminus_dir=West|start_terminus={{Jct|type=OR|number=42|shield_variant=1948|page=OR Route 42|route=OR-42}} in Winston|end_terminus_dir=East|end_terminus={{Jct|type=US|number=99|shield_variant=1948|page=US Route 99|route=US-99}} in Shady|prev_route={{Jct|type=OR|number=42|page=Oregon Route 42|route=OR-42}}|next_route={{Jct|type=OR|number=42S|page=Oregon Route 42S|route=OR-42S|align=right}}}}
'''Oregon Route 42N''' was a primary state route assigned in 1954 between [[Oregon Route 42|OR-42]] in Winston and [[US Route 99|US-99]] in Shady, just south of Roseburg. Designated along what would become an easterly extension of the [[Coos Bay-Roseburg Highway #35]] along a former stretch of US-99/[[Pacific Highway #1]], it was removed from the system sometime between 1956 and 1958.

==History==

After World War II, Oregon began constructing its two primary US highways, US-99 and [[US Route 30|US-30]], on newer, faster and wider alignments. Many of these new stretches bypassed smaller towns and cities, including Roseburg, Winston and Dillard in Douglas County along US-99. Once these bypasses were constructed and US-99 was moved onto the new alignments of the Pacific Highway, the Oregon State Highway Commission decided to retain the older sections in the highway system, either by creating new secondary highways and routes or by extending primary highways and routes.

In April 1954, the OSHC formally announced its renumbering plans for a few such sections of former US-99 once the new highways opened to the public. Among other items, the Coos Bay-Roseburg Highway was extended northeasterly from its previous terminus in Winston to the new highway in Shady. Curiously, its associated route number, OR-42, was '''not''' extended along the same alignment; instead, it was routed southeasterly through Dillard to meet with the new US-99 at Booth Ranch, eventually extending along the [[Tiller-Trail Highway #230]] (replacing [[Oregon Route 227|OR-227]]) to the junction of [[Oregon Route 62|OR-62]] at Trail. This left the extension of the Coos Bay-Roseburg Highway without a route number, so the commission decided to assign it '''OR-42N'''<ref name="roseburgnr_1954-04-08">''Roseburg News-Review.'' "Reconstruction of Highway Through Oregon to Result in Route Number Changes," 8 April 1954, pp. 1-2</ref>:

<blockquote>
Highway reconstruction in Oregon will result in changes in route numbers, it is announced by the Oregon Highway Commission. As new highway sections are completed and put into use, new titles will be adopted. Changes will start during the summer.

Several Douglas County roads are affected. ... Another announced change brings the Tiller-Trail Cut-Off into the system as an extension of the Roseburg-Coos Bay Highway. The road from Winston to Coquille now is known as State Highway 42. This route is to be extended eastward over the old Pacific Highway from Winston through Myrtle Creek to Canyonville and east from Canyonville through Tiller to Trail. '''The section from Winston to Roseburg, following the present highway, which is to be bypassed, will be known as S.H. 42N.'''</blockquote>
<cite>- ''Roseburg News-Review'', "Reconstruction of Highway Through Oregon to Result in Route Number Changes," April 8, 1954</cite>

[[File:1955 OfficialMap Roseburg.jpg|300px|thumb|right|This 1955 map segment shows the extended OR-42 along the Tiller-Trail Highway, but omits OR-42N.]]
[[File:1956 OfficialMap Roseburg Inset.jpg|300px|thumb|right|This inset of Roseburg on the back of the official 1956 state highway map does not show the OR-42N junction or the OR-235 designation.]]
The change to OR-42 can be seen in the 1955 official state highway map, but a shield for OR-42N is not shown due to the small amount of space available to place it. In addition, Roseburg didn't have a city inset on the state map until the following year, and the portion covered was too far north to see the junction where OR-42N terminated.

Around 1956, the state highway commission decided to cosign a bunch of [[US Route 99 Business|US-99 Business]] routes south of Eugene along the former US-99 alignments that had received state route numbers in 1954. Roseburg was no different; [[US Route 99 Business (Roseburg)|its business route]] started to the north in Winchester, then travelled along [[Oregon Route 235|OR-235]] (another 1954 designation) through Roseburg, Shady (where OR-235 terminated), Winston and Dillard to end at Booth Ranch. Despite the new US-99 Business designations, most of the 1954 state route designations lasted until at least 1962. OR-42N is the exception on the shorter end; it may have been removed from the system around 1956 or 1957, the latter year being when the new US-99 section from Shady to Booth Ranch opened to traffic. It was left off a list of US and state route descriptions published in December 1958 — the route descriptions of OR-42<ref name="oshd_desc_1958-12_16">Oregon State Highway Department. "Description of US and ORE Numbered Highway Routes," December 1958, p. 16</ref> and the Roseburg US-99 Business<ref name="oshd_desc_1958-12_10">Oregon State Highway Department. "Description of US and ORE Numbered Highway Routes," December 1958, p. 10</ref> would have listed OR-42N at intersections or along cosigned portions ('''bolded''' below), but neither do:

{{RouteDesc|quote=ORE42 –

Over the Coos Bay-Roseburg Highway from its junction with the Oregon Coast Highway, US101, in Coquille, easterly via Myrtle Point, Remote and Camas Valley to '''its junction with the Dillard Highway, US99 Business, at Winston'''; thence over the Dillard Highway, US99 Business, to its junction with the Pacific Highway, US99, at Booth Ranch; thence over the Pacific Highway, US99, to its junction with the Myrtle Creek Highway north of Myrtle Creek; thence southerly over the Myrtle Creek Highway via Myrtle Creek to its junction with the Pacific Highway, US99, at Riddle Junction; thence over the Pacific Highway, US99, to its junction with the Tiller-Trail Highway north of Canyonville; thence southeasterly and easterly over the Tiller-Trail Highway via Days Creek and Tiller to its junction with the Crater Lake Highway, ORE62, at Trail.
|title=Description of US and ORE Numbered Highway Routes
|date=December 1958
|page=16}}

{{RouteDesc|quote=US99 – Business (Roseburg)

Over the connection with the Pacific Highway, US99, at Winchester, to its junction with the Oakland-Shady Highway, ORE235; thence southerly over the Oakland-Shady Highway, ORE235, via Roseburg to '''its junction with the Coos Bay-Roseburg Highway at Shady; thence southwesterly over the Coos Bay-Roseburg Highway to its junction with the Dillard Highway, ORE42, in Winston'''; thence southerly over the Dillard Highway to its junction with the Pacific Highway, US99, at Booth Ranch, approximately five miles north of Myrtle Creek.
|title=Description of US and ORE Numbered Highway Routes
|date=December 1958
|page=10}}

More research is needed to build a more accurate timeline of this route.

===Rediscovery===

Long forgotten after its brief lifespan in the 1950s, OR-42N was rediscovered on the AARoads roadgeek forum on September 30, 2016 after user CGPerry posted a photo of a wooden OR-42N shield he purchased at an antiques store in Salem<ref name="aaroads_2016-09-30">Perry, Curtis Gregory [CGPerry]. ''Oregon 42N'', AARoads, 30 September 2016, https://www.aaroads.com/forum/index.php?topic=18931.0, last accessed 5 February 2021</ref>. The shield looks a little weathered but appeared in good shape, suggesting that OR-42N was indeed signed along that stretch of the Coos Bay-Roseburg Highway.

==References==

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 <cite>- ''Roseburg News-Review'', "Reconstruction of Highway Through Oregon to Result in Route Number Changes," April 8, 1954</cite>
-[[File:1955 OfficialMap Roseburg.jpg|300px|thumb|right|This 1955 map segment shows the extended OR-42 along the Tiller-Trail Highway, but omits OR-42N.]]
+[[File:1955-04_RouteNumbersPrincipalHighways_Roseburg.png|300px|thumb|right|This April 1955 map segment shows OR-42N along a former portion of US-99 between Winston and Roseburg.]]
 [[File:1956 OfficialMap Roseburg Inset.jpg|300px|thumb|right|This inset of Roseburg on the back of the official 1956 state highway map does not show the OR-42N junction or the OR-235 designation.]]
 [[File:Cgperry OR 42N shield.jpg|200px|thumb|right|The wooden OR-42N shield found at a Salem, Oregon antique store in 2016 by AARoads user CGPerry.]]
-The change to OR-42 can be seen in the 1955 official state highway map, but a shield for OR-42N is not shown due to the small amount of space available to place it. In addition, Roseburg didn't have a city inset on the state map until the following year, and the portion covered was too far north to see the junction where OR-42N terminated.
+The change to OR-42 can be seen in the 1955 official state highway map, but a shield for OR-42N is not shown due to the small amount of space available to place it. In addition, Roseburg didn't have a city inset on the state map until the following year, and the portion covered was too far north to see the junction where OR-42N terminated. However, OR-42N ''can'' be seen on an April 1955 map that shows the route numbers of Oregon's principal state highways. This map, reprinted in the 1956 Traffic Volume Tables, also shows OR-42's extension along the Tiller-Trail Highway.
 Around 1956, the state highway commission decided to cosign a bunch of [[US Route 99 Business|US-99 Business]] routes south of Eugene along the former US-99 alignments that had received state route numbers in 1954. Roseburg was no different; [[US Route 99 Business (Roseburg)|its business route]] started to the north in Winchester, then travelled along [[Oregon Route 235|OR-235]] (another 1954 designation) through Roseburg, Shady (where OR-235 terminated), Winston and Dillard to end at Booth Ranch. Despite the new US-99 Business designations, most of the 1954 state route designations lasted until at least 1962. OR-42N is the exception on the shorter end; it may have been removed from the system around 1956 or 1957, the latter year being when the new US-99 section from Shady to Booth Ranch opened to traffic. It was left off a list of US and state route descriptions published in December 1958 &mdash; the route descriptions of OR-42<ref name="oshd_desc_1958-12_16">Oregon State Highway Department. "Description of US and ORE Numbered Highway Routes," December 1958, p. 16</ref> and the Roseburg US-99 Business<ref name="oshd_desc_1958-12_10">Oregon State Highway Department. "Description of US and ORE Numbered Highway Routes," December 1958, p. 10</ref> would have listed OR-42N at intersections or along cosigned portions ('''bolded''' below), but neither do:

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−	{{Routebox\|type=OR\|number=42N\|shield_variant=1948\|name=Oregon Route 42N\|highway=Coos Bay-Roseburg Highway #35\|map=OR_42N-map.jpg\|maintained_by=Oregon State Highway Department\|length=≈3.77\|created=1954\|removed=1956?\|start_terminus_dir=West\|start_terminus={{Jct\|type=OR\|number=42\|shield_variant=1948\|page=OR Route 42\|route=OR-42}} in Winston\|end_terminus_dir=East\|end_terminus={{Jct\|type=US\|number=99\|shield_variant=1948\|page=US Route 99\|route=US-99}} in Shady\|prev_route={{Jct\|type=OR\|number=42\|page=Oregon Route 42\|route=OR-42}}\|next_route={{Jct\|type=OR\|number=42S\|page=Oregon Route 42S\|route=OR-42S\|align=right}}}}	+	{{Routebox\|type=OR\|number=42N\|shield_variant=1948\|name=Oregon Route 42N\|highway=Coos Bay-Roseburg Highway #35\|map=OR_42N-map.jpg\|maintained_by=Oregon State Highway Department\|length=≈3.77\|created=1954\|removed=1956?\|start_terminus_dir=West\|start_terminus={{Jct\|type=OR\|number=42\|shield_variant=1948\|page=Oregon Route 42\|route=OR-42}} in Winston\|end_terminus_dir=East\|end_terminus={{Jct\|type=US\|number=99\|shield_variant=1948\|page=US Route 99\|route=US-99}} in Shady\|prev_route={{Jct\|type=OR\|number=42\|page=Oregon Route 42\|route=OR-42}}\|next_route={{Jct\|type=OR\|number=42S\|page=Oregon Route 42S\|route=OR-42S\|align=right}}}}
	'''Oregon Route 42N''' was a primary state route assigned in 1954 between [[Oregon Route 42\|OR-42]] in Winston and [[US Route 99\|US-99]] in Shady, just south of Roseburg. Designated along what would become an easterly extension of the [[Coos Bay-Roseburg Highway #35]] along a former stretch of US-99/[[Pacific Highway #1]], it was removed from the system sometime between 1956 and 1958.		'''Oregon Route 42N''' was a primary state route assigned in 1954 between [[Oregon Route 42\|OR-42]] in Winston and [[US Route 99\|US-99]] in Shady, just south of Roseburg. Designated along what would become an easterly extension of the [[Coos Bay-Roseburg Highway #35]] along a former stretch of US-99/[[Pacific Highway #1]], it was removed from the system sometime between 1956 and 1958.

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		+	[[File:Cgperry OR 42N shield.jpg\|200px\|thumb\|right\|The wooden OR-42N shield found at a Salem, Oregon antique store in 2016 by AARoads user CGPerry.]]
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 [[File:1955 OfficialMap Roseburg.jpg|300px|thumb|right|This 1955 map segment shows the extended OR-42 along the Tiller-Trail Highway, but omits OR-42N.]]
 [[File:1956 OfficialMap Roseburg Inset.jpg|300px|thumb|right|This inset of Roseburg on the back of the official 1956 state highway map does not show the OR-42N junction or the OR-235 designation.]]
 The change to OR-42 can be seen in the 1955 official state highway map, but a shield for OR-42N is not shown due to the small amount of space available to place it. In addition, Roseburg didn't have a city inset on the state map until the following year, and the portion covered was too far north to see the junction where OR-42N terminated.
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 More research is needed to build a more accurate timeline of this route.
 ===Rediscovery===