Oregon Route 64 - Revision history

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'''Oregon Route 64''' was a short-lived designation for the [[Lake of the Woods Highway #270]] between [[Oregon Route 62|OR-62]] in Eagle Point and [[US Route 97|US-97]] in Klamath Falls. Originally part of a proposed "Winnemucca-to-the-Sea Highway" (rejected as [[US Route 140|US-140]] by AASHO in 1963), it was given the OR-64 number by the Oregon State Highway Commission on June 1, 1965 at the recommendation of State Highway Engineer Forrest Cooper:

{{OSHCMinutes|quote=Because of recent improvements to the Lake of the Woods Highway, the Engineer recommended that it be designated as route ORE64. The Commission approved the designation as follows:
<blockquote>ORE 64 over the Lake of the Woods Highway, from its junction with the Crater Lake Highway, ORE 62, near Eagle Point, to its junction with The Dalles-California Highway, US97, in Klamath Falls.</blockquote>
|date=1965-06-01
|pages=34326-27}}

In subsequent months, Cooper would later receive a request to designate a single number for the Winnemucca-to-the-Sea Highway within the state of Oregon. (The party requesting the single designation was not disclosed.) In keeping with the previous attempt at designating the highway as US-140, he recommended on December 14, 1965 that the State Highway Commission eliminate OR-64 in favor of [[Oregon Route 140|OR-140]], which had originally been designated on July 13, 1965 from the junction of [[US Route 395|US-395]] and [[Oregon Route 66|OR-66]] in Lakeview to the Nevada State Line. This action also truncated the eastern terminus of [[Oregon Route 66|OR-66]] from Lakeview to Klamath Falls.

{{OSHCMinutes|quote=The Commission also approved the elimination of ORE64 previously routed over the Lake of the Woods Highway between Eagle Point and Klamath Falls.
|date=1965-12-14
|page=34514}}

OR-64 is one of the shortest-lived, if not ''the'' shortest-lived, state routes in Oregon's history. Because it only lasted for just under 6 months, it is unknown at this time if OR-64 was ever signed in the wild. It does not appear on the official Oregon state highway maps for 1965 or 1966 -- the Lake of the Woods Highway is unnumbered on the 1965 map and numbered OR-140 in the 1966 map. Also, no known 1965 commercial maps show the route.

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 ===Route History Prior to Designation===
-When the secondary state route system was introduced around 1934, the combination of the Little Butte Highway, Lake of the Woods County Road and southern portion of the Klamath Lake Highway were designated '''[[Oregon Route 236 (Eagle Point-Klamath Falls)|OR-236]]'''<ref name="oshd_desc_1934_3">Oregon State Highway Department. "Designated Route Numbers," c. 1934, p. 3</ref>:
+When the secondary state route system was introduced around 1934, the combination of the Little Butte Highway, Lake of the Woods County Road and southern portion of the Klamath Lake Highway were designated '''[[Oregon Route 236|OR-236]]'''<ref name="oshd_desc_1934_3">Oregon State Highway Department. "Designated Route Numbers," c. 1934, p. 3</ref>:
 {{RouteDesc|quote=Ore. 236&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Beginning at a junction with Ore. 62 at Eagle Point; thence east on secondary #270 to Klamath County Line; thence east on Forest Road to junction with secondary #421; thence south on secondary #421 to a junction with U. S. 97 in Klamath Falls.

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 ===Highway History Prior to Designation===
-The Lake of the Woods Highway was originally designated by the State Highway Commission on November 13, 1931 as the '''Little Butte Highway #270''' between Eagle Creek and the Jackson/Klamath County Line and the southernmost portion of the '''[[Klamath Lake Highway #421]]''' between Lake of the Woods Junction (near Rocky Point) and Klamath Falls<ref name="oshc_1931-11-13_3133-36">Oregon State Highway Commission minutes, 13 November 1931, p. 3133-36.</ref>, with a section of forest road (Lake of the Woods County Road) in between. On October 23, 1958, the Commission combined the aforementioned highways and county roads into the '''Lake of the Woods Highway #270'''<ref name="oshc_1958-10-23">Oregon State Highway Commission minutes, 23 October 1958.</ref>.
+The Lake of the Woods Highway was originally designated by the State Highway Commission on November 13, 1931 as the '''Little Butte Highway #270''' between Eagle Creek and the Jackson/Klamath County Line and the southernmost portion of the '''[[Klamath Lake Highway #421]]''' between Lake of the Woods Junction (near Rocky Point) and Klamath Falls<ref name="oshc_1931-11-13_3133-36">Oregon State Highway Commission minutes, 13 November 1931, p. 3133-36</ref>, with a section of forest road (Lake of the Woods County Road) in between. On October 23, 1958, the Commission combined the aforementioned highways and county roads into the '''Lake of the Woods Highway #270'''<ref name="oshc_1958-10-23">Oregon State Highway Commission minutes, 23 October 1958</ref>.
 ===Route History Prior to Designation===
-When the secondary state route system was introduced around 1934, the combination of the Little Butte Highway, Lake of the Woods County Road and southern portion of the Klamath Lake Highway were designated '''[[Oregon Route 236|OR-236]]'''<ref name="oshd_desc_1934_3">Oregon State Highway Department. "Designated Route Numbers," c. 1934, p. 3.</ref>:
+When the secondary state route system was introduced around 1934, the combination of the Little Butte Highway, Lake of the Woods County Road and southern portion of the Klamath Lake Highway were designated '''[[Oregon Route 236 (Eagle Point-Klamath Falls)|OR-236]]'''<ref name="oshd_desc_1934_3">Oregon State Highway Department. "Designated Route Numbers," c. 1934, p. 3</ref>:
 {{RouteDesc|quote=Ore. 236&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Beginning at a junction with Ore. 62 at Eagle Point; thence east on secondary #270 to Klamath County Line; thence east on Forest Road to junction with secondary #421; thence south on secondary #421 to a junction with U. S. 97 in Klamath Falls.
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-On official Oregon highway maps, OR-236 appeared from 1936 (along with the other secondary routes signed at the time) through 1945; it was omitted starting with the 1946 edition of the map. OR-236 was also removed from the highway department's list of route descriptions between May 1943<ref name="oshd_desc_1943-05_16">Oregon State Highway Department. "Description of US and ORE Numbered Highway Routes, Revision 1," 10 May 1943, p. 16.</ref> and December 1958<ref name="oshd_desc_1958-12_25">Oregon State Highway Department. "Description of US and ORE Numbered Highway Routes," December 1958, p. 25.</ref>.
+On official Oregon highway maps, OR-236 appeared from 1936 (along with the other secondary routes signed at the time) through 1945; it was omitted starting with the 1946 edition of the map. OR-236 was also removed from the highway department's list of route descriptions between May 1943<ref name="oshd_desc_1943-05_16">Oregon State Highway Department. "Description of US and ORE Numbered Highway Routes, Revision 1," 10 May 1943, p. 16</ref> and December 1958<ref name="oshd_desc_1958-12_25">Oregon State Highway Department. "Description of US and ORE Numbered Highway Routes," December 1958, p. 25</ref>.
-By 1963, former OR-236 was included as part the "Winnemucca to the Sea Highway", a proposal from the Winnemucca to the Sea Highway Association to connect Crescent City, California to Winnemucca, Nevada by way of Grants Pass, Medford, Klamath Falls and Lakeview in Oregon<ref>Kerr, Doug. [http://www.gribblenation.org/2020/04/winnemucca-to-sea-highway.html "Gribblenation: Winnemucca to the Sea Highway,"] 10 April 2020, last accessed 2 February 2021.</ref>. That year, the State Highway Commission was receptive to their proposal, approving '''[[US Route 140|US-140]]''' on April 25, 1963 pending approval from AASHO<ref name="aasho-app_or_1963_us-140_2">Oregon State Highway Department application to AASHO to establish US-140, p. 2.</ref>. However, State Highway Engineer Forrest Cooper's application to AASHO for the change was rejected twice — once in May 1963 due to Nevada's failure to submit their own application for US-140<ref name="letter_1963-05-21_Johnson-to-Wright">A. E. Johnson (AASHO) letter to W. Otis Wright (Nevada Department of Highways), 21 May 1963.</ref>, and another in October 1963 because the proposed route did not meet AASHO standards<ref name="letter_1963-11-14_Johnson-to-Wright">A. E. Johnson (AASHO) letter to W. Otis Wright (Nevada Department of Highways), 14 November 1963.</ref>.
+By 1963, former OR-236 was included as part the "Winnemucca to the Sea Highway", a proposal from the Winnemucca to the Sea Highway Association to connect Crescent City, California to Winnemucca, Nevada by way of Grants Pass, Medford, Klamath Falls and Lakeview in Oregon<ref>Kerr, Doug. [http://www.gribblenation.org/2020/04/winnemucca-to-sea-highway.html "Gribblenation: Winnemucca to the Sea Highway,"] 10 April 2020, last accessed 2 February 2021</ref>. That year, the State Highway Commission was receptive to their proposal, approving '''[[US Route 140|US-140]]''' on April 25, 1963 pending approval from AASHO<ref name="aasho-app_or_1963_us-140_2">Oregon State Highway Department application to AASHO to establish US-140, p. 2</ref>. However, State Highway Engineer Forrest Cooper's application to AASHO for the change was rejected twice — once in May 1963 due to Nevada's failure to submit their own application for US-140<ref name="letter_1963-05-21_Johnson-to-Wright">A. E. Johnson (AASHO) letter to W. Otis Wright (Nevada Department of Highways), 21 May 1963</ref>, and another in October 1963 because the proposed route did not meet AASHO standards<ref name="letter_1963-11-14_Johnson-to-Wright">A. E. Johnson (AASHO) letter to W. Otis Wright (Nevada Department of Highways), 14 November 1963</ref>.
 ===Lifespan as OR-64===
-Undeterred, Cooper recommended on June 1, 1965 that the Oregon State Highway Commission designate a state route number to the portion of rejected US-140 that ran along the Lake of the Woods Highway, suggesting '''OR-64'''<ref name="oshc_1965-06-01_34326-27">Oregon State Highway Commission minutes, 1 June 1965, pp. 34326-27.</ref>:
+Undeterred, Cooper recommended on June 1, 1965 that the Oregon State Highway Commission designate a state route number to the portion of rejected US-140 that ran along the Lake of the Woods Highway, suggesting '''OR-64'''<ref name="oshc_1965-06-01_34326-27">Oregon State Highway Commission minutes, 1 June 1965, pp. 34326-27</ref>:
 {{OSHCMinutes|quote=Because of recent improvements to the Lake of the Woods Highway, the Engineer recommended that it be designated as route ORE64. The Commission approved the designation as follows:
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-This designation would not last long. Cooper later received a request that the Winnemucca to the Sea Highway within the state of Oregon be given a single route number. (The party requesting the single designation was not disclosed.) In keeping with the previous US-140 proposal, he recommended on December 14, 1965 that the State Highway Commission eliminate OR-64 in favor of a westerly extension of OR-140; the latter route was originally designated on July 13, 1965 from the junction of [[US Route 395|US-395]] and [[Oregon Route 66|OR-66]] in Lakeview to the Nevada State Line. In doing so, the eastern terminus of OR-66 was truncated from Lakeview to Klamath Falls<ref name="oshc_1965-12-14_34512-14">Oregon State Highway Commission minutes, 14 December 1965, pp. 34512-14.</ref>.
+This designation would not last long. Cooper later received a request that the Winnemucca to the Sea Highway within the state of Oregon be given a single route number. (The party requesting the single designation was not disclosed.) In keeping with the previous US-140 proposal, he recommended on December 14, 1965 that the State Highway Commission eliminate OR-64 in favor of a westerly extension of OR-140; the latter route was originally designated on July 13, 1965 from the junction of [[US Route 395|US-395]] and [[Oregon Route 66|OR-66]] in Lakeview to the Nevada State Line. In doing so, the eastern terminus of OR-66 was truncated from Lakeview to Klamath Falls<ref name="oshc_1965-12-14_34512-14">Oregon State Highway Commission minutes, 14 December 1965, pp. 34512-14</ref>.
 {{OSHCMinutes|quote=The Commission also approved the elimination of ORE64 previously routed over the Lake of the Woods Highway between Eagle Point and Klamath Falls.

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-{{Routebox|type=OR|number=64|shield_variant=1948|name=Oregon Route 64|highway=Lake of the Woods Highway #270|map=OR_64-map.jpg|maintained_by=Oregon State Highway Department|length=≈65.64|created=June 1, 1965|removed=December 14, 1965|start_terminus_dir=West|start_terminus=[[Oregon Route 62|OR-62]] in Eagle Point|end_terminus_dir=East|end_terminus=[[US Route 97|US-97]] in Klamath Falls|prev_route=[[Oregon Route 62|OR-62]]|next_route=[[Oregon Route 66|OR-66]]}}
+{{Routebox|type=OR|number=64|shield_variant=1948|name=Oregon Route 64|highway=Lake of the Woods Highway #270|map=OR_64-map.jpg|maintained_by=Oregon State Highway Department|length=≈65.64|created=June 1, 1965|removed=December 14, 1965|start_terminus_dir=West|start_terminus={{Jct|type=OR|number=62|page=Oregon Route 62|route=OR-62}} in Eagle Point|end_terminus_dir=East|end_terminus={{Jct|type=US|number=97|page=US Route 97|route=US-97}} in Klamath Falls|prev_route={{Jct|type=OR|number=62|page=Oregon Route 62|route=OR-62}}|next_route={{Jct|type=OR|number=66|page=Oregon Route 66|route=OR-66|align=right}}}}
 '''Oregon Route 64''' was a short-lived primary state route that ran between [[Oregon Route 62|OR-62]] in Eagle Point and [[US Route 97|US-97]] in Klamath Falls. It was designated along the [[Lake of the Woods Highway #270]] in 1965 for less than 6 months before being renumbered [[Oregon Route 140|OR-140]] that same year.
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-On official Oregon highway maps, OR-236 appeared from 1936 (along with the other secondary routes signed at the time) through 1945; it was omitted starting with the 1946 edition of the map. The route description for OR-236 was also removed by December 1958<ref name="oshd_desc_1958-12_25">Oregon State Highway Department. "Description of US and ORE Numbered Highway Routes," December 1958, p. 25.</ref>.
+On official Oregon highway maps, OR-236 appeared from 1936 (along with the other secondary routes signed at the time) through 1945; it was omitted starting with the 1946 edition of the map. OR-236 was also removed from the highway department's list of route descriptions between May 1943<ref name="oshd_desc_1943-05_16">Oregon State Highway Department. "Description of US and ORE Numbered Highway Routes, Revision 1," 10 May 1943, p. 16.</ref> and December 1958<ref name="oshd_desc_1958-12_25">Oregon State Highway Department. "Description of US and ORE Numbered Highway Routes," December 1958, p. 25.</ref>.
-By 1963, former OR-236 was included as part the "Winnemucca to the Sea Highway", a proposal from the Winnemucca to the Sea Highway Association to connect Crescent City, California to Winnemucca, Nevada by way of Grants Pass, Medford, Klamath Falls and Lakeview in Oregon. That year, the State Highway Commission was receptive to their proposal, approving '''[[US Route 140|US-140]]''' on April 25, 1963 pending approval from AASHO<ref name="aasho-app_or_1963_us-140_2">Oregon State Highway Department application to AASHO to establish US-140, p. 2.</ref>. However, State Highway Engineer Forrest Cooper's application to AASHO for the change was rejected twice — once in May 1963 due to Nevada's failure to submit their own application for US-140<ref name="letter_1963-05-21_Johnson-to-Wright">A. E. Johnson (AASHO) letter to W. Otis Wright (Nevada Department of Highways), 21 May 1963.</ref>, and another in October 1963 because the proposed route did not meet AASHO standards<ref name="letter_1963-11-14_Johnson-to-Wright">A. E. Johnson (AASHO) letter to W. Otis Wright (Nevada Department of Highways), 14 November 1963.</ref>.
+By 1963, former OR-236 was included as part the "Winnemucca to the Sea Highway", a proposal from the Winnemucca to the Sea Highway Association to connect Crescent City, California to Winnemucca, Nevada by way of Grants Pass, Medford, Klamath Falls and Lakeview in Oregon<ref>Kerr, Doug. [http://www.gribblenation.org/2020/04/winnemucca-to-sea-highway.html "Gribblenation: Winnemucca to the Sea Highway,"] 10 April 2020, last accessed 2 February 2021.</ref>. That year, the State Highway Commission was receptive to their proposal, approving '''[[US Route 140|US-140]]''' on April 25, 1963 pending approval from AASHO<ref name="aasho-app_or_1963_us-140_2">Oregon State Highway Department application to AASHO to establish US-140, p. 2.</ref>. However, State Highway Engineer Forrest Cooper's application to AASHO for the change was rejected twice — once in May 1963 due to Nevada's failure to submit their own application for US-140<ref name="letter_1963-05-21_Johnson-to-Wright">A. E. Johnson (AASHO) letter to W. Otis Wright (Nevada Department of Highways), 21 May 1963.</ref>, and another in October 1963 because the proposed route did not meet AASHO standards<ref name="letter_1963-11-14_Johnson-to-Wright">A. E. Johnson (AASHO) letter to W. Otis Wright (Nevada Department of Highways), 14 November 1963.</ref>.
 ===Lifespan as OR-64===

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	'''Oregon Route 64''' was a short-lived primary state route that ran between [[Oregon Route 62\|OR-62]] in Eagle Point and [[US Route 97\|US-97]] in Klamath Falls. It was designated along the [[Lake of the Woods Highway #270]] in 1965 for less than 6 months before being renumbered [[Oregon Route 140\|OR-140]] that same year.		'''Oregon Route 64''' was a short-lived primary state route that ran between [[Oregon Route 62\|OR-62]] in Eagle Point and [[US Route 97\|US-97]] in Klamath Falls. It was designated along the [[Lake of the Woods Highway #270]] in 1965 for less than 6 months before being renumbered [[Oregon Route 140\|OR-140]] that same year.

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	'''Oregon Route 64''' was a short-lived primary state route that ran between [[Oregon Route 62\|OR-62]] in Eagle Point and [[US Route 97\|US-97]] in Klamath Falls. It was designated along the [[Lake of the Woods Highway #270]] in 1965 for less than 6 months before being renumbered [[Oregon Route 140\|OR-140]] that same year.		'''Oregon Route 64''' was a short-lived primary state route that ran between [[Oregon Route 62\|OR-62]] in Eagle Point and [[US Route 97\|US-97]] in Klamath Falls. It was designated along the [[Lake of the Woods Highway #270]] in 1965 for less than 6 months before being renumbered [[Oregon Route 140\|OR-140]] that same year.

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 '''Oregon Route 64''' was a short-lived primary state route that ran between [[Oregon Route 62|OR-62]] in Eagle Point and [[US Route 97|US-97]] in Klamath Falls. It was designated along the [[Lake of the Woods Highway #270]] in 1965 for less than 6 months before being renumbered [[Oregon Route 140|OR-140]] that same year.

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	'''Oregon Route 64''' was a short-lived primary state route that ran between [[Oregon Route 62\|OR-62]] in Eagle Point and [[US Route 97\|US-97]] in Klamath Falls. It was designated along the [[Lake of the Woods Highway #270]] in 1965 for less than 6 months before being renumbered [[Oregon Route 140\|OR-140]] that same year.		'''Oregon Route 64''' was a short-lived primary state route that ran between [[Oregon Route 62\|OR-62]] in Eagle Point and [[US Route 97\|US-97]] in Klamath Falls. It was designated along the [[Lake of the Woods Highway #270]] in 1965 for less than 6 months before being renumbered [[Oregon Route 140\|OR-140]] that same year.

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-'''Oregon Route 64''' was a short-lived designation for the [[Lake of the Woods Highway #270]] between [[Oregon Route 62|OR-62]] in Eagle Point and [[US Route 97|US-97]] in Klamath Falls. Originally part of a proposed "Winnemucca-to-the-Sea Highway" (rejected as [[US Route 140|US-140]] by AASHO in 1963), it was given the OR-64 number by the Oregon State Highway Commission on June 1, 1965 at the recommendation of State Highway Engineer Forrest Cooper<ref name="oshc_1965-06-01_34326-27">Oregon State Highway Commission minutes, 1 June 1965, pp. 34326-27.</ref>:
+'''Oregon Route 64''' was a short-lived primary state route that ran between [[Oregon Route 62|OR-62]] in Eagle Point and [[US Route 97|US-97]] in Klamath Falls. It was designated along the [[Lake of the Woods Highway #270]] in 1965 for less than 6 months before being renumbered [[Oregon Route 140|OR-140]] that same year.
 {{OSHCMinutes|quote=Because of recent improvements to the Lake of the Woods Highway, the Engineer recommended that it be designated as route ORE64. The Commission approved the designation as follows:
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-In subsequent months, Cooper would later receive a request to designate a single number for the Winnemucca-to-the-Sea Highway within the state of Oregon. (The party requesting the single designation was not disclosed.) In keeping with the previous attempt at designating the highway as US-140, he recommended on December 14, 1965 that the State Highway Commission eliminate OR-64 in favor of [[Oregon Route 140|OR-140]], which had originally been designated on July 13, 1965 from the junction of [[US Route 395|US-395]] and [[Oregon Route 66|OR-66]] in Lakeview to the Nevada State Line. This action also truncated the eastern terminus of [[Oregon Route 66|OR-66]] from Lakeview to Klamath Falls<ref name="oshc_1965-12-14_34512-14">Oregon State Highway Commission minutes, 14 December 1965, pp. 34512-14.</ref>.
+This designation would not last long. Cooper later received a request that the Winnemucca to the Sea Highway within the state of Oregon be given a single route number. (The party requesting the single designation was not disclosed.) In keeping with the previous US-140 proposal, he recommended on December 14, 1965 that the State Highway Commission eliminate OR-64 in favor of a westerly extension of OR-140; the latter route was originally designated on July 13, 1965 from the junction of [[US Route 395|US-395]] and [[Oregon Route 66|OR-66]] in Lakeview to the Nevada State Line. In doing so, the eastern terminus of OR-66 was truncated from Lakeview to Klamath Falls<ref name="oshc_1965-12-14_34512-14">Oregon State Highway Commission minutes, 14 December 1965, pp. 34512-14.</ref>.
 {{OSHCMinutes|quote=The Commission also approved the elimination of ORE64 previously routed over the Lake of the Woods Highway between Eagle Point and Klamath Falls.
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-OR-64 is one of the shortest-lived, if not ''the'' shortest-lived, state routes in Oregon's history. Because it only lasted for just under 6 months, it is unknown at this time if OR-64 was ever signed in the wild. It does not appear on the official Oregon state highway maps for 1965 or 1966 -- the Lake of the Woods Highway is unnumbered on the 1965 map and numbered OR-140 in the 1966 map. Also, no known 1965 commercial maps show the route.
+==Legacy==
 ==References==
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