US 63 highlighted in red | ||||
Route information | ||||
Maintained by ArDOT | ||||
Length | 340.0 mi (547.2 km) | |||
Major junctions | ||||
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Location | ||||
Country | United States | |||
State | Arkansas | |||
Counties | Union, Bradley, Cleveland, Jefferson, Arkansas, Prairie, Monroe, Woodruff, Cross, Poinsett, Craighead, Greene, Lawrence, Sharp, Fulton | |||
Highway system | ||||
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U.S. Highway 63 (US 63) is a north-south U.S. highway that begins in Ruston, LA. In the US state of Arkansas the highway enters the state from Louisiana concurrent with US 167 in Junction City. The highway runs north through the eastern part of the state, serving rural areas of South Arkansas and the Arkansas Delta, as well as Pine Bluff and Jonesboro. The highway exits the state at Mammoth Spring traveling into Missouri.
Route description
[edit]U.S. 63 enters into Arkansas from Louisiana concurrent with US 167 in Junction City. Just a few miles into the state, the two highways run on the eastern edge of El Dorado as an expressway. US 167 splits here, traveling towards Hampton. US 63 bypasses the town of Warren, crossing US 270. US 63 passes through the rural Cleveland County, then enters into Jefferson County.
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In Jefferson County, US 63 serves the city of Pine Bluff. US 63 bypasses the city, running on the last 3 miles of I-530. Also in Pine Bluff, the highway overlaps with US 65 and US 79. US 63 runs northeast with US 79 until Stuttgart, where the highway runs north to Hazen. Just north of Hazen, US 63 overlaps with I-40 to Brinkley. In Brinkley, US 63 begins an overlap with US 49 north to Jonesboro. US 63 leaves US 49 and follows I-555 until I-555 terminates, together serving as a bypass for southern Jonesboro. In Hoxie, US 63 intersects with US 67 (Future I-57). Northwest of here near Portia the highway overlaps with US 412.
In Imboden, US 62 joins this overlap. In Hardy, US 63 leaves the two highways. In Mammoth Spring, US 63 crosses into Missouri, traveling to West Plains.
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History
[edit]Portions of U.S. 63 in northern Arkansas have their origins in the work of the Ozark Trails Association, which established a network of roads in northern Arkansas and southern Missouri beginning in the 1910s. A portion of roadway was mapped out in Arkansas between Mammoth Spring and Memphis, Tennessee, and built c. 1918-22. This roadway was eventually designated Highway A-7, and was later designated U.S. 63. Some of the original infrastructure of this early construction has survived the 1927 Mississippi flood and the realignment of U.S. 63 in 1967. Northwest of Tyronza, Old U.S. 63 runs for about 1-1/4 miles of original concrete pavement;[1] it was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2009.[2] Four bridges built in the 1920s (three before the 1927 flood and one after, are also on the National Register; three southeast of Marked Tree, and one southeast of Tyronza.[3][4]
On March 11, 2016, Interstate 555 (I-555) was dedicated after a new resolution passed in December 2015 allowing farm equipment to use the roadway when it became an interstate.
In April 2019, ArDOT submitted an application to AASHTO to reroute US 63 concurrent with US 49 between Brinkley and Jonesboro, eliminating the concurrencies with I-55 and I-555, and part of the concurrency with I-40.[5] The rerouting took effect in 2021.[6] However, a small section of US 63 in Jonesboro was redesignated as I-555 on November 23 of the same year, making US 63 partly concurrent with I-555 again.[7]
Major intersections
[edit]County | Location | mi | km | Exit | Destinations | Notes | ||
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Union | Junction City | 0.0 | 0.0 | ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() | Louisiana state line | |||
| 10.4 | 16.7 | ![]() ![]() | South end of AR 7 overlap | ||||
El Dorado | 14.1 | 22.7 | ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() | Interchange; US 82 exit 22 | ||||
15.0 | 24.1 | 15 | ![]() ![]() ![]() | Interchange | ||||
16.2 | 26.1 | ![]() ![]() | Interchange; North end of US 167 / AR 7 overlap; US 63 north follows exit 16 | |||||
Old Union | 22.5 | 36.2 | ![]() ![]() | |||||
| 33.2 | 53.4 | ![]() ![]() | |||||
Bradley | | 36.4 | 58.6 | ![]() | ||||
| 48.9 | 78.7 | ![]() ![]() | South end of AR 160 overlap | ||||
Hermitage | 52.7 | 84.8 | ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() | North end of AR 160 overlap | ||||
53.4 | 85.9 | ![]() ![]() | ||||||
Carmel | 62.2 | 100.1 | ![]() ![]() | South end of AR 8 overlap | ||||
| 64.1 | 103.2 | ![]() | |||||
Warren | 65.4 | 105.3 | ![]() | |||||
65.9 | 106.1 | ![]() ![]() | ||||||
66.9 | 107.7 | ![]() | ||||||
68.4 | 110.1 | ![]() ![]() | North end of AR 8 overlap | |||||
69.0 | 111.0 | ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() | ||||||
Cleveland | Rye | 74.8 | 120.4 | ![]() ![]() | South end of AR 35 overlap | |||
Pansy | ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() | North end of AR 35 overlap | ||||||
Calmer | ![]() ![]() | South end of AR 114 overlap | ||||||
![]() ![]() | North end of AR 114 overlap | |||||||
Jefferson | | ![]() ![]() | South end of AR 54 overlap | |||||
Pinebergen | ![]() ![]() | North end of AR 54 overlap | ||||||
Pine Bluff | 107.106 | 172.370 | ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() | South end of I-530 / US 65 / US 79 overlap; US 63 south follows exit 43 | ||||
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Pine Bluff | 46 | ![]() ![]() ![]() | North end of I-530 / US 65 overlap; South end of US 65B overlap; US 63 north follows exit 46 | |||||
![]() ![]() | North end of US 65B overlap | |||||||
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Arkansas | Humphrey | ![]() ![]() | ||||||
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Stuttgart | ![]() ![]() | North end of US 79 overlap | ||||||
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Prairie | | ![]() | ||||||
| ![]() ![]() | South end of AR 86 overlap | ||||||
Siedenstricker | ![]() ![]() | North end of AR 86 overlap | ||||||
Hazen | ![]() ![]() | South end of US 70 overlap | ||||||
![]() ![]() | North end of US 70 overlap | |||||||
![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() | South end of I-40 overlap; US 63 south follows exit 193 | |||||||
See I-40 (Exit 193 - 216) See US 49 (Arkansas milepost 54.97 to 125.53) See I-555 (Exit 45 to 49) | ||||||||
Craighead | Jonesboro | 49 | ![]() ![]() | Interchange; North end of freeway; North end of AR 18 overlap; northern terminus of I-555 | ||||
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Greene |
No major junctions | |||||||
Lawrence | Sedgwick | ![]() ![]() | South end of AR 228 overlap | |||||
![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() | North end of AR 228 overlap | |||||||
Walnut Ridge | ![]() | |||||||
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![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() | Interchange; South end of US 412 overlap, exit 121A-B. | |||||||
Hoxie | ![]() | Interchange | ||||||
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Black Rock | ![]() | Interchange | ||||||
![]() ![]() | South end of AR 117 overlap | |||||||
![]() ![]() | North end of AR 117 overlap | |||||||
Imboden | ![]() ![]() | South end of US 62 overlap | ||||||
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Randolph |
No major junctions | |||||||
Lawrence | Ravenden | ![]() ![]() | ||||||
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Hardy | ![]() ![]() | South end of AR 175 overlap | ||||||
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![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() | North end of US 62 / US 412 / AR 175 overlap | |||||||
Fulton | Mammoth Spring | ![]() ![]() | ||||||
| ![]() ![]() | Missouri state line | ||||||
1.000 mi = 1.609 km; 1.000 km = 0.621 mi |
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ "NRHP nomination for Highway A-7, Tyronza Segment" (PDF). Arkansas Preservation. Retrieved 2014-11-24.
- ^ "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. March 13, 2009.
- ^ "NRHP nomination for Highway A-7, Bridges Historic District" (PDF). Arkansas Preservation. Retrieved 2014-11-24.
- ^ "NRHP nomination for Highway A7, Ditch No. 6 Bridge" (PDF). Arkansas Preservation. Retrieved 2014-11-24.
- ^ "Application from ArDOT to AASHTO Highways Special Committee on U. S. Route Number" (PDF). April 23, 2019.
- ^ Inman, Keith. "Arkansas DOT orders rerouting of U.S. 63". The Paragould Daily Press. Paragould, Arkansas. p. 1A. ISSN 1082-8788. OCLC 21942659. Retrieved October 25, 2021 – via NewsBank.
- ^ "Highway 63 in Jonesboro redesignated as I-555". Talk Business & Politics. 23 November 2021. Retrieved 22 May 2023.