Highway 96 (AR 96, Ark. 96, and Hwy. 96) is a designation for two east–west
state highway
A state highway, state road, or state route (and the equivalent provincial highway, provincial road, or provincial route) is usually a road that is either Route number, numbered or maintained by a sub-national state or province. A road numbered ...
s in the
Arkansas River Valley. One route of begins at
Highway 10 in
Greenwood and runs north and east to
Highway 23 south of
Ozark. A second route of in Ozark begins at Highway 23 and runs east to
Highway 219. Both routes are maintained by the
Arkansas State Highway and Transportation Department
The Arkansas Department of Transportation (ARDOT), formerly the Arkansas Highway and Transportation Department, is a government department in the U.S. state of Arkansas. Its mission is to provide a safe, efficient, aesthetically pleasing and env ...
(AHTD).
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Route description
The southern portion of AR 96 begins at the Oklahoma state line west of
Hartford
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. It runs through Hartford and east to
Mansfield
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, where it ends at U.S. Route 71.
AR 96 begins at
AR 10 in
Greenwood.
The route runs north through
Fort Chaffee and crosses
AR 22 and
AR 255. It continues north then east to cross
AR 41 and eventually terminate at
AR 23 in
Franklin County.
History
Highway 96 was created during the
1926 Arkansas state highway numbering as a connector route between
State Road 10 in Greenwood and
State Road 22 west of Charleston.
The segment in Ozark was known as
Highway 309 until September 25, 1991, when the route was redesignated as Highway 96 due to confusion with another nearby segment of Highway 309.
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Major intersections
See also
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List of state highways in Arkansas
The following is a list of state highways in the U.S. state of Arkansas. The state does not use a numbering convention. Generally, the two-digit odd numbered highways run north–south with a few exceptions; and even-numbered two-digit state hig ...
References
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External links
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096
Transportation in Franklin County, Arkansas
Transportation in Sebastian County, Arkansas