:New York State Route 990V

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NY 990V begins northwest of the Schoharie Reservoir at an intersection with NY 30 in the town of Gilboa. The route heads northeast around the reservoir as a two-lane highway, intersecting CR 13 (Stryker Road) in an area of open fields before crossing Schoharie Creek a short distance downstream from the Gilboa Dam. On the opposite bank of the creek, the highway quickly passes through the small hamlet of Gilboa, located at a junction with CR 17 (Flat Creek Road). Outside of Gilboa, NY 990V turns to the southeast, paralleling the eastern edge of the reservoir as it runs through a stretch of forests and passes directly south of Gilboa-Conesville Central School. The wooded areas give way to slightly more open terrain in the adjacent town of Conesville, where the route meets CR 39 (Prattsville Road) just east of the town line. CR 39 heads south from this point, taking over as the primary waterside roadway while NY 990V heads east into a valley surrounding Manor Kill.{{Google maps |url=https://maps.google.com/maps?sourceid=navclient&ie=UTF-8&rlz=1T4ADBF_enUS232US232&q=from%3A%20RT-990V%20%4042.391287%2C%20-74.460270%20to%3A%20RT-990V%20%4042.386926%2C%20-74.376266&um=1&sa=N&tab=wl |title=overview map of NY 990V |access-date=April 9, 2013}}

Not far from CR 39, the route enters the hamlet of West Conesville, another small community built up around NY 990V's junction with CR 59 (Bull Hill Road). The road continues northeastward from West Conesville, serving a handful of scattered homes separated by stretches of woodland and open fields. This sparsely developed section along the northern bank of Manor Kill ultimately leads to the hamlet of Conesville, located at an intersection with CR 18 (Bear Kill Road). NY 990V ends at the junction, and its right-of-way continues east toward NY 145 in Durham as CR 3 (Potter Mountain Road). Reference routes in New York are typically not signed with touring route markers, as most are short connector roads or are known by other, more prominent names. NY 990V, however, is fully signed as a touring route.

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Modern NY 990V was gradually taken over by the state of New York over the course of the early 20th century. The portion east of Schoharie Creek became state-maintained on August 28, 1917, following a $46,774 project (equivalent to ${{formatnum:{{inflation|US|46774|1917|r=0}}}} in {{CURRENTYEAR}}) to improve the existing road to state highway standards.{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=lhlbAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA68 |author=State of New York Commission of Highways |title=Tables Giving Detailed Information and Present Status of All State, County and Federal Aid Highways |year=1922 |publisher=J. B. Lyon Company |location=Albany, NY |page=68 |access-date=April 9, 2013}}{{Inflation-fn|US}} The rest of the highway was added as a state road in the late 1920s.{{cite map |title=Road Map of New York in Soconyland |year=1927 |publisher=Standard Oil Company of New York |cartography=General Drafting}}{{cite map |title=New York in Soconyland |year=1929 |publisher=Standard Oil Company of New York |cartography=General Drafting}} In the 1930 renumbering of state highways in New York, the Gilboa–Conesville state highway was designated as part of NY 342, a new route extending from NY 30 west of the hamlet of Gilboa to the Conesville hamlet of Manorkill.{{cite map |title=Road Map of New York |year=1930 |publisher=Standard Oil Company of New York |cartography=General Drafting}}

By the following year, NY 342 was truncated westward to the hamlet of Conesville while a highway between NY 23 near South Gilboa and NY 30 southwest of Gilboa was designated as NY 297.{{cite map |title=New York |publisher=Kendall Refining Company |year=1931 |cartography=H.M. Gousha Company}} The NY 297 designation was short-lived as it was removed {{circa|1936}}.{{cite map |title=Road Map & Historical Guide – New York |publisher=Sun Oil Company |year=1935 |cartography=Rand McNally and Company}}{{cite map |title=New York |publisher=Standard Oil Company |year=1936 |cartography=General Drafting}} NY 342 was extended westward over the former routing of NY 297 in the mid-1940s;{{cite map |title=New York with Pictorial Guide |publisher=Esso |year=1942 |cartography=General Drafting}}{{cite map |title=New York with Pennsylvania |publisher=Texaco |year=1946 |cartography=Rand McNally and Company}} however, the designation was eliminated in the late 1940s.{{cite map |title=Official Highway Map of New York State |publisher=State of New York Department of Public Works |edition=1947–48 |cartography=General Drafting}}{{cite map |title=New York |publisher=Esso |cartography=General Drafting |edition=1950 |year=1949}} While the portion west of NY 30 became CR 14, the section east of NY 30 was retained as a state highway.{{cite map |url=http://gis.ny.gov/gisdata/quads/drg24/dotpreview/index.cfm?code=u43 |title=Gilboa Digital Raster Quadrangle |publisher=New York State Department of Transportation |year=1977 |scale=1:24,000 |access-date=June 2, 2009}} When the modern reference route system was created, the Gilboa–Conesville state highway was designated as NY 990V.{{cite book |url=https://www.dot.ny.gov/divisions/operating/oom/transportation-systems/repository/2017%20tour-bk.pdf |title=Official Description of Highway Touring Routes, Bicycling Touring Routes, Scenic Byways, & Commemorative/Memorial Designations in New York State |author=New York State Department of Transportation |date=January 2017 |pages=1, 64 |access-date=January 10, 2017}}

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|notes=Continues east as CR 3; southern terminus of CR 18}}

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• List of county routes in Schoharie County, New York
• NY 961F, NY 962J, and NY 990L – Other reference routes signed as touring routes

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