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Arkansas Highway 22

{{Use mdy dates|date=September 2020}}

{{short description|American state highway}}

{{Infobox road

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|type=AR

|route=22

|map=Arkansas 22.png

|length_mi=75.60

|length_round=2

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|established=1926

|direction_a=West

|direction_b=East

|terminus_a={{jct|state=AR|US|64|US|71B|dab2=Fort Smith}} in Fort Smith

|junction={{jct|state=AR|I|540|US|71}} in Fort Smith
{{jct|state=AR|Future|49|AR|549}} in Barling
{{jct|state=AR|AR|23}} in Caulksville

|terminus_b={{jct|state=AR|AR|7|AR|27}} in Dardanelle

|counties=Sebastian, Franklin, Logan, Yell

|previous_type=AR

|previous_route=21

|next_type=AR

|next_route=23

}}

Arkansas Highway 22 (AR 22) is an east–west state highway in the Arkansas River Valley. The route runs {{convert|75.60|mi|km}} from US 64 in Fort Smith east to Highway 7 in Dardanelle. Following the historic stagecoach line of the cross-country Butterfield Trail, the route is one of the original 1926 state highways. It is designated by the AHTD as the [https://www.truegrittrail.com True Grit Trail].

Route description

The route begins in Fort Smith at US 64/US 71B. It runs east, crossing I-540/US 71 and the incomplete interchange at the northern end of Highway 549 (future I-49).{{cite news|author=Aric Mitchell|title=ArDOT 'dusts off' $600 million future I-49 Barling to Alma stretch|url=https://talkbusiness.net/2018/04/ardot-dusts-off-600-million-future-i-49-barling-to-alma-stretch/|work=Talk Business & Politics|date=April 26, 2018|accessdate=September 8, 2020}} From its western terminus in Fort Smith, it carries the Seminole route of the Trail of Tears to Highway 255.{{cite web|title=Arkansas Trail of Tears|url=https://arkansasheritagetrails.com/Tears/|publisher=Arkansas Department of Parks, Heritage, and Tourism|date=2020|accessdate=September 8, 2020}} Highway 255 then intersects Highway 96 east of the installation. The route next enters Charleston where it meets Highway 217 and the historic Butterfield Trail. The historic route continues along Highway 22 to its eastern terminus in Dardanelle.{{cite web|title=Butterfield Trail|url=https://arkansasheritagetrails.com/Butterfield/|publisher=Arkansas Department of Parks, Heritage, and Tourism|date=2020|accessdate=September 8, 2020}} Continuing east into Branch, the route has a brief concurrency with Highway 41.{{cite web|title=AHTD Sebastian County map|url=http://www.arkansashighways.com/maps/counties/county%20PDFs/SebastianCounty.pdf|publisher=Arkansas State Highway and Transportation Department|accessdate=October 5, 2009|archive-date=January 13, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210113195335/http://www.arkansashighways.com/maps/Counties/County%20PDFs/SebastianCounty.pdf|url-status=dead}} County Line High School is located on the highway between Branch and Ratcliff.{{cite web|url=http://www.ahsaa.org/schools?id=47&school= |title=AHSAA School Directory - County Line High School|publisher=Arkansas Activities Association|accessdate=September 8, 2020}}

File:Highway 22 in Barling, AR 002.jpg

In the town of Caulksville, Highway 22 has a junction with Highway 23. Continuing east into the city of Paris, the highway has a junction with Highway 109/Highway 309. Highway 22 continues east to Subiaco, where it crosses Highway 197.{{cite web|title=AHTD Franklin County map|url=http://www.arkansashighways.com/maps/counties/county%20PDFs/FranklinCounty.pdf|publisher=Arkansas State Highway and Transportation Department|accessdate=October 5, 2009|archive-date=September 22, 2010|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100922162825/http://arkansashighways.com/maps/Counties/County%20PDFs/FranklinCounty.pdf|url-status=dead}} In Midway, Highway 22 meets Highway 109, which heads north towards Clarksville. Highway 22 continues east to Dardanelle, passing through the communities of New Blaine and Delaware along the way.{{cite web|title=AHTD Logan County map|url=http://www.arkansashighways.com/maps/counties/county%20PDFs/LoganCounty.pdf|publisher=Arkansas State Highway and Transportation Department|accessdate=October 5, 2009|archive-date=September 22, 2010|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100922134326/http://arkansashighways.com/maps/Counties/County%20PDFs/LoganCounty.pdf|url-status=dead}} In Dardanelle, the route terminates at Highway 7 after an intersection with Highway 155.{{cite web|title=AHTD Yell County map|url=http://www.arkansashighways.com/maps/counties/county%20PDFs/YellCounty.pdf|publisher=Arkansas State Highway and Transportation Department|accessdate=October 5, 2009}}

The road itself is fairly straight and in reasonably good repair. Passing can be safely accomplished in several stretches of Highway 22 despite a lack of constructed passing areas.{{Citation needed|date=September 2020}}

History

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The precursor to today's Highway 22 was the Butterfield Trail, a stagecoach trail officially known as the Overland Mail Company that traveled roughly along the present-day highway's route from Dardanelle to Fort Smith. The stagecoach carried mail and passengers from Memphis to Fort Smith. In Fort Smith the trail split into two routes, with one traveling west to San Francisco and the other traveling north to St. Louis. The Butterfield Trail was in operation from 1858 to 1861.

Upon its establishment, Highway 22 was one of the original 1926 Arkansas state highways. Highway 22 ran from Fort Smith to Dardanelle along a routing very similar to the modern-day routing of AR 22.{{cite web|title=Map of State of Arkansas Showing System of State Highways|url=http://www.arkansashighways.com/planning_research/mapping_graphics/archived_tourist_maps/1926A.tif|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120313202719/http://www.arkansashighways.com/planning_research/mapping_graphics/archived_tourist_maps/1926A.tif|publisher=Arkansas State Highway and Transportation Department|date=1926|archive-date=March 13, 2012|accessdate=September 8, 2020}} On July 14, 2015 the highway was linked to Future I-49 in Barling.{{cite news|last1=Marney|first1=Meridith|title=Leaders Dedicate Highway 549 At Chaffee Crossing|url=https://5newsonline.com/2015/07/14/183443/|accessdate=September 8, 2020|agency=KFSM-TV|publisher=KFSM-TV |date=July 14, 2015}} In June 2019 a proposal was made under the Connecting Arkansas Program-2 for US$25 million to be allocated to the improvement of sections of Highway 22 between Fort Smith and Charleston.{{cite news|author=John Lovett|title=I-49, Greenwood, Charleston road projects make CAP-2 list|url=https://www.swtimes.com/news/20190618/i-49-greenwood-charleston-road-projects-make-cap-2-list|newspaper=Southwest Times Record|date=June 18, 2019|accessdate=September 8, 2020}} On March 20{{cite news|last=Lovett|first=John|date=April 1, 2019|url=https://www.swtimes.com/news/20190401/monday-matters-highway-22-designated-true-grit-trail|title=Monday Matters: Highway 22 designated True Grit Trail|work=Southwest Times Record|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210710173935/https://www.swtimes.com/news/20190401/monday-matters-highway-22-designated-true-grit-trail|archive-date=July 10, 2021|access-date=September 1, 2023|via=Wayback Machine}} of the same year, the highway was officially designated by the AHTD as the True Grit Trail. The name comes from the 1968 novel, True Grit by Charles Portis. Frank Ross, father of the protagonist Mattie Ross, travels along Highway 22 from Dardanelle to Fort Smith.{{cite web|title=Arkansas DOT Officially Establishes 'True Grit Trail'|url=https://aashtojournal.org/2019/11/22/arkansas-dot-officially-establishes-true-grit-trail/|work=AASHTO Journal|publisher=American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials|date=November 22, 2019|accessdate=September 11, 2020}}

=National Register of Historic Places=

Three original segments of Highway 22 remain intact and are listed on the National Register of Historic Places. The New Blaine segment was listed in 2003,{{NRISref|2013a|dateform=mdy|accessdate=February 2, 2018|refnum=03000950|name=Old Arkansas Highway 22}} the Barling segment was listed in May 2007,{{NRISref|2013a|dateform=mdy|accessdate=February 2, 2018|refnum=07000439|name=Old Arkansas 22, Barling Segment}} and the Yell County segment was listed in 2008.{{NRISref|2013a|dateform=mdy|accessdate=February 2, 2018|refnum=07001438|name=Old Arkansas 22-Dardanelle Segment}} All three listings are contained within the Arkansas Highway History and Architecture Multiple Property Submission, which preserves history from Arkansas's highway building era between 1910 and 1965.

{{NRISref|2013a|dateform=mdy|accessdate=February 2, 2018|refnum=64500014|name=Arkansas Highway History and Architecture Multiple Property Submission}}

==Barling==

{{Attached KML|from=Old Arkansas 22, Barling Segment}}

The Old Arkansas 22, Barling Segment is a historic section of roadway in Barling, Arkansas. Now named Mayo Drive, it consists of a {{convert|0.5|mi|km|adj=on}} stretch of concrete pavement, two lanes wide, in the northwestern part of the city. It extends north from the current alignment of Highway 22 until it reaches a sharp curve, where the pavement narrows significantly, before continuing westward to rejoin the highway. This stretch of pavement was constructed in 1928 by the Koss Construction Company, and is longest section of surviving pavement of the early alignment of Highway 22.{{cite web|url=http://www.arkansaspreservation.com/!userfiles/SB0889.nr.pdf|title=NRHP nomination for Old Arkansas 22, Barling Segment|publisher=Arkansas Preservation|accessdate=April 25, 2015}}{{Dead link|date=October 2019 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}

==New Blaine==

Old Arkansas Highway 22 is a historic roadway section in New Blaine, Arkansas. It consists of an S-shaped section asphalt, {{convert|1.5|mi|km}} in length, built in 1930 by Cook & Ransom and the Schultz Construction Company to carry Highway 22. This section was bypassed by the present alignment in the 1960s. It is now designated as part of Highway 197, the Highway 197 Loop, and Rainbow Loop, and continues to provide the primary access to the town center.{{cite web|url=http://www.arkansaspreservation.com/National-Register-Listings/PDF/LO0105.nr.pdf|title=NRHP nomination for Old Arkansas Highway 22|publisher=Arkansas Preservation|accessdate=May 11, 2016}}

==Yell County==

One surviving element of the original alignment survives in Yell County west of Dardanelle; it consists of County Road 906 (CR 906), a {{convert|0.25|mi|km|adj=on}} stretch of concrete pavement {{convert|18|ft|m}} wide. This segment was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2008.{{cite web|url=http://www.arkansaspreservation.com/National-Register-Listings/PDF/YE0130.nr.pdf|title=NRHP nomination for Old Arkansas 22-Dardanelle Segment|publisher=Arkansas Preservation|accessdate=April 28, 2016}}

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Major intersections

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{{ARint

|county=Sebastian|cspan=10

|location=Fort Smith|lspan=2

|mile=0.00

|road={{jct|state=AR|US|64|US|71B|dab2=Fort Smith|location1=National Historic Site|location2=National Cemetery}}

|notes=Western terminus

}}

{{ARint

|mile=3.67

|road={{jct|state=AR|I|540|name1=US 71|to2=yes|I|40|city1=Van Buren}}

|notes=Exits 8B-A on I-540

}}

{{ARint

|location=Barling|lspan=4

|mile=7.07

|road={{jct|state=AR|AR|253|dir1=south}}

|notes=Northern terminus of AR 253

}}

{{ARint

|mile=8.07

|road={{jct|state=AR|AR|255|dir1=north}}

|notes=Southern terminus of AR 255

}}

{{ARint

|mile=8.38

|road={{jct|state=AR|AR|59|dir1=north|city1=Van Buren|location2=Trimble Lock & Dam|location3=Springhill Park}}

|notes=Southern terminus of AR 59

}}

{{ARint

|mile=8.65

|road={{jct|state=AR|Future|49|AR|549|dir1=south|dir2=south}}

|notes=Current northern terminus and exit 193 on AR 549

}}

{{ARint

|mile=11.00

|location=Central City

|road={{jct|state=AR|AR|255|dir1=south|location1=Vache Grasse Park}}

|notes=Northern terminus of AR 255

}}

{{ARint

|mile=14.04

|location_special=Diamond Grove

|road={{jct|state=AR|AR|96|city1=Lavaca|city2=Greenwood}}

}}

{{ARint

|mile=16.33

|location=none

|road={{jct|state=AR|AR|255|dir1=north|city1=Lavaca}}

|notes=Southern terminus of AR 255

}}

{{ARint

|mile=20.20

|location=none

|road={{jct|state=AR|AR|252|dir1=west}}

|notes=Eastern terminus of AR 252

}}

{{ARint

|county=Franklin|cspan=4

|location=Charleston|lspan=2

|mile=23.58

|road={{jct|state=AR|AR|217|dir1=north|name1=Greenwood Street|city1=Vesta}}

|notes=Southern terminus of AR 217

}}

{{ARint

|mile=24.33

|road={{jct|state=AR|AR|217|dir1=south|name1=South Rattlesnake Road}}

|notes=Northern terminus of AR 217

}}

{{ARint

|type=concur

|location=Branch

|lspan=2

|mile=29.21

|road={{jct|state=AR|AR|41|city1=Chismville|dir1=west}}

|notes=Western end of AR 41 concurrency

}}

{{ARint

|type=concur

|mile=29.81

|road={{jct|state=AR|AR|41|city1=Cecil|dir1=east}}

|notes=Eastern end of AR 41 concurrency

}}

{{ARint

|county=Logan|cspan=8

|location=Ratcliff

|mile=32.61

|road={{jct|state=AR|AR|398|dir1=west}}

|notes=Eastern terminus of AR 398

}}

{{ARint

|location=Caulksville

|mile=33.81

|road={{jct|state=AR|AR|23|city1=Ozark|city2=Booneville}}

}}

{{ARint

|location=Paris|lspan=2

|mile=39.69

|road={{jct|state=AR|AR|369|dir1=south|name1=South Charcoal Plant Road}}

|notes=Northern terminus of AR 369

}}

{{ARint

|mile=41.40

|road={{jct|state=AR|AR|109|dir1=south|AR|309|name2=Elm Street|location1=Mount Magazine State Park}}

|notes=Northern terminus of AR 109

}}

{{ARint

|location=Subiaco

|mile=46.79

|road={{jct|state=AR|AR|197|dir1=north|city1=Scranton}}

|notes=Southern terminus of AR 197

}}

{{ARint

|location=Midway|ctdab=Logan

|mile=52.99

|road={{jct|state=AR|AR|109|dir1=north|city1=Clarksville|location2=Cane Creek Recreation Area|location3=Dublin Recreation Area}}

|notes=Southern terminus of AR 109

}}

{{ARint

|location=New Blaine

|mile=59.69

|road={{jct|state=AR|AR|197|dir1=north|location1=Shoal Bay Recreation Area}}

|notes=Southern terminus of AR 197

}}

{{ARint

|location=Delaware

|mile=66.00

|road={{jct|state=AR|AR|393|dir1=north|location1=Delaware Recreation Area}}

|notes=Southern terminus of AR 393

}}

{{ARint

|county=Yell|cspan=2

|location=Dardanelle|lspan=2

|mile=75.29

|road={{jct|state=AR|AR|155|dir1=west|location1=Mount Nebo State Park}}

|notes=Eastern terminus of AR 155

}}

{{ARint

|mile=75.60

|road={{jct|state=AR|AR|7|AR|27|dir2=south|city1=Ola|city2=Danville|city3=Russellville}}

|notes=Eastern terminus; northern terminus of AR 27

}}

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See also

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References

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External links

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{{commons category-inline|Arkansas Highway 22}}

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Category:Transportation in Sebastian County, Arkansas

Category:Transportation in Franklin County, Arkansas

Category:Transportation in Logan County, Arkansas

Category:Transportation in Yell County, Arkansas

Category:National Register of Historic Places in Logan County, Arkansas

Category:Buildings and structures completed in 1929

Category:Roads on the National Register of Historic Places in Arkansas

Category:Buildings and structures completed in 1928

Category:Buildings and structures in Sebastian County, Arkansas

Category:National Register of Historic Places in Sebastian County, Arkansas

Category:National Register of Historic Places in Yell County, Arkansas