New York State Route 3A

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NY 3A begins at an intersection with NY 3 in the village of Deferiet. It heads northeastward, passing to the south of the village center as it heads through an undeveloped area of the community. It continues across a small canal and past a chemical plant before turning eastward and leaving the Deferiet village limits. The route heads on through the town of Wilna, passing through a small, unnamed community built up around CR 37 and little else before entering the limits of Fort Drum. While in Fort Drum, NY 3A heads through a dense forest as it heads across an area with no development whatsoever. This trend finally ceases in the small hamlet of Fargo, where NY 3A passes by a handful of buildings before ending at another junction with NY 3.{{bing maps |url=http://binged.it/1P3OBdX |title=overview map of NY 3A |accessdate=November 1, 2015}} All of NY 3A is maintained by Jefferson County; as a result, it is co-designated and co-signed as CR 36.{{cite map |url=http://gis.ny.gov/gisdata/quads/drg24/dotpreview/index.cfm?code=h33 |title=Deferiet Digital Raster Quadrangle |publisher=New York State Department of Transportation |year=1996 |scale=1:24,000 |accessdate=December 27, 2009}}{{cite map |url=http://gis.ny.gov/gisdata/quads/drg24/dotpreview/index.cfm?code=h34 |title=North Wilna Digital Raster Quadrangle |publisher=New York State Department of Transportation |year=1996 |scale=1:24,000 |accessdate=December 27, 2009}}

NY 3 originally went through Carthage on its way from Deferiet to Fargo.{{cite map |title=Road Map of New York |year=1930 |publisher=Standard Oil Company of New York |cartography=General Drafting}} It was realigned {{circa|lk=no|1931}} to bypass Carthage to the north on modern NY 3A. The former routing of NY 3 between Deferiet and Carthage was originally designated as NY 3F; however, it was redesignated as NY 3G by the following year.{{cite map |title=New York |publisher=Standard Oil Company |year=1931 |cartography=General Drafting}}{{cite map |title=Texaco Road Map – New York |publisher=Texas Oil Company |year=1932 |cartography=Rand McNally and Company}} NY 3 was moved back to the Deferiet–Carthage–Fargo alignment {{circa|lk=no|1938}} while the NY 3G designation was transferred to the former routing of NY 3 between Deferiet and Fargo.{{cite map |title=New York |publisher=Standard Oil Company |year=1937 |cartography=General Drafting}}{{cite book |last=Thibodeau |first=William A. |title=The ALA Green Book |edition=1938–39 |year=1938 |publisher=Automobile Legal Association}} The NY 3G designation was removed in the 1940s.{{cite map |title=New York with Pictorial Guide |publisher=Esso |year=1942 |cartography=General Drafting}}{{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}} Its former routing remained unnumbered until September 1950, when it was redesignated as NY 3A.

In 2016, a study by the Missile Defense Agency of the United States Department of Defense proposed the idea of shutting down NY 3A to the public for a missile defense site at Fort Drum. Ceasing to be a public highway, the traffic that would follow NY 3A (AADT of 2,298) would be directed onto NY 3 directly through the village of Carthage.{{cite report|url=http://www.mda.mil/global/documents/pdf/CIS_DEIS_Section_3.5_FTD.pdf|title=Continental United States (CONUS) Interceptor Site - Environmental Impact Statement Draft|accessdate=June 4, 2016|publisher=Missile Defense Agency|date=May 2016|pages=3–773}}

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|notes=Western terminus; western terminus of CR 36 and concurrency with NY 3A

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