Washington State Route 237

State Route 237 (SR 237) began at an intersection with {{nowrap|SR 20}} as Best Road. From the terminus, the roadway turned north and crossed railroad tracks that are owned by the BNSF Railway and became Farm to Market Road.{{cite map |publisher=Washington State Department of Transportation |title=Washington State Railroad System | date=September 2008 |url=http://www.wsdot.wa.gov/NR/rdonlyres/1DFCBFA0-1A9D-4838-A74F-7841BF22E9C3/0/Railmap_update_Sept2008.pdf |cartography=United States Geological Survey |access-date=June 19, 2009}} Once over the tracks, the highway passed the Skagit Regional Airport and intersected Josh Wilson Road, which travels west to Bay View. SR 237 traveled over the Samish River and later entered Edison where it curved east as Mactaggart Avenue. The highway bridged Edison Slough and became West Bow Hill Road to continue east across the Edison Slough again and end at an intersection with {{nowrap|SR 11}}.{{google maps |url=https://maps.google.com/maps?f=d&source=s_d&saddr=Best+Rd%2FWA-237&daddr=W+Bow+Hill+Rd%2FWA-237&hl=en&geocode=FZo64wIddaez-A%3BFbYM5QIdevyz-A&mra=mi&mrsp=1,0&sz=16&sll=48.564411,-122.423873&sspn=0.010309,0.019226&ie=UTF8&ll=48.512966,-122.444687&spn=0.165117,0.307617&z=12 |title=State Route 237 |accessdate=June 19, 2009}}{{cite map |publisher=G. M. Johnson |title=Skagit Count: Mount Vernon, Anacortes |url=http://store.maplink.com/map.aspx?nav=MS&cid=10056,10078&pid=522946 |edition=2004 |year=2004 |series=City Street Maps |access-date=June 19, 2009 |isbn=1-894570-90-1}} In 1970, the intersection with SR 11 had a daily average of 1,410 motorists, making it the most used section of the roadway as a whole.{{cite web |author=Washington State Highway Commission, Department of Highways |publisher=Washington State Department of Transportation |title=Annual Traffic Report, 1970 |year=1970 |url=http://www.wsdot.wa.gov/mapsdata/tdo/PDF_and_ZIP_Files/1970_ATR.pdf |page=205 |access-date=June 19, 2009}} In 1991, the busiest section moved south, before the intersection with Ovenell Road, the southern connector to Skagit Regional Airport, with a daily average of 2,300 motorists.

During the creation of the primary and secondary state highway numbering system in 1937, a highway extending from the Anacortes branch of {{nowrap|State Highway 1}} (PSH 1 AN) in Fredonia to PSH 1 east of Edison was established as {{nowrap|Secondary State Highway 1C}} (SSH 1C).{{cite book |author=Washington State Legislature |title=Session Laws of the State of Washington |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=G784AAAAIAAJ |access-date=June 19, 2009 |edition=1937 |date=March 18, 1937 |publisher=Washington State Legislature |location=Olympia, Washington |pages=994–995 |chapter=Chapter 207: Classification of Public Highways |quote=(c) Secondary State Highway No. 1A; beginning at a junction with Primary State Highway No. 1 in the vicinity south of Blanchard, thence in a southerly direction by the most feasible route to a junction with Primary State Highway No. 1 in the vicinity of Whitney; also beginning at Burlington on Primary State Highway No. 1, thence in a westerly direction by the most feasible route to a junction with Secondary State Highway No. 1C, as herein described, in the vicinity north of Whitney.}} SSH 1C became {{nowrap|SR 537}} during the 1964 highway renumbering.{{cite web |title=Identification of State Highways |url=https://www.wsdot.wa.gov/sites/default/files/2005/04/26/Identification-of-state-highways.pdf |author=C. G. Prahl |publisher=Washington State Highway Commission, Department of Highways |date=December 1, 1965 |access-date=June 19, 2009}}{{cite web |url=http://apps.leg.wa.gov/RCW/default.aspx?cite=47.17.775 |title=RCW 47.17.775: State route No. 537 |author=Washington State Legislature |year=1964 |access-date=June 19, 2009}}{{cite map |publisher=University of Texas at Austin |title=Victoria, 1966 |url=http://www.lib.utexas.edu/maps/topo/250k/txu-pclmaps-topo-us-victoria-1966.jpg |author=United States Geological Survey |year=1966 |scale=1:250,000 |access-date=June 19, 2009}} {{nowrap|SR 20}} was extended west to Discovery Bay in 1973 and two years later, in 1975, SR 537 was renumbered to SR 237.{{cite web |url=http://apps.leg.wa.gov/RCW/default.aspx?cite=47.17.080 |title=RCW 47.17.080: State route No. 20 |author=Washington State Legislature |year=1964 |access-date=June 19, 2009}} SR 237 was later removed from the highway system in 1991.

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