Washington State Route 411

State Route 411 (SR 411) begins at a partial cloverleaf interchange with {{nowrap|SR 432}} in Longview, located northwest of the confluence of the Cowlitz and Columbia rivers.{{cite web |author=Washington State Department of Transportation |url=http://www.wsdot.wa.gov/mapsdata/tdo/Interchange/pdfs/SR432/432X007.pdf |title=SR 432; Junction SR 411 / 3rd Avenue |date=February 16, 2007 |accessdate=July 16, 2009}} From the interchange, the highway travels north as 3rd Avenue to exit Longview and enter Kelso as First Avenue, where SR 411 Spur extends west from the main roadway to {{nowrap|SR 4}}, which the road goes under after SR 4 travels across the Cowlitz River.{{cite web |author=Washington State Department of Transportation |url=http://www.wsdot.wa.gov/mapsdata/tdo/Interchange/pdfs/SR004/004X061.pdf |title=SR 4; Junction SR 4 CO Kelso / SR 411 SP Kelso |date=August 30, 2004 |accessdate=July 16, 2009}} After leaving Kelso and temporarily reenters Longview, SR 411 parallels the Cowlitz River, a BNSF Railway route, the Columbia and Cowlitz Railroad and {{nowrap|Interstate 5}} (I-5).{{cite map |publisher=Washington State Department of Transportation |title=Washington State Railroad System |url=http://www.wsdot.wa.gov/NR/rdonlyres/1DFCBFA0-1A9D-4838-A74F-7841BF22E9C3/0/Railmap_update_Sept2008.pdf |year=2008 |cartography=United States Geological Survey |accessdate=July 16, 2009}} After passing the community of West Side Highway, the highway turns east as PH No. 10 Road and crosses the Cowlitz River into Castle Rock. PH No. 10 Road becomes A Street and continues east to Huntington Avenue, signed as {{nowrap|I-5 Business}}, where the roadway turns north, concurrent with I-5 Business, to end at a diamond interchange with I-5 and the western terminus of {{nowrap|SR 504}}.{{cite web |author=Washington State Department of Transportation |url=http://www.wsdot.wa.gov/mapsdata/tdo/Interchange/pdfs/SR005/005X049.pdf |title=SR 5 – Exit 49; Junction SR 411 / SR 504 / TOUTLE |date=November 4, 1998 |accessdate=July 16, 2009}}{{google maps |title=State Route 411 |url=https://maps.google.com/maps?f=d&source=s_d&saddr=3rd+Ave&daddr=46.225453,-122.913666+to:Mt+St+Helens+Way+NE%2FWA-504&hl=en&geocode=FcDHvwIdhUus-A%3B%3BFRM_wgIdVKes-A&mra=dpe&mrcr=0&mrsp=1&sz=11&via=1&sll=46.195517,-122.902679&sspn=0.345065,0.615921&ie=UTF8&z=11 |accessdate=July 16, 2009}}{{cite map |publisher=Washington State Department of Transportation |title=Washington State Highways, 2008–09 |url=http://www.wsdot.wa.gov/NR/rdonlyres/87105CAD-83A9-49A7-80F3-5719637C1E2D/0/FrontMapBig.pdf |edition=2008–2009 |year=2008 |cartography=United States Geological Survey |scale=1:842,000 |accessdate=July 16, 2009}} The busiest segments of the road in 2007 were the SR 432 interchange in Longview, SR 411 Spur intersection in Kelso and the Alpha Drive intersection in West Side Highway, all with an estimated daily average of 17,000 motorists.{{cite web |url=http://www.wsdot.wa.gov/mapsdata/tdo/PDF_and_ZIP_Files/Annual_Traffic_Report_2007.pdf |title=2007 Annual Traffic Report |year=2007 |author=Washington State Department of Transportation |accessdate=July 16, 2009}} The Nevada Drive junction in Kelso was the busiest segment in 1970, with an estimated daily average of 6,800 motorists.{{cite web |url=http://www.wsdot.wa.gov/mapsdata/tdo/PDF_and_ZIP_Files/1970_ATR.pdf |title=Annual Traffic Report, 1970 |year=1970 |author=Washington State Highway Commission, Department of Highways |publisher=Washington State Department of Transportation |pages=180–181 |accessdate=July 16, 2009}}

{{nowrap|Secondary State Highway 12H}} (SSH 12H) was established in 1957 and ran from Kelso to Vader.{{cite book |author=Washington State Legislature |title=Session Laws of the State of Washington |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Zck4AAAAIAAJ |accessdate=July 16, 2009 |edition=1957 |year=1957 |publisher=Washington State Legislature |location=Olympia, Washington |chapter=Chapter 172}} During the 1964 highway renumbering, SSH 12H became SR 411, which ran from {{nowrap|SR 4}} in Kelso to {{nowrap|SR 506}} east of Vader.

Between 1964 and 1991,{{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 |author2=Washington State Highway Commission, Department of Highways |publisher=Washington State Department of Transportation |date=December 1, 1965 |accessdate=July 16, 2009}}{{cite web |url=http://www.leg.wa.gov/pub/billinfo/1991-92/Htm/Bills/Session%20Law%201991/5801.SL.htm |title=Chapter 342, Laws of 1991: State Highway Routes - Revisions To (House Bill 5801) |year=1991 |author=Washington House of Representatives |publisher=Washington State Legislature |accessdate=July 16, 2009}} SR 411 was {{convert|9.46|mi|km|2}} longer and extended north to Vader, a city in Lewis County.{{cite web |url=http://www.wsdot.wa.gov/mapsdata/tdo/PDF_and_ZIP_Files/Annual_Traffic_Report_1991.pdf |title=1991 Annual Traffic Report |year=1991 |pages=135–136 |author=Washington State Department of Transportation |accessdate=July 16, 2009}} The former route started at an intersection with PH No. 10 Road west of Castle Rock and traveled north as the West Side Highway, paralleling a railroad, the Cowlitz River and I-5, into Lewis County to end at {{nowrap|SR 506}} east of Vader.{{google maps |title=Former Route of State Route 411 |url=https://maps.google.com/maps?f=d&source=s_d&saddr=WA-411%2FWestside+Hwy&daddr=WA-506&hl=en&geocode=FSsbwgIdAlus-A%3BFTAOxAIdevqr-A&sll=46.26218,-122.91208&sspn=0.344647,0.615921&mra=pr&ie=UTF8&ll=46.342425,-122.939415&spn=0.172071,0.307961&z=12 |accessdate=July 16, 2009}} Between Castle Rock and Vader, six different railroads have had ownership or usage rights that paralleled the former route. In the 1870s the Northern Pacific Railway,{{cite map |publisher=University of Texas at Austin |title=Hoquiam, 1951 |url=http://www.lib.utexas.edu/maps/topo/250k/txu-pclmaps-topo-us-hoquiam-1951.jpg |cartography=United States Geological Survey |year=1951 |scale=1:250,000 |accessdate=July 16, 2009}} built the route. And by 1951, it was also in use by the Union Pacific and Great Northern Railway.{{cite map |publisher=University of Texas at Austin |title=Hoquiam, 1958 |url=http://www.lib.utexas.edu/maps/topo/250k/txu-pclmaps-topo-us-hoquiam-1958.jpg |cartography=United States Geological Survey |year=1958 |scale=1:250,000 |accessdate=July 16, 2009}} By 1968, the Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul and Pacific Railroad had also been given usage rights,{{cite map |publisher=University of Texas at Austin |title=Hoquiam, 1968 |url=http://www.lib.utexas.edu/maps/topo/250k/txu-pclmaps-topo-us-hoquiam-1968.jpg |cartography=United States Geological Survey |year=1968 |scale=1:250,000 |accessdate=July 16, 2009}} but as of 2008, the BNSF Railway (the corporate descendant of the Northern Pacific and Great Northern Railways) uses the railroad. The PH No. 10 Road intersection west of Castle Rock was the busiest segment of the Castle Rock to Vader route of SR 411 in 1970, with an estimated daily average of 2,350 motorists. The intersection was also the busiest segment in 1991, with an estimated daily average of 4,150 motorists.

In 1991, the highway was extended south to {{nowrap|SR 432}} in Longview, the older section becoming SR 411 Spur, and shortened north into Castle Rock and ending at {{nowrap|Interstate 5}} (I-5) and {{nowrap|SR 504}}.{{cite news |last=McDonald |first=Julie |date=January 4, 1992 |title=State will do some street swapping |page=A3 |work=The Daily News |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/77494392/state-will-do-some-street-swapping/ |via=Newspapers.com |accessdate=May 12, 2021}}

The state legislature renamed the section of SR 411 in unincorporated Cowlitz County to the Cowlitz County Deputy Sheriff Justin DeRosier Memorial Highway in 2023.{{cite news |last=Esnayra |first=Matthew |date=April 14, 2023 |title=Fallen Cowlitz County deputy honored with vigil, state route dedication |url=https://tdn.com/news/local/crime-and-courts/fallen-cowlitz-county-deputy-honored-with-vigil-state-route-dedication/article_47cf9f0e-da8f-11ed-aebd-cfab94c95f48.html |work=The Daily News |accessdate=August 14, 2023}}

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SR 411 has a spur route in Kelso, identified by the Washington State Department of Transportation (WSDOT) as SR 411 SP Kelso (SR 411 Spur) that extends {{convert|0.26|mi|km|2}} west from SR 411 as West Main Street and north as 5th Avenue to {{nowrap|SR 4}}.{{google maps |title=State Route 411 Spur |url=https://maps.google.com/maps?f=d&source=s_d&saddr=W+Main+St&daddr=W+Cowlitz+Way%2FWA-4&hl=en&geocode=FfAfwAIdPnKs-A%3BFcYmwAIdumSs-A&mra=ls&sll=46.146141,-122.919128&sspn=0.010793,0.019248&ie=UTF8&z=18 |accessdate=July 16, 2009}} The busiest segment of the street is the SR 411 intersection, with an estimated daily average of 15,000 motorists in 2007. In 1970, the SR 4 intersection was the busiest, with an estimated daily average of 2,850 motorists. The highway was part of SR 411 from 1964 until 1991, when it was extended to {{nowrap|SR 432}}.

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