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State Highway 302 or SH 302 is a Texas state highway maintained by the Texas Department of Transportation (TxDOT). The route runs from U.S. Route 285 northwest of Pecos to Interstate 20 near Odessa. The route passes through Reeves, Loving, Winkler, and Ector counties. SH 302 has intersections with SH 115 and SH 18 in the Kermit area, and SH 158 east of Notrees. The route intersects Loop 338 and Spur 450 in West Odessa and then follows Loop 338 along the west side of Odessa until SH 302 terminates at I-20. SH 302 also intersects several Farm to Market Roads and an Interstate business route. SH 302 was originally designated in 1938 as a route between Kermit and Odessa, but has since incorporated the former SH 276 and a defunct Farm to Market Road to achieve its present length. Loving County, where the route passes through Mentone, is the nation's least populous county in stark contrast to the urbanized eastern end of the route in the Odessa area. ==History== SH 302 was originally created between Kermit and Odessa in 1938, but with the route's designation being contingent upon completion of work then being done in Winkler County. Soon after, the state assumed maintenance of the Ector County portion, and the following year in 1940 the state assumed maintenance of the Winkler County part of the route.〔 Also in 938, SH 276 was designated over the current western terminus at US 285 to Mentone, although a portion of that route existed as early as 1936 as an earth road from US 285 to the former town of Arno. In 1946, SH 276 was designated over a second, discontinuous portion of the present route between SH 115 west of Kermit to SH 82 in Kermit.〔 Later that year, that designation was dropped and that segment was added as an extension of SH 302 westward to SH 115.〔〔 In 1949, Farm to Market Road 1211 was designated over a section of the present route from Mentone to the northeast. In 1952, FM 1211 was extended incrementally to the Winkler County line and then to SH 115. The following year the designation of SH 276 was dropped and that road between US 285 and Mentone was assigned as a discontinuous segment of SH 302.〔〔 In 1958 SH 82, the intersecting route Kermit, was renamed SH 18. In 1967, SH 302 was rerouted over Loop 338 in Ector County to I-20.〔 Its former route between Loop 338 and US 385 in Odessa was then designated as Spur 450.〔 The discontinuous nature of SH 302 remained until 1990 when FM 1211 between Mentone and SH 115 near Kermit was canceled and combined with SH 302 unifying the current route.〔〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Texas State Highway 302」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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