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This route is unchanged from 1963.
Route 200 is signed on North Bank Road within Humboldt County near the
community of Arcata. Route 200 follows the north bank of the Mad
River and serves as a connector route between US 101 east to Route 299.
(Source: Gribblenation Blog "California State Route 200")
This was LRN 85, defined in 1933. It appears to have not been signed before 1969.
North Bank Road along the Mad River existed before it was added to the
State Highway System. North Bank Road can be seen as a connecting
road in the vicinity of Arcata between LRN 1 (future US 101) east to LRN 20 (future US 299/Route 299) on the 1917 California State Automobile
Association Map of California. It was added to the State Highway System
during 1933 as LRN 85, and can be seen aligned between US 101/LRN 1 and US 299/LRN 20 on the 1935 California Division of Highways Map of Humboldt
County.
(Source: Gribblenation Blog "California State Route 200")
It is a short connector between Route 299 and US 101. It is identified as Route 200 on the Calnexus site.
The interchange between US 101 and Route 200 in the County of Humboldt is
officially named the "CHP Officer Kenneth E. Marshall Memorial
Interchange." It was named on 9/27/13 by ACR 70,Res.
Chapter 144, Statutes of 2013. It was named in memory of California
Highway Patrol Officer Kenneth Edmund Marshall, who was born in December
1936, in Vernonia, Oregon. Officer Marshall graduated from Napa High
School, and attended California State University, Sacramento, shortly
thereafter. Officer Marshall was employed in a lumber mill near Burney,
California, prior to becoming a California Highway Patrol Officer. Officer
Marshall married in September 1956, and had two children. Officer Marshall
graduated from the California Highway Patrol Academy in 1963 and, upon
graduation, was assigned to the Los Angeles Area and later transferred to
the San Leandro Area and finally to the Humboldt Area, where he spent the
remainder of his career. Officer Marshall, badge number 3285, was killed
in the line of duty on January 9, 1968, while pursuing a speeding motorist
on US 101 in the County of Humboldt. As Officer Marshall was attempting to
overtake the violator, he lost control of his patrol car on the wet
roadway as he was traversing through a sweeping left curve and his vehicle
slid off the roadway and struck a pole adjacent to the highway.
(Image source: CHP on Facebook; Calif. Assn. of Highway Patrolmen)
Overall statistics for Route 200:
In 1933, Chapter 767 defined the route from "[LRN 2] near San Diego to [LRN 12] W of Jacumba via Campo" as part of the highway system. In 1935, this was added to the highway code with the same routing. This routing remained the same until the 1963 renumbering.
This route ran from US 101 (present-day I-5) near San Diego to US 80 (present-day I-8) W of Jacumba via Campo. This is Route 94.
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