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California Highways
Sources and Credits
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This information is derived from the following references, as well as
additional research in newspaper articles, California Transportation Commission
minutes, and other public documents:
- Bauman, Richard. California's First State Highway. Article in
The Reporter, A publication exclusively for Fedco Members. Issue W4,
Volume 44, March 1998.
- Brodsly, David. L.A. Freeway. University of California Press.
Berkeley, CA. 1981.
- CalTrans. California Department of Transportion State Highway Map.
1963.
- CalTrans. California Department of Transportion State Highway Map.
1986.
- CalTrans. California Department of Transportion State Highway Map.
1994.
- CalTrans. Caltrans Journal. September-October 2002.
- CalTrans. History of California's Interstate Routes. November
1984. Rev. 1/13/86.
- CalTrans. HOV Annual Report 1996. District 4. December 1996.
- CalTrans. Named Freeways, Highways, Structures and Other Appurtenances
in California, 1996. April 1996.
- CalTrans. Named Freeways, Highways, Structures and Other Appurtenances
in California, 2001. August 2001.
- CalTrans. Named Freeways, Highways, Structures and Other Appurtenances
in California, 2004. August 2004.
- CalTrans. State Highway Routes: Selected Information. Revisions
1995. August 1995.
- Caltrans and Caltrans District Office web pages: <http://www.dot.ca.gov/>
- California Highway and Public Works Magazine. "United States
Numbered Highways". January, 1928.
- California Highway and Public Works Magazine. "State Routes will be
Numbered and Marked with Distinctive Bear Signs". August, 1934.
- California Highway and Public Works Magazine. "Route Renumbering: New
Green Markers Will Replace Old Shields". March-April 1964.
- California State Automobile Association. Greater San Jose Northern
Area. 1987.
- California State Automobile Association. Oakland, Berkeley, Alameda,
Albany-Piedmont, Emeryville-Kensington. 1992.
- County Supervisors Association of California. California's County
Route Marker Program and the National Uniform County Route Marker Program:
Information and Instructions.
- Gillespie's Guide. 1939.
- Forsyth, R and Hagwood, J. One Hundred Years of Progress.
California Transportation Foundation. 1996.
- H. M. Gousha/Conoco. California/Nevada. 1933.
- H. M. Gousha/Shell. California/Nevada. 1934.
- H. M. Gousha. California Map. 1935
- H. M. Gousha/Standard. Standard Stations Interstate Route Map:
Southern Routes: US 60, US 66, US 70, US 80 1939.
- H. M. Gousha/Texaco. California. 1961.
- Historical Society of Long Beach. Shades of the Past "The G.A.R.
Highway". 1995.
- Map Corporation of America. Maps of the Freeway System: Los Angeles
and Vicinty. Boston, MA. Appears to be between 1958 and 1963.
- Rand McNally and Company. Rand McNally Road Atlas and Radio Guide of
the United States. Rand McNally and Company. 1959.
- Thomas Brothers Maps. California Road Atlas. Thomas Brothers Maps.
1991.
- Numerous Southern California AAA and California State AAA Maps.
- Shaping San Franciso <http://www.shapingsf.org/>
...and a number of other books that, alas, I neglected to capture the name
of.
A special nod of thanks is given to the following individuals:
- Mike
Ballard, who provided me with much historical information on US 6 and
US 99 in the Santa Clarita Valley. Mike also provided me with excellent
maps from 1935 and 1939.
- Andy Field, who provided me with
information on highway routes in San Diego (including county routes), as
well as information on highway routing in Lake County, CA.
- Don Hagstrom, who has provided
me with all sorts of facts that have filtered into almost every page of
route information on the site. Crediting Don individually would slow
download times :-), so hopefully this blanket "thank you" will suffice.
- Joseph Rouse. Joseph provided me with information on pre-1964 legislative
routing (including an extremely useful 1963 route map), information on HOV
lanes, information on US highways, and information on route changes from
the 1930s on.
- Nathan Edgars
II, who provided invaluable updates through the Wikipedia Project
regarding the chronology of route additions. In particular, the following
pages were primary sources for updates to the existing chronology made in
2007: When
each route was added to the state highway system, History/F&E
System, List
of route numbers, 1917-1931, History/Legislative
act roads, History/List
of laws by route (pre-1964), History/List
of laws by route (post-1964)
Other information is from personal research and from the Urban Archives at
Cal State Northridge (formerly Valley State), the Caltrans Library, the
California State Highway Code, and contributions and corrections from various
net folk, including Gary Araki, John Bejarano, Chris Carlsson, Dennis Carr,
Casey Cooper, Eric Ching, Karl Davisson, David Edgren, Hank Fung, John David
Galt, Mark Furqueron, Ralph Herman, Nick Karels, J.P. Kirby, James Lin, Richard
Moeur, M. Ray Mullins, Scott Oglesby (especially for information on the history
of the three-digit interstates in California and San Francisco freeway
history), Numan Parada, Steve Riner, Matthew Salek, Calvin Sampang, Roberto
Arturo Schafer, Duncan Shaw, Bill Sharp, Brian Smith, Sam Smith, David Stanek,
Kevin Standlee, James Sterbenz, Dan Stober, Don Williams, David Whiteman,
various participants on misc.transport.road and ca.general, and others whom I
cannot remember. Information on El Camino Real is from the Los Angeles Almanac. Some (alas
not all) of these folks are credited on individual pages, when the contribution
was significant.
I have also received information from the Public Information officers of the
following Caltrans districts:
- District 1: Del Norte,
Humboldt, Mendocino, and Lake Counties
- District 3: Butte, Colusa, El
Dorado, Glenn, Nevada, Placer, Sacramento, Sierra, Sutter, Yolo, and Yuba
Counties
- District 4: Santa Clara,
Alameda, San Mateo, Contra Costa, San Francisco, Marin, Solano, Napa, and
Sonoma Counties.
- District 5: Santa Barbara,
San Luis Obispo, Monterey, San Benito and Santa Cruz Counties
- District 6: Madera, Fresno,
Kings, Tulare, and Kern Counties
- District 10: Alpine, Amador,
Calaveras, Mariposa, Merced, San Joaquin, Stanislaus, and Tuolumne
Counties
- District 11: San Diego and
Imperial Counties
I also thank Mel Aros, Program Coordinator for the California County Route
Marker Program in Sacramento, who had to go to files archived off a mainframe
computer in 1984 to get me a listing of all the routes in the program.
Lastly, I thank the many other Caltrans staffers (you know who you are) who
have provided me information on various topics over the years.
Graphics on these pages were derived from a variety of sources, such as the
reference texts cited above, R C Moeur's "Traffic Stuff" pages,
and James Lin state route signage
pages. The highway sign graphics on the index page were derived from Kurumi's
Signmaker
program, and reworked to say what I want them to say, and be 256 color GIFs.
All graphics have been modified from their original forms and reworked to some
extent to ensure they load fast (usually by reducing them in size and to
16-colors). Sign shield graphics came from the AARoad Sign Generator (while it
was working) and from Kendrick's
Shields Up. Maps on highway pages were mostly derived from the Caltrans Postmile Tool, which uses
Google Maps as its underlying base. Historical maps are from California State
Highway maps, typically as posted by David Rumsey (all
listed on my maps page). The graphics for the National Trails are adapted
from those on Dave Schul's North
American Auto Trails site. The graphics for California Counties are adapted
from the excellent county data pages at
the California State Association of
Counties. Graphics for Caltrans districts are adapted from a map at the Caltrans website. Many of the graphics used
to accompany status updates are extracted from the background items supporting
the CTC meeting minutes.
© 1996-2018 Daniel P.
Faigin.
Maintained by: Daniel P. Faigin <webmaster@cahighways.org>.