U.S. Route 271
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Image:US271.png U.S. Highway 271 is a north-south United States highway. Never a long highway, it went from bi-state route ( Arkansas and Oklahoma ) to a tri-state route (Arkansas, Oklahoma and Texas ).
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Termini
As of 2004, the highway's northern terminus is in Fort Smith, Arkansas at an intersection with Business U.S. Highway 71 and Arkansas State Highway 255. It enters Arkansas from Oklahoma as a controlled-access highway, but the highway continues as I-540 when US 271 exits toward downtown after a half mile (800 m). Its southern terminus is in Tyler, Texas at an intersection with Texas State highway 31 and SH 155, five blocks east of U.S. Highway 69 (though signage is indeterminate).
Historic termini
In 1926, US 271 was commissioned between Fort Smith, Arkansas and Mena, Arkansas by way of Spiro and Poteau, Oklahoma but the route south of Poteau was turned over to U.S. Highway 270 (and later, U.S. Highway 59) in 1930. US 271 was then re-routed through Talihina and Hugo, Oklahoma as well as Paris and Tyler, Texas towards Beaumont near the Gulf of Mexico . The Tyler to Beaumont leg was taken over by U.S. Highway 69 in 1934.
US 271's original northern terminus was at an intersection with U.S. Highway 64 and U.S. Highway 71 in Fort Smith. It has since been resligned twice: once beginning at U.S. 71 and Y Street and crossing into Oklahoma at Arkoma, the second time to its current terminus in southern Fort Smith.
States traversed
The highway passes through the following states:
- Arkansas (2.5 miles, 4 km, in Fort Smith)
- Oklahoma
- Texas
Business U.S. Highway 271
- Hugo, Oklahoma
- Paris, Texas
- Tyler Texas