New York State Route 98

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NY Route 98
Length:	97.57 mi[1] (157.02 km)
Formed:	1930[2]
South end:	US 219 in Great Valley
Major junctions:	NY 39 in Arcade US 20A in Sheldon US 20 in Alexander I-90 / Thruway in Batavia NY 31 in Albion
North end:	Lake Ontario Pkwy in Carlton
Counties:	Cattaraugus, Wyoming, Genesee, Orleans
Numbered highways in New York < NY 97 NY 99 > Interstate - U.S. - N.Y. - Reference

New York State Route 98 is a state highway in the western part of the U.S. state of New York. The southern terminus of the route is at U.S. Route 219 in the town of Great Valley in Cattaraugus County. The northern end is at the Lake Ontario State Parkway in the town of Carlton in Orleans County, near the southern shore of Lake Ontario. In between, NY 98 serves the city of Batavia, interchanges with the New York State Thruway, and passes by the Attica Correctional Facility.

The NY 98 designation was created in 1930 and assigned to most of its modern routing; however, portions of the route had been signed as a state highway as early as the mid-1920s. NY 98 has been altered only slightly since.

Contents 1 Route description 1.1 Cattaraugus County 1.2 Wyoming County 1.3 Genesee and Orleans Counties 2 History 3 Major intersections 4 References 5 External links

[edit] Route description

[edit] Cattaraugus County

NY 98 begins at U.S. Route 219 northeast of Salamanca in the Great Valley hamlet of the same name in central Cattaraugus County. The route heads northeast, paralleling Forks Creek through northeast Great Valley and the northwestern corner of Humphrey to its end in Franklinville southeast of village of the same name. NY 98 continues northeast for an additional 3.5 miles (5.6 km) to the hamlet of Cadiz, where it intersects NY 16 just south of Franklinville. Here, NY 98 joins NY 16 northward through the village to the town of Farmersville, where the two routes split.

East of NY 16, NY 98 continues northeast to the hamlet of Farmersville, then north to Farmersville Station, where NY 98 intersects NY 243 east of the hamlet. Shortly thereafter, the route crosses into Freedom and continues north toward the hamlet of the same name in the northeastern corner of the county. Ultimately, NY 98 bypasses the hamlet to the west and, at the same time, curves west to follow Clear Creek into Sandusky, the last settlement on NY 98 within the county. At the hamlet, NY 98 turns back to the northwest and crosses into Wyoming County.

[edit] Wyoming County

Just north of the county line, NY 98 enters the village of Arcade as Liberty Street. In the center of the village, NY 98 briefly overlaps NY 39 along Main Street before exiting the area on Water and North Streets, paralleling the Arcade and Attica Railroad (ARA) northward as it passes through the town of Arcade. NY 98 and the ARA remain in close proximity up to the Java hamlet of Java Center, where NY 98 meets NY 77 and NY 78. NY 77 continues north from the intersection while NY 98 joins NY 78 eastward to a point in the town once known as Five Corners. The concurrency terminates here as NY 98 turns northward once more.

Just south of the Java-Sheldon town line, NY 98 passes through the hamlet of North Java, located at the junction between NY 98 and Perry and Wethersfield Roads. Farther north, in Sheldon, NY 98 joins the Tonawanda Creek, following the water body along the Sheldon-Orangeville town line to a junction with U.S. Route 20A east of the hamlet of Varysburg in Orangeville. The two routes briefly overlap into Varysburg (and back into Sheldon) before separating at the hamlet.

NY 98 continues on, following the Tonawanda Creek through a large valley. Due to the terrain of the area, the routing of NY 98 is fairly isolated from the remainder of the county until reaching Attica. South of the village, the route comes within view of the Attica Correctional Facility before entering the village and intersecting NY 354 and NY 238, the latter of which overlaps NY 98 for two blocks along Market Street. Just after NY 238 leaves on Buffalo Street, NY 98 passes into Genesee County.

[edit] Genesee and Orleans Counties

Across the county line in Alexander, NY 98 becomes Alexander Road and interchanges with U.S. Route 20 in the village of Alexander. The Alexander Road name remains through Alexander, past the CSX Transportation Rochester Subdivision in the town of Batavia (which NY 98 passes under), and up to the Batavia city limits, where it becomes Walnut Street. Within the city, NY 98 crosses the Depew, Lancaster and Western Railroad at-grade before curving onto South Main Street and intersecting NY 33. The two routes join on Oak Street for one block to cross over Tonawanda Creek. On the opposite bank, NY 33 separates from NY 98 at an intersection with NY 5 and NY 63. NY 98, however, continues north through the city on Oak Street to the northern city limits, where it interchanges with the New York State Thruway (Interstate 90) south of the Genesee County Airport.

To the north of Batavia in Elba, NY 98 overlaps NY 262 through the southern fringe of the village before continuing through the village and into the town of the same name. Shortly thereafter, NY 98 crosses county lines for the final time, entering the Orleans County town of Barre and, later, the town of Albion. Just north of the Barre-Albion town line, NY 98 intersects NY 31A, a southerly alternate route of NY 31. 2 miles (3.2 km) to the north in the village of Albion, NY 98 intersects NY 31 itself.

Past NY 31, NY 98 crosses over the Erie Canal and enters the town of Gaines before exiting the Albion village limits. At Five Corners, a small hamlet north of Albion, NY 98 intersects NY 279, a route which once joined NY 98 south through Albion. Farther north, in the hamlet of Childs, NY 98 meets NY 104 (Ridge Road) prior to crossing into Carlton. Near the longitudinal center of the town, NY 98 intersects NY 18 and overlaps the route northward to a hamlet known as The Bridges, where NY 18 turns west and crosses over the Oak Orchard River. NY 98, however, crosses over a small tributary known as Marsh Creek before continuing northward along the eastern edge of Oak Orchard Creek to an interchange with the Lake Ontario State Parkway, where NY 98 terminates.

[edit] History

What is now NY 98 between Batavia and modern NY 18 in Carlton was initially designated as New York State Route 74 in the mid-1920s.^[3] The route was extended southward to Varysburg later in the decade before it was renumbered to NY 98 in the 1930 renumbering. NY 98 was also extended southward along a previously unnumbered alignment to Salamanca via Arcade and Franklinville as part of the numerical change.^[2] When U.S. Route 219 was extended into New York in the early 1930s,^[4][5] the route was routed on NY 98 between Salamanca and Great Valley.^[6] The overlap between US 219 and NY 98 remained intact until NY 98 was truncated on its southern end to Great Valley between 1952 and 1962.^[7][8]

Originally, NY 98 followed a more easterly alignment through the towns of Elba and Barre. At the northern edge of the village of Elba, NY 98 left its modern alignment and followed modern Genesee County Route 24 and Orleans County Route 98 before rejoining its current alignment near Barre Center.^[9] The route was realigned to follow a linear path between the two communities between 1952 and 1962.^[7][10]

When the Lake Ontario State Parkway was constructed in the 1970s, NY 98 was extended north along NY 18 and Point Breeze Road to meet the parkway at a new interchange near the Carlton hamlet of The Bridges.^[11][12] Although the short extension of the route was signed as a state highway, ownership and maintenance of it was not transferred from Orleans County to New York State until April 1, 1989.^[13] The segment of Point Breeze Road from the parkway to the Lake Ontario shoreline remains county maintained as County Route 37.^[14]

[edit] Major intersections

County	Location	Mile[1]	Roads intersected	Notes
Cattaraugus	Great Valley	0.00	US 219
	Village of Franklinville	12.38	NY 16 south	Southern terminus of overlap
		15.54	NY 16 north	Northern terminus of overlap
	Freedom	25.00	NY 243	Western terminus of NY 243
Wyoming	Village of Arcade	34.01	NY 39 west	Western terminus of overlap
		34.14	NY 39 east	Eastern terminus of overlap
	Java	42.92	NY 77 NY 78 north	Hamlet of Java Center; western terminus of NY 78/98 overlap; southern terminus of NY 77
		45.47	NY 78 south	Eastern terminus of overlap
	Orangeville	53.18	US 20A east	Southern terminus of overlap
	Sheldon	53.79	US 20A west	Hamlet of Varysburg; northern terminus of overlap
	Village of Attica	61.27	NY 354	Eastern terminus of NY 354
		61.39	NY 238 south	Southern terminus of overlap
		61.69	NY 238 north	Northern terminus of overlap
Genesee	Village of Alexander	64.91	US 20
	City of Batavia	72.34	NY 33 west	Southern terminus of overlap
		72.42	NY 5/NY 63 NY 33 east	Northern terminus of NY 33/98 overlap
		73.53	I-90 / Thruway	Exit 48 (I-90)
	Village of Elba	77.05	NY 262 east	Southern terminus of overlap
		77.28	NY 262 west	Northern terminus of overlap
Orleans	Town of Albion	87.15	NY 31A
	Village of Albion	89.08	NY 31
	Gaines	90.57	NY 279	Southern terminus of NY 279
		92.22	NY 104	Hamlet of Childs
	Carlton	96.00	NY 18 east	Hamlet of Baldwin Corner; southern terminus of overlap
		96.54	NY 18 west	Hamlet of The Bridges; northern terminus of overlap
		97.57	Lake Ontario Pkwy

[edit] References

[edit] External links

• New York Routes - New York State Route 98