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U.S. Route 92

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Template:Cleanupus Template:Infobox U.S. Route U.S. Route 92 runs for 177 miles (285 km) from SR 595 and SR 687 in downtown St. Petersburg to SR A1A in Daytona Beach. The secret designation of State Road 600 follows US 92 for most of it's route.

Cities and Towns along the route

St. Petersburg, Florida Tampa, Florida Plant City, Florida Lakeland, Florida Haines City, Florida Kissimmee, Florida Orlando, Florida Sanford, Florida DeLand, Florida Daytona Beach, Florida

History

US 92 was in the original 1926 plan, connecting Tampa (concurrent with US 41) to US 1 in Daytona Beach. It had been the Dixie Highway Tampa-St. Petersburg Loop from Plant City to Haines City, the West Mainline from Haines City to Orlando, and the East Florida Connector from Orlando to DeLand.

US 92 was signed along the following roads in 1927:

  • SR 17 from Tampa to Haines City
  • SR 2 from Haines City to Orlando
  • SR 3 from Orlando to DeLand
  • SR 21 from DeLand to Daytona Beach

When the bypass of downtown Tampa on SR 17 (Hillsborough Avenue) opened in the early 1930s, US 92 and US 41 were rerouted to use it. US 92 turned south from the new road where US 41 turned north, at Nebraska Avenue (former SR 5, probably then a spur of SR 5), and continued to end in downtown Tampa.

A 1942 map shows US 92 extended west along SR 17 and SR 229 to end at US 19 in Dunedin; it was soon truncated back to Tampa.

In the 1945 renumbering, the whole route of US 92 was numbered SR 600, except for the section south to downtown Tampa, which was SR 45. It was extended west and south to downtown St. Petersburg along SR 600 and SR 687 in 1953.

In 1961, US 92 was moved to bypass downtown Lakeland, along SR 517 and SR 546. The old route was Business US 92 until 1998.

The date of extension east across the Intracoastal Waterway is unknown.

Major intersections

Routes

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Secret/Unsigned

Notes

In Seminole County, Florida, the redevelopment of the 17-92 Community Redevelopment Area is handled by the US 17-92 Community Redevelopment Agency, a component unit of the County government.

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