Highway 78 | ||||
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 Highway 78 in red; Highway 78S in blue in Moro | ||||
| Route information | ||||
| Maintained by ArDOT | ||||
| Existed | April 1, 1926–present | |||
| Section 1 | ||||
| Length | 24.03 mi[1] (38.67 km) | |||
| West end |  AR 306 near Hunter | |||
| Major intersections | ||||
| East end |  US 79 near Moro | |||
| Section 2 | ||||
| Length | 4.30 mi[1] (6.92 km) | |||
| East end |  AR 121 in Aubrey | |||
| West end |   CR 132 / CR 173 near Aubrey | |||
| Location | ||||
| Country | United States | |||
| State | Arkansas | |||
| Counties | Woodruff, St. Francis, Lee | |||
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Highway 78 (AR 78, Ark. 78, and Hwy. 78) is a designation for two state highways in the Arkansas Delta. One route of 24.03 miles (38.67 km) begins at Highway 306 near Hunter and runs southeast to US Highway 79 (US 79). A second route of 4.30 miles (6.92 km) begins at Highway 121 and runs west[a] to a junction with Lee County Route 132 (CR 132) and CR 173. A short spur route in Moro, Highway 78 Spur connects the parent route to Highway 238. All routes are maintained by the Arkansas State Highway and Transportation Department (AHTD).
Both segments of Highway 78 serve the Arkansas Delta, an extremely rural part of the state. Passing through only a few small towns, the highway's setting is a flat agricultural landscape in cultivation crossed by drainage ditches, swamps, and bayous. One of the original Arkansas state highways, Highway 78 was slowly extended in the middle of the 20th century during a period of rapid growth in the Arkansas Highway System. The Aubrey-Big Creek route was created in 1973, marking the last change for the highway designation until the addition of Highway 78 Spur in 2001. The entire route between Hunter and US 79 is designated as an Arkansas Heritage Trail, a route used by John S. Marmaduke's Confederate Missouri cavalry prior to the Battle of Helena during the American Civil War.
- ^ a b System Information and Research Division (2014). "Arkansas Road Log Database". Little Rock: Arkansas State Highway and Transportation Department. Archived from the original (MDB) on August 29, 2017. Retrieved March 27, 2016.
- ^ Planning and Research Division. State Highway Route and Section Map, Lee County, Arkansas (PDF) (Map). Little Rock: Arkansas State Highway and Transportation Department. Retrieved March 12, 2017.
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