State Highway 96 (Oklahoma)
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State Highway 96 is a short, four-mile (6.44 km) highway in Love Co.
Love County, Oklahoma
Love County is a county located in the U.S. state of Oklahoma. As of 2000, the population is 8,831. Its county seat is Marietta.Love County is part of the Ardmore, Oklahoma, Micropolitan Statistical Area.-Geography:According to the U.S...

, Oklahoma
Oklahoma
Oklahoma is a state located in the South Central region of the United States of America. With an estimated 3,751,351 residents as of the 2010 census and a land area of 68,667 square miles , Oklahoma is the 28th most populous and 20th-largest state...

. It runs south from State Highway 32
State Highway 32 (Oklahoma)
State Highway 32 is a state highway in the U.S. state of Oklahoma. The highway runs from west to east across the southern part of the state, just north of the Red River...

 to Burneyville
Burneyville, Oklahoma
Burneyville is a small community located in Love County, Oklahoma. The post office was established May 5, 1879. It was named for David C. Burney, father of Benjamin Crooks Burney...

, curves west and turns into Burneyville Road. It has no lettered spur routes.

Route description

State Highway 96 begins along Burneyville Road, which it follows for 2 miles (3.2 km). The road then turns north, crossing over Simon Creek, before ccoming to an end at SH-32 at Dunbar, an unincorporated place. The roadbed continues north as Eastman Road.

SH-96 serves the Burneyville area, which includes the Falconhead Resort & Country Club, a former PGA Tour
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golf course, and the Red River Research and Demonstration Farm, an agricultural research operation run by the Samuel Roberts Noble Foundation.

History

State Highway 96 was first shown on the 1958 state highway map (implying its creation in 1957) as a gravel highway. The route was otherwise identical to that of the present day. The route was paved over the following year.

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