Oregon Route 200 is an Oregon

Oregon

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 state highway

State highway

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 running from OR 99W at Monroe

Monroe, Oregon

Monroe is a city in Benton County, Oregon, United States. The population was 607 at the 2000 census. It is part of the "Corvallis, Oregon Metropolitan Statistical Area"...

 to the Lane

Lane County, Oregon

-National protected areas:*Oregon Islands National Wildlife Refuge *Siuslaw National Forest *Umpqua National Forest *Willamette National Forest -Government:...

-Douglas County

Douglas County, Oregon

-National protected areas:* Crater Lake National Park * Rogue River-Siskiyou National Forest * Siuslaw National Forest * Umpqua National Forest * Willamette National Forest -Adjacent counties:* Lane County, Oregon -...

 line near Anlauf

Anlauf, Oregon

Anlauf is an unincorporated community in Douglas County, Oregon, United States. Anlauf is located along Interstate 5 north of Yoncalla....

. OR 200 is composed of most of the Territorial Highway No. 200 (see Oregon highways and routes). It is 40.64 miles (65.4 km) long, in two segments broken by a section of OR 36 and runs north–south.

OR 200 was established in 2002 as part of Oregon's project to assign route numbers to highways that previously were not assigned, and, as of June 2009, was unsigned.

Route description

OR 200 begins at an intersection with OR 99W in Monroe. It heads south through Bear Creek to an intersection with OR 36, at which point the Territorial Highway overlaps the Mapleton-Junction City Highway No. 229. The concurrency continues west for 1.48 miles (2.4 km) as OR 36, at which point OR 200 heads south through Elmira

Elmira, Oregon

Elmira is an unincorporated community in Lane County, Oregon, United States. It is located west of Eugene and north of Veneta and Oregon Route 126, near the Long Tom River and Fern Ridge Reservoir....

 to Veneta

Veneta, Oregon

Veneta is a city in Lane County, Oregon, United States. As of the 2010 census, the city population was 4,561.-History:Veneta was established in 1912 by Edmund Eugene Hunter, who named the settlement after his five-year-old daughter. Veneta post office was established in 1914. Veneta Orilla Hunter...

. At Veneta, OR 200 crosses OR 126 and continues south through Crow

Crow, Oregon

Crow is an unincorporated community in Lane County, Oregon, United States.-History:According to Oregon Geographic Names, a post office was established in 1874 and named after community founders James Andrew Jackson Crow and Helen Fisk Crow, pioneers who came to Oregon by wagon train...

 and Lorane

Lorane, Oregon

Lorane is an unincorporated community in Lane County, Oregon, United States. It is located on Territorial Road about 20 miles southwest of Eugene; it is 13 miles northwest of Cottage Grove. The community is near the headwaters of the North Fork Siuslaw River in a valley in the foothills of the...

 to the Lane-Douglas County line, where it ends. An old section of the Territorial Highway continues south as a Douglas County road to Anlauf, where it ends at an intersection with OR 99.

History

The Territorial Highway is one of Oregon's oldest roads. It can be traced to at least 1851, and by 1947 was referred to in a judicial opinion as the "Old Territorial Highway".

OR 200 was assigned to the remaining part of the Territorial Highway, except that section which is part of OR 36, in 2002.

Major intersections

Milepost	City	Intersection
-0.06	Monroe Monroe, Oregon Monroe is a city in Benton County, Oregon, United States. The population was 607 at the 2000 census. It is part of the "Corvallis, Oregon Metropolitan Statistical Area"...	OR 99W
8.62	Near Bear Creek	OR 36 (End North section)
10.10	Near Franklin Franklin, Oregon Franklin is an unincorporated community in Lane County, Oregon, United States. It is located near Veneta, and is approximately northwest of Eugene.-References:...	OR 36 (Begin South section)
19.49	Veneta Veneta, Oregon Veneta is a city in Lane County, Oregon, United States. As of the 2010 census, the city population was 4,561.-History:Veneta was established in 1912 by Edmund Eugene Hunter, who named the settlement after his five-year-old daughter. Veneta post office was established in 1914. Veneta Orilla Hunter...	OR 126
42.08	Near Anlauf Anlauf, Oregon Anlauf is an unincorporated community in Douglas County, Oregon, United States. Anlauf is located along Interstate 5 north of Yoncalla....	End Route

OR 200 begins at a negative milepost. The Department of Transportation

Oregon Department of Transportation

The Oregon Department of Transportation is a department of the state government of the U.S. state of Oregon responsible for systems of transportation. It was first established in 1969. It had been preceded by the Oregon State Highway Department which, along with the Oregon State Highway...

 placed the zero milepost at a highway connection point slightly displaced from the beginning of the route.

Related routes

• OR 99W
• OR 36
• OR 126
• OR 99