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Arkansas Highway 146

state highway in Arkansas, United States

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMay 13, 2025
Entity authorityQ28185906 ↗
Source-derived summary

Highway 146 (AR 146, Ark. 146, and Hwy. 146) is a designation for two east–west state highways in the Lower Arkansas Delta. One route of 12.96 miles (20.86 km) begins at US Highway 79 (US 79) near Stuttgart and runs east to the White River at Preston Ferry. A second route of 17.43 miles (28.05 km) begins at Lawrenceville and runs east to Highway 39 at Noy. Both routes are maintained by the Arkansas State Highway and Transportation Department (AHTD).

Route description

Stuttgart to Preston Ferry

Highway 146 begins at US 79 north of Stuttgart on the Grand Prairie. The route runs due east as a section line road, immediately crossing railroad tracks and intersecting with Highway 146 Spur. Highway 146 runs east to briefly overlap Highway 33 at Casscoe. The route continues east to the a boat ramp on the White River at Preston Ferry, where it terminates.

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The public source identifies “Arkansas Highway 146” as state highway in Arkansas, United States. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Arkansas, Highway and state.

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This entry incorporates text from “Arkansas Highway 146” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.