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List of county routes in Orange County, New York

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 3, 2026
Entity authorityQ12061199 ↗
Source-derived summary

County routes in Orange County, New York, are maintained by the Orange County Department of Public Works. Most routes are signed with the Manual on Uniform Traffic Control Devices-standard yellow-on-blue pentagon route marker; however, some routes are still signed with white-on-blue diamond-shaped route markers that predate the introduction of the standard marker. These markers are unique to Orange and Ulster Counties and display the route's designation inside an outline of the county. Route numbers are not assigned in any fixed pattern.

Routes 1–50

Routes 51 and up

See also

County routes in New York

Bibliography

Orange County Legislature (1973). Proceedings of the County Legislature, County of Orange, in Regular Session. Orange County, New York.

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This entry incorporates text from “List of county routes in Orange County, New York” 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.