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Oklahoma State Highway 266

highway in Oklahoma

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionDec 19, 2025
Entity authorityQ2174646 ↗
Source-derived summary

State Highway 266 (abbreviated SH-266) is a state highway near Tulsa, Oklahoma, United States. It runs for 10.92 miles (17.57 km) through Tulsa and Rogers Counties in northeastern Oklahoma.

Route description

SH-266 begins at a cloverleaf interchange with U.S. Highway 169 (a Tulsa-area freeway), and heads northeast from there to meet the northern terminus of State Highway 167 near the Port of Catoosa (north of the town of Catoosa). Highway 266 arcs to the north to bypass the port, and then straightens out to run due east to Interstate 44 (the Will Rogers Turnpike).

The number 266 refers to U.S. Highway 66 (now State Highway 66, which SH-266 ended at. Highway 266 does not have any lettered spur routes.

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“Oklahoma State Highway 266” enters the record as highway in Oklahoma. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Oklahoma, State and Highway can confirm, complicate or overturn.

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This entry incorporates text from “Oklahoma State Highway 266” 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.