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NJ State Route Numbers
(and 500-Series CR's)


Italics mean the route number has either been decommissioned or not applied to a physical road (as in freeway proposals).
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NJ State Highways


US 1   Alt. US 1   US 1 Bus   Truck US 1   1   S1   S1A
2   2N
3   S3   S3 Spur
4   4A   4N   4 Parkway   S4   S4A   S4B   S4C   S4D
5   5N   S5
6   6A   6M   S6
7
8   8N
US 9   Alt. US 9   US 9 Bus   US 9E   Truck US 9   US 9W   9
10   10N
11   11N
12
13   13E
14
15
17
18   18N   18 Spur
19
20
21   21A
US 22   Alt. US 22   22
23
24   S24   24N   24 & 28 Link
25   25A   25AD   25B   25M   S25   25T   25 Link
26   26A   S26
27   27 & 28 Link
28   28A   S28   28 & 29 Link
29   29A   29B   S29
US 30   30
31   31A   S31
32
33   33A   Bus. 33   Byp. 33   33 & 35 Link
34
35
36   S36
37
38
39   S39
US 40   40   S40
41   S41   S41A   S41N
42
43   S43
44   S44   S44A  44T
45   45M
US 46   US 46-A   46
47   Alt. 47
48
49   S49
50
51
52   52A
53
54
55
56   S56
57
58
59
60
61
62
63
64
65
66
67
68
69
70
71
72
73
74
75
I-76   76   76C
77
I-78
79
I-80   I-80S
81
82
83
84
85
87
88
90
91
92
93
94
I-95   95M   95W
FAI 101-110 (Federal Aid Interstate numbers)
100   S100
101   S101
109
120
US 122   122
124
129
US 130
133
138
139   139U
140
143
147
151
152
153
154
155
156
157
158
159
160
161
162
163
164
165
166
167
168
169
170
171
172
173
174
175
177
178
179
180
181
182
183
184
185
187
I-195
For Routes 200, 201, and 203, see "500-Series County Highways" table below.
US 202
US 206   Byp. US 206
208
I-278
I-280
284
I-287
I-295
300
303
US 322   US 322 Bus
324
347
I-380
I-395
413
439
440
444   444R   444S
445   445S
446   446X
I-495   495
US 611
I-676
I-680
I-695
700   700N   700P
807
821
I-895


500-Series County Highways

The table below includes routes 200, 201, and 203, the precursors to the 500 system. 203 was designated on August 1, 1938, and the others (200 and 201) were designated in 1936. 202 was skipped because of US 202. The 200-series county routes were posted with state-style shields. In early February 1942, civil defense 5xx routes were established in New Jersey, New York, and Connecticut. There was some order to the system - 511 through 514 were all in Fairfield County, 524 through 528 were all in Queens and Brooklyn, and 545 through 549 were in south-central New Jersey. 503, 509, 532, and 540 all followed like-numbered NY routes (NY 303, NY 9A/US 9, NY 32, and NY 340), even if they continued into another state. The image at left is a diagram from the New York Times. The civil defense system numbered these roadways as alternatives to state highways in case the latter needed to be co-opted for emergency defense/military use.
In 1952, the civil defense routes were changed to the current 5xx system, with the county name in a square shield. Given that the civil defense routes were a tri-state system, as opposed to the geographic ordering of the modern 500 series, it's unsurprising that most of these numbers did not survive onto their current routes - in fact, a good amount of current 500 routes are not on former civil defense routes, and vice versa. 535 and 503 are two of the rare numbers that can be found in about the same place. 500-series routes are now primary county highways, numbered by the state but routed and maintained by the counties. The 2xx system was removed sometime after the 5xx system was adopted, although topo maps show it persisting into the 1960s. The first version of these shields were still embossed, such as the 506 shield at right (taken by NJRoadfan) in Montclair, which stood into the new millennium but is now gone. Some counties continued to use the square shield longer than others; the shield at left (from Chris Mason) is somewhat newer, as it is not embossed. Bergen County still has many square route shields posted, though not new ones.
New Jersey was one of the first states to adopt the standard county pentagon, though as I just mentioned, some counties took longer than others. The 505 photo, taken by SPUI, looks white but is faded yellow; some New Jersey counties put "___ COUNTY" in white with the number in yellow, while other counties put everything in white, but all yellow (as in the 579 photo taken by Ray Martin) is standard.
Recently, many Spur and Alternate county routes were decommissioned, leaving only one case of duplication, the two Spur 549s. Other routes, including two Spur 527s (one intersected I-78 at Exit 36, the other intersected NJ 24 at Exit 8), are replaced by 600-series secondary county routes, or in the counties that didn't adopt the 600 numbering system, other non-500 county routes. Where possible, these decommissioned routes are included in the table below and on the route pages, but I know that SPUI and I are missing information on earlier routes.

200
201
203
501
502   "Truck 502"
503
504
505   "Truck 505"
506   Spur 506
507
508   Spur 508
509   Spur 509
510
511   Alt. 511
512
513
514   Spur 514
515
516
517   Alt. 517
518   Spur 518
519   Spur 519   "Truck 519"
520
521
522
523   Spur 523
524   Alt. 524   Spur 524
525   Spur 525
526   Alt. 526
527   Alt. 527   Spur 527
528   Spur 528
529
530
531
532
533   Spur 533
534
535
536   Spur 536
537   Spur 537
538
539
540
541   Alt. 541   Truck 541
542
543
544
545
546
547
548
549   Spur 549
550   Spur 550
551   Spur 551  
552   Spur 552
553   Alt. 553
554
555
557   "Truck 557"
559   Alt. 559   "Truck 559"
560
561   Alt. 561   Spur 561
563   Spur 563
565   Spur 565
567
569
571
573
575
577   Spur 577
579
581
583
585   Spur 585

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