Arkansas Highway 87

Highway 87 (AR 87, Ark. 87, and Hwy. 87) is a north–south state highway in central White County. The highway straddles the border of the Arkansas Grand Prairie and the Arkansas Valley Hills ecoregions. Route description The highway begins in Higginson, a small rural city, at Highway 11 (Baker Street). It runs due northeast paralleling the Union Pacific Railway tracks through downtown, passing a city park before bridging Glade Creek. On the north side of the bridge, Highway 87 exits the community, continuing to parallel the railroad tracks through a sparsely populated agricultural area. The highway enters the small city of Kensett at the southeast corner, with state maintenance ending just across the city limits at an intersection with Central Avenue. The roadway continues northeast as Morris Avenue under city maintenance. The ArDOT maintains Highway 87 like all other parts of the state highway system. As a part of these responsibilities, the Department tracks the volume of traffic using its roads in surveys using a metric called average annual daily traffic (AADT). ArDOT estimates the traffic level for a segment of roadway for any average day of the year in these surveys. As of 2017, the only location estimated was near the southern terminus in Higginson, with 440 vehicles per day (VPD). Major intersections History The highway was created by the Arkansas State Highway Commission on May 23, 1973 during a period of highway system expansion following the Arkansas General Assembly passing Act 9 of 1973. The act directed county judges and legislators to designate up to of county roads as state highways in each county. The alignment has remained unchanged since designation. ==Bradford to Concord==

Highway 87 (AR 87, Ark. 87, and Hwy. 87) is a north–south state highway in Northeast Arkansas. The route begins at Interstate 57 (I-57) in the floodplain and lowlands along the White River, and runs uphill through small towns and concurrent with US 167 to Concord in the Lower Boston Mountains. The highway crosses the Union Pacific Railway tracks in downtown Bradford just east of an intersection with Highway 367 (2nd Street). West of downtown, Highway 87 passes Bradford High School before exiting the city heading west. Highway 87 becomes a rural highway, passing farmsteads like the NRHP-listed Marshall Hickmon Homestead, Near Denmark, the highway intersects US 167, forming a concurrency heading north. US 167/AR 87 run together into Independence County to the small town of Pleasant Plains in the southern part of the county. Highway 87 turns from US 167 at a junction with Highway 157. Highway 157 and Highway 87 form a concurrency westward into Pleasant Plains for as Blackland Road before Highway 157 turns south as Batesville Boulevard, leaving Highway 87 to continue west as Floral Road. West of Pleasant Plains, Highway 87 passes through a rural area dotted with residences and passes through two unincorporated communities, Cedar Grove and Floral, before entering Cleburne County. In northeastern Cleburne County, Highway 87 passes through a sparsely populated area, and the community of Banner before entering Concord. The route terminates in the small town at Highway 25 (Heber Springs Road). Major intersections History Highway 87 between Bradford and Pleasant Plains was an original Arkansas state highway, created on April 1, 1926. The remaining route was replaced by State Road 11 on the September 1929 map, with the route between Denmark and Bald Knob disappearing from the map. On the 1937 Official Highway Service Map, Highway 87 was redesignated along the "impassible road", now marked as "graded earth" in White County and "gravel or stone surfaced" in Jackson County. On the 1945 state highway map, the Highway 11 designation was assigned to the roadway between Denmark and Bald Knob, with Highway 87 running along its present alignment between Bradford and Denmark as a gravel road. The segment from Pleasant Plains to Concord was added on July 10, 1957, during a period of expansion in the state highway system. The Arkansas General Assembly passed the Act 148 of 1957, the Milum Road Act, creating of new state highways in each county. It was realigned around US 167 in 1998, including adopting a former segment of US 167 to connect to the new US 167 alignment. ==Mountain View to Fifty Six==

Highway 87 (AR 87, Ark. 87, and Hwy. 87) is a north–south state highway in Stone County, Arkansas. ArDOT estimates average daily traffic on the route ranges from 1100 vehicles per day (VPD) near the southern terminus in Mountain Home, to 360 VPD near the northern terminus. Major intersections History The highway was designated on March 28, 1973 pursuant to Act 9 of 1973 by the Arkansas General Assembly. The act directed county judges and legislators to designate up to of county roads as state highways in each county. The alignment has not changed since designation. ==Elizabeth to Missouri==

Highway 87 (AR 87, Ark. 87, and Hwy. 87) is a north–south state highway in Fulton County, Arkansas. Route description Highway 87 begins at Elizabeth, an unincorporated community in western Fulton County. The southern terminus is an intersection with Elizabeth Road, a paved road continuing east toward Mitchell and Salem. The intersection also includes the eastern terminus of Boggy Point Cove, also paved, which runs southwest toward Norfork Lake. Both other roadways at the southern terminus are under the jurisdiction of the Fulton County Road Department. ==See also==