Oklahoma State Highway 9

West of Interstate 35 From the western terminus at State Highway 203 along the Texas border, the highway travels due east for and intersects with SH-30 between Madge and Vinson. SH-9 continues east for SH-9 continues eastward, passing Lake Thunderbird State Park, before reaching the towns of Tecumseh and Seminole. The road intersects the Indian Nation Turnpike near Hanna, and US-69 near Eufaula. SH-9 provides access to the south side of Lake Eufaula before reaching Stigler. SH-9 overlaps US-59 for , after which the road becomes concurrent with US-271. Both remain concurrent, until the highway ends at the Arkansas border. After passing the Arkansas state line, State Highway 9 becomes I-540, and US-271 continues over the state line concurrent with the Interstate. ==History==

Officially designated on August 24, 1924, the original route encompassed all of current SH-9 west of Blanchard. East of Blanchard, SH-9 followed a more northerly route. Bypassing Norman, SH-9 ran north to Oklahoma City before going east through Harrah, Meeker, Prague, Henryetta, and Checotah. The highway ended at the original SH-3 in Spiro. Upon the creation of the United States Numbered Routes system in 1926, the section between Oklahoma City and Warner was overlaid with US-266. Four years later in 1930, SH-9 was truncated to Chickasha. On 1935-08-27, the route was extended eastward, On 1937-08-25, the route was brought further east to end at US-69 in Eufaula. These sections were re-added on 1938-09-27. The final extension brought SH-9 to the Arkansas state line on 1941-11-12. Discussions to widen SH-9 to four lanes east of US-77 in Norman began in 2008. The City of Norman and ODOT have conflict in their proposals for the design of the widened highway. ODOT has proposed a paved median, with shoulders to accommodate bicyclists. Norman's proposal includes a grass median and a separate bike path along the north side of the right-of-way, running from 24th Avenue S.E. to Lake Thunderbird. ODOT criticized the city's plan as too expensive. The city then proposed, with a narrower raised concrete median and separate bike path. By 2014, the plan for the widening had been finalized and work had begun from US 77 eastward. As of , SH-9 has been widened to four lanes to 108th Avenue S.E. Future plans call for the highway to be widened to four lanes from Pecan Creek to SH-102. The I-35 and SH-9 West interchange in Goldsby was reconfigured into a diverging diamond interchange in November 2025. The new design is expected to "accommodate large volumes of turning traffic by shifting traffic to the left side of a divided roadway through a series of coordinated signals for safer and more efficient left turns." This follows a large project that reconfigured the I-35 exit at West Lindsey Street into a single point urban interchange and the SH-9 east exit to a trumpet interchange in Norman. That project started in March 2015 and was completed and opened in October 2017. ==Junction list==

State Highway 9 creates three spur highways throughout the state. Additionally, it has two business routes, serving towns the main route bypasses. These routes are: • Business SH-9, a three-mile (5 km) loop through Hobart. • Another instance of Business SH-9 that loops through Gotebo. (This is not shown on the state highway map.) • SH-9A is a designation for three distinct highways: • A highway that intersects SH-9 in Earlsboro and links the parent highway to I-40 and SH-39 in Konawa. The spur also passes through the town of Maud. • A connector highway from US-69 to SH-9 south of Eufaula. • A spur route to SH-112 in Arkoma. This section is a former alignment of U.S. Highway 271. ==References==