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The Roads and Rails of Mercer County, WV /

CR 22

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Highway	Names	Start	Terminus	Length (km)
CR 22	Round Bottom-Chestnut Knob Rd., Lovern Rd.	CR 9, Chestnut Knob	New River at Summers County line	8

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Overview

County Route 22 is a single-lane road in eastern Mercer County, intersecting with CR 9 at Chestnut Knob. This is the only numbered highway entirely in Mercer County that leads to the New River.

History

CR 22 was commissioned in 1933, and routed upon pre-existing infrastructure from the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Its course has been unchanged since its inception.

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Fractional spur roads

Road	Names	Start	Terminus	Length (km)	Notes
22/1	River Rd.	CR 22, New River	Giles County, Virginia state line north of Glen Lyn	2	Original 1930s road with numbers assigned from east to west. Road now falls within Bluestone Lake Wildlife Management Area, and no longer has a number.
22/2	Red Sulphur Turnpike	CR 22, New River	CR 9/3	5	Original 1930s road with numbers assigned from east to west. West segment impassable.
22/3	Green Springs Rd.	CR 22	CR 22, New River	4	Original 1930s road with numbers assigned from east to west.
22/4	Whitt Hill Rd.	CR 22	Summers County line, Hilltop, continues as CR 28/5	5	Original 1930s road with numbers assigned from east to west.
22/5 (old)	(unknown name)	CR 22/2	CR 22/4	insignificant	Decommissioned by 1945; impassable
22/6	Clemons Rd.	CR 22	CR 9/4	3

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