Wikipedia:WikiProject U.S. Roads/California/History/Old highway names
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The following names were used by the highway department:
- Route 1, Sausalito to Crescent City
- Route 1, Crescent City to Oregon
- Route 2, San Francisco to San Diego
- Route 3, Sacramento to Oregon
- Pacific Highway (East Side): south of Red Bluff
- Pacific Highway: north of Red Bluff
- Route 4, Sacramento to Los Angeles
- Route 5, Stockton to Santa Cruz
- Route 6, Sacramento to Davis
- Route 7, Benicia to Red Bluff
- Pacific Highway (West Side)
- Route 8, Novato to Fairfield
- Route 9, San Fernando to San Bernardino
- Route 10, Hanford to Visalia
- Route 10, San Lucas to Hanford
- Route 10, Visalia to Sequoia Park
- Route 11, Sacramento to Nevada
- Placerville-Tahoe Highway (entire route)
- Route 12, San Diego to El Centro
- Route 13, Salida to Sonora
- Route 13, Sonora to east of Sonora Pass
- Route 14, Oakland to Martinez
- Route 15, Ukiah to Emigrant Gap
- Route 16, Hopland to Lakeport
- Route 17, Roseville to Nevada City
- Route 18, Merced to Mariposa
- Route 18, Mariposa to Yosemite Park
- Route 19, west of Claremont to Riverside
- Route 20, Weaverville to Redding
- Route 20, Arcata to Weaverville
- Route 21, Richvale to Oroville
- Route 21, Oroville to Quincy
- Route 22, north of Hollister to San Juan Bautista
- Route 23, Saugus to Sauth Lake Tahoe
- Route 24, Lodi to southeast of Markleeville
- Route 25, Nevada City to Downieville
- Route 26, San Bernardino to El Centro
- Route 27, El Centro to Arizona
- Route 28, Redding to Nevada
- Route 29, Red Bluff to Nevada
- Route 31, San Bernardino to Nevada
- Route 32, Chowchilla to Gilroy
- Route 33, Bakersfield to Paso Robles
- Route 34, Galt to southeast of Luther Pass
- Route 35, Mad River to Peanut
- Route 36, Downieville northwest
- Route 37, Auburn to Truckee
- Route 38, South Lake Tahoe to Nevada
- Route 39, Tahoe City to Nevada
- Route 40, west of Chinese Camp to Lee Vining
- Route 41, General Grant Grove to Kings Canyon
- Route 42, Saratoga Gap to Redwood Park
- Route 43, Waterman Canyon to Big Bear Lake
- Route 44, Boulder Creek to Redwood Park
- Route 45, Biggs to Willows
- Route 46, north of Yreka to Klamath
- Route 47, Orland to Chico
- Route 48, Cloverdale to Albion
- Route 49, Calistoga to north of Lower Lake
- Route 50, northeast of Lower Lake to Rumsey
- Route 51, Santa Rosa to Sonoma
- Route 52, Tiburon to Mill Valley
- Route 53, Fairfield to Lodi
- Route 54, east of Sloughhouse to Plymouth
- Route 55, San Francisco to north of Santa Cruz
- Route 56, Cambria to Carmel
- Route 57, Santa Maria to Freeman Junction
- Cuyama Lateral (west of Bakersfield)
- Route 58, Mojave to Arizona
- Route 59, Gorman to Lancaster
- Route 60, El Rio to San Juan Capistrano
- Route 61, La Canada Flintridge to Red Box Gap
- Route 62, Azusa to San Gabriel Canyon
- Route 63, Big Pine to Oasis
- Route 64, Mecca to Blythe
- Route 65, Auburn to Sonora
- Route 66, Lathrop to Manteca
- Route 67, San Juan Bautista to Chittenden
- Route 68, San Francisco to San Jose
- Route 69, San Rafael to Point San Quentin
- Route 70, Ukiah to Mendocino State Hospital
- Route 71, Crescent City to Oregon
This comes from the Assembly Journal, as follows:
- 1931 pp. 796-797
And other sources: