Commissioners consider more road vacations

A proposal for three more road vacations from the county system was accepted for consideration by county commissioners Monday and posted for a public hearing March 4. Public Works Director Mark Storey in presenting the proposals to the commission said two of the proposals evolved out of the discovery of what he called remnants of roads which were still on the books.

Two of the three segments are not actually charted as roads on the county’s official map. They involve early day roads which were absorbed by subsequent changes at the stateline where Highway 274 runs east of Tekoa to the grain elevators at Tilma.

One of the roads up for vacation, officially identified as North Hangman Creek Road, amounts to a short link from the highway to where the Old Catholic Cemetery Road intersects with Highway 274.

The North Hangman Creek Road is a remnant of the early day road in the area.

The other Tilma area nominee for vacation, identified at a portion of the Second Extension of Stateline Road, now serves as part of a parking lot at the intersection of 274 and the Lovell Valley Road which continues northeast to Idaho Highway 95 and Plummer.

Storey explained Highway 274 at the junction is officially listed as two branches with the north branch linking to the Lovell Valley Road and the south branch linking to Idaho Highway 60 which also continues east and links with Highway 25

The portion of Stateline Road nominated for abandonment now is located between the two branches and amounts to a 35-foot wide strip in a parking lot.

Stateline Road actually runs along the state line north and south of Tilma.

The third segment nominated for abandonment is identified as the Snyder-Cocking road which is a small deadend road that extends off the north side of the Parvin Road about a half mile east of Highway 195. Storey said the road at one time served a residence north of the Parvin Road. He said the home site remains but the house is long gone.