History
The current route of State Route 260 (SR 260) first appears in a 1916 map as a road between Connell and Kahlotus. The highway was designated as part of Secondary State Highway 11A (SSH 11A) from Yakima to Connell and Secondary State Highway 11B (SSH 11B) from Connell to Washtucna in 1937, during the creation of the Primary and secondary state highway system. SSH 11A was re-aligned in 1957 and the route in the vicinity of Connell became part of SSH 11B. During the 1964 highway renumbering, SSH 11B became SR 260, being unpaved from newly-created SR 17 to a short concurrency with U.S. Route 395 (US 395) By 1981, the entire route was paved and the concurrency with US 395 was removed and replaced by an intersection with a bypass of Connell. No major revisions to the route of SR 260 have occurred since the 1980s.
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