 State Road 581 | ||||
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| Bruce B. Downs Boulevard | ||||
 SR 581 in red, CR 581 in blue | ||||
| Route information | ||||
| Maintained by FDOT | ||||
| Length | 3.505 mi[1] (5.641 km) CR 581: 12.554 miles (20.204 km) | |||
| Major junctions | ||||
| South end |  SR 56 in Wesley Chapel | |||
| North end |  SR 54 in Wesley Chapel | |||
| Location | ||||
| Country | United States | |||
| State | Florida | |||
| Counties | Pasco | |||
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State Road 581 (SR 581), also known as Bruce B. Downs Boulevard, is a 3.5-mile-long (5.6 km) north–south road in Pasco and Hillsborough County extending from State Road 56, north to SR 54 in Wesley Chapel. SR 581, along with County Road 581 (CR 581), which extends 12.6 miles (20.3 km) to the south of SR 581's southern terminus, forms the major thoroughfare through New Tampa, a part of the city of Tampa annexed during the 1980s, to Wesley Chapel. The portion of the road north of State Road 582 was renamed in 1984 from 30th Street by Hillsborough's Board of County Commissioners in honor of Bruce Barkley Downs, a deputy county administrator for public works.[2]
- ^ Cite error: The named reference
sldwas invoked but never defined (see the help page). - ^ Nipps, Emily (February 18, 2007). "Bruce B. Downs: The man behind the name". St. Petersburg Times. Archived from the original on April 26, 2015. Retrieved July 31, 2010.