SR 909 was also the original number for what is now State Road 989

State Road 989 (Florida)

Locally known as Allapattah Road and South 112th Avenue, State Road 989 is a north–south four lane undivided highway in southern Miami-Dade County, Florida between Homestead Air Reserve Base and Cutler Bay...

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State Road 909 is a 3.77-mile (6.06 km) state highway

State highway

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 in northern Miami-Dade County, Florida

Miami-Dade County, Florida

Miami-Dade County is a county located in the southeastern part of the state of Florida. As of 2010 U.S. Census, the county had a population of 2,496,435, making it the most populous county in Florida and the eighth-most populous county in the United States...

, United States

United States

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. It runs along West Dixie Highway, the original alignment of the Dixie Highway

Dixie Highway

The Dixie Highway was a United States automobile highway, first planned in 1914 to connect the US Midwest with the Southern United States. It was part of the National Auto Trail system, and grew out of an earlier Miami to Montreal highway. The final result is better understood as a small network of...

, from the east end of Gratigny Drive (SR 924

State Road 924 (Florida)

State Road 924 is a east–west highway connecting Interstate 75 and the Palmetto Expressway in Hialeah and SR 909 in North Miami...

/Northeast 119th Street) in North Miami northeast to North Miami Beach Boulevard (SR 826

State Road 826 (Florida)

State Road 826, also known as the Palmetto Expressway, is a bypass route around the greater Miami area, extending from U.S. Route 1 in Pinecrest, going through the inner Miami suburbs in a north-east semicircle to the Golden Glades Interchange, reverting to a surface street to its terminus at...

/Northeast 163rd Street) in North Miami Beach, just across the Florida East Coast Railway

Florida East Coast Railway

The Florida East Coast Railway is a Class II railroad operating in the U.S. state of Florida; in the past, it has been a Class I railroad.Built primarily in the last quarter of the 19th century and the first decade of the 20th century, the FEC was a project of Standard Oil principal Henry Morrison...

 from Biscayne Boulevard (US 1-SR 5

State Road 5 (Florida)

State Road 5 is a mostly-unsigned state highway in the state of Florida. It is mainly signed as U.S. Route 1 from its south end in Key West, Florida to Jacksonville, Florida, and U.S. Route 17 from Jacksonville to the Georgia state line at the Saint Marys River. U.S...

). State Road 909 is actually in two pieces as motorists traveling the route in North Miami encounter signs on North Miami Boulevard (SR 922

State Road 922 (Florida)

State Road 922 is a 3.6-mile east–west road built in 1951, passing through the cities of North Miami, Bay Harbor Islands, and Bal Harbour, Florida. Locally, the street is also known as North 125th Street, North Miami Boulevard, Northeast 123rd Street, Broad Causeway, 96th Street, and Kane...

/Northeast 125th Street) saying "TO 909" and "To W Dixie Hwy" and guiding them along a two-block "detour" to the other section.

History

Since current SR 909 was the original Dixie Highway, it was part of pre-1945 SR 4. This old alignment continued south on Northeast Second Avenue to downtown Miami (the southern part was designated State Road 815

State Road 815 (Florida)

Once a part of the original Dixie Highway, the former State Road 815 was a 7.76-mile-long north–south route that served - and still serves - as a commuter alternative to the nearby Biscayne Boulevard that was part of the Florida State Roads system for five decades. Located entirely in Dade...

 until the mid 1990s, and north on streets named West Dixie Highway, North Dixie Highway, and South Dixie Highway to Dania, and was assigned the pre-1945 SR 176 designation in 1931. It, however, did not receive a number in the 1945 renumbering.

For some time, the old (West, South, and North) Dixie Highway from SR 826

State Road 826 (Florida)

State Road 826, also known as the Palmetto Expressway, is a bypass route around the greater Miami area, extending from U.S. Route 1 in Pinecrest, going through the inner Miami suburbs in a north-east semicircle to the Golden Glades Interchange, reverting to a surface street to its terminus at...

 in Miami-Dade County north to SR 824

State Road 824 (Florida)

State Road 824, locally known as Pembroke Road, is a 6.54-mile-long east–west highway and major commuter route in southern Broward County, Florida...

 (Pembroke Road) in Broward County was a section of State Road 5A

State Road 5A (Florida)

State Road 5A, also known as Nova Road, is a north south highway that begins and ends at U.S. Highway 1 , in Port Orange and Ormond Beach, respectively...

. This designation survived until the mid-1990s.

West Dixie Highway south of SR 826 received its current Florida Department of Transportation

Florida Department of Transportation

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designation in 1983, replacing the its original designation, State Road 929, which was applied by FDOT earlier in the decade.