Ohio State Route 733 is a short connector between US Route 33, Ohio Route 7, and some local routes in Pomeroy. The number of Ohio Route 733 presumably comes from the two numbers of the highways that it links together, though Ohio Route 733 serves more as a continuation of a road used by Ohio Route 7 to get to Ohio Route 833. The Pomeroy area lies on the northside of a local northern maximum in the Ohio River's position; in other words, the Ohio River bends from northwesterly to southwesterly here. Ohio Route 833, which hugs the northern shore to the southwest, converges with Ohio Route 124, which hugs the northern shore to the southeast. These two routes form a wishbone shape, and converge together toward the north, away from this riverbend. Just north of the riverbend, Ohio Route 733 begins toward the northeast from this northbound concurrency of Ohio Routes 124 and 833. An expressway bypasses this whole area to the north. While Ohio Routes 124 and 833 head north to that expressway's interchange with the northern continuation of US Route 33, Ohio Route 733 pokes northeasterly toward a different interchange with the expressway. Past this more easterly interchange with the expressway, Ohio Route 733 continues northeasterly as Ohio Route 7. All of this complex explanation is to say that Ohio Route 733 provides a two-mile shortcut from Pomeroy for those who wish to continue northeasterly and upriver along Ohio Route 7.
My photo for Ohio Route 733 comes from the southwestern end of the route, at Ohio Routes 124 and 833. Travelers turning off of those routes toward the east will see this scene as they embark on this two-mile shortcut to Ohio Route 7 and the eastern reaches of the US Route 33 bypass. This photo was taken in March 2021 during my exhaustive tour of southeastern Ohio.