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North of Indianapolis, US 421 continues to the north-northwest, providing a direct highway link between Indianapolis and Michigan City. US 421 ends at its junction with US 20 on the south side of Michigan City. Originally, the highway's end was a few miles north at the junction with US 12 near the shores of Lake Michigan.
Interstate Highways are owned and maintained by the Indiana Department of Transportation (INDOT) unless it is a toll road. The system was authorized by the Federal-Aid Highway Act of 1956, which provided federal funds for construction of limited access highways. Indiana's initial set of seven Interstate Highways were announced in September 1957 ...
The original route of US 24 went through the city of Logansport, which then was a two-lane undivided rural highway north of the present four-lane highway from Logansport to a point near New Waverly. From there, the original facility ran south of today's four-lane roadway, through Peru and roughly paralleling the old Wabash Railroad (now Norfolk ...
State highway system of Indiana, 1936, Indiana State Highway Commission. The Indiana Department of Transportation (INDOT) is a governmental agency of the U.S. state of Indiana charged with maintaining and regulating transportation and transportation related infrastructure such as state owned airports, state highways and state owned canals or railroads.
An example of weather alerts on a national map from the National Weather Service. The NWS divides severe weather alerts into several types of hazardous/hydrologic events: Severe local storms – Short-fused, small-scale hazardous weather or hydrologic events produced by thunderstorms (including large hail, damaging winds, tornadoes, and flash ...
Evansville, the third largest city in Indiana, is located in the southwestern corner of the state. It is located in a tri-state area that includes Illinois, Indiana, and Kentucky. The southern cities of Clarksville, Jeffersonville, and New Albany are part of the Louisville metropolitan area and are in the area called Kentuckiana.
U.S. Route 231 (US 231) is the longest numbered highway in Indiana, covering over 284 miles (457 km). It is a main north–south highway in the western part of the state. The southern terminus of US 231 in Indiana is at the Kentucky state line and the northern terminus is at US 41 just south of St. John. The highway is a mixture of expressway ...
The county government is a constitutional body, and is granted specific powers by the Constitution of Indiana, and by the Indiana Code. County Council: The county council is the fiscal-legislative branch of the county government and controls all the spending and revenue collection in the county. Four members are elected from county districts ...