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Given are the years of the first and last official maps the routes appear on. These are not always the exact years the routes were created or eliminated. Sources: 1930 (incomplete) 1939, 1957+ 1937 county maps; 1950 and 1999 county maps; county maps: 1945 for all counties but Clinton - these are labeled as 1937 or 1940-42, but revised 1945
Because today's largest county by area, Pike County, is 788 square miles (2,041 km 2), it is only still possible to form a new county from portions of more than one existing county; McCreary County was formed in this manner, from parts of Wayne, Pulaski and Whitley counties. Kentucky was originally a single county in Virginia, created in 1776.
State highways in Kentucky are maintained by the Kentucky Transportation Cabinet, which classifies routes as either primary or secondary. Some routes, such as Kentucky Route 80, are both primary and secondary, with only a segment of the route listed as part of the primary system. Despite the name, there is no difference in signage between ...
The Kentucky Revised Statute 177.020(1) [1] [2] provides that the Department of Highways, a part of the Kentucky Transportation Cabinet, is responsible for the establishment and classification of a State Primary Road System which includes the state primary routes, interstate highways, parkways and toll roads, state secondary routes, rural secondary routes and supplemental roads.
U.S. Route 421 (US 421) in the U.S. state of Kentucky is a 250.536-mile-long (403.199 km) north–south United States highway that traverses twelve counties in the central and eastern parts of the state.
Also known as the Country Music Highway. It is a designated Kentucky Scenic Byway and an American Byway. US 25: 177.3: 285.3 US 25W/US 25E at North Corbin: US 42/US 127 at Covington: 1926: current US 25W: 28: 45 US 25W at the TN state line: US 25/US 25E at North Corbin: 1926: current US 25E: 65.9: 106.1 US 25E at the TN state line: I-75 at ...
Along County 1036 Road near Greeley: KY 11 near Zachariah: Lee, Wolfe — — Extended into Wolfe County after reconstruction of KY 11 [42] [43] KY 1037: 0.633 [44] 1.019 KY 123 near Clinton: KY 780 near Clinton Hickman: 1987: current KY 1037: 0.370 [40] 0.595 US 41 / West North Street in Madisonville: Clinic Drive / Baptist Health Madisonville ...
As of 2007, the total mileage of all scenic byways in Kentucky includes up to 1,346.405 miles (2,166.829 km) worth of state highways and local roadways. The byway system is controlled by the Kentucky Transportation Cabinet and governed by Kentucky Revised Statutes 177.571-177.576.