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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.
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.
Kentucky population density by census tract (2010), showing the concentration of settlement around Jefferson, Fayette and Kenton counties. The two-class system went into effect on January 1, 2015, following the 2014 passage of House Bill 331 by the Kentucky General Assembly and the bill's signing into law by Governor Steve Beshear.
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 North Corbin: 1926: current US 27: 190.78
List of primary state highways in Kentucky; List of state highways in Kentucky (6000–6999) List of state highways in Kentucky (1–999) List of state highways in Kentucky (1000–1999) List of state highways in Kentucky (2000–2999) List of state highways in Kentucky (3000–5999) List of Kentucky supplemental roads and rural secondary highways
Kentucky's regions (click on image for color-coding information) Kentucky can be divided into five primary regions: the Cumberland Plateau in the east, which contains much of the historic coal mines; the north-central Bluegrass region, where the major cities and the state capital (Frankfort) are located; the south-central and western Pennyroyal Plateau (also known as the Pennyrile or ...
Despite ranking 37th in size by area, Kentucky has 120 counties, fourth among states (including Virginia's independent cities). [1] The original motivation for having so many counties was to ensure that residents in the days of poor roads and horseback travel could make a round trip from their home to the county seat in a single day, as well as ...
US 60 (Versailles Road) I-75: 1975 Surface road serving as partial southern beltway around Lexington. Constructed by the Kentucky Transportation Cabinet, the unnumbered portion is maintained by the city KY 1425: 0.987 1.588 I-75: US 60 (Winchester Road) New Circle Road KY 4: 19.3 31.0 Beltway around Lexington 1950