Talk:Kentucky Route 80

Latest comment: 14 years ago by TwinsMetsFan in topic History notes

Length notes

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Length by county, in miles. Progression is from west to east.

Hickman
  • 3.443
Carlisle
  • 15.009
Graves
  • 11.543 - route log has road ending at US 45/KY 58 in Mayfield
Calloway
  • 12.479 - route log has road beginning again at US 641 north of Murray
Marshall
  • 1.937
  • 0.925 overlap with US 68
Trigg
  • 28.112 overlap with US 68
Christian
  • 10.930 overlap with US 68
  • 0.529 overlap with US 41/US 68
  • 10.184 overlap with US 68
Todd
  • 14.422 overlap with US 68
Logan
  • 29.223 overlap with US 68
Warren
  • 13.060 overlap with US 68
  • 6.235 overlap with US 31W/US 68
  • 12.036 overlap with US 68
Barren
  • 12.577 overlap with US 68
  • 0.055 overlap with US 31E Business/US 68
  • 9.679 overlap with US 68
Metcalfe
  • 9.002 overlap with US 68
  • 7.888
Adair
  • 11.775
  • 2.369 overlap with KY 61
  • 0.507
  • 0.11 overlap with KY 55 (the loop in Columbia)
  • 0.556 overlap with KY 55
  • 9.776
Russell
  • 7.489
  • 0.540 overlap with KY 76
  • 3.075
Casey
  • 5.144
Pulaski
  • 40.100
Laurel
  • 11.211
  • 1.502 overlap with US 25
  • 13.716
Clay
  • 7.537
  • 16.915 overlap with US 421
Leslie
  • 13.814 overlap with US 421
  • 9.719
Perry
  • 7.910
  • 1.613 overlap with KY 15
  • 7.952
Knott
  • 20.093
Floyd
  • 14.435
  • 12.765 overlap with US 23/US 460
Pike
  • 13.730 overlap with US 23/US 460
  • 14.374 overlap with US 460
  • 6.941

Source: [1] --TMF Let's Go Mets - Stats 00:54, 8 April 2007 (UTC)Reply

History notes

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By no means complete, but it's a start:

  • 1938 ALA Green Book and 1939 state map has west end of KY 80 at US 31W east of Bowling Green - alignment east of that point is more or less the same as today, save for local realignments
    • what later became KY 80 was KY 98 west of Aurora and US 68 between Aurora and Bowling Green
  • KY 80 extended west to Columbus between 1949 (RMcN map of KY and TN) and 1957, replacing KY 98 and overlapping US 68 between Aurora and Bowling Green
  • 2000s Mayfield-Murray-Aurora realignment, based on the change logs of the Marshall, Graves, and Calloway County SPRS listings:
    • July 18, 2002: KY 80 renumbered to KY 402 from KY 58 in Brewers (former ET of overlap) to US 68 in Aurora, splitting KY 80 in two
    • February 28, 2005: new KY 80 in Marshall County and part of new KY 80 in Calloway County (US 641 to county line[2]) accepted into system, replacing a short section of KY 94 near Aurora between the east end of the new road and US 68
    • June 4, 2008: new KY 80 in Graves County and part of new KY 80 in Calloway County (county line to KY 1836[3]) accepted into system
    • February 18, 2010: part of new KY 80 in Calloway County (KY 1836 to US 641) accepted into system