Talk:Kentucky Route 79
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Length notes
editLength by county, in miles, from the milepoint log linked in the article.
- Logan: 15.085
- Butler: 12.538, 5.058 overlap with US 231, 12.417
- Grayson: 19.885
- Breckinridge: 14.990, 11.964 overlap with US 60, 1.922
- Meade: 9.912
- Total: 103.771
History notes
edit- 1949 RMcN map of KY and TN shows modern KY 79 as:
- KY 105, Russellville to Caneyville
- part of KY 108, west of Axtel (at modern KY 105) to McDaniels (modern KY 259)
- part of KY 65, McDaniels to Harned
- part of US 60, Harned to Brandenburg - US 60 went into town on modern KY 448 at the time
- unnumbered elsewhere
- 1971 RMcN map of the same region shows modern KY 79 basically as it is today
- it also shows all of old US 60 southwest of Brandenburg as KY 448, interestingly
KYTC also has a (new? new to me, anyway) limited historic map archive at [1]. Notes from them:
- 1957
- US 60 rerouted to bypass Brandenburg to the south - old alignment from Irvington to Flaherty via Brandenburg became KY 448 (Irvington-Brandenburg not explicitly labeled)
- Modern KY 79 still not assigned; KY 108 and KY 65 comprise the same parts of current KY 79 that they did in 1949; KY 105 extended north to Short Creek
- 1964
- old US 60 from Irvington to Brandenburg explicitly labeled as KY 448
- KY 259 replaced KY 65 from McDaniels to Harned
- 1966
- KY 79 established, replacing KY 105, part of KY 108, and part of KY 448
- overlapped KY 259 and US 60 in spots, as it does today
- western bypass of Brandenburg not yet built, thus KY 79 went directly into the community and may have ended there
- bypass built by 1971 according to 1971 map
- KY 79 established, replacing KY 105, part of KY 108, and part of KY 448
The 1938 ALA Green Book is where the history gets juicy.
- At the time, KY 105 began at the Tennessee state line and went northeast to Russellville on modern US 79. From there, it continued north on modern KY 79 to Morgantown
- KY 65 covered McDaniels-Harned and US 60 covered Harned-Brandenburg
- unnumbered elsewhere – TMF 09:30, 21 June 2010 (UTC)