U.S. Route 41 (US 41) in the state of Kentucky is a north–south United States Numbered Highway that runs from Miami, Florida, to Copper Harbor, Michigan. In Kentucky, the highway is primarily paralleled by the Pennyrile Parkway and Interstate 69. It enters Kentucky in the Todd County community of Guthrie, and leaves the state north of Henderson into Evansville. The total length of US 41 through Kentucky is a total of 106.952 miles (172.123 km).[1]
 U.S. Route 41 | ||||
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 US 41 in Kentucky highlighted in red | ||||
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| Maintained by KYTC | ||||
| Length | 106.952 mi[1] (172.123 km) | |||
| Major junctions | ||||
| South end |   US 41 / SR 11 at the Tennessee state line in Guthrie | |||
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| North end | US 41 at the Indiana state line near Henderson | |||
| Location | ||||
| Country | United States | |||
| State | Kentucky | |||
| Counties | Todd, Christian, Hopkins, Webster, Henderson | |||
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Route description
editUS 41 enters the state as a two-lane highway in Guthrie where it intersects US 79 and continues through Todd County through Trenton. After crossing into Christian County, US 41 goes through Pembroke before reaching Hopkinsville. In Hopkinsville, US 41 intersects the US 68 bypass and the Pennryrile Parkway which leads into downtown Hopkinsville. In downtown, US 41 has a short concurrency with US 68/KY 80 and has an intersection with the northern end of US 41A. Finally, after an intersection with the northern Hopkinsville bypass, US 41 turns to Crofton and northern Christian County.
After crossing into Hopkins County, US 41 has an incomplete intersection with the Pennyrile Parkway and goes through the small towns of Nortonville (and an intersection with US 62), Mortons Gap, Earlington. In Madisonville, US 41 is known as Main Street and has an intersection with the southern end of US 41 Alternate. After an incomplete interchange with I-69, US 41 continues onto Hanson. In eastern Webster, US 41 goes through the towns of Slaughters and Sebree. In Henderson County, US 41 enters Robards and remains a rural two-lane highway before reaching KY 425, just to the south of the Henderson city limits. At KY 425, US 41 turns to the east and intersects the current northern end of I-69 in Kentucky.
At this point, US 41 becomes a limited access four-lane highway with intersections with the Audubon Parkway, KY 2084, KY 351, and US 60. At US 60, US 41 becomes a four-lane surface road with stoplights as it crosses through the northern parts of Henderson and John James Audubon State Park. US 41 crosses the Ohio River on the Bi-State Vietnam Gold Star Bridges, known locally as the "Twin Bridges." Due to natural fluctuations of the Ohio River's path, US 41 remains in Kentucky for about one mile north of the Twin Bridges. In this section, US 41 passes by Ellis Park Race Course before crossing into Evansville, IN.[2]
History
editU.S. Route 41E
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| Location | Nashville, Tennessee–Hopkinsville, Kentucky |
| Existed | 1926–1930 |
.svg){kind=small} U.S. Route 41E | |
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| Location | Nashville, Tennessee–Hopkinsville, Kentucky |
| Existed | 1930–1943 |
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Between 1926 and 1930, US 41 followed a more westerly route between Hopkinsville and Nashville, following the current US 41 Alt., while the current US 41 alignment was US 241.[3] From 1930 into the early 1940s, the current alignment of US 41 was signed as US 41E, and the US 41W designation was on the current alignment of US 41 Alt. south of Hopkinsville.[4] In 1943, the western route became US 41 Alt., while US 41E became the current alignment of US 41.[5]
Freeway segment in Hopkins County
editIn Hopkins County, US 41 previously followed the Pennyrile Parkway (much of which is now part of I-169 and I-69) between exits 30 and 45 until the early 1990s, when it was rerouted onto the former US 41 Alt. alignment from Madisonville to just south of Nortonville. This was the only area of the Pennyrile Parkway where tolls were never charged when the parkway was originally a toll road.[citation needed]
Recent reroutings
editNear Henderson, US 41 was rerouted onto the few remaining miles of the Pennyrile Parkway up to its northern terminus in the 2010s before I-69 was designated onto most of the parkway to Nortonville.[citation needed]
Major intersections
edit| County | Location | mi | km | Destinations | Notes |
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| Montgomery | | 0.000 | 0.000 |  US 41 south / SR 11 south – Adams, Springfield, Nashville | Continuation into Tennessee |
| Todd | Guthrie | 0.020 | 0.032 |   KY 2628 east (Fairgrounds Road) | Western terminus of KY 2628 |
| 0.593 | 0.954 |   KY 346 west (Ewing Street) | Southern terminus of KY 346 | ||
| 2.300 | 3.701 |    US 79 to I-24 – Clarksville, Russellville | |||
| 2.507 | 4.035 |    KY 181 (Guthrie Road) to KY 294 – Elkton | |||
| Trenton | 8.774 | 14.120 |   KY 104 south (Clarksville Street) / KY 848 east (4th Street) | Southern end of KY 104 concurrency | |
| 8.833 | 14.215 |  KY 104 north (3rd Street) – Elkton | Northern end of KY 104 concurrency | ||
| 8.97 | 14.44 |  KY 2627 west (Cemetery Street) | Eastern terminus of KY 2627 | ||
| 9.799 | 15.770 |  KY 475 north (Tress Shop Road) | Southern terminus of KY 475 | ||
| | 12.458 | 20.049 |  KY 1453 south | Northern terminus of KY 1453 | |
| Christian | Pembroke | 15.244 | 24.533 |   KY 115 / KY 1027 to I-24 | |
| Hopkinsville | 21.67 | 34.87 |    US 68 Byp. (Eagle Way / Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Way) / US 68 Truck | ||
| 22.487 | 36.189 |  KY 109 south (Bradshaw Drive) | Southern end of KY 109 overlap | ||
| 22.846– 22.917 | 36.767– 36.881 |  I-169 / US 41 Truck north – Madisonville, Fort Campbell | I-169 Exit 8; southern terminus of US 41 Truck | ||
| 23.476 | 37.781 |  KY 380 west (Skyline Drive) | Eastern terminus of KY 380 | ||
| 24.36 | 39.20 |  US 68 east / KY 80 east – Elkton | Eastern end of US 68/KY 80 overlap | ||
| 24.565 | 39.534 |  US 41 Alt. south (Walnut Street) – Oak Grove | Northern terminus of US 41 Alternate (Monteagle, TN-Hopkinsville, KY route) | ||
| 24.65 | 39.67 |  KY 107 north (Campbell Street) | Western end of KY 107 overlap | ||
| 24.77 | 39.86 |  KY 2544 north (Clay Street) | Northbound KY 2544 only | ||
| 24.83 | 39.96 | KY 2544 south (Liberty Street) | Southbound KY 2544 only | ||
| 24.899 | 40.071 | US 68 west / KY 80 west (West 9th Street) / KY 109 north / KY 107 south (Main St.) | Western end of US 68/KY 80, KY 107, and KY 109 overlaps | ||
| 25.087 | 40.374 | KY 2544 south | Northern terminus of KY 2544 | ||
| 25.46 | 40.97 | US 41 south (Main Street) | |||
| 26.88 | 43.26 |  KY 1007 south (Saunderson Street) | Northern terminus of KY 1007 | ||
| 27.237 | 43.834 |  KY 1682 (Eagle Way) / US 41 Truck south to I-169 | Northern terminus of US 41 Truck | ||
| Crofton | 40.113 | 64.556 |  KY 800 to I-169 | ||
| Empire | 42.937 | 69.100 |  KY 1298 west (Empire Road) | Eastern terminus of KY 1298 | |
| | 43.406 | 69.855 |  KY 407 north (Mannington Loop) | Southern terminus of KY 407 | |
| Mannington | 45.888 | 73.850 | KY 407 south (Mannington Loop) | Northern terminus of KY 407 | |
| Hopkins | | 47.087 | 75.779 |  KY 2647 east (McIntosh Chapel Road) | Western terminus of KY 2647 |
| | 47.446– 47.712 | 76.357– 76.785 |  I-169 north – Henderson | Southbound off-ramp and northbound on-ramp; I-169 Exit 30 | |
| Nortonville | 50.13 | 80.68 |  KY 2083 north (South Main Street) | Southern terminus of KY 2083 | |
| 51.107 | 82.249 |    US 62 to I-169 / Western Kentucky Parkway / I-69 – Dawson Springs, Greenville, Central City | |||
| 51.994 | 83.676 | KY 2083 south (North Main Street) | Northern terminus of KY 2083 | ||
| | 52.566 | 84.597 |  KY 3059 west (Wells Road) | Eastern terminus of KY 3059 | |
| Mortons Gap | 54.566 | 87.815 |  KY 813 south (Cross Street) to I-69 | Northern terminus of KY 813 | |
| Earlington | 57.568 | 92.647 |  KY 336 north (Wilson Avenue) | Southern terminus of KY 336 | |
| 58.116 | 93.529 |  KY 112 west (West Main St.) | Eastern terminus of KY 112 | ||
| 59 | 95 |  KY 2171 (Hubert Reid Drive) | |||
| Madisonville | 59.342 | 95.502 |  KY 3158 north | Southern terminus of KY 3158 | |
| 59.671 | 96.031 | KY 3158 south | Northern terminus of KY 3158 | ||
| 60.238 | 96.944 | KY 336 south (McLeod Lane) | Northern terminus of KY 336 | ||
| 61.446 | 98.888 |   KY 70 west (McLaughlin Avenue) / KY 481 south | Southern end of KY 70 concurrency | ||
| 62.149 | 100.019 |  KY 262 west (Center Street) / KY 70 east to I-69 – Central City | Northern end of KY 70 concurrency | ||
| 62.274 | 100.220 | Arch Street | KY 70 west joins US 41 south here | ||
| 62.489 | 100.566 |  KY 1178 west (Noel Avenue) | Eastern terminus of KY 1178 | ||
| 62.659 | 100.840 |  KY 1074 east (Halson Avenue) | Western terminus of KY 1074 | ||
| 63.573 | 102.311 |  US 41 Alt. north (Nebo Road) / KY 281 east (Island Ford Road) to I-69 | Southern terminus of US 41 Alternate; western terminus of KY 281 | ||
| 64.429 | 103.688 |  KY 3062 west (College Drive) | Eastern terminus of KY 3062 | ||
| 64.652 | 104.047 |  KY 1069 north (Stagecoach Road) | Southern terminus of KY 1069 | ||
| 64.986– 65.079 | 104.585– 104.734 | I-69 north – Henderson | Northbound off-ramp and southbound on-ramp; I-69 Exit 117 | ||
| | 66.006 | 106.226 |  KY 2657 east (Fowler Road) | Western terminus of KY 2657 | |
| | 67.093 | 107.976 |  KY 862 east (Lenin Road) | Western terminus of KY 862 | |
| Hanson | 68.553 | 110.325 |  KY 260 to I-69 | ||
| Slaughters | 73.682 | 118.580 |   KY 138 to KY 120 / I-69 | ||
| Webster | | 76.503 | 123.120 |  KY 147 north | Southern terminus of KY 147 |
| | 80.787 | 130.014 |  KY 494 west | Eastern terminus of KY 494 | |
| Sebree | 83.21 | 133.91 |   KY 56 west (Main Street) / KY 370 east | Southern end of KY 56 overlap; western terminus of KY 370 | |
| 83.425 | 134.260 | KY 56 east (Jefferson Street) to I-69 | Northern end of KY 56 overlap | ||
| Henderson | | 86.229 | 138.772 |  KY 2097 east (Quinns Landing Road) | Western terminus of KY 2097 |
| Robards | 87.651 | 141.061 |  KY 2678 east (Moss and Moss Road) | Western terminus of KY 2678 | |
| 88.995 | 143.224 |  KY 416 to I-69 | |||
| | 90.77 | 146.08 |  KY 283 south | Northern terminus of KY 283 | |
| | 94.203 | 151.605 |  KY 136 east – Calhoun | Southern end of KY 136 overlap | |
| Henderson | 96.725 | 155.664 |   KY 425 west (Henderson Bypass) / KY 2084 north / KY 136 west | Northern end of KY 156 overlap; western terminus of KY 425 as of 2016 | |
| 97.500 | 156.911 |  I-69 south – Hopkinsville, Fulton, Henderson | Temporary northern terminus of I-69 in Kentucky; former US 43 south | ||
| 98.496 | 158.514 |   Audubon Parkway east – Owensboro | Future I-69 Spur/I-369 | ||
| 99.552 | 160.213 | KY 2084 south | Southbound exit only | ||
| 99.99 | 160.92 |  KY 351 – Henderson, Zion | |||
| I-69 – Evansville | Future northern end of I-69 overlap | ||||
| 101.958 | 164.085 |  US 60 / US 41 Alt. south – Henderson | Northern terminus US 41 Alternate; former US 43 south | ||
| 103.734 | 166.944 | John James Audubon State Park | |||
| Ohio River | 105.045– 106.067 | 169.054– 170.698 | Bi-State Vietnam Gold Star Bridges | ||
| Henderson | | 106.394 | 171.225 |  KY 3522 south | Northern terminus of KY 3522 |
| Vanderburgh | Evansville | 106.952 | 172.123 |  US 41 north to I-64 / I-69 – Evansville, Chicago, Indianapolis | State line; continuation into Indiana |
1.000 mi = 1.609 km; 1.000 km = 0.621 mi
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Related routes
editReferences
edit- ^ a b Commonwealth of Kentucky. "Official DMI Route Log". Retrieved 28 February 2017.
- ^ Kentucky Transportation Cabinet (2016). Kentucky Official Highway Map (PDF) (Map). Scale not given. Frankfort: Kentucky Transportation Cabinet.
- ^ Bureau of Public Roads & American Association of State Highway Officials (November 11, 1926). United States System of Highways Adopted for Uniform Marking by the American Association of State Highway Officials (Map). 1:7,000,000. Washington, DC: United States Geological Survey. OCLC 32889555. Retrieved November 7, 2013 – via Wikimedia Commons.
- ^ Kentucky Department of State Highways (September 15, 1939). Road Map of Kentucky (PDF) (Map). c. 1:760,320. Frankfort: Kentucky Department of State Highways.
- ^ Kentucky Department of Highways (1957). Kentucky Official Highway Map (PDF) (Map). c. 1:760,320. Frankfort: Kentucky Department of Highways.
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