Indiana State Road 45

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State Road 45

Frank McCloskey Highway
Indiana State Road 45
SR 45 highlighted in red
Route information
Maintained by INDOT
Length55.65 mi [1]  (89.56 km)
ExistedOctober 1, 1926 [2] –present
Major junctions
South endUS 231.svgIndiana 58.svg US 231  / SR 58 near Crane
Major intersectionsI-69.svg I-69 near Crane
I-69.svg I-69 at Bloomington
North endIndiana 135.svg SR 135 at Beanblossom
Location
Country United States
State Indiana
Highway system
  • Indiana State Highway System
Indiana 44.svg SR 44 Indiana 46.svg SR 46

State Road 45 is a state route from Bean Blossom, Indiana to Scotland, Indiana in the southern half of the state.

Contents

State Road 45 in Brown County Indiana State Road 45 Brown County.JPG
State Road 45 in Brown County

Route description

From Bean Blossom and through Brown County, State Road 45 is a narrow, shoulderless two-lane road that passes between the Morgan-Monroe State Forest and the Yellowwood State Forest.

As the road passes into Monroe County, the woods disappear and farms and homes begin to line the road. The road remains hilly and curvy until it reaches Bloomington, where it bypasses the city concurrent with State Road 46 and then Interstate 69. West of Bloomington, shoulders appear on State Road 45 and its two lanes become wider. The road meanders with the rolling terrain interchanging again with Interstate 69 until it meets and overlaps State Road 58, after which it is straight and flat until its terminus at US 231.

History

What would eventually become State Road (S.R.) 45 had its origins in the early state highway system. Roads 4 (later changed to 16) and 18 connected Rockport to Haysville via Jasper. This would become, in the October 1, 1926 statewide renumbering, the first segment of State Road 45.

By 1932, S.R. 45 was being extended north from Haysville to Loogootee, and a separate segment between Cincinnati in Greene County and Bloomington had also been completed. By 1940, the entire route from Rockport to Bloomington was complete, but when the Crane Naval Ammunition Depot was commissioned in 1941, the portion of the highway between Burns City and Cincinnati had to be rerouted to the west perimeter of the installation.

When U.S. 231 was extended north through Indiana in 1953, it was routed over S.R. 45 from Rockport to the S.R. 58 junction near Scotland. However, as with S.R. 43 from Spencer to Lafayette, which also carried U.S. 231, the Indiana State Highway Department (now INDOT) deleted much of the co-signed state route by 1979.

The deletion left the current segment along with a short, 5-mile section from Patronville to Rockport that acted as a connector to then-U.S. 231 (now State Road 161) and Owensboro, Kentucky. This southern section was decommissioned and turned over to the control of the city of Rockport (within the city limits) and Spencer County (outside of Rockport) in March 2001, about a year before U.S. 231 was rerouted onto the William H. Natcher Bridge.

The segment of S.R. 45 from Scotland to Bloomington was named for the late former Bloomington mayor and Indiana 8th District Congressman Frank X. McCloskey in 2004. [3]

A major construction project to widen the road to four lanes in Bloomington was completed in November 2012. [4]

Major intersections

CountyLocationmi [1] kmDestinationsNotes
Greene Scotland 0.000.00US 231.svgWest plate.svg
Indiana 58.svg
To plate blue.svg
I-69.svg
US 231  / SR 58 west to I-69  Loogootee, Elnora, Bloomfield
Southern end of SR 45; southern end of SR 58 concurrency; I-69 Exit 87
Owensburg 9.0714.60East plate.svg
Indiana 58.svg
SR 58 east Bedford
Northern end of SR 58 concurrency
Jackson Township I-69.svg I-69  Evansville, Indianapolis I-69 exit 98 opened December 9, 2015
Cincinnati 16.5626.65East plate.svg
Indiana 54.svg
SR 54 east Bedford
Southern end of SR 54 concurrency
16.7026.88West plate.svg
Indiana 54.svg
SR 54 west Bloomfield
Northern end of SR 54 concurrency
18.5829.90Indiana 445.svg SR 445 Former northern terminus of SR 445
Monroe Bloomington 29.8247.99South plate blue.svg
I-69.svg
I-69 south Evansville
Southern end of concurrency with I-69
West plate.svg
Indiana 48.svg
SR 48 west
Eastern terminus of SR 48
32.8852.92North plate blue.svg
I-69.svg
I-69 north Indianapolis
West plate.svg
Indiana 46.svg
SR 46 west Spencer
Northern end of I-69 concurrency; southern end of SR 46 concurrency
36.2358.31East plate.svg
Indiana 46.svg
SR 46 east Columbus
Northern terminus of SR 46 concurrency
Brown Beanblossom 55.6589.56Indiana 135.svg SR 135  Nashville, Morgantown Northern terminus of SR 45
1.000 mi = 1.609 km; 1.000 km = 0.621 mi

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References

  1. 1 2 "INDOT Roadway Referencing System" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2011-06-15.
  2. "Road Numbers to Be Changed". The Hancock-Democrat. The Indianapolis News. September 30, 1926. Archived from the original on August 7, 2016. Retrieved June 9, 2016 via Newspapers.com. Open Access logo PLoS transparent.svg
  3. Dussen, Kurt Van der. "Highway naming honors McCloskey". The Herald-Times. Retrieved 2024-03-31.
  4. "State Road 46 East - Monroe County". AA Roads. 8 March 2022. Retrieved 8 March 2022.
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