U.S. Route 79 in Kentucky

U.S. Route 79
U.S. Route 79
	US 79 highlighted in red
Route information
	Maintained by KYTC
Length	26.80 mi (43.13 km)
Major junctions
South end	US 79 / SR 13 at Tennessee state line near Guthrie
	US 41 near Guthrie; US 431 in Russellville ;
North end	; US 68 / US 68 Bus. / KY 80 in Russellville
Location
Country	United States
State	Kentucky
Counties	Todd, Logan
Highway system
	United States Numbered Highway System ; List ; Special ; Divided ; Kentucky State Highway System; Interstate ; US ; State ; Parkways ;

Last updated March 09, 2024 • 2 min readFrom Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia

U.S. Route 79 (US 79) enters Kentucky from Tennessee in Todd County west of Guthrie and runs northeast into Logan County, terminating at a junction with US 68, US 68 Business, and Kentucky Route 80 (KY 80) in Russellville. US 79 remains a two-lane road throughout Kentucky.

Route description

US 79 in Kentucky begins at the Tennessee state line west of Guthrie and travels northeast, forming a junction with US 41 0.497 miles (0.800 km) from the state line. The route continues to the northeast, passing north of Guthrie and Allensville in rural areas of Todd County. 10.606 miles (17.069 km) from the Kentucky-Tennessee border, US 79 crosses into Logan County where it becomes known as Clarksville Road. The route continues northeast through rural areas of Logan County until it comes to an intersection with US 431, the Russellville Bypass, on the south side of Russellville 10.713 miles (17.241 km) from the Todd County line. US 79 and US 431 run concurrently along the Bypass south of town where it intersects KY 96 and the concurrency ending at Nashville Road (US 431 continues south while KY 2146 begins and heads north). US 79 and the Bypass begin to curve back north where it intersects KY 100 at its western terminus (KY 100 formerly continued along the Bypass to US 79's current terminus). US 79 ends at an intersection with Bowling Green Road which carries US 68 and KY 80 to the east and US 68 Bus. to the west towards downtown Russellville.^[3]^[4]

History

The current route in Kentucky was paved by 1939 but was not signed as US 79. The highway was originally designated as Kentucky Route 105. KY 105 originally ran the original alignment of U.S. Route 79 and the current alignment of Kentucky Route 79, from the state line to Russellville to the Rough River Lake State Resort Park area, and ending with KY 105's current alignment.^[5] By 1958, the current route was signed as US 79, although, it extended a bit further northeast into the city of Russellville.^[6] Its northern terminus at US 431 was created by the early 2010s with the construction of a segment of the Russellville Bypass from US 79 to US 68 on the western outskirts of Russellville.

In November 2017, US 79's northern terminus returned to the east side of Russellville when it was routed onto the southern section of the Russellville Bypass loop when it was completed.^[7] A historical marker was erected at the eastern terminus in 2019 commemorating the importance of the highway's impact on early economical development in western Kentucky. ^[8]

Major intersections

County	Location	mi^[2]	km	Destinations	Notes
Todd		0.00	0.00	US 79 south (SR 13) to I-24 – Clarksville	Tennessee state line
	Guthrie	0.28	0.45	KY 181 north / KY 2128 east to KY 294 / US 41 north – Elkton, Trenton, Hopkinsville
		0.50	0.80	US 41 to KY 181 north – Trenton, Hopkinsville, Downtown Guthrie, Robert Penn Warren Birthplace Museum
		1.86	2.99	KY 346 south (North Ewing Street)
		3.97	6.39	KY 848 west
		8.79	14.15	KY 102 – Elkton, Allensville
Logan		12.57	20.23	KY 775 east
	Old Volney	14.08	22.66	KY 1309 (Old Volney Road)
		15.79	25.41	KY 1151 south	South end of KY 1151 overlap
		15.83	25.48	KY 1151 north (Union Church Road)	North end of KY 1151 overlap
	Cave Springs	17.96	28.90	KY 1041 south (Watermelon Road)
	Russellville	21.32	34.31	US 431 north (Russellville Bypass) / KY 3240 east (West 9th Street) – Adairville, Lewisburg, Lake Malone State Park	Western terminus of KY 3240 (former US 79); western end of US 431 concurrency
		23.29	37.48	KY 96 (Orndoff Mill Road)
		23.94	38.53	US 431 south / KY 2146 north (Nashville Road)	eastern end of US 431 concurrency; southern terminus of KY-2146
		26.13	42.05	KY 100 east – Franklin, Airport	Western terminus of KY 100 since 2017
	Russellville	26.80	43.13	US 68 / KY 80 (Russellville Bypass) / US 68 Bus. west (Bowling Green Road) to KY 79 – Bowling Green, Russellville Business District	Northern terminus of US 79; Russellville Bypass continues straight ahead
1.000 mi = 1.609 km; 1.000 km = 0.621 mi Concurrency terminus

Related Research Articles

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Kentucky Route 3240 (KY 3240) is a 2.213-mile-long (3.561 km) east–west urban secondary state highway located entirely in Logan County in the south-central part of the U.S. state of Kentucky. The entire length of the highway is located within the city limits of Russellville. The highway is a former alignment of U.S. Route 79 (US 79).

The Russellville Bypass is a beltway around Russellville in Logan County in south central Kentucky. The 12.260-mile-long (19.731 km) highway comprises overlapping portions of U.S. Route 68 and Kentucky Route 80, US 79, and US 431. The north side of the circumferential highway was conceived in the 1980s to relieve traffic in downtown Russellville and as part of greater improvements along the US 68 corridor. The first two phases of the ring road, from US 79 on the west side to US 68 on the east side, were constructed in the 1990s. The state decided to complete the orbital road in the 2000s to resolve continuing traffic bottlenecks along US 431 and US 79 on the south side. The second two phases of the beltline were started in 2010 and completed in 2017. Construction of the Russellville Bypass led to a series of route changes over 20 years involving the city's U.S. Highways, special routes, and state-numbered highways.

References

↑ "Kentucky Transportation Cabinet - Division of Planning". Kentucky Transportation Cabinet (KYTC). Retrieved July 22, 2014.
1 2 "Active Highway Plan". KYTC. Retrieved November 19, 2017.
↑ Google (November 19, 2017). "US 79 (from Tennessee to US 431)" (Map). Google Maps . Google. Retrieved November 19, 2017.
↑ Google (November 19, 2017). "US 79 (from US 431 to US 68)" (Map). Google Maps . Google. Retrieved November 19, 2017.
↑ Kentucky (PDF) (Map) (1939 ed.). 1 inch:12 miles. Cartography by State-wide Highway Planning Survey. Kentucky State Highway Department. 1939. Retrieved July 22, 2014.
↑ Logan County (PDF) (Map) (1958 ed.). 1 inch:125000 feet. Cartography by State-wide Highway Planning Survey. Kentucky State Highway Department. 1958. Retrieved July 22, 2014.
↑ French, Jackson (November 8, 2017). "Section of Russellville bypass opens, completes loop around city". Bowling Green Daily News . Retrieved November 18, 2017.
↑ Kentucky Historical Society (October 9, 2019). Origin of Federal Highway U.S. 79 (Kentucky Historical Marker). Kentucky Transportation Cabinet. Retrieved June 14, 2023.

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[ktc-1] "Kentucky Transportation Cabinet - Division of Planning". Kentucky Transportation Cabinet (KYTC). Retrieved July 22, 2014.

[KTC-Map-App-2] 1 2 "Active Highway Plan". KYTC. Retrieved November 19, 2017.

[GM-3] Google (November 19, 2017). "US 79 (from Tennessee to US 431)" (Map). Google Maps . Google. Retrieved November 19, 2017.

[GM_2-4] Google (November 19, 2017). "US 79 (from US 431 to US 68)" (Map). Google Maps . Google. Retrieved November 19, 2017.

[1939_map-5] Kentucky (PDF) (Map) (1939 ed.). 1 inch:12 miles. Cartography by State-wide Highway Planning Survey. Kentucky State Highway Department. 1939. Retrieved July 22, 2014.

[1958map-6] Logan County (PDF) (Map) (1958 ed.). 1 inch:125000 feet. Cartography by State-wide Highway Planning Survey. Kentucky State Highway Department. 1958. Retrieved July 22, 2014.

[7] French, Jackson (November 8, 2017). "Section of Russellville bypass opens, completes loop around city". Bowling Green Daily News . Retrieved November 18, 2017.

[8] Kentucky Historical Society (October 9, 2019). Origin of Federal Highway U.S. 79 (Kentucky Historical Marker). Kentucky Transportation Cabinet. Retrieved June 14, 2023.

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