Kentucky Route 106 (KY 106) is a 35-mile-long (56 km) east-west state highway traversing three counties in west-central Kentucky.
 Kentucky Route 106 | ||||
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 KY 106 highlighted in red | ||||
| Route information | ||||
| Maintained by KYTC | ||||
| Length | 34.985 mi[1] (56.303 km) | |||
| Major junctions | ||||
| South/West end |  KY 181 near Elkton | |||
| North/East end |  KY 70 near Rochester | |||
| Location | ||||
| Country | United States | |||
| State | Kentucky | |||
| Counties | Butler, Logan, Todd | |||
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Route description
editTodd and Logan Counties
editIt begins at an intersection with KY 181 just north of Elkton about 750 feet (230 m) north of the present route of U.S. Route 68 (US 68). The route passes through mainly rural areas of Todd County and has an intersection with KY 171. At Claymour, it has a crossroad intersection that marks the eastern terminus of KY 507, and the western terminus of KY 178. It then goes through the unincorporated community of Sharon Grove, where a roadside market called the "Hwy 106 Market" is located at a crossroad intersection with two local county-maintained roads, Mount Sharon Road and H Gorbel Road.[2]
After passing through Sharon Grove, the highway enters Logan County about a few feet east of the intersection with Crawford Road, and then has intersections with KY 2376 (Green Ridge-Spa Road), and another one with KY 1151 (Epleys-Stuart Church Road), both are secondary routes in Logan County. The highway makes it to Lewisburg, and runs concurrently with US 431. Only a few hundred feet away from that intersection, the highway intersects KY 107. A few hundred more feet after that, KY 106 breaks away from US 431, and follows Stacker Street into downtown Lewisburg. It then goes through rural areas of northern Logan County after it crosses the Mud River.[3]
Butler County
editKY 106 enters Butler County just south of the small town of Quality where it runs concurrently with KY 1153 for about 1,000 feet (300 m). Despite being an even-numbered state highway, KY 106 becomes a north–south oriented roadway upon entry into Butler County. The highway has intersections with KY 1187, and then KY 949 before reaching its end just north of Huntsville at an intersection with KY 70, the major artery connecting nearby Rochester to the Butler County seat, Morgantown.[4]
History
editKY 106 originally began at Allegre when it was first commissioned in 1929.[5] At some point in the late 1940s, KY 106 was extended further northwest to Kirkmansville, 6 miles (9.7 km) west of Clifty. After that point in time, It followed the course of the current KY 171 from the KY 107 junction to where KY 171's current terminus is located.[6][7] At sometime between 1969 and 1972, KY 106 was rerouted onto Blue and Gray Park Road off KY 181 just northeast of Elkton and it makes a right turn onto its current alignment, with KY 171 being extended to include its current run through Allegre, across KY 181, and ending at this intersection.[8] The original alignment of Kentucky Route 344 followed Blue and Gray Park Road during the 1930s and 1940s. KY 344 originally served the now-defunct Blue and Gray State Park.
Major intersections
edit| County | Location | mi | km | Destinations | Notes |
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| Todd | Elkton | 0.000 | 0.000 | KY 181 (Greenville Road) – Elkton, Clifty, Greenville | Western/Southern terminus |
| | 2.646 | 4.258 |   KY 171 north – Allegre | Southern terminus of KY 171 | |
| Claymour | 1.639 | 2.638 |     KY 178 east (Highland Lick Road) / KY 507 west (Claymour-Russellville Road) – Allegre, Russellville | Eastern terminus of KY 507; Western terminus of KY 178 | |
| Logan | Spa | 13.326 | 21.446 |   KY 2376 south (Green Ridge-Spa Road) | Northern terminus of KY 2376 |
| | 14.545 | 23.408 |  KY 1151 south (Stuart Chapel Road) | Northern terminus of KY 1151 | |
| Lewisburg | 16.329 | 26.279 |  US 431 south (South Main St.) – Russellville | Southern end of US 431 overlap | |
| 16.542 | 26.622 |  KY 107 south (Deer Lick Road) – Deer Lick | Northern/eastern terminus of KY 107 | ||
| 16.855 | 27.125 | US 431 north (North Main St.) – Central City, Drakesboro, Dunmor | Northern end of US 431 overlap | ||
| 17.549 | 28.242 |  KY 1040 south (Lost City Road) | Northern terminus of KY 1040 | ||
| 18.807 | 30.267 |  KY 1153 north | Southern terminus of KY 1153 | ||
| | 22.384 | 36.024 |  KY 3201 south (Copperstone-Quality Road) | Northern terminus of KY 3201 | |
| | 24.942 | 40.140 |  KY 2377 east (Anderson Store Road) | Western terminus of KY 2377 | |
| Butler | Quality | 27.176 | 43.736 |   KY 1153 north to KY 626 east – Davis Crossroads, Hadley | Southern end of KY 1153 overlap |
| 27.639 | 44.481 | KY 1153 south | Northern end of KY 1153 overlap | ||
| | 30.736 | 49.465 |  KY 1187 east (Coal Road) | Western terminus of KY 1187 | |
| | 33.461 | 53.850 |  KY 949 west – Dunmor | Eastern terminus of KY 949 | |
| Huntsville | 35.511 | 57.149 | KY 70 (Rochester Road) – Drakesboro, Rochester, Morgantown | Eastern/Northern terminus | |
| 1.000 mi = 1.609 km; 1.000 km = 0.621 mi | |||||
See also
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References
edit- ^ Division of Planning. "Highway Information System Official Milepoint Route Log Extract". Kentucky Transportation Cabinet. Archived from the original on November 9, 2007. Retrieved October 17, 2014.
- ^ DeLorme (2010). Kentucky Atlas & Gazetteer (Map). 1:150000. Yarmouth, ME: DeLorme. p. 79. § C9-C10, B10 and A10. ISBN 0-89933-340-0.
- ^ DeLorme (2010). Kentucky Atlas & Gazetteer (Map). 1:150000. Yarmouth, ME: DeLorme. p. 63. § I6-I7 and H7-H8. ISBN 0-89933-340-0.
- ^ DeLorme (2010). Kentucky Atlas & Gazetteer (Map). 1:150000. Yarmouth, ME: DeLorme. p. 63. § H8, G8, F8 and E8. ISBN 0-89933-340-0.
- ^ Kentucky Transportation Cabinet (1937). Todd County Highway Map. (Map) (PDF). Retrieved December 21, 2015.
- ^ Kentucky Transportation Cabinet (1958). Todd County Highway Map. (Map) (PDF). Retrieved December 21, 2015.
- ^ Kentucky Transportation Cabinet (1968) Official Kentucky Road Map. (Map) (PDF).
- ^ Kentucky Transportation Cabinet (1973) Official Kentucky Road Map. (Map) (PDF).
External links
edit- KY 106 at Kentucky Roads