U.S. Route 431 in Kentucky

Kentucky Route 75
Location	South Carrollton-Owensboro, Kentucky
Length	31.357 mi[5] (50.464 km)
Existed	1929–1953

U.S. Route 431
Route information
	Maintained by KYTC
Length	86.936 mi[1] (139.910 km)
Existed	January 1954[2]–present
Major junctions
South end	US 431 / SR 65 at the Tennessee state line
	US 68 / KY 80 at Russellville; KY 70 from Browder to Central City; Future I-569 / Western Kentucky Parkway at Central City;
North end	US 60 at Owensboro
Location
Counties	Logan, Muhlenberg, McLean, Daviess
Highway system

U.S. Route 431 (US 431) in Kentucky runs 86.93 miles (139.90 km) from the Tennessee state line south of Adairville to US 60 at Owensboro. It crosses the state in mainly west-central portions of the state, passing through or near towns such as Russellville, Lewisburg, Central City and Livermore. The route goes through Logan, Muhlenberg, McLean County, and Daviess counties.

Route description

US 431 enters the state going out of Robertson County, Tennessee, and into Logan County south of Adairville. It goes northward to Russellville, where it makes a left turn, and then a right turn to follow the Russellville Bypass to the north side of town. It becomes known as the Terry Wilcut Highway from Russellville to Lewisburg.[3]

It enters Muhlenberg County to provide access to Lake Malone (via KY 973, and then goes on a northwesterly course to Central City, where it intersects the Wendell H. Ford Western Kentucky Parkway at a cloverleaf interchange, and the U.S. Route 62. Along the way to Central City from near Drakesboro, Kentucky Route 70 runs concurrently with the U.S. Route.

It then goes due north from Central City into eastern McLean County, crosses the Bridge at Livermore, where it crosses both the Green and Rough Rivers. It enters Daviess County and traverses the communities of Livia and Utica before terminating at the Wendell H. Ford Expressway (US 60) at Owensboro.[4]

Confluence of the Green and Rough Rivers at Livermore.

For a unique reason, the U.S. 431 crossing of the Green River and Rough Rivers in McLean County, Kentucky, is a famous river crossing. It is at that crossing in the city of Livermore that U.S. 431 crosses two rivers and also crosses into Ohio County before completing the river crossing back in McLean County. This is the only known crossing of this type in the United States: a road starts in one county, crosses two separate rivers, crosses a sliver of land within another county, and then terminates the bridge crossing in the original county it started in. This special feature is marked by a state historical marker on both approach ends of the bridge.

History

In 1953, US 431 was extended into Tennessee and Kentucky from the Huntsville, Alabama area. From 1929, the US 431 corridor in Kentucky was originally signed as Kentucky Routes 75 and 81. KY 75 ran from Owensboro to KY 81 at South Carrollton, while KY 81 ran its current course, plus the rest of US 431's original route from South Carrollton into Central City and Russellville to the Tennessee state line.[6]

US 431's original alignment in the city of Russellville became Kentucky Route 3519 in the mid 2000s when the main US 431 alignment was rerouted onto the Russellville Bypass on the west side of town. As of mid-2010, Frederica Street in Owensboro no longer carries the US 431 designation into downtown Owensboro as KY 2831 is assigned onto that street.

In 2011, the US 431 alignment in Central City was rerouted onto the former KY 189 bypass on the west side of that city. This was done due to the low clearance of a bridge carrying the Paducah and Louisville Railroad tracks. US 431's original alignment in downtown is now designated as Kentucky Route 1031.

Major intersections

County	Location	mi[1]	km	Destinations	Notes
Robertson		0.000	0.000	US 431 south / SR 65 – Springfield, Nashville	Continuation into Tennessee
Logan	Adairville	1.481	2.383	KY 591 (Schley Road)
		4.145	6.671	KY 663 (Mortimer Road)
		7.375	11.869	KY 2371 west – Oakville	Eastern terminus of KY 2371
		8.252	13.280	KY 664 east (Schochoh Road)	Western terminus of KY 664
	Russellville	12.708	20.452	KY 96 south (Orndorff Mill Road)	Northern terminus of KY 96
		13.896	22.363	KY 2146 north / KY 3240 east (East 9th Street) to US 68	Southern terminus of KY 2146; western terminus of KY 3240; original alignment of US 79
		14.903	23.984	KY 3233 north (Emerson Bypass Road)	Southern terminus of KY 3233
		14.996	24.134	US 79 south (Clarksville Road) – Guthrie, Clarksville	Northern terminus of US-79
		15.987	25.729	US 68 west (Jefferson Davis Highway) / KY 80 west (Hopkinsville Road) / US 68 Bus. east – Hopkinsville, Russellville Business District	Western terminus of US 68 Business; western end of US 68 overlap
		16.56	26.65	KY 178 (Highland Lick Road)
		17.568	28.273	US 68 east (Russellville Bypass) – Bowling Green, Auburn	Eastern end of US 68 overlap
	Epleys Station	21.593	34.751	KY 3519 south (Old US 431)	Northern terminus of KY 3519
	Lewisburg	24.746	39.825	KY 106 west (Spa Road) – Sharon Grove, Elkton	Southern end of KY 106 concurrency
		24.959	40.168	KY 107 south (Deer Lick Road) – Deer Lick, Clifty, Lake Malone	Northern/eastern terminus of KY 107
		25.272	40.671	KY 106 east (Stacker Street) – Lewisburg, Quality, Rochester	Northern end of KY 106 concurrency
		32.143	51.729	KY 1293 south (Dunmor-Deer Lick Road)	Northern terminus of KY 1293
Muhlenberg	Dunmor	34.218	55.069	KY 973 west – Lake Malone State Park, Rosewood	Eastern terminus of KY 973
	Penrod	37.091	59.692	KY 949 east	Western terminus of KY 949
	Belton	41.182	66.276	KY 2270 (Belton-Ennis Road)
	Beechmont	42.238	67.975	KY 246 west (Merle Travis Highway)	Eastern terminus of KY 246
	Browder	44.052	70.895	KY 70 east (Rochester Road) – Rochester, Morgantown	Southern end of KY 70 concurrency
	Drakesboro	45.685	73.523	KY 176 (Mose Rager Boulevard) – Greenville, TVA Paradise
		46.184	74.326	KY 2107 north	No access to KY 2107 North from SB US-431/KY 70; southern terminus of KY 2107
		46.254	74.439	KY 2107 Conn. to KY 2107	Connector road to KY 2107, primarily for traffic heading south on 431/70
	Cleaton	50.74	81.66	KY 2107 south	Northern terminus of KY 2107
		51.452	82.804	KY 604 north	Southern terminus of KY 604
	Central City	51.699– 51.747	83.201– 83.279	Western Kentucky Parkway – Paducah, Elizabethtown	WK Parkway Exit 58
		52.48	84.46	US 62 (Everly Brothers Boulevard) / KY 1031 north	US 431 and KY 70 turns left onto US 62
		53.071	85.409	KY 2103 north (Ash Street)
		53.854	86.670	KY 277 north (West Reservoir Avenue)	Southern terminus of KY 277
		53.939	86.806	US 62 west (Everly Brothers Boulevard)	Northern end of US 62 concurrency
		55.314	89.019	KY 70 west (Front Street) / KY 304 east – Madisonville, Downtown Central City	Northern end of KY 70 concurrency
	South Carrollton	57.725	92.899	KY 1031 south – Downtown Central City	Northern terminus of KY 1031; original alignment of US 431
	South Carrollton	58.635	94.364	KY 81 north – Bremen, Calhoun	Southern terminus of KY 81
		62.606	100.755	KY 175 south	Northern terminus of KY 175
McLean	Island	66.74	107.41	KY 85 – Sacramento, Beaver Dam
		68.328	109.963	KY 1412 south (-Dough Hill Road)	Northern terminus of c1412
		68.928	110.929	KY 138 to KY 2110	Eastern terminus of KY 138
	Livermore	69.067– 69.379	111.153– 111.655	Livermore Bridge over the Green and Rough rivers
		69.923	112.530	KY 136 west – Calhoun	Southern end of KY 136 concurrency
		70.047	112.730	KY 136 east – Hartford	Northern end of KY 136 concurrency
	Nuckols	72.239	116.257	KY 1080
		73.826	118.811	KY 250 west	Eastern terminus of KY 250
Daviess	Utica	78.146	125.764	KY 140 – Pleasant Ridge, Calhoun
	Sutherland	82.762	133.193	KY 298 east	Western terminus of KY 298
		83.574	134.499	KY 554 west	Eastern terminus of KY 554
	Owensboro	86.499	139.207	KY 2121 west (Southtown Boulevard)	Eastern terminus of KY 2121
		86.936	139.910	US 60 (Wendell H. Ford Expressway) to I-165 to Audubon Parkway – Henderson, Hawesville, Bowling Green	Exit 14 of Expressway
		86.936	139.910	KY 2831 north (Frederica Street) – Owensboro	Northern terminus of US 431; continuation as KY 2831; southern terminus of KY 2831
1.000 mi = 1.609 km; 1.000 km = 0.621 mi Concurrency terminus Incomplete access

References

Commonwealth of Kentucky. "Official DMI Route Log". Retrieved July 5, 2016.
"U.S. 431, U.S. 280 Markers Now Up". The Opelika Daily News. January 26, 1954. p. 1. Retrieved December 21, 2019 – via Newspapers.com.
DeLorme (2010). Kentucky Atlas & Gazetteer (Map) (4th ed.). Yarmouth, Maine: DeLorme. pp. 63, 80.
DeLorme (2010). Kentucky Atlas & Gazetteer (Map) (4th ed.). Yarmouth, Maine: DeLorme. pp. 45, 62.
Determined by adding the mileage of US 431 from the KY 81 junction to the northern terminus, plus the entire length of KY 2831.
Kentucky Department of State Highways (September 15, 1939). Road Map of Kentucky (PDF) (Map). c. 1:760,320. Frankfort: Kentucky Department of State Highways.

External links

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[log-1] Commonwealth of Kentucky. "Official DMI Route Log". Retrieved July 5, 2016.

[2] "U.S. 431, U.S. 280 Markers Now Up". The Opelika Daily News. January 26, 1954. p. 1. Retrieved December 21, 2019 – via Newspapers.com.

[3] DeLorme (2010). Kentucky Atlas & Gazetteer (Map) (4th ed.). Yarmouth, Maine: DeLorme. pp. 63, 80.

[4] DeLorme (2010). Kentucky Atlas & Gazetteer (Map) (4th ed.). Yarmouth, Maine: DeLorme. pp. 45, 62.

[5] Determined by adding the mileage of US 431 from the KY 81 junction to the northern terminus, plus the entire length of KY 2831.

[6] Kentucky Department of State Highways (September 15, 1939). Road Map of Kentucky (PDF) (Map). c. 1:760,320. Frankfort: Kentucky Department of State Highways.