Talk:Kentucky Route 79

Length notes
Length by county, in miles, from the milepoint log linked in the article.


 * Logan: 15.085
 * Butler: 12.538, 5.058 overlap with US 231, 12.417
 * Grayson: 19.885
 * Breckinridge: 14.990, 11.964 overlap with US 60, 1.922
 * Meade: 9.912
 * Total: 103.771

-- T M F Let's Go Mets - Stats 21:25, 15 October 2007 (UTC)

History notes

 * 1949 RMcN map of KY and TN shows modern KY 79 as:
 * KY 105, Russellville to Caneyville
 * part of KY 108, west of Axtel (at modern KY 105) to McDaniels (modern KY 259)
 * part of KY 65, McDaniels to Harned
 * part of US 60, Harned to Brandenburg - US 60 went into town on modern KY 448 at the time
 * unnumbered elsewhere
 * 1971 RMcN map of the same region shows modern KY 79 basically as it is today
 * it also shows all of old US 60 southwest of Brandenburg as KY 448, interestingly

KYTC also has a (new? new to me, anyway) limited historic map archive at. Notes from them:
 * 1957
 * US 60 rerouted to bypass Brandenburg to the south - old alignment from Irvington to Flaherty via Brandenburg became KY 448 (Irvington-Brandenburg not explicitly labeled)
 * Modern KY 79 still not assigned; KY 108 and KY 65 comprise the same parts of current KY 79 that they did in 1949; KY 105 extended north to Short Creek
 * 1964
 * old US 60 from Irvington to Brandenburg explicitly labeled as KY 448
 * KY 259 replaced KY 65 from McDaniels to Harned
 * 1966
 * KY 79 established, replacing KY 105, part of KY 108, and part of KY 448
 * overlapped KY 259 and US 60 in spots, as it does today
 * western bypass of Brandenburg not yet built, thus KY 79 went directly into the community and may have ended there
 * bypass built by 1971 according to 1971 map

The 1938 ALA Green Book is where the history gets juicy.
 * At the time, KY 105 began at the Tennessee state line and went northeast to Russellville on modern US 79. From there, it continued north on modern KY 79 to Morgantown
 * KY 65 covered McDaniels-Harned and US 60 covered Harned-Brandenburg
 * unnumbered elsewhere –  T M F 09:30, 21 June 2010 (UTC)