Wikipedia / U.S. Route 136
Wikipedia / U.S. Route 136
U.S. Route 136 is an east–west U.S. highway that is a spur route of U.S. Route 36. It runs from Edison, Nebraska, at US 6 and US 34 to the I-74/I-465 interchange in Speedway, Indiana. This is a distance of . Due to the removal of almost every numbered route in Indianapolis, US 136 never meets its parent, US 36; however, it does come within two miles of it at its interchange with I-465/I-74 at its eastern terminus.
Route description
Nebraska
U.S. 136 closely parallels Nebraska's southern border from its western terminus near Edison to the Missouri River. It passes through Beatrice and exits the state at Brownville via the Brownville Bridge. It is designated the Heritage Highway throughout Nebraska.
Missouri
US136 enters Missouri on the west just east of Brownville, Nebraska, over the Missouri River. It leaves the state at Alexandria on the east, running concurrently with US 61. During its journey, it enters every county seat in the nine counties it traverses. The distance across Missouri is approximately . US136 is two lanes over its entire course through Missouri.
Iowa
US136 in Iowa consists of a route which travels across the south-easternmost tip of Lee County. It crosses the Des Moines River from Missouri with US 61, overlapping for just over . East of the US61 split, US136 is overlapped by US 61 Bus. through Keokuk. US136 enters Keokuk along 7th Street, which takes a turn to the northeast towards downtown. At the intersection with Main Street, which is the southern end of US 218, it turns to the southeast towards the Mississippi River. US136 travels another before crossing the Mississippi into Hamilton, Illinois via the Keokuk–Hamilton Bridge.
Illinois
US136 spends within the state of Illinois. It crosses the Mississippi River into Illinois from Iowa just past Keokuk. It passes through historic Carthage; site of the death of Joseph Smith, founder of the Latter Day Saint movement and home of the Kibbe biological museum, then Macomb, where Western Illinois University is located. It continues as an east–west route intersecting with I-155 and I-55 south of Bloomington-Normal and north of Lincoln in Central Illinois. It later intersects with I-74, and then I-57 just outside Rantoul, approximately north of Champaign-Urbana. US136 then travels concurrently with Illinois Route 1 in far east central Illinois before entering Danville. At Danville, it turns east as it passes into Indiana.
Indiana
Through most of its duration in Indiana, US136 is parallel to the newer I-74. Within Indianapolis, the highway is also called Crawfordsville Road, and US136 ends in the town of Speedway, at the I-74/I-465 interchange, where Crawfordsville Road continues without numbered designation. As part of Indiana's Accelerate 465 project, the I-74/I-465 interchange was reworked to eliminate tight spiral ramps and to add a full interchange for US136 with I-465. It was completed in December 2012. The entire portion of US136 in Indiana is part of the Dixie Highway.
History
In Illinois, the designation of US136 in 1951 replaced IL 10 from the Iowa state line in Keokuk to IL 119 in Havana, The route then followed IL119 to an intersection with IL 1, where it traveled south to IL10, heading east to Danville and the Indiana state line.
In Missouri, most of US136 was designated as Route4 in 1922. This highway began at St. Joseph and followed present US 169 to Stanberry, turning east there to the Iowa state line along US136. The rest of US136 was initially Route1A (Nebraska to Rock Port), part of Route 1, and Route18 (Tarkio to Stanberry). The east end was truncated to Wayland in 1926, when US 61 was designated over the part east to Iowa, and in 1927 Route4 absorbed the former Route 52 from St. Joseph southwest to Atchison, Kansas. In 1932, Route4 was rerouted west of Stanberry, absorbing Route18 and Route102 (the latter a ca. 1930 renumbering of Route1A); the portion from Stanberry to St. Joseph was deleted in favor of US169 and the portion from St. Joseph to Kansas became Route18 (which became part of US59 in 1934). US136 replaced Route4 east of Stanberry in 1951 and the rest in 1960.
In Nebraska, US136 was previously "Route3." US136 replaced Route3 in 1960.
US136 was originally proposed to use I-465 in Indiana to the US 36 interchange so US136 could meet its parent, US36.
Major intersections
Nebraska
north-northwest of Edison
north-northwest of Alma. The highways travel concurrently to Alma.
in Red Cloud
south-southeast of Hebron
in Beatrice
in Auburn
Missouri
in Rock Port
northwest of Rock Port
south-southwest of Tarkio. The highways travel concurrently to Tarkio.
east-southeast of Burlington Junction. The highways travel concurrently to Maryville.
in Stanberry. The highways travel concurrently to north-northwest of Darlington.
southwest of Bethany. The highways travel concurrently to Bethany.
in Bethany
in Princeton. The highways travel concurrently through Princeton.
south-southeast of Glenwood. The highways travel concurrently to Lancaster.
west-northwest of Alexandria. The highways travel concurrently to Keokuk, Iowa.
Iowa
in Keokuk
Illinois
in Macomb. The highways travel concurrently to east of Macomb.
in Duncan Mills. The highways travel concurrently to south of Duncan Mills.
east-northeast of Emden
in McLean
in Heyworth
south-southeast of Le Roy
southeast of Le Roy
in Rantoul
in Rantoul
in Danville
Indiana
in Veedersburg. The highways travel concurrently through Veedersburg.
on the Indianapolis–Speedway line.
Business routes
Albany, Missouri
U.S.Route136 Business (US136Bus.) is a business loop of US136 that runs through the city of Albany, Missouri.
US136Bus. begins at a T intersection with US136, immediately west of Albany. From its western terminus it proceeds east to promptly enter Albany and run along West Jackson Street. After about US136Bus. reaches its western junction with Missouri Route 85 (Route 85) at a Tintersection at Hundley Street. US136Bus. turns north to run concurrent with Route 85 along North Hundley Street. (Route 85 heads south along South Hundley Street toward Evona.) After proceeding north for US136Bus. reaches it eastern junction at US136. (Route 85 ends at that intersection, but the roadway continues north as Missouri Route C.)
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