Talk:Kentucky Route 79

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Length notes

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

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 [1]. 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)[reply]