State Trunk Highway 158 (often called Highway 158, STH-158 or WIS 158) is a
state highway
A state highway, state road, or state route (and the equivalent provincial highway, provincial road, or provincial route) is usually a road that is either ''numbered'' or ''maintained'' by a sub-national state or province. A road numbered by a ...
in the
U.S. state of
Wisconsin. It runs east–west as a suburban-to-urban route, connecting
I-94 with downtown
Kenosha.
Highway 158 is known as 52nd Street for its entire length. The city of
Kenosha uses a numbering system for its streets and avenues, numbering streets in ascending order from the
Racine County
Racine County (, sometimes also ) is a county in southeastern Wisconsin. As of the 2020 census, its population was 197,727, making it Wisconsin's fifth-most populous county. Its county seat is Racine. The county was founded in 1836, then a p ...
line to the
Illinois state line.
History
52nd Street in
Kenosha was designated as Highway 158 in 1958, at about the same time that
American Motors began selling cars after the merger of
Nash Motors and
Hudson Motors. AMC had their main engine plant on 52nd Street, and also had a vehicle "storage" lot on 88th Avenue (County Highway H, then WIS 192) along the Milwaukee Road railway. 52nd Street was extended to the West to
I-94 the following year.
Highway 158 connects downtown Kenosha with the
Kenosha Regional Airport, and served the now-defunct Dairyland
Greyhound Park.
Major intersections
See also
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References
External links
*{{commons category-inline, Wisconsin Highway 158
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Transportation in Kenosha County, Wisconsin