State Road 263 is a business route of
State Road 63 which runs through
West Lebanon in
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, covering a distance of about . It is an undivided two-lane surface road for its entire length.
Route description
At the south end, State Road 263 leaves State Road 63 less than a mile north of
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 U.S. Route 6 and U.S. Route 34 to the Interstate 74/Interstate 465 interchange in Speedway, Indiana. This is a distance of . U ...
. It passes under the
Vermilion Valley Railroad after about a quarter of a mile, and for the next several miles it runs northeast through wooded country, staying within a mile of the
Wabash River
The Wabash River ( French: Ouabache) is a U.S. Geological Survey. National Hydrography Dataset high-resolution flowline dataThe National Map accessed May 13, 2011 river that drains most of the state of Indiana in the United States. It flows fro ...
to the east and passing through the defunct river town of
Baltimore
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. It then leaves the river and strikes north toward the town of West Lebanon, passing through some hilly and wooded country as it ascends from the river.
Upon reaching the south edge of West Lebanon (the portion locally known as "Old Town"), State Road 263 is concurrent with High Street; it crosses a
Norfolk Southern
The Norfolk Southern Railway is a Railroad classes, Class I freight railroad in the United States formed in 1982 with the merger of Norfolk and Western Railway and Southern Railway (U.S.), Southern Railway. With headquarters in Atlanta, the ...
railway in the north part of town and intersects
State Road 28 at the north edge of town. The remaining portion of the highway runs through open country and passes just to the east of
Seeger Memorial Junior-Senior High School
Seeger Memorial Junior-Senior High School is the single high school and middle school serving Warren County, Indiana, and is located a mile and a half north of the town of West Lebanon. It is administered by the Metropolitan School District of Wa ...
and Warren Central Elementary School, and finally rejoins State Road 63 about a mile further north, just beyond Division Road.
History
State Road 263 is a portion of the original route of State Road 63. The new four-lane divided highway was constructed to the west in the early 1970s and was often called "New 63" by residents of the area; the resulting business route officially named State Road 263 was often called "Old 63". Some locals still use these names.
Major intersections
References
External links
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Indiana Highway Ends - SR 263
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Transportation in Warren County, Indiana