K-249, also known as Southwest Boulevard, is a north–south
state highway
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located entirely within
Greenwood County Greenwood County is the name of two counties in the United States:
* Greenwood County, Kansas
* Greenwood County, South Carolina
See also
* Greenwood (disambiguation) Green wood is unseasoned wood.
Greenwood or Green wood may also refer to:
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in the U.S. state of
Kansas
Kansas () is a state in the Midwestern United States. Its capital is Topeka, and its largest city is Wichita. Kansas is a landlocked state bordered by Nebraska to the north; Missouri to the east; Oklahoma to the south; and Colorado to the ...
. K-249's southern terminus is at
K-99
K99 or K-99 may refer to:
*K-99 (Kansas highway)
K-99 is a state highway in the U.S. state of Kansas. The highway runs from Oklahoma State Highway 99 (SH-99) at the Oklahoma state line near Chautauqua north to Nebraska Highway 99 (N-99) at the ...
just outside the City of
Madison Madison may refer to:
People
* Madison (name), a given name and a surname
* James Madison (1751–1836), fourth president of the United States
Place names
* Madison, Wisconsin, the state capital of Wisconsin and the largest city known by this ...
, and the northern terminus is at
K-58 in Madison.
K-249 was originally a section of K-99 before it was realigned to the west of the city.
Route description
K-249's southern terminus is at an intersection with
K-99
K99 or K-99 may refer to:
*K-99 (Kansas highway)
K-99 is a state highway in the U.S. state of Kansas. The highway runs from Oklahoma State Highway 99 (SH-99) at the Oklahoma state line near Chautauqua north to Nebraska Highway 99 (N-99) at the ...
just south of
Madison Madison may refer to:
People
* Madison (name), a given name and a surname
* James Madison (1751–1836), fourth president of the United States
Place names
* Madison, Wisconsin, the state capital of Wisconsin and the largest city known by this ...
. The highway travels north along the Madison city line as Southwest Boulevard. The highway reaches an intersection with McCurry Street, where it enters the city. K-249 continues north past an intersection with Elm Street before curving slightly northeast. The highway curves back north and reaches its northern terminus at
K-58, known as 4th Street and West Lincoln Street.
The Kansas Department of Transportation
The Kansas Department of Transportation (KDOT) is a state government organization in charge of maintaining public roadways of the U.S. state of Kansas.
Funding issues
Since 2012, over $2 billion has been diverted from its coffers to the Kansas ...
(KDOT) tracks the traffic levels on its highways. On K-249 in 2020, they determined that on average the traffic was 570 vehicles per day on K-249. The entire length of K-249 is two-lanes and maintained by KDOT. K-249 is not included in the National Highway System. The National Highway System is a system of highways important to the nation's defense, economy, and mobility.
History
In December 1961, the Kansas State Highway Commission, now known as KDOT, announced a project to reroute K-99 to the west of Madison. The project was needed to bring K-99 above the 25-year flood level and eliminate several curves. The section of K-99 and K-57 from Madison Avenue north out of the city would be abandoned, and instead K-57 would follow Madison Avenue west to the new alignment of K-99. The section of K-99 from Madison south to the new alignment would be assigned a new route number. In Mid July 1964, bids were taken for the new bypass.
The highway was first designated as K-249 in a resolution approved on June 12, 1963. This resolution was updated in a resolution approved on February 11, 1964. In late August 1964, work began on the new bypass route. The roughly $1 million (equivalent to $ in dollars) bypass opened to traffic on November 3, 1965. In a resolution approved on September 20, 2004, by Secretary of Transportation Deb Miller
Debra L. "Deb" Miller was the vice chair of the Surface Transportation Board. She previously served as the Kansas Secretary of Transportation under three successive Governors of Kansas between 2003 and 2011. She is Kansas' first female and longes ...
, K-57's eastern terminus was truncated to end at K-4 in Dwight Dwight may refer to:
People
* Dwight (given name)
* Dwight D. Eisenhower (1890–1969), 34th president of the United States and former military officer
*New England Dwight family of American educators, military and political leaders, and authors
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. The former section from K-99 east to east to US-169 was renumbered, making K-249's northern terminus K-58.
Major intersections
Notes
References
External links
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Kansas Department of Transportation State Map
KDOT: Historic State Maps
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Transportation in Greenwood County, Kansas
State highways in the United States shorter than one mile