Kentucky Route 2262 (KY 2262) 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
Kentucky and a small portion of
Indiana. It runs from
Kentucky Route 54
Kentucky Route 54 (KY 54) is a state highway in the U.S. state of Kentucky.
Route Description
The highway, which begins at the intersection of Frederica Street and Parrish Avenue in Owensboro, which is also its junction with Kentucky Route 8 ...
and J.R. Miller Boulevard in downtown
Owensboro, Kentucky
Owensboro is a home rule-class city in and the county seat of Daviess County, Kentucky, United States. It is the fourth-largest city in the state by population. Owensboro is located on U.S. Route 60 and Interstate 165 about southwest of Lou ...
, to
Indiana State Road 161 on the north end of the
Glover Cary Bridge, north of the
Indiana state line.
Route description
Its southern terminus is at the corner of JR Miller Boulevard and Parrish Avenue (
KY 54) in downtown Owensboro. It then crosses the original alignment of
U.S. Route 60 (US 60) and the
Ohio River
The Ohio River is a long river in the United States. It is located at the boundary of the Midwestern and Southern United States, flowing southwesterly from western Pennsylvania to its mouth on the Mississippi River at the southern tip of Illino ...
via the
Owensboro Bridge and terminates at the end of that bridge, which marks the Kentucky-
Indiana state line. The road continues as
Indiana State Road 161 (SR 161) into
Spencer County, Indiana.
History
Af first,
KY 75 connected with
SR 75 on the bridge from the bridge's 1940 opening to the early 1950s. From 1952 until the 2001–02 fiscal year,
US 231 followed the current KY 2262 and SR 161 alignments in the area. US 231 was rerouted onto US 60 east of Owensboro and onto a new alignment leading to the
William H. Natcher Bridge in northeastern Daviess County into southern Spencer County. Originally,
KY 2155 followed this alignment from 2001–02 until 2011, when the street was reassigned the current KY 2262 designation.
Major intersections
See also
*
List of crossings of the Ohio River
References
External links
{{Attached KML, display=title,inline
US 231 at KentuckyRoads.com
U.S. Route 231
2262
Transportation in Daviess County, Kentucky
Owensboro, Kentucky