Kentucky Route 2830 (KY 2830) is a two-lane, largely
rural
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highway
A highway is any public or private road or other public way on land. It is used for major roads, but also includes other public roads and public tracks. In some areas of the United States, it is used as an equivalent term to controlled-access ...
in northeastern
Daviess County, Kentucky
Daviess County ( "Davis"), is a county in Kentucky. As of the 2020 census, the population was 103,312. Its county seat is Owensboro. The county was formed from part of Ohio County on January 14, 1815.
Daviess County is included in the Owensbo ...
. The southern terminus is at
KY 144 and the northern terminus is at
KY 334. The road serves the community of
Maceo.
Route description
KY 2830 begins at an intersection with
KY 144 northwest of
Thruston. From this intersection, the highway runs northeast, generally parallel to
U.S. Route 60 (US 60) and
US 231
U.S. Route 231 (US 231) is a north-south U.S highway that is a parallel route of US 31. It runs for from St. John, Indiana, at US 41 to south of US 98 in downtown Panama City, Florida.
One of its most notable landmarks is ...
. KY 2830's first highway intersection is with
KY 1831, also known as Wright's Landing Road. KY 2830 continues along a northeast heading alongside a
CSX
CSX Transportation , known colloquially as simply CSX, is a Class I freight railroad operating in the Eastern United States and the Canadian provinces of Ontario and Quebec. The railroad operates approximately 21,000 route miles () of track. ...
rail line.
KY 2830 then enters the community of Maceo, where it serves as the western terminus of
KY 405. KY 2830 leaves Maceo, still following the railroad northeast, until its northern terminus at
KY 334. KY 334 takes over the route for a very short distance and ends at US 60.
History
KY 2830 is the former routing of US 60, which was four-laned and relocated slightly to the north (in fact, the new four-lane US 60 is within sight of KY 2830 for quite a distance) on November 25, 1998. When US 60 was rerouted, as is customary in Kentucky, instead of turning over the old highway to a local agency, the state retained control and merely applied a new number, in this case KY 2830. Originally, all of KY 2830 was classified as a Supplemental Road by the
Kentucky Transportation Cabinet
The Kentucky Transportation Cabinet (KYTC) is Kentucky's state-funded agency charged with building and maintaining federal highways and Kentucky state highways, as well as regulating other transportation related issues.
The Transportation Cabi ...
. The portion of the route between
KY 405 in
Maceo and
KY 334 north of Maceo was promoted to the Rural Secondary System on October 26, 2004.
When the new bypass around east Owensboro opened, KY 2830 was extended onto the old US 60 to the junction of KY 144, where the road ends.
Major intersections
References
External links
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2830
Transportation in Daviess County, Kentucky
U.S. Route 60