U.S. Route 383 was a north–south
United States highway
The United States Numbered Highway System (often called U.S. Routes or U.S. Highways) is an integrated network of roads and highways numbered within a nationwide grid in the contiguous United States. As the designation and numbering of these hi ...
. US 383 was created in 1942, and deleted in 1982. After deletion, a portion of the highway became
K-383.
Route description
Kansas
US-383 began in
Oakley, heading north along present-day
US-83. A short distance north of Oakley, the route intersected
I-70
Interstate 70 (I-70) is a major east–west Interstate Highway in the United States that runs from I-15 near Cove Fort, Utah, to a park and ride lot just east of I-695 in Baltimore, Maryland, and is the fifth-longest Interstate in the c ...
. In
Halford, US-83/US-383 crossed over
US-24. From here, the road turned northeast, where US-383 split from US-83 near
Leoville. US-383 continued to the northeast until meeting
US-36. At this point, the route turned east for a
concurrency with US-36, crossing
US-283 in
Norton Norton may refer to:
Places
Norton, meaning 'north settlement' in Old English, is a common place name. Places named Norton include: Canada
* Rural Municipality of Norton No. 69, Saskatchewan
*Norton Parish, New Brunswick
**Norton, New Brunswick, a ...
. Past Norton, US-383 split from US-36 and resumed northeast, reaching an intersection with
US-183 near
Woodruff a short distance south of the
Nebraska
Nebraska () is a state in the Midwestern region of the United States. It is bordered by South Dakota to the north; Iowa to the east and Missouri to the southeast, both across the Missouri River; Kansas to the south; Colorado to the sout ...
border.
Nebraska
In Nebraska, US-383 continued north on the present alignment of US-183, reaching an intersection with
US-136 in
Alma.
Prior to 1964, US-383 continued north past Alma, intersecting
US-6/
US-34 in
Holdrege before ending at
US-30 in
Elm Creek.
History
When the route was first commissioned in 1942, it ran from
Oakley, Kansas
Oakley is a city in Gove, Logan, and Thomas counties in the U.S. state of Kansas. It is the county seat of Logan County. As of the 2020 census, the population of the city was 2,046.
History
The area that would later become Oakley was settled ...
to
Elm Creek, Nebraska
Elm Creek is a village in Buffalo County, Nebraska, United States. It is part of the Kearney, Nebraska Micropolitan Statistical Area. The population was 901 at the 2010 census.
History
Elm Creek was founded ''circa'' 1870. Prior to the arrival ...
, a distance of . In 1964, the north end of US 383 was truncated to
Alma, Nebraska.
Major intersections
See also
Related routes
*
U.S. Route 83
*
U.S. Route 183
*
U.S. Route 283
*
K-383
References
External links
Historic endpoints of U.S. Highway 383
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Former U.S. Highways
U.S. Highways in Kansas
U.S. Highways in Nebraska
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