U.S. Route 136

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U.S. Route 136

Length:

804 mi^[1] (1,294 km)

Formed:

1951^[1]

West end:

U.S. Routes 6/34 in Edison, NE

East end:

Interstates 74/465 in Indianapolis, IN

United States Numbered Highways
U.S. Routes - Bannered - Divided - Replaced

U.S. Highway 136 is a spur of U.S. Highway 36. It runs from Edison, Nebraska at U.S. Highway 6 and U.S. Highway 34 to the Interstate 74/Interstate 465 interchange west of Indianapolis, Indiana. This is a distance of 804 miles (1,294 km).

1 States traversed
2 See also
3 References

[edit] States traversed

Major cities
Beatrice, Nebraska Maryville, Missouri Keokuk, Iowa Macomb, Illinois Rantoul, Illinois Danville, Illinois Crawfordsville, Indiana Indianapolis, Indiana

U.S. 136 passes through the following states:

[edit] Nebraska

U.S. 136 closely parallels Nebraska's southern border from its western terminus near Edison to the Missouri River. It passes through Beatrice and exits the state at Brownville via the Brownville Bridge. It is called the Heritage Highway throughout Nebraska.

[edit] Missouri

U.S. 136 enters Missouri on the west just east of Brownsville, Nebraska over the Missouri River. It leaves the state at Alexander, Missouri on the east. During its journey it enters every county seat in the nine counties it traverses. The distance across Missouri is around 240 miles. U.S. 136 is two lanes for the full distance.

[edit] Iowa

U.S. 136 just grazes the southern tip of Iowa. It enters the state by a Des Moines River crossing, then intersects U.S. Route 61 before entering Keokuk and intersecting U.S. Route 218. It leaves the state by the Keokuk-Hamilton Bridge. Its total length in Iowa is less than four miles. [1]

[edit] Illinois

In the state of Illinois, U.S. Route 136 crosses the Mississippi River into Illinois from Missouri just past Keokuk, Iowa. It pases through Macomb, Illinois, where Western Illinois University is located. It continues as an east-west route intersecting with I-155 and I-55 south of Bloomington-Normal and north of Lincoln in Central Illinois. It later intersects with I-74, and then I-57 just outside Rantoul about 15 miles north of Champaign-Urbana. U.S. Route 136 then curves into a north-south road in far east central Illinois to head into Danville, Illinois.