U.S. Route 136

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U.S. Route 136

Length:

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

Formed:

1951^[1]

West end:

US 6 / US 34 in Edison, NE

Major
junctions:

I-29 at Rock Port, MO

I-35 at Bethany, MO

I-55 at McLean, IL

I-57 at Rantoul, IL

East end:

I-74 / I-465 in Indianapolis, IN

United States Numbered Highways
Spur of US 36
List - 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 in Indianapolis, Indiana. This is a distance of 804 miles (1,294 km).

1 Route description
2 History
3 See also
4 References

[edit] Route description

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 designated the Heritage Highway throughout Nebraska.

[edit] Missouri

US 136 enters Missouri on the west just east of Brownsville, Nebraska over the Missouri River. It leaves the state at Alexandria, Missouri on the east concurrent with US 61. During its journey it enters every county seat in the nine counties it traverses. The distance across Missouri is around 240 miles. US 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 separates from a concurrency with 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

Main article: U.S. Route 136 in Illinois

In the state of Illinois, U.S. Route 136 crosses the Mississippi River into Illinois from Missouri just past Keokuk, Iowa. It passes 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 runs concurrent with Illinois Route 1 in far east central Illinois before entering Danville, Illinois. At Danville, it turns east to go into Indiana.

[edit] Indiana

Through most of its duration in Indiana, 136 parallels Interstate 74. Within Indianapolis, the route is also called Crawfordsville Road, and US 136 ends at I-465/I-74 where Crawfordsville Road continues without numbered designation.

[edit] History

In Missouri, most of US 136 was designated as Route 4 in 1922. This highway began at St. Joseph and followed present US 169 to Stanberry, turning east there to the Iowa border along US 136. The rest of US 136 was initially Route 1A (Nebraska to Rock Port), part of Route 1, and Route 18 (Tarkio to Stanberry). The east end was truncated to Wayland in 1926, when US 61 was designated over the part east to Iowa, and later that decade Route 4 absorbed the former Route 52 from St. Joseph southwest to Atchison, Kansas. When this extension became part of US 59 in the early 1930s, the portion west of Stanberry was deleted in favor of US 59 and US 169; Route 4 was instead extended west, absorbing Routes 18 and 102 (the latter a ca. 1930 renumbering of Route 1A). US 136 replaced Route 4 east of Stanberry in 1951 and the rest in 1960.