U.S. Route 460

Infobox U.S. Route
article_route=460

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length_mi=655
length_round=0
length_ref=
yrcom=1933
direction_a=West
from=Jct|state=KY|US|60|US|421 in Frankfort, KY
junction=
direction_b=East
to=Jct|state=VA|US|60 in Norfolk, VA
spur_of=60

U.S. Route 460 is a spur of U.S. Route 60. It currently runs for 655 miles (1,054 km) from Norfolk, Virginia at U.S. Route 60 at Ocean View to Frankfort, Kentucky at U.S. Route 60. It passes through the states of Virginia, West Virginia, and Kentucky. It goes through the cities of Norfolk, Virginia, Portsmouth, Virginia, Suffolk, Virginia, Petersburg, Virginia, Lynchburg, Virginia, Roanoke, Virginia, Blacksburg, Virginia, Princeton, West Virginia, Bluefield, West Virginia, and Frankfort, Kentucky.

The section from Interstate 81 at Christiansburg, Virginia to U.S. Highway 23 in Pikeville, Kentucky is Corridor Q in the Appalachian Development Highway System. Currently the portion improved under this system is unfinished between Grundy, Virginia and Pikeville.

US 460 is a major east-west highway in Virginia. It is a major thouroughfare through southern Hampton Roads and connects the area to Petersburg. US 460 connects Lynchburg to Roanoke. US 460 is paired with US 221 between Bedford and Roanoke and with US 11 between Salem and Christiansburg. It is also the primary east-west roadway in the northern part of Southwest Virginia between Christiansburg and the Kentucky border; although several miles near Bluefield pass through West Virginia.

Route description

Kentucky

US 460 begins by continuing straight where US 60 east turn right a few miles east of downtown Frankfort. It is a twisty two-lane road to Georgetown, KY, where it intersects US 62 and I-75. It proceeds to Paris, KY, where it intersects US 27 and US 68. The next major intersection is with I-64 in Mount Sterling, KY. It proceeds through several small towns before reaching Pikeville, KY. From there it enters West Virginia.

Virginia and West Virginia

History

US 460 once ended in St. Louis, Missouri after crossing the MacArthur Bridge. Between St. Louis and Frankfort, it was a major highway in the pre-Interstate era, passing through Evansville, Indiana and Louisville, Kentucky. Interstate 64 has supplanted most of old US 460 as a more direct route, and old US 460 has become parts of Illinois Route 15, Illinois Route 142, Illinois Route 14, State Road 66, State Road 62, and US 60 where Interstate 64 has not supplanted it even as a state highway in the greater Louisville area.

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