Nebraska Highway 23

Nebraska Highway 23
Route information
Maintained by NDOR
Length:	159.92 mi[1] (257.37 km)
Major junctions
West end:	SH 23 at Venango
	N-61 in Grant US-83 north of Wellfleet US-283 in Elwood
East end:	US-6 / US-34 at Holdrege
Location
Counties:	Perkins, Lincoln, Frontier, Dawson, Gosper, Phelps
Highway system
Nebraska Highways ← N-22 N-24 →

Nebraska Highway 23 is a highway in southwestern Nebraska. Its western terminus is on the Colorado border at Venango, where the highway continues west as Colorado State Highway 23. Its eastern terminus is at Holdrege at an intersection with U.S. Highway 6 and U.S. Highway 34.

Route description

Nebraska Highway 23 begins at the Colorado border at Venango. It goes northeasterly through farmland towards Grant, where it meets Nebraska Highway 61. After a brief concurrency, NE 23 and NE 61 separate and NE 23 continues east. Near Wallace, NE 23 meets Nebraska Highway 25. It continues east and near Wellfleet, meets U.S. Highway 83. NE 23 turns south with US 83 and continues south until near Maywood, where they separate. After going east through Maywood, NE 23 continues east and meets Nebraska Highway 18 at Curtis. After a brief segment going north, it passes Moorefield and continues on through Farnam. Near Farnam, NE 23 meets Nebraska Highway 47 and turns southeasterly. It passes through Eustis and meets Nebraska Highway 21. It continues southeasterly and meets U.S. Highway 283 in Elwood. It continues in a southeastern direction through Smithfield, Bertrand, and Loomis and ends at an intersection with US 6 and US 34 at the western end of Holdrege.^[1][2]

Major intersections

County	Location	Mile[1]	Junction	Notes
Perkins	Venango	0.00	SH 23 west	Colorado border, western terminus
	Grant	18.29	N-61 north (Central Avenue)	West end of NE 61 overlap
		21.38	N-61 south	East end of NE 61 overlap
Lincoln	Wallace	49.26	N-25
		70.42	US-83 north	West end of US 83 overlap
Frontier	Maywood	84.07	US-83 south	East end of US 83 overlap
	Curtis	91.56	N-18 east (Center Avenue)
Lincoln	No major junctions
Dawson	Farnam	113.12	N-47 north (South Lake Avenue)
Frontier	Eustis	122.78	N-21 north
Gosper	Elwood	132.54	US-283 (Smith Avenue)
Phelps	Holdrege	159.92	US-6 / US-34 (West 4th Avenue)	Eastern terminus

References

1. ^ ^{a b c} Nebraska Highway Reference Log Book
2. ^ Google, Inc. Google Maps – overview of Nebraska Highway 23 (Map). Cartography by Google, Inc. http://maps.google.com/maps?f=d&source=s_d&saddr=nebraska+23+and+colorado+23&daddr=40.8302,-100.94408+to:40.65281,-99.96294+to:patrick+street+and+west+4th+avenue&geocode=FXbqbQIdltHq-SlnMt3bwqx2hzGEPKAILHGVdw%3BFfgEbwIdMLf7-SlPm9pjXQt2hzHb092r8c8MWQ%3BFQpQbAIdxK8K-ikvImISDGOehzHW_mJVW3QKBg%3BFb4FaQIdB2gT-ikt9CEfFcWehzH1XzKmHq0KHQ&hl=en&mra=dpe&mrcr=0&mrsp=2&sz=9&via=1,2&sll=40.788815,-100.715275&sspn=0.948248,2.705383&ie=UTF8&t=h&z=9. Retrieved 2010-11-03. 

External links

• The Nebraska Highways Page: Highways 1 to 30
• Nebraska Roads: NE 21-40