Kentucky Route 106

Kentucky Route 106
Kentucky Route 106
Route information
	Maintained by KYTC
Length	34.985 mi (56.303 km)
Major junctions
South/West end	KY 181 near Elkton
	KY 171 northeast of Elkton; KY 178 / KY 507 at Claymour; US 431 in Lewisburg; KY 1153 in Quality;
North/East end	KY 70 near Rochester
Location
Counties	Butler, Logan, Todd
Highway system
	Kentucky State Highway System; Interstate; US; State; Parkways;

Kentucky Route 106 (KY 106) is a 35-mile-long (56 km) east-west state highway traversing three counties in west-central Kentucky.

Route description[]

It begins at an intersection with KY 181 just north of Elkton about 750 feet (230 m) north of the present route of U.S. Route 68 (US 68). The route passes through mainly rural areas of Todd County and has an intersection with KY 171 and after that, a crossroad intersection that marks the eastern terminus of KY 507, and the western terminus of KY 178. It then goes through the unincorporated community of Sharon Grove, where a roadside market called the "Hwy 106 Market" is located at a crossroad intersection with two local county-maintained roads, Mount Sharon Road and H Gorbel Road.

After passing through Sharon Grove, the highway enters Logan County about a few feet east of the intersection with Crawford Road, and then has intersections with (Green Ridge-Spa Road), and another one with KY 1151 (Epleys-Stuart Church Road), both are secondary routes in Logan County.

The highway makes it to Lewisburg, and runs concurrently with US 431. Only a few hundred feet away from that intersection, the highway intersects KY 107. A few hundred more feet after that, KY 106 breaks away from US 431, and follows Stacker Street into downtown Lewisburg.

After passing through Lewisburg, KY 106 then goes through rural areas of northern Logan County, crosses the Mud River, and then enters Butler County just south of the small town of Quality where it runs concurrently with KY 1153 for about 1,000 feet (300 m).

Despite being an even-numbered state highway, KY 106 becomes a north-south oriented roadway upon entry into Butler County.

KY 106 has two more intersections KY 1187, and then KY 949 before reaching its end just north of at an intersection with KY 70, the major artery connecting nearby Rochester to the Butler County seat, Morgantown.

History[]

KY 106 originally began at Allegre when it was first commissioned in 1929.^[2] At some point in the late 1940s, KY 106 was extended further northwest to , 6 miles (9.7 km) west of Clifty. After that point in time, It followed the course of the current KY 171 from the KY 107 junction to where KY 171's current terminus is located.^[3]^[4] At sometime between 1969 and 1972, KY 106 was rerouted onto Blue and Gray Park Road off KY 181 just northeast of Elkton and it makes a right turn onto its current alignment, with KY 171 being extended to include its current run through Allegre, across KY 181, and ending at this intersection.^[5] The original alignment of Kentucky Route 344 followed Blue and Gray Park Road during the 1930s and 1940s. KY 344 originally served the now-defunct .

Major intersections[]

County	Location	mi	km	Destinations	Notes
Todd	Elkton	0.000	0.000	KY 181 (Greenville Road) – Elkton, Clifty, Greenville	Western/Southern terminus
		2.646	4.258	KY 171 north – Allegre	Southern terminus of KY 171
		1.639	2.638	KY 178 east (Highland Lick Road) / KY 507 west (Claymour-Russellville Road) – Allegre, Russellville	Eastern terminus of KY 507; Western terminus of KY 178
Logan		13.326	21.446	south (Green Ridge-Spa Road)	Northern terminus of KY 2376
		14.545	23.408	KY 1151 south (Stuart Chapel Road)
	Lewisburg	16.329	26.279	US 431 south (South Main St.) – Russellville	Southern end of US 431 overlap
		16.542	26.622	KY 107 south (Deer Lick Road) –
		16.855	27.125	US 431 north (North Main St.) – Central City, Drakesboro, Dunmor	Northern end of US 431 overlap
		17.549	28.242	KY 1040 south (Lost City Road)
		18.807	30.267	KY 1153 north	Southern terminus of KY 1153
		22.384	36.024	south (Copperstone-Quality Road)	Northern terminus of KY 3201
		24.942	40.140	KY 2377 east (Anderson Store Road)
Butler	Quality	27.176	43.736	KY 1153 north to KY 626 east – , Hadley	Southern end of KY 1153 overlap
	Quality	27.639	44.481	KY 1153 south	Northern end of KY 1153 overlap
		30.736	49.465	KY 1187 east (Coal Road)	Western terminus of KY 1187
		33.461	53.850	KY 949 west – Dunmor	Eastern terminus of KY 949
		35.511	57.149	KY 70 (Rochester Road) – Drakesboro, Rochester, Morgantown	Eastern/Northern terminus
1.000 mi = 1.609 km; 1.000 km = 0.621 mi