Kentucky Route 8
 Kentucky Route 8 | ||||
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| Route information | ||||
| Maintained by KYTC | ||||
| Length | 114.202 mi[1] (183.790 km) | |||
| Western segment | ||||
| Length | 78.819 mi[1] (126.847 km) | |||
| West end | River Road near Francisville | |||
| Major intersections | Lua error in Module:Jct at line 204: attempt to concatenate local 'link' (a nil value). in Covington Lua error in Module:Jct at line 204: attempt to concatenate local 'link' (a nil value). in Covington Lua error in Module:Jct at line 204: attempt to concatenate local 'link' (a nil value). in Newport Lua error in Module:Jct at line 204: attempt to concatenate local 'link' (a nil value). in Newport Lua error in Module:Jct at line 204: attempt to concatenate local 'link' (a nil value). in Maysville | |||
| East end | Lua error in Module:Jct at line 204: attempt to concatenate local 'link' (a nil value).in Maysville | |||
| Eastern segment | ||||
| Length | 35.383 mi[1] (56.943 km) | |||
| West end | Lua error in Module:Jct at line 204: attempt to concatenate local 'link' (a nil value). in Concord | |||
| East end | Lua error in Module:Jct at line 204: attempt to concatenate local 'link' (a nil value). in South Portsmouth | |||
| Location | ||||
| Country | United States | |||
| State | Kentucky | |||
| Counties | Boone, Kenton, Campbell, Pendleton, Bracken, Mason, Lewis, Greenup | |||
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Kentucky Route 8 is a 114.202-mile-long (183.790 km) east–west state highway divided into two distinct segments across northern Kentucky. The western terminus of the route is at River Road near Francisville. The eastern terminus is at U.S. Route 23 in South Portsmouth. The two distinct segments of this route were not meant to be connected together.
KY 8 is named the Mary Ingles Highway for part of its length. It is rumored that she was the first white woman in Kentucky. Captured by Indians in Virginia in 1755 and taken to Ohio, she later escaped a salt-making party at Big Bone Lick and made her way across the Kentucky wilderness back home to Virginia.
Route description
Western segment
The western segment of KY 8, the longest of the two, extends 78.819 miles (126.847 km) between rural Boone County and Maysville. KY 8 begins 1.5 miles (2.4 km) west of Kentucky Route 237 and three miles (5 km) north of I-275 along River Road near Francisville.[1] The route runs parallel to the Ohio River as it heads eastward, passing through Covington, Newport, and Augusta before ending at an intersection with US 62 in Maysville.[2]
Eastern segment
The eastern segment of KY 8 extends for 39.933 miles (64.266 km) from Concord-Trinity Road west of Concord[1][3] to U.S. Route 23 in South Portsmouth west of South Shore.[4] The western terminus of this portion is a very narrow two-lane road that becomes gravel.
From Kentucky Route 3037 in Vanceburg to its eastern terminus at US 23, KY 8 was formerly designated Kentucky Route 10, with KY 8 ending at KY 3037 (then KY 10). The road became part of KY 8 in the late-1990s after KY 10 was rerouted onto the AA Highway to the south.
Major intersections
Western segment
| County | Location | mi | km | Destinations | Notes |
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| Boone | | 0.00 | 0.00 | River Road | Western terminus |
| | 1.528 | 2.459 |  KY 237 (North Bend Road) | Northern terminus of KY 237 | |
| | 4.575 | 7.363 |  KY 2846 (Tanner Road) | Eastern terminus of KY 2846 | |
| | 8.458 | 13.612 |  KY 20 (Petersburg Road) | Eastern terminus of KY 20 | |
| Kenton | | 9.617 | 15.477 |  KY 371 (Amsterdam Road) | Northern terminus of KY 371 |
| Ludlow | 13.536 | 21.784 |  KY 1072 (Deverill Street) | Eastern terminus of KY 1072 | |
| Covington | 15.929 | 25.635 |  KY 2374 (West Third Street) | Western terminus of KY 2374 | |
| 16.152 | 25.994 |   I-71 / I-75 | Exit 192 | ||
| 16.312 | 26.252 |  KY 3090 (Philadelphia Street) | |||
| 16.459 | 26.488 |  US 25 (Main Street) | |||
| 16.551 | 26.636 | KY 2374 (Johnson Street) | Eastern terminus of KY 2374 | ||
| 16.918 | 27.227 |  KY 17 (Scott Street) | KY 17 South | ||
| 16.999 | 27.357 | KY 17 (Greenup Street) | KY 17 North | ||
| Campbell | Newport | 17.621 | 28.358 |  KY 9 (Central Avenue) | Northern terminus of KY 9 |
| 17.802 | 28.650 |  US 27 (York Street) | US 27 South/Western end of US 27 overlap | ||
| 17.891 | 28.793 | US 27 (Monmouth Street) | US 27 North/Western end of US 27 overlap | ||
| 18.04 | 29.03 | US 27 (East Third Street) | Eastern end of US 27 overlap | ||
| 18.553 | 29.858 |  I-471 | Exit 5 | ||
| Fort Thomas | 25.310 | 40.732 |  KY 445 (River Road) | Southern terminus of KY 445 | |
| Highland Heights | 25.689 | 41.342 |  KY 2926 (Winters Lane) | Eastern terminus of KY 2926 | |
| 26.472 | 42.603 |  KY 1998 (Industrial Road) | Eastern terminus of KY 1998 | ||
| Silver Grove | 28.189 | 45.366 |  KY 547 (Four Mile Road) | Northern terminus of KY 547 | |
| Oneonta | 35.192 | 56.636 |  KY 1566 (Oneonta Road) | Eastern terminus of KY 1566 | |
| | 36.766 | 59.169 |  KY 2921 (Painter Road) | Southern terminus of KY 2921 | |
| | 37.316 | 60.054 |  KY 1996 (New Richmond Road) | Eastern terminus of KY 1996 | |
| Mentor | 41.689 | 67.092 |  KY 735 (Smith Road) | Northern terminus of KY 735 | |
| Pendleton | Ivor | 43.618 | 70.196 |  KY 2828 (Ivor Road) | Eastern terminus of KY 2828 |
| Carntown | 45.467 | 73.172 |  KY 154 | Eastern terminus of KY 154 | |
| Bracken | Foster | 48.688 | 78.356 |  KY 2228 (Foster Road) | Eastern terminus of KY 2228 |
| 48.936 | 78.755 |  KY 1019 (Lennoxburg Foster Road) | Northern terminus of KY 1019 | ||
| Bradford | 52.813 | 84.994 |  KY 1109 (Bradford Road) | Northern terminus of KY 1109 | |
| Wellsburg | 55.293 | 88.985 |  KY 1159 (Wellsburg Walcott Road) | Northern terminus of KY 1159 | |
| Augusta | 61.326 | 98.695 |  KY 19 (Augusta-Chatham Road) | Northern terminus of KY 19 | |
| 61.431 | 98.864 |  KY 435 (Augusta Minerva Road) | Northern terminus of KY 435 | ||
| Mason | Dover | 67.824 | 109.152 |  KY 1235 (Dover Minerva Road) | Northern terminus of KY 1235 |
| South Ripley | 69.906 | 112.503 |  KY 576 (Tuckahoe Road) | Western terminus of KY 576 | |
| Maysville | 74.114 | 119.275 |  KY 1597 (Charleston Bottoms Road) | Northern terminus of KY 1597 | |
| 75.686 | 121.805 |  US 68 (Clyde T Barbour Parkway) | |||
| 77.542 | 124.792 |  KY 3056 (Jersey Ridge Road) | Eastern terminus of KY 3056 | ||
| 78.819 | 126.847 |  US 62 (D Bernard Coughlin Boulevard) | Eastern terminus | ||
1.000 mi = 1.609 km; 1.000 km = 0.621 mi
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Eastern segment
| County | Location | mi | km | Destinations | Notes |
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| Lewis | Concord | 0.00 | 0.00 |   KY 57 / KY 3550 | Western terminus |
| Vanceburg | 12.622 | 20.313 |  KY 3037 (Clarksburg Road) | Northern terminus of KY 3037 | |
| 12.962 | 20.860 |   KY 59 / KY 2525 (Fairlane Drive/Main Street) | Northern terminus of KY 59/Western terminus of KY 2525 | ||
| 13.310 | 21.420 | KY 2525 (Second Street) | Eastern terminus of KY 2525 | ||
| Buena Vista | 15.891 | 25.574 |  KY 3020 | Western terminus of KY 3020 | |
| Garrison | 22.063 | 35.507 |  KY 1306 (Kinney Road) | Eastern terminus of KY 1306 | |
| 23.011 | 37.033 |  KY 3311 (Montgomery Road) | Northern terminus of KY 3311 | ||
| Quincy | 24.016 | 38.650 |     KY 8 Spur to KY 10 | Northern terminus of KY 8C | |
| 24.916 | 40.098 |  KY 1021 (Briary Road) | Northern terminus of KY 1021 | ||
| Greenup | South Portsmouth | 34.360 | 55.297 | KY 8 Spur (Perkins Bridge) | Southern terminus of KY 8 Spur |
| 35.383 | 56.943 |  US 23 | Eastern terminus | ||
| 1.000 mi = 1.609 km; 1.000 km = 0.621 mi | |||||
References
- ^ a b c d e Division of Planning. "Official Milepoint Route Log Extract". Highway Information System. Kentucky Transportation Cabinet. Retrieved July 2, 2013.
- ^ "Maysville, KY" (Map). Google Maps. Retrieved June 8, 2009.
- ^ "Concord, KY" (Map). Google Maps. Retrieved June 8, 2009.
- ^ "South Shore, KY" (Map). Google Maps. Retrieved June 8, 2009.