U.S. Route 54 in Kansas

U.S. Route 54
	US-54 highlighted in red
Route information
	Maintained by KDOT
Major junctions
West end	US-54 at Oklahoma state line
	US-83 / US-270 in Liberal; US-160 near Meade; US-400; US-281 in Pratt; I-235; I-135 / US-81 / K-15; I-35 / Kansas Turnpike; US-77; US-75 in Yates Center; US-59 in Moran; US-69 / K-7;
East end	US 54 at Missouri state line
Highway system

U.S. Route 54 (US-54) is a part of the U.S. Highway System that runs from from El Paso, Texas, to Interstate 72 (I-72) in Griggsville, Illinois. In the U.S. state of Kansas, US-54 is a main east–west highway that runs from the Oklahoma border east to the Missouri border.

Route description

US 54 intersects US 69/K-7 in Fort Scott, KS

US 54 enters the state from Oklahoma in Seward County, and travels through the cities of Liberal and Plains, where it runs concurrently with US 160 in Meade County. Just east of the city of Meade, US 54 splits from US 160 and continues in a northeasterly direction through Meade and Ford counties before beginning a long concurrency with US 400 in Mullinville in Kiowa County.

The highway then travels through the town of Greensburg and continues as a two-lane road through Pratt, Cunningham, and Kingman. At Pratt, the Union Pacific railroad tracks which paralleled the highway for over 600 miles (970 km) from El Paso turn to the northeast (towards Topeka) and leave US 54. The road becomes a divided highway in eastern Kingman County. From Kingman to Garden Plain in Sedgwick County it is a freeway but becomes an at-grade expressway as it passes through Goddard and approaches Wichita.

US 54/US 400 a few miles west of Pratt, Kansas

The freeway resumes as the road crosses the city limits of Wichita near Wichita Dwight D. Eisenhower National Airport. In Wichita, US 54/US 400 is known as Kellogg Avenue, and has junctions with I-235, I-135 and I-35, the Kansas Turnpike, before a junction with K-96. The Kellogg Avenue freeway has six lanes and extends 15 miles (24 km) from 111th Street on the west side of Wichita to Zelta just after the I-35/Kansas Turnpike interchange on the east side. Upgrading of Kellogg Avenue from a surface arterial to a freeway has been underway since the mid-1980s, with the latest interchange project opening in late 2019. The road gets its name from Milo Bailey Kellogg, a shopkeeper and Civil War veteran who was the city's first civilian postmaster in 1870.

The concurrency of US 54 and US 400 continues through Augusta in Butler County before US 400 heads east toward the Missouri state line, while US 54 forms a brief concurrency with US 77 through El Dorado. At El Dorado, US 54 continues its easterly course through rural areas in Greenwood and Woodson counties before passing through the cities of Iola and Fort Scott; US 77 heads north to Junction City. US 54 exits Kansas in Bourbon County before reaching Nevada, Missouri.

Future

The state is studying a northwestern bypass of Wichita, which would redesignate K-254 as US-54. [1]

Major intersections

County	Location	mi[2]	km	Destinations	Notes
Seward		0.000	0.000	US-54 west	Continuation into Oklahoma
Seward	Liberal			US-83 / US-270 east	Western terminus of US-270
Meade				US-160 west	Western end of US-160 overlap
	Meade			K-23
	Meade			US-160 east	Eastern end of US-160 overlap
				K-98 west	Eastern terminus of K-98
Clark	Minneola			US-283 (Oak Street) – Englewood, Dodge City
Ford				K-94 south	Northern terminus of K-94
Ford				K-34
Kiowa				US-400 west	Western end of US-400 overlap
Kiowa				US-183
Pratt	Pratt			US-281
Pratt				K-61 north	Southern terminus of K-61
Kingman				K-11 north	Southern terminus of K-11
	Kingman			K-14 south	Western end of K-14 overlap
				K-14 north	Eastern end of K-14 overlap
Sedgwick				K-251 north	Southern terminus of K-251
				I-235	I-235 exit 7
				I-135 / US-81 / K-15	I-135 exit
				To I-35 / Kansas Turnpike	To I-35/Kansas Turnpike exit 50
				K-96 west to I-35 / Kansas Turnpike	Eastern terminus of K-96; to I-35/Kansas Turnpike exit 53
Butler				US-77 south	Western end of US-77 overlap
				US-400 east	Western end of US-400 overlap
				US-77 north / K-254 west	Eastern end of US-77 overlap; eastern terminus of K-254
				K-177 north	Southern terminus of K-177
Greenwood				K-99 south	Western end of K-99 overlap
Greenwood				K-99 north	Eastern end of K-99 overlap
Woodsun	Yates Center			US-75
Allen				US-169
Allen	Moran			US-59
Bourbon				K-3 north	Western end of K-3 overlap
				K-3 south	Eastern end of K-3 overlap
				K-7 north	Western end of K-7 overlap
				US-69 north	Western end of US-69 overlap
				US-69 south / K-7 south	Eastern end of US-69/K-7 overlap
				US 54 east	Continuation into Missouri
1.000 mi = 1.609 km; 1.000 km = 0.621 mi Concurrency terminus Tolled

References

"KSDOT Project K-254".
Staff (2016). "Pavement Management Information System". Kansas Department of Transportation. Retrieved April 21, 2017.

External links

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[1] "KSDOT Project K-254".

[PMIS-2] Staff (2016). "Pavement Management Information System". Kansas Department of Transportation. Retrieved April 21, 2017.