Kentucky Route 9
KY 9 highlighted in red | ||||
Route information | ||||
Maintained by KYTC | ||||
Length | 116.285 mi[1] (187.143 km) | |||
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Major junctions | ||||
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Location | ||||
Country | United States | |||
State | Kentucky | |||
Counties | Carter, Lewis, Mason, Bracken, Pendleton, Campbell | |||
Highway system | ||||
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Kentucky Route 9 is a 116.285-mile-long (187.143 km) state highway maintained by the Kentucky Transportation Cabinet (KYTC) in the U.S. state of Kentucky. The highway extends from Grayson to Newport (a city in Kentucky across the Ohio River from Cincinnati, Ohio), roughly paralleling the Ohio River between Vanceburg and Newport.
Most of its route, from Grayson to the Interstate 275 (I-275) loop in Wilder, is part of the AA Highway, except for its northern 5.3 miles (8.5 km) which continues from the terminus of the AA Highway at I-275 into Newport.
While KY 9 is not an expressway, it nonetheless serves as the shortest highway link between Cincinnati and Ashland, Kentucky. Most of the route is a rural two-lane highway. The only municipalities on the highway are Vanceburg and Maysville and suburban areas of Cincinnati at its western terminus.[2]
Route description
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KY 9 follows a general northwest–southeast orientation. It begins at a traffic circle intersection with KY 8 in Newport in Campbell County. It is briefly named Chestnut Way, and then Licking Pike as it parallels the Licking River. At the I-275 interchange, it becomes part of the AA Highway and then passes the outskirts of its namesake Alexandria. Within Campbell County, the road is a four-lane arterial highway.
The next segment passes through a remote, hilly region where the road is generally three lanes, with a passing lane present at uphill grades.
A few miles west of Maysville, the route runs concurrently with KY 10 begins, and the road becomes an arterial highway again. The concurrency ends within Maysville, and upon passing out of the city, the road becomes a two-lane rural highway through an agricultural region.
KY 9 then crosses the Allegheny Escarpment into the Appalachian Mountains at the same time that another concurrency with KY 10 begins. The remainder of KY 9 passes through mountainous terrain and is generally two lanes with periodic passing lanes. After passing through Vanceburg, KY 9 turns south and KY 10 continues east; both routes are signed as part of the AA Highway. KY 9 ends at KY 1/KY 7 just north of Grayson and a block from the I-64 interchange.
Major intersections
[edit]County | Location | mi | km | Destinations | Notes |
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Carter | | 0.000 | 0.000 | ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() | Southern terminus of KY 9 and AA Highway spur |
| 1.078 | 1.735 | ![]() | ||
| 5.486 | 8.829 | ![]() ![]() | Southern end of KY 7 concurrency | |
| 6.498 | 10.458 | ![]() ![]() | Northern end of KY 7 concurrency | |
| 11.324 | 18.224 | ![]() ![]() | ||
| 12.821 | 20.633 | ![]() ![]() | Northern terminus of KY 1773 | |
Lewis | | 22.690 | 36.516 | ![]() ![]() | Southern end of KY 1149 concurrency |
| 22.899 | 36.852 | ![]() ![]() | Western terminus of KY 1306 | |
| 26.310 | 42.342 | ![]() ![]() | Southern terminus of AA Hwy mainline; AA Hwy (KY 9) continues as southern spur and AA Hwy (KY 10) as eastern spur | |
| 27.265 | 43.879 | ![]() ![]() | Northern end of KY 1149 concurrency | |
Vanceburg | 29.467 | 47.423 | ![]() | ||
| 31.011 | 49.907 | ![]() ![]() | Southern terminus of KY 2523 | |
Clarksburg | 32.827 | 52.830 | ![]() ![]() | Southern terminus of KY 3037 | |
Charters | 36.815 | 59.248 | ![]() ![]() | Northern terminus of KY 989 | |
Ribolt | 42.518 | 68.426 | ![]() ![]() | Northern end of KY 10 concurrency | |
| 46.642 | 75.063 | ![]() | ||
Mason | | 49.685 | 79.960 | ![]() ![]() | Southern end of KY 1234 concurrency |
| 50.078 | 80.593 | ![]() | ||
| 50.222 | 80.824 | ![]() ![]() | Northern end of KY 1234 concurrency | |
| 50.979 | 82.043 | ![]() ![]() | Southern terminus of KY 3161 | |
| 53.261 | 85.715 | ![]() | ||
| 55.955 | 90.051 | ![]() | ||
| 56.832 | 91.462 | ![]() ![]() | Southern end of KY 1448 concurrency | |
Maysville | 57.040 | 91.797 | ![]() ![]() ![]() | Northern end of KY 1448 concurrency | |
58.451 | 94.068 | ![]() | |||
59.736 | 96.136 | ![]() ![]() ![]() | Southern end of KY 10 concurrency | ||
61.875 | 99.578 | ![]() | Interchange | ||
| 65.378 | 105.216 | ![]() ![]() | Western terminus of KY 3056 | |
| 65.606 | 105.583 | ![]() ![]() | Northern end of KY 10 concurrency | |
| 66.545 | 107.094 | ![]() | ||
Bracken | | 72.799 | 117.159 | ![]() | |
| 74.567 | 120.004 | ![]() | ||
| 76.772 | 123.553 | ![]() | ||
Woolcott | 79.280 | 127.589 | ![]() | ||
| 82.606 | 132.941 | ![]() | ||
| 85.877 | 138.206 | ![]() | ||
| 87.830 | 141.349 | ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() | Western terminus of KY 2228 | |
Pendleton | | 89.174 | 143.512 | ![]() ![]() | Northern terminus of KY 159 |
| 91.711 | 147.595 | ![]() ![]() ![]() | ||
Campbell | | 93.717 | 150.823 | ![]() ![]() | Western terminus of KY 2828 |
Flagg Spring | 94.941 | 152.793 | ![]() ![]() ![]() | ||
| 99.316 | 159.834 | ![]() | ||
| 101.238 | 162.927 | ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() | ||
| 103.405 | 166.414 | ![]() | Interchange | |
| 105.348 | 169.541 | ![]() ![]() | ||
Cold Spring | 107.148 | 172.438 | ![]() | Interchange (exit 14) | |
109.337 | 175.961 | ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() | Northern terminus of KY 915 | ||
Wilder | 109.755 | 176.634 | ![]() ![]() | Western terminus of KY 1998 | |
111.037 | 178.697 | ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() | I-275 exit 77; northern terminus of AA Hwy | ||
113.196 | 182.171 | ![]() ![]() | Northern terminus of KY 2345 | ||
113.400 | 182.500 | ![]() ![]() | Western terminus of KY 1632 | ||
Newport | 115.666 | 186.146 | ![]() | ||
116.231 | 187.056 | ![]() ![]() | |||
116.285 | 187.143 | ![]() ![]() | Northern terminus | ||
1.000 mi = 1.609 km; 1.000 km = 0.621 mi
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References
[edit]- ^ Division of Planning. "Official Milepoint Route Log Extract". Highway Information System. Kentucky Transportation Cabinet. Retrieved July 2, 2013.
- ^ Division of Planning (2004). "Possible KY 9 Improvements". Kentucky Transportation Cabinet. Archived from the original on August 4, 2004.