Iowa Highway 163
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East end | US 34 at Burlington | |
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Country | United States | |
State | Iowa | |
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Iowa Highway 163 (Iowa 163) is a
Iowa 163 is a divided highway with some freeway sections for most of its length and serves as a connector between Des Moines with Burlington.
Route description
Iowa Highway 163 begins at the corner of E. 14th Street, which carries
It continues east and meets
History
Location | Des Moines – Oskaloosa |
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Existed | 1926–1937 |
In 1926, when
Iowa Highway 163 was originally a two-lane road. In the 1970s the highway was divided through Polk County east of Pleasant Hill. During the 1990s, the highway began to emerge from a two-lane highway to a four-lane highway as part of an ongoing project to create a continuous four-lane highway from Des Moines to Burlington. The segments of 163 in rural areas were converted to four lanes, but the main highway still went through the city centers. That would soon change as bypasses were constructed around the towns along the route. The first freeway bypass, with three interchanges, opened around Pella on October 17, 1994. Bypasses of Monroe, Iowa (with two interchanges), Prairie City, Iowa (with one interchange and one turnoff), Otley, Iowa (with two turnoffs), and Oskaloosa, Iowa (with two interchanges) were later constructed. The last four-lane segment opened between Pella and Oskaloosa on September 30, 1999. Today 163 is divided its entire length, except for short stretches of undivided highway in the Des Moines area.
In October 2009, Iowa 163 was extended along the completed freeway from
Exit list
County | Location | mi[1] | km | Exit | Destinations | Notes |
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US 69 (East 14th Street) | ||||||
0.768 | 1.236 | I-235 west | Westbound only. No direct access to I-235 east from Iowa 163 | |||
0.982 | 1.580 | To I-235 east (E. 21st Street) | ||||
Jasper | Prairie City | 18.311 | 29.469 | 18 | Iowa 117 / CR S6G – Prairie City, Colfax | |
Monroe | 25.865 | 41.626 | 25 | Monroe | ||
29.376 | 47.276 | 29 | Iowa 14 – Monroe, Newton | |||
Iowa 163 Business / CR G28 – Pella, Lake Red Rock | ||||||
42.846 | 68.954 | 42 | Pella | |||
45.064 | 72.523 | 44 | CR G5T – Pella, New Sharon | |||
Mahaska | Oskaloosa | 57.479 | 92.503 | 58 | Iowa 92 to US 63 north – Oskaloosa, Knoxville | |
61.230 | 98.540 | 60 | US 63 north – Oskaloosa | Western end of US 63 overlap, exit numbers follow US 63 | ||
Eddyville | 67.518 | 108.660 | 54 | Marino Avenue | ||
Wapello | 69.260 | 111.463 | 53 | Iowa 137 south – Eddyville, Albia | ||
Ottumwa | 80.402 | 129.394 | 42 | Ottumwa Regional Airport, Industrial Park | ||
81.790 | 131.628 | 40 | ||||
85.772 | 138.037 | 36 | Dahlonega Road | |||
87.494 | 140.808 | 35 | Pennsylvania Avenue | |||
88.378 | 142.231 | 191 | US 34 west / US 63 south – Ottumwa | Eastern end of US 63 overlap; western end of US 34 overlap; exit numbers follow US 34 | ||
Agency | 92.156 | 148.311 | 195 | CR V37 – Agency, Hedrick | ||
Pleasant Township | 95.777 | 154.138 | 199 | Iowa 16 east / CR V43 north – Eldon | ||
Jefferson | Batavia | 99.879 | 160.740 | 203 | CR H43 – Batavia | |
Burlington Avenue ) | ||||||
111.797 | 179.920 | 212 | Iowa 1 – Fairfield, Keosauqua | |||
114.761 | 184.690 | 214 | US 34 Bus. west (Burlington Avenue) | |||
US 34 Bus. east – Mount Pleasant, Westwood | Eastbound exit and westbound entrance only | |||||
131.820 | 212.144 | 231 | CR W55 – Mount Pleasant, Westwood | Westbound exit and eastbound entrance only | ||
US 218 Bus. south – Mount Pleasant | Only access to northbound US 218 from eastbound US 34 | |||||
135.867 | 218.657 | 45 | US 218 north / Iowa 27 north | Western end of US 218 / IA 27 overlap; westbound exit and eastbound entrance only; exit numbers follow US 218 | ||
138.305 | 222.580 | 42 | US 218 Bus. – Mount Pleasant, Keokuk | Eastern end of US 218 / IA 27 overlap | ||
New London | 144.888 | 233.175 | 244 | CR X23 – New London, Mount Union | Exit numbers follow US 34 | |
Des Moines | Danville Township | 156.383 | 251.674 | 255 | Middletown, Danville | |
West Burlington | 159.550 | 256.771 | 258 | CR X40 (Beaverdale Road) / Agency Road | ||
160.824 | 258.821 | 259 | Mount Pleasant Street | |||
162.086 | 260.852 | 260 | Gear Avenue, Bus Depot | |||
Burlington | 163.689 | 263.432 | 261 | US 61 (Roosevelt Avenue) – Fort Madison | ||
164.481 | 264.707 | 262A | Curran Street | |||
165.343 | 266.094 | 262B | Central Avenue, Snake Alley | |||
165.902 | 266.993 | 263 | CR X99 (Main Street) | |||
Mississippi River | 166.270 | 267.586 | Great River Bridge; Iowa–Illinois state line; Iowa 163 ends | |||
US 34 east – Galesburg | Continuation into Illinois | |||||
1.000 mi = 1.609 km; 1.000 km = 0.621 mi
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Related route
Location | Pella |
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Iowa Highway 163 Business serves Pella, following the old alignment of Iowa 163 through Pella.
References
- ^ a b c 2011 Volume of Traffic on the Primary Road System of Iowa (PDF) (Report). Iowa Department of Transportation. January 1, 2011. Retrieved May 2, 2012.
- ^ a b Other US highways in Iowa
- ^ Van Nostrand, John (2009-10-16). "Converged highway gets name". The Hawk Eye (Burlington, Iowa).