U.S. Route 27 in Indiana
U.S. Route 27 | ||||
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| Gene Stratton Memorial Highway[1] | ||||
 US 27 highlighted in red | ||||
| Route information | ||||
| Maintained by INDOT | ||||
| Length | 117.765 mi[2] (189.524 km) | |||
| Existed | October 1, 1926[3]–present | |||
| Major junctions | ||||
| South end |  US 27 at Ohio state line | |||
| North end |     I-69 / US 24 / US 30 / SR 3 at Fort Wayne | |||
| Location | ||||
| Country | United States | |||
| State | Indiana | |||
| Counties | Union, Wayne, Randolph, Jay, Adams, Allen | |||
| Highway system | ||||
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U.S. Route 27 (US 27) is a part of the
US 27 passes through farmfields and urban areas, and parallel to the Ohio state line. The highway is included in the Gene Stratton Memorial Highway. Historical landmarks along the highway include the Levi Coffin House, Portland Commercial Historic District, and the Allen County Courthouse.
US 27 was first designated as a U.S. Highway in 1926. US 27 replaced the original State Road 48 (SR 48), SR 21, and SR 46 designations of the highway which dated back to the formation of the Indiana State Road system. SR 46 ran from Ohio state line to Liberty, and SR 21 ran from Liberty through Richmond to Portland ending in Fort Wayne. SR 46 ran from Auburn to Angola. Realignments and construction projects have expanded the highway to four lanes in Adams and Allen counties.
Route description
US 27 enters Indiana heading northwest from Ohio, parallel to
The highway passes through
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The concurrency with US 33 ends at a diamond interchange with I-469 on the south side of Fort Wayne. North of I-469, the road becomes known as Decatur Road and continues northwest, passing through farmland with houses. The name of the road changes to Lafayette Street at a traffic-light with Anthony Boulevard. North of this traffic-light, the road enters commercial areas followed by residential areas. The road becomes a four-lane undivided highway north of Pettit Avenue. The route becomes one-way pairs at McKinnie Avenue with northbound on Lafayette Street and Spy Run Avenue and southbound is on Clinton Street. Both one-way streets pass under the Chicago, Fort Wayne and Eastern Railroad and enter downtown Fort Wayne. In downtown, the streets past near the Allen County Courthouse and Parkview Field. Parkview Field is home to the Fort Wayne TinCaps a Minor League Baseball team in the Midwest League. The road then passes under the Norfolk Southern Railway tracks and passes through Headwaters Park. The streets leaves downtown by crossing over the St. Marys River. North of Spy Run Avenue Extended, the one-way pairs end and the road becomes a four-lane highway with a center turn lane, retaining the name Clinton Street. Clinton Street is passing through commercial properties. US 27 leaves Clinton Street and heads north on Lima Road. Lima Road then passes through a mix of residential and commercial properties as a four-lane undivided highway. The street has a traffic-light at SR 930, also known as Coliseum Boulevard. At this traffic-light, Lima Road becomes a six-lane divided highway passing through commercial property and heads toward an interchange at I-69. The interchange at I-69 is the northern terminus of US 27, Lima Road continues north as SR 3 toward Kendallville.[4][5][6]
The entire length of US 27 in Indiana is included in the National Highway System (NHS).[7] The NHS is a network of highways that are identified as being most important for the economy, mobility, and defense of the nation.[8] The highway is maintained by the Indiana Department of Transportation (INDOT) like all other U.S. Highways in the state. The department tracks the traffic volumes along all state highways as a part of its maintenance responsibilities using a metric called Annual average daily traffic (AADT). This measurement is a calculation of the traffic level along a segment of roadway for any average day of the year. In 2010, INDOT figured that lowest traffic levels were 3,090 vehicles and 580 commercial vehicles used the highway daily from SR 28 to Jay County line. The peak traffic volumes were 41,790 vehicles and 2,570 commercial vehicles AADT along the section of US 27 just north of downtown Fort Wayne.[9]
History
The original route of US 27 was signed as three different state roads in 1918. The section of Old SR 48 that traveled from the Ohio state line to Liberty, where Old SR 48 then headed west on what is now known as SR 44. The section that was from Liberty to Fort Wayne was Old SR 21. Old SR 46 was the original number given the a segment from Auburn to Angola. The section between Old SR 21 and Old SR 46 was known as Custer Trail.
In November 1967, Indiana completed its northern segment of I-69, the last incomplete section being opened between Angola and the Michigan–Indiana state line, supplanting US 27 as a through route. As I-69 north of Fort Wayne had been completed in stages, the designation of US 27 was moved to the Interstate. Some segments of old US 27 remained as state highways with designations as SR 327, SR 427, and SR 127. Parts of these routes, comprising what had been the old surface road of US 27, were eventually returned to local governments. Within greater Fort Wayne, US 27 was diverted from Coldwater Road to Lima Road. Then, in 2001, INDOT removed the US 27 designation north of its interchange with I-69.
On March 9, 2007, legislation was introduced in the
Major intersections
| County | Location | mi[2] | km | Destinations | Notes |
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| Union | West College Corner | 0.000 | 0.000 |  US 27 south – Oxford, Cincinnati | Ohio state line |
| Liberty | 7.365 | 11.853 |   SR 44 east (Eaton Street) – Union County High School, Camden | Southern end of SR 44 concurrency | |
| 7.795 | 12.545 |  Brookville Lake, Whitewater State Park, Quakertown S.R.A., Mounds S.R.A, Brookville | Northern terminus of SR 101 | ||
| 7.856 | 12.643 |  SR 44 west (Union Street) – Connersville | Northern end of SR 44 concurrency | ||
| Wayne | Richmond | 20.102 | 32.351 |  SR 227 south – Richmond Municipal Airport, Boston | Southern end of SR 227 concurrency |
| 21.827– 22.058 | 35.127– 35.499 |  US 40 | |||
| 22.752 | 36.616 |   SR 227 north / SR 121 north – Union City, Greenville | Northern end of SR 227 concurrency; southern terminus of SR 121 | ||
| 24.929– 25.016 | 40.119– 40.259 |   Indianapolis, Dayton | Exit 151 on I-70 | ||
| Randolph | Lynn | 38.098 | 61.313 |  US 36 | |
| Winchester | 46.549 | 74.913 |  SR 32 – Winchester, Union City | interchange | |
| Ward Township | 54.006 | 86.914 |  SR 28 – Ridgeville, Union City | ||
| Jay | Portland | 64.629 | 104.010 |  SR 26 east – Fort Recovery | Southern end of SR 26 concurrency |
| 65.120 | 104.800 |  SR 26 west / SR 67 south – Hartford City, Muncie | Northern end of SR 26 concurrency and southern end of SR 67 concurrency | ||
| Bryant | 72.308 | 116.368 |  SR 18 west / SR 67 north | Eastern terminus of SR 18; northern end of SR 67 concurrency | |
| Adams | Geneva | 75.869 | 122.099 |  SR 116 west | Eastern terminus of SR 116 |
| Berne | 80.519 | 129.583 |  SR 218 (Main Street) | ||
| Monroe | 86.564 | 139.311 |  SR 124 – Bluffton, Monroe, Willshire | ||
| Decatur | 90.952 | 146.373 |  US 33 south – Willshire | Southern end of US 33 concurrency | |
| 92.735 | 149.243 |  US 224 east – Van Wert | Southern end of US 224 concurrency | ||
| 92.953 | 149.593 | US 224 west – Markle, Huntington | Northern end of US 224 concurrency | ||
| Allen | Fort Wayne | 106.335– 106.427 | 171.130– 171.278 |  I-469 / US 33 north | Northern end of US 33 concurrency |
| 116.851 | 188.053 |  SR 930 (Coliseum Boulevard) | |||
| 117.507– 117.765 | 189.109– 189.524 | Indianapolis, Lansing, Kendallville | Northern terminus of US 27; roadway continues north as SR 3; southern end of northern segment of SR 3 | ||
1.000 mi = 1.609 km; 1.000 km = 0.621 mi
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See also
U.S. Roads portal
References
- ^ Staff. "Memorial Highways and Bridges". Indiana Department of Transportation. Archived from the original on May 15, 2011. Retrieved May 17, 2012.
- ^ a b Indiana Department of Transportation (July 2016). Reference Post Book (PDF). Indianapolis: Indiana Department of Transportation. US 27. Retrieved September 18, 2017.
- ^ Newspapers.com.
- ^ a b c Google (August 13, 2012). "Overview map of US 27 in Indiana" (Map). Google Maps. Google. Retrieved August 13, 2012.
- ^ a b c Indiana Department of Transportation (2011). Indiana Transportation Map (PDF) (Map) (2011–2012 ed.). Scale not given. Indianapolis: Indiana Department of Transportation. § A3-A5. Retrieved August 13, 2012.
- ^ a b c Indiana Department of Transportation (August 23, 2011). Indiana Railroad Map (PDF) (Map). Indiana Department of Transportation. Retrieved August 13, 2012.
- ^ Federal Highway Administration (December 2003). National Highway System: Indiana (PDF) (Map). Scale not given. Washington, DC: Federal Highway Administration. Retrieved August 14, 2012.
- ^ "National Highway System". Federal Highway Administration. August 26, 2010. Retrieved August 14, 2012.
- ^ "INDOT Traffic Zones". Indiana Department of Transportation. 2010. Archived from the original on May 5, 2011. Retrieved August 14, 2012.
- ^ Indiana State Highway Commission (September 30, 1917). Indiana Transportation Map of 1917 (JPG) (Map). Scale not given. Indianapolis: Indiana State Highway Commission. Retrieved August 14, 2012.
- ^ Indiana State Highway Commission (September 30, 1918). Indiana Transportation Map of 1918 (Map). Scale not given. Indianapolis: Indiana State Highway Commission.
- ^ Indiana State Highway Commission (September 30, 1923). Indiana Transportation Map of 1923 (Map). Scale not given. Indianapolis: Indiana State Highway Commission. Retrieved August 14, 2012.
- ^ Indiana State Highway Commission (September 30, 1924). Indiana Transportation Map of 1924 (PDF) (Map). Scale not given. Indianapolis: Indiana State Highway Commission. Retrieved August 14, 2012.
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