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U.S. Route 460 is a spur of U.S. Route 60. It currently runs for 655 miles (1,054 km) from Norfolk, Virginia at U.S. Route 60 at Ocean View to Frankfort, Kentucky at U.S. Route 60. It passes through the states of Virginia, West Virginia, and Kentucky. It goes through the cities of Norfolk, Virginia, Portsmouth, Virginia, Suffolk, Virginia, Petersburg, Virginia, Lynchburg, Virginia, Roanoke, Virginia, Blacksburg, Virginia, Princeton, West Virginia, Bluefield, West Virginia, and Frankfort, Kentucky.

The section from Interstate 81 at Christiansburg, Virginia to U.S. Highway 23 in Pikeville, Kentucky is Corridor Q in the Appalachian Development Highway System. Currently the portion improved under this system is unfinished between Grundy, Virginia and Pikeville.

Former terminus and route


US 460 once ended in St. Louis, Missouri after crossing the MacArthur Bridge. Between St. Louis and Frankfort. it was a major highway in the pre-Interstate era, passing through Evansville, Indiana and Louisville, Kentucky. Interstate 64 has supplanted most of old US 460 as a more direct route, and old US 460 has become parts of Illinois Route 15, Illinois Route 142, Illinois Route 14, Indiana State Highway 66, Indiana State Highway 62, and US 60 where Interstate 64 has not supplanted it even as a state highway in the greater Louisville area.

See also


Three-digit U.S. Highways | U.S. Highways in Virginia | U.S. Highways in West Virginia | U.S. Highways in Kentucky | Mercer County, West Virginia

 

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