K-58 (Kansas highway)

K-58
Route information
Maintained by KDOT
Length:	46.761 mi[1] (75.255 km)
Major junctions
West end:	K-99 west of Madison
	K-249 in Madison US-75 between Gridley and Le Roy
East end:	US-169 near Colony
Location
Counties:	Greenwood, Coffey, Anderson
Highway system
Kansas numbered highways ← K-57 K-60 →

K-58 on the 2005-06 KDOT State Highway Map

K-58 is a state highway in the U.S. state of Kansas. It is one of the newer state highways in Kansas formed by 2005 when K-57 was truncated at K-4 in Dwight. The route changes were made because of K-57's long concurrencies with K-4, K-177, US-50 and K-99. K-58 begins at K-99 in Madison and runs east through Lamont and Gridley. After a short concurrency with US-75, it goes through LeRoy before ending at US-169 near Colony.

History

Former designation

K-58 originally was formed in 1927, with its western terminus at US-50 northeast of Lenexa, and its eastern terminus at US-73E, or Metcalf Avenue.

By 1936, US-73E was renumbered as US-69, and K-58 was realigned. It began at US-50 near Lenexa, Kansas, and followed Metcalf Avenue/US-69 north to Southwest Boulevard (now Merriam Drive). It turned east to Antone Road (now 34th Street) near the Argentine neighborhood of Kansas City, Kansas, where it headed north to Strong Avenue. It turned east on Strong, and headed north on (what is today) the Goddard Viaduct. It then headed east on Argentine Boulevard, crossed the Kansas River on the Argentine Bridge, and headed north on 18th Street to K-5, the Quindaro Boulevard, where it ended.

In 1956, the 18th Street Expressway was completed, allowing a rerouting of US-69 off of then Southwest Boulevard. A new toll bridge over the Kansas River was built for the expressway, and the Argentine Bridge bridge was demolished. K-58 then was rerouted to leave Metcalf and follow east on Shawnee Mission Parkway, then follow north on the 18th Street Expressway to K-5.

Due to the rerouting of US-50 out of downtown Mission, Kansas, K-158 was created. It ran on Johnson Drive from 18th Street Expressway to Metcalf.

In 1979, K-58 and K-158 were given to the cities of Roeland Park, Overland Park, and Mission, Kansas. K-58 became the first of several highways to be turned back, shortened, or realigned in Kansas City, as the Interstate highways were being completed.

In 1996, extensive reconstruction was completed in Roeland Park, Kansas, where K-58 formerly traveled. As a result, the former Skyline Drive interchange was transformed into an at-grade intersection, also eliminating the Skyline tunnel underneath the expressway. When this was completed, Johnson County, Kansas renamed the segment from Shawnee Mission Parkway to I-35 as "Roe Boulevard", a continuation of "Roe Avenue" from Fairway, Kansas to I-35.

Junction list

County	Location	mi[1]	km	Destinations	Notes
Greenwood	​	0.000	0.000	K-99	Western terminus
	Madison	0.573	0.922	K-249	Northern terminus of K-249
Coffey	​	25.677	41.323	US-75	Northern terminus of US-75 concurrency
	​	26.615	42.833	US-75	Southern terminus of US-75 concurrency
Anderson	​	46.761	75.255	US-169	Eastern terminus
1.000 mi = 1.609 km; 1.000 km = 0.621 mi       Concurrency terminus

References

• KDOT State Map

Official State Transportation Map (PDF) (Map) (2005-2006 ed.). Kansas Department of Transportation. § E10-E12. Retrieved 2008-04-22.