Kentucky Route 1590

{{short description|State highway in Kentucky, United States}}

{{Use mdy dates|date=January 2025}}

{{Infobox road

|state=KY

|type=KY

|route=1590

|alternate_name=

|maint=KYTC

| map={{maplink-road|from=Kentucky Route 1590.map}}

|map_custom=yes

|map_notes=KY 1590 highlighted in red

|length_mi=8.392

|length_round=3

|length_ref={{cite web|url=http://apps.transportation.ky.gov/DMI_Reports/Official_MP_RL_params.aspx|title=Official DMI Route Log|last=Commonwealth of Kentucky|accessdate=2 July 2016}}

|established=1969

|direction_a=South

|terminus_a={{Jct|state=KY|US-Bus|127}} in Albany

|junction={{plainlist|

• {{Jct|state=KY|US|127}} near Albany
• {{Jct|state=KY|KY|90}} west of Snow

}}

|direction_b=North

|terminus_b={{Jct|state=KY|US|127}} near Ida

|counties=Clinton

|previous_type=KY

|previous_route=1589

|next_type=KY

|next_route=1591

}}

Kentucky Route 1590 (KY 1590) is a secondary state highway located entirely in Clinton County in south-central Kentucky.

==Route description==

KY 1590 begins at a junction with US 127 in Albany. The route meets US 127 and US 127 Business, and then it goes northwestward to cross KY 90 and returns to US 127 to terminate at that intersection near Ida.DeLorme (2010). Kentucky Atlas & Gazetteer (Map). Yarmouth, ME: DeLorme. p. 84.

==History==

Until sometime in the 1960s, the first {{convert|6.437|mi}} of the route was an original alignment of Kentucky Route 90S, a suffixed, or split branch route of KY 90.{{cite web|url=http://www.millenniumhwy.net/2007_KY_TN_Dale_Hollow_Frankfort/2007_KY_TN_Dale_Hollow_Frankfort-Pages/Image24.html|title=PICT0027|publisher=|accessdate=2 July 2016}}{{self-published source|date=July 2016}} KY 90-S ran from the main KY 90 corridor southeast to Albany, then it ran concurrently on KY 35 (what is now US 127) back to KY 90 near the community of Snow.{{cite map |author= Kentucky State Highway Department|title= Clinton County Highway Map|trans-title= |map= |map-url= |date= |year= |url= http://transportation.ky.gov/Planning/Maps/ClintonCo1955.pdf |scale= |series= |publisher= |cartography= State-wide Highway Planning Survey |page= |pages= |section= |sections= C2 and C3 |inset= |edition= 1955 |location= Frankfort |language= |format= |isbn= |id= |ref= |access-date= }} Portions of the concurrency near the current US 127/KY 90 junction is also designated as KY 2063.http://www.millenniumhwy.net/June_2006_Day_3/June_2006_Day_1.html{{dead link|date=July 2016}}{{self-published source|date=July 2016}}

From KY 90 to Ida, KY 1590 was an original alignment of KY 90. KY 1590 was officially designated onto the former KY 90S when it was decommissioned at a time around 1969–1970.{{cite KYTC map |year= 1973 |section= |sections= G6 |inset= |link= http://transportation.ky.gov/Planning/Maps/1973KYF.pdf}} When KY 90 was rerouted onto its current alignment in Clinton County in the mid-1970s, KY 1590 was also extended onto its original alignment north of KY 90 and west of US 127 to Ida.{{cite KYTC map |year= 1976 |section= |sections= G6 |inset= |link= http://transportation.ky.gov/Planning/Maps/1976KYF.pdf}}

==Major intersections==

{{jcttop|state=KY|length_ref=|county=Clinton}}

{{KYint

|mile=0.000

|location=Albany

|lspan=2

|road={{jct|state=KY|US-Bus|127|name1=Old US 127}}

|notes=Southern terminus

}}

{{KYint

|mile=1.146

|road={{Jct|state=KY|US|127|location1=Jamestown (KY)|location2=Jamestown (TN)}}

|notes=

}}

{{KYint

|location=none

|lspan=4

|mile=2.790

|road={{Jct|state=KY|KY|639}}

|notes=

}}

{{KYint

|mile=5.245

|road={{Jct|state=KY|KY|1351|dir1=west}}

|notes=Eastern terminus of KY-1351

}}

{{KYint

|mile=6.437

|road={{Jct|state=KY|KY|90|city1=Burkesville|city2=Monticello}}

|notes=

}}

{{KYint

|mile=6.494

|road={{Jct|state=KY|KY|1281|dir1=north}}

|notes=Southern terminus of KY 1281

}}

{{KYint

|location=Ida

|mile=8.392

|road={{Jct|state=KY|US|127|city1=Jamestown|city2=Russell Springs|city3=Albany|location4=Lake Cumberland State Resort Park}}

|notes=Northern terminus

}}

{{jctbtm}}