U.S. Route 56#Oklahoma

The highway passes through New Mexico, Oklahoma, Kansas, and Missouri. The eastbound shoulder also touches a corner of Texas at a small road junction near the New Mexico/Oklahoma border.

File:US 56 & 412.jpg

File:U.S. Routes 56 & 412.jpg

US 56 runs concurrent with US 412 for its entire length in New Mexico, and are signed as such through the state. The two routes begin in Springer and head east towards Abbot, where they serve as the northern terminus of State Road 39. Continuing east, US 56/412 meet the southern terminus of NM 193 south of Farley, the northern terminus of NM 120 east of Gladstone, and the southern terminus of NM 453. US 56/412 intersect US 64 and US 87 in Clayton, New Mexico, and US 64 joins with US 56/412 in their trek northeast. The three routes serve as the southern terminus of NM 406 as they enter the Kiowa National Grassland. The three routes then cross into Oklahoma together.

US-56's short path through Oklahoma consists of a diagonal slice across the western part of the Oklahoma Panhandle. US-56/64/412 enter Oklahoma near the southwest corner of the Panhandle, where they also enter Rita Blanca National Grassland. They leave the grassland near Felt. Three miles{{cite map|publisher=Oklahoma Department of Transportation|title=Official State Map|edition=Centennial|year=2007|url=http://www.odot.org/hqdiv/p-r-div/maps/state-maps/pdfs/2007.pdf}} (4.8 km) southwest of Boise City, US-385 joins the concurrency. The routes then enter Boise City, where they enter a traffic circle around the Cimarron County Courthouse that involves US-56, US-64, US-385, US-412, State Highway 3, and SH-325. After leaving the traffic circle, US-56 overlaps US-64, US-412, and SH-3. {{convert|1.7|mi|km}} east of the courthouse, US-56 meets US-287 at an interchange. US-56/64/412/SH-3 continue northeast for {{convert|6|mi|km}}, where US-56 splits to travel northeast on its own.

The route parallels the Cimarron Valley Railroad for the remainder of its time in Oklahoma. Keyes is the next town on US-56, and it also serves as the northern terminus of SH-171 where the two highways intersect. US-56 crosses into Texas County east of Sturgis. Just before crossing the Kansas line, US-56 meets the north end of SH-95. US-56 then enters Kansas on the east edge of Elkhart.

Image:Kansas.little town1974.0024.jpg on US 56, in 1974]]

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US-56 enters the state at the Kansas/Oklahoma border near Elkhart. It weaves its way across the state from southwest to northeast, passing through such towns as Dodge City, Great Bend, McPherson, Council Grove, and Baldwin City. It joins with I-35/US-50 east of Gardner, and goes northeast with I-35 into the Kansas City Metro Area. It exits the state as part of Shawnee Mission Parkway in Mission Woods.https://www.google.com/maps/place/Mission+Woods,+KS/@39.0320743,-94.6116599,2765m/data=!3m1!1e3!4m6!3m5!1s0x87c0ee4dd4b944c1:0x747c676658afd30e!8m2!3d39.0350053!4d-94.6085677!16zL20vMHQ3cmo?entry=ttu&g_ep=EgoyMDI1MDYwNC4wIKXMDSoASAFQAw%3D%3D

{{Main|Ward Parkway}}

File:US Hwy 56 End.jpg

For one mile (1.6 km) in Kansas City's Country Club Plaza, Route 56 follows the noted boulevard Ward Parkway along with 47th St through the Country Club Plaza. The route ends at an intersection with U.S. Route 71. It also includes Blue Parkway and Swope Parkway at certain points.

File:US 56 Kansas 1948.svg

In the early 1950s, towns along what was then the K-45 corridor, connecting Ellsworth, Kansas to the Oklahoma state line at Elkhart, formed the Mid-Continent Diagonal Highway Association{{cite news|page=20|access-date=October 7, 2020|via=Newspapers.com|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/60716475/|work=Atchison Daily Globe|title=Highway Assured|date=December 17, 1953}} to push for a new highway from Springer, New Mexico (on US 85) northeast across the Oklahoma Panhandle, along K-45, and continuing to Manitowoc, Wisconsin on Lake Michigan.{{cite news|page=1|work=Great Bend Daily Tribune|access-date=October 7, 2020|via=Newspapers.com|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/60716377/|date=October 1, 1953|title=Vernon Tip Traylor...}} By mid-1954, it was being promoted as U.S. Route 55 between the Great Lakes and the Southwestern United States.{{cite news|work=Great Bend Daily Tribune|page=7|access-date=October 7, 2020|via=Newspapers.com|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/60716284/|title=New Mexico Okays US-55 Road Proposal|date=June 2, 1954}} The first submissions to the American Association of State Highway Officials (AASHO) to establish the route were made in 1954; all placed the northeast end at Manitowoc, Wisconsin (absorbing US 151 from Cedar Rapids, Iowa{{Citation needed|date=July 2007}}), while they varied on whether the southwest end was to be at Albuquerque, New Mexico or Nogales, Arizona.Oklahoma Department of Transportation, [http://www.okladot.state.ok.us/memorial/highways/pdfs/us56/action1.pdf Chronological History Documentation: US 56] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160303165503/http://www.okladot.state.ok.us/memorial/highways/pdfs/us56/action1.pdf |date=2016-03-03 }} (correspondence between ODOT, AASHO, and other DOTs) The first route considered in northeast Kansas was via US 40 from Ellsworth to Topeka and K-4 and US 59 via Atchison to St. Joseph, Missouri.{{cite news|access-date=October 7, 2020|via=NewspaperArchive|work=Great Bend Daily Tribune|date=January 6, 1955|title=Another Effort to Reroute Proposed Federal Highway|url=https://newspaperarchive.com/other-articles-clipping-jan-06-1955-2005059/}} A revised route adopted in March 1955, due to AASHO objections to the original route, which traveled concurrently with other U.S. Highways for over half of its length, followed K-14, K-18, US 24, K-63, K-16, and US 59 via Lincoln and Manhattan.{{cite news|access-date=October 7, 2020|via=Newspapers.com|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/60716535/|page=3|work=Great Bend Daily Tribune|title=New US-55 Route Approved Here|date=March 20, 1955}} In July, the US 50-N Association proposed a plan that would have eliminated US 50N by routing US 55 along most of its length, from Larned east to Baldwin Junction, and then along US 59 to Lawrence and K-10 to Kansas City; towns on US 50N west of Larned, which would have been bypassed, led a successful fight against this.{{cite news|page=1|access-date=October 7, 2020|via=Newspapers.com|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/60716650/|title=Call Meeting On Road Proposals|work=Great Bend Daily Tribune|date=July 26, 1955}}{{cite news|access-date=October 7, 2020|via=Newspapers.com|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/60716734/|title=US 50N Boosters Turn Down New Route, Name|work=Great Bend Daily Tribune|date=July 29, 1955}}

However, in September of that year, the Kansas Highway Commission accepted that plan, taking US 55 east to Kansas City.{{cite news|work=Great Bend Daily Tribune|title=Highway Boosters Here Oppose New US-55 Plan|date=September 16, 1955|access-date=October 7, 2020|via=NewspaperArchive|url=https://www.newspaperarchive.com/other-articles-clipping-sep-16-1955-2005054/}} On June 27, 1956, the AASHO Route Numbering Committee considered this refined plan for US 55, between Springer, New Mexico and Kansas City, Missouri, with a short US 155 along the remaining portion of US 50N from Larned west to Garden City. The committee approved the request, but since the proposed route was more east–west than north–south, it changed it to an even number – US 56 – and the spur to US 156.

On June 26, 1958, AASHO denied the New Mexico Department of Transportation's request to extend US 56 west from Springer to Santa Fe, which would have followed US 85, US 84 and US 285.{{AASHTO minutes |year = 1958A |page = 159 }}

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US 56 originally took a different route between Boise City, Oklahoma and Elkhart, Kansas. The original route followed US 64 east to an intersection south of Eva. It then split off to the north towards Elkhart.{{cite map|publisher=Oklahoma Department of Highways|title=Oklahoma's Highways 1957|url=http://www.odot.org/hqdiv/p-r-div/maps/state-maps/pdfs/1957.pdf|access-date=January 19, 2008}} By 1961, the section north of US 64 had been overlaid with SH-95.{{cite map|publisher=Oklahoma Department of Highways|title=Oklahoma 1961 Road Map|url=http://www.odot.org/hqdiv/p-r-div/maps/state-maps/pdfs/1961.pdf|access-date=January 19, 2008}} The following year, US 56 was rerouted over SH-114, bringing it to its current diagonal path across the Oklahoma Panhandle.{{cite map|publisher=Oklahoma Department of Highways|title=Oklahoma 1962|url=http://www.odot.org/hqdiv/p-r-div/maps/state-maps/pdfs/1962.pdf|access-date=January 19, 2008}} The old alignment is still on the Oklahoma highway system as the north half of SH-95.{{-}}

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|notes=Diverging diamond interchange{{cite web|last1=Carney|first1=Candi|title=The construction is over! Drivers have access to the I-35 and 95th Street interchange|url=http://www.kshb.com/news/region-kansas/johnson-county/the-construction-is-over-drivers-will-soon-have-access-to-the-i-35-and-95th-street-interchange|publisher=KSHB|date=August 16, 2016 |access-date=18 August 2016}}

}}

{{KSint|exit

|location1=Lenexa

|location2=Overland Park

|exit=225A

|mile=462.908

|mspan=2

|road=87th Street Parkway

}}

{{KSint|exit

|location1=Overland Park

|location2=Lenexa

|type=incomplete

|exit=225C

|mile=none

|road=75th Street

|notes=Eastbound exit only

}}

{{KSint|exit

|location=Lenexa

|exit=225B

|mile=463.398

|road={{jct|state=KS|US|69|dir1=south|name1=Overland Parkway}}

|type=concur

|notes={{ccr-end|West|US-69}}; westbound exit and eastbound entrance

}}

{{KSint|exit

|location1=Overland Park

|location2=Merriam

|exit=227

|type=incomplete

|mile=464.788

|road=75th Street

|notes=No eastbound exit

}}

{{KSint|exit

|location=Merriam

|lspan=2

|exit=228A

|mile=465.828

|road=67th Street

}}

{{KSint|exit

|espan=2

|type=concur

|mile=466.348

|road={{Jct|state=KS|I|35|dir1=north|location1=Des Moines}}

|notes=Eastern end of I-35 overlap; I-35 exit 228B

}}

{{KSint

|location1=Overland Park

|location2=Shawnee

|type=concur

|mile=467.710

|road={{jct|state=KS|US|69|I|635|to2=to|dir1=north|name1=Metcalf Avenue}}

|notes=Eastern end of US-69 overlap; interchange

}}

{{KSint|exit

|location1=Mission

|location2=Fairway

|type=incomplete

|mile=

|road=Roe Avenue / Johnson Drive

|notes=Interchange; westbound exit and eastbound entrance

}}

{{KSint|exit

|location1=Westwood

|location2=Mission Woods

|type=concur

|mile=471.201

|road={{Jct|state=KS|US|169|dir1=north|name1=Rainbow Boulevard}}

|notes=Eastern end of US-169 overlap

}}

{{Jctint|exit

|espan=2

|river_wide=yes

|river=Kansas–Missouri line

|mile=471.450

|mile2=0.000

|line=yes

|road=State Line Road

|notes=Mileposts reset; no state maintenance inside Missouri

}}

{{MOint

|sspan=1

|county=Jackson

|location=Kansas City

|mile=2.948

|road={{Jct|state=MO|US|71|name1=Bruce R. Watkins Drive}}

|notes=Interchange; eastern terminus; road continues as Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard

}}

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|state=KS

|type=US-Bus

|route=56

|formed=October 13, 1979{{AASHTO minutes |year = 1979A |page = 508 }}

|location=Herington, Kansas

}}

U.S. Route 56 Business (US-56 Bus.) is a short business loop through Herington, Kansas. US-56 begins at US-56 and US-77 south of Herington. At this intersection, there is no access to eastbound US-56 or northbound US-77 from US-56 Bus. and no access to US-56 Bus. from westbound US-56 or southbound US-77. US-56 Bus. heads north through flat lands with scattered trees for {{convert|1.1|mi|km}} then enters Herington. The highway continues for roughly {{convert|0.55|mi|km}} then curves east and becomes Trapp Street. US-56 Bus. then crosses Lime Creek as it continues through the city. After roughly {{convert|0.85|mi|km}} the highway exits the city and reaches its eastern terminus at US-56 and US-77.

US-56 Bus. and US-77 Bus. was approved through Herington in a meeting on October 13, 1979. US-77 Bus. was approved to be decommissioned in a meeting on June 9, 1991, leaving just US-56 Bus..{{AASHTO minutes |year = 1991A }}

;Major intersections

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{{KSint

|location=none

|type=incomplete

|mile=0.00

|road={{jct|state=KS|US|56|US|77|dir1=west|dir2=south}}

|notes=Western terminus; no access to US-56 east/ US-77 north from US-56 Bus. west; no access to US-56 Bus. from US-56 west/ US-77 south

}}

{{KSint

|location=Herington

|mile=2.5

|mspan=2

|road={{jct|state=KS|US|56|US|77|dir1=west|city1=Junction City|city2=Lincolnville}}

|notes=Eastern terminus

}}

{{KSint

|location=none

|mile=none

|road={{jct|state=KS|US|56|dir1=east|city1=Council Grove}}

|notes=Continuation beyond eastern terminus

}}

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|state=OK

|type=US 1961-Temp

|route=56

|formed=July 11, 1956

|decommissioned={{circa|1961}}

|location=Near Boise City, Oklahoma – Elkhart, Kansas

|length_mi=42.9

|length_ref=

}}

U.S. Route 56 Temporary (US-56 Temp.) was a {{convert|42.9|mi|km|-long|adj=mid}} temporary route of US 56 in Oklahoma. It began on modern US-56 northeast of Boise City, Oklahoma and followed US 64 and SH 3 east to SH 95. It then traveled north along SH 95 to Elkhart, Kansas. The route was approved on July 11, 1956, along existing highways, when the current routing of US-56 was being constructed. By 1962, US 56 was rerouted over SH 114, bringing it to its current diagonal path across the Oklahoma Panhandle.

;Major intersections

{{Jcttop|state=OK|length_ref=}}

{{OKint

|county=Cimarron

|location=none

|type=trans

|mile=0.00

|road={{jct|state=OK|US 1961|56|nolink1=y|US 1961|64|SH 1961|3|dir3=west|SH 1961|114|dir4=east}}

|notes=Transitioned to US 56 west; west end of US 64/SH-3 overlap; western terminus of SH-114

}}

{{OKint

|county=Texas

|cspan=2

|type=concur

|location=none

|mile=27

|road={{jct|state=OK|US 1961|64|SH 1961|3|dir2=east|SH 1961|95|dir3=south}}

|notes=East end of US 64/SH-3 overlap; west end of SH-95 overlap

}}

{{OKint

|location=none

|mile=41

|road={{jct|state=OK|SH 1961|114|dir1=west}}

|notes=Eastern terminus of SH-114

}}

{{jctint

|river=Oklahoma–Kansas line

|mile=42.9

|type=trans

|road={{jct|state=OK|SH 1961|95|dir1=ends}}
{{jct|state=KS|US 1961|56|dir1=east|nolink1=y|K|27|dir2=north}}

|notes=Transitioned to US 56 east; eastern end of SH-95 overlap; northern terminus of SH-95; southern terminus of K-27

}}

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• K-156 (Kansas highway)
• U.S. Route 156

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{{Reflist}}

• [http://usends.com/56.html Endpoints of U.S. Highway 56]
• Kansas Highway Maps: [http://www.ksdot.org/burtransplan/maps/MapsState.asp Current], [http://www.ksdot.org/burtransplan/maps/HistoricStateMaps.asp Historic], KDOT

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