U.S. Route 41 in Kentucky

U.S. Route 41 (US 41) in the state of Kentucky is a north-south United States Numbered Highway that mainly goes through the western part of the state. It enters Kentucky in the Todd County community of Guthrie, and leaves the state north of Henderson into Indiana as well as the city of Evansville. The total length of US 41 through Kentucky is a total of 106.952 miles (172.123 km).[1]

U.S. Route 41
Route information
Maintained by KYTC
Length	106.952 mi[1] (172.123 km)
Major junctions
South end	US 41 / SR 11 at the Tennessee state line in Guthrie
	US 79 in Guthrie I-169 in Hopkinsville US 68 / KY 80 / KY 107 / KY 109 in Hopkinsville US 62 in Nortonville KY 70 in Madisonville I-69 in Madisonville and Henderson US 60 in Henderson
North end	US 41 at the Indiana state line near Henderson
Location
Counties	Todd, Christian, Hopkins, Webster, Henderson
Highway system
United States Numbered Highway System List Special Divided Highways in Kentucky Interstate U.S. State Parkways ← KY 40 → US 41A

Route description

US 41 enters the state in Guthrie, Kentucky, and begins northwest to traverse the towns of Trenton and Pembroke before reaching Hopkinsville. US 41 turns northward from downtown Hopkinsville to Crofton, Nortonville, and Madisonville, in Hopkins County. US 41 then continues into eastern Webster before reaching the city of Henderson. It enters Indiana and the city of Evansville north of the Ohio River in the one area of Henderson County where the Ohio River is separate from the state line.[2]

Points of interest

Notable sites of interest along US 41 in Kentucky include:

• Robert Penn Warren Birthplace Museum, Guthrie
• Trail of Tears Park, Hopkinsville
• Ellis Park Race Course, Henderson
• John James Audubon State Park, Henderson

History

Between 1926 and 1930, US 41 followed a more westerly route between Hopkinsville and Nashville, following the current US 41 Alt., while the current US 41 alignment was US 241.[3] From 1930 into the early 1940s, the current alignment of US 41 was signed as US 41E, and the US 41W designation was on the current alignment of US 41 Alt. south of Hopkinsville.[4] The western route became US 41 Alt. in 1943, while US 41E became the current alignment of US 41.[5]

In Hopkins County, US 41 previously followed the Pennyrile Parkway between exits 30 and 45 until the early 1990s, when it was rerouted onto the former US 41 Alt. alignment from Madisonville to just south of Nortonville. This was the one area of the Pennyrile Parkway where tolls were not charged when the parkway was originally a toll road.

Near Henderson, US 41 was rerouted onto the few remaining miles of the Pennyrile Parkway up to its northern terminus in the 2010s before I-69 was designated onto most of the parkway to Nortonville.

Major intersections

County	Location	mi	km	Destinations	Notes
Montgomery	​	0.000	0.000	US 41 south / SR 11 south – Adams, Springfield, Nashville	Continuation into Tennessee
Todd	Guthrie	0.020	0.032	KY 2628 east (Fairgrounds Road)	Western terminus of KY 2628
		0.593	0.954	KY 346 west (Ewing Street)	Southern terminus of KY 346
		2.300	3.701	US 79 to I-24 – Clarksville, Russellville
		2.507	4.035	KY 181 (Guthrie Road) to KY 294 – Elkton
	Trenton	8.774	14.120	KY 104 south (Clarksville Street) / KY 848 east (4th Street)	Southern end of KY 104 concurrency
		8.833	14.215	KY 104 north (3rd Street) – Elkton	Northern end of KY 104 concurrency
		8.97	14.44	KY 2627 west (Cemetery Street)	Eastern terminus of KY 2627
		9.799	15.770	KY 475 north (Tress Shop Road)	Southern terminus of KY 475
	​	12.458	20.049	KY 1453 south	Northern terminus of KY 1453
Christian	Pembroke	15.244	24.533	KY 115 / KY 1027 to I-24
	Hopkinsville	21.67	34.87	US 68 Byp. (Eagle Way / Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Way) / US 68 Truck
		22.487	36.189	KY 109 south (Bradshaw Drive)	Southern end of KY 109 overlap
		22.846– 22.917	36.767– 36.881	I-169 / US 41 Truck north – Madisonville, Fort Campbell	I-169 Exit 8; southern terminus of US 41 Truck
		23.476	37.781	KY 380 west (Skyline Drive)	Eastern terminus of KY 380
		24.36	39.20	US 68 east / KY 80 east – Elkton	Eastern end of US 68/KY 80 overlap
		24.565	39.534	US 41 Alt. south (Walnut Street) – Oak Grove	Northern terminus of US 41 Alternate (Monteagle, TN-Hopkinsville, KY route)
		24.65	39.67	KY 107 north (Campbell Street)	Western end of KY 107 overlap
		24.77	39.86	KY 2544 north (Clay Street)	Northbound KY 2544 only
		24.83	39.96	KY 2544 south (Liberty Street)	Southbound KY 2544 only
		24.899	40.071	US 68 west / KY 80 west (West 9th Street) / KY 109 north / KY 107 south (Main St.)	Western end of US 68/KY 80, KY 107, and KY 109 overlaps
		25.087	40.374	KY 2544 south	Northern terminus of KY 2544
		25.46	40.97	US 41 south (Main Street)
		26.88	43.26	KY 1007 south (Saunderson Street)	Northern terminus of KY 1007
		27.237	43.834	KY 1682 (Eagle Way) / US 41 Truck south to I-169	Northern terminus of US 41 Truck
	Crofton	40.113	64.556	KY 800 to I-169
	Empire	42.937	69.100	KY 1298 west (Empire Road)	Eastern terminus of KY 1298
	​	43.406	69.855	KY 407 north (Mannington Loop)	Southern terminus of KY 407
	Mannington	45.888	73.850	KY 407 south (Mannington Loop)	Northern terminus of KY 407
Hopkins	​	47.087	75.779	KY 2647 east (McIntosh Chapel Road)	Western terminus of KY 2647
	​	47.446– 47.712	76.357– 76.785	I-169 north – Henderson	Southbound off-ramp and northbound on-ramp; I-169 Exit 30
	Nortonville	50.13	80.68	KY 2083 north (South Main Street)	Southern terminus of KY 2083
		51.107	82.249	US 62 to I-169 to Western Kentucky Parkway to I-69 – Dawson Springs, Greenville, Central City
		51.994	83.676	KY 2083 south (North Main Street)	Northern terminus of KY 2083
	​	52.566	84.597	KY 3059 west (Wells Road)	Eastern terminus of KY 3059
	Mortons Gap	54.566	87.815	KY 813 south (Cross Street) to I-69	Northern terminus of KY 813
	Earlington	57.568	92.647	KY 336 north (Wilson Avenue)	Southern terminus of KY 336
		58.116	93.529	KY 112 west (West Main St.)	Eastern terminus of KY 112
		59	95	KY 2171 (Hubert Reid Drive)
	Madisonville	59.342	95.502	KY 3158 north	Southern terminus of KY 3158
		59.671	96.031	KY 3158 south	Northern terminus of KY 3158
		60.238	96.944	KY 336 south (McLeod Lane)	Northern terminus of KY 336
		61.446	98.888	KY 70 west (McLaughlin Avenue) / KY 481 south	Southern end of KY 70 concurrency
		62.149	100.019	KY 262 west (Center Street) / KY 70 east to I-69 – Central City	Northern end of KY 70 concurrency
		62.274	100.220	Arch Street	KY 70 west joins US 41 south here
		62.489	100.566	KY 1178 west (Noel Avenue)	Eastern terminus of KY 1178
		62.659	100.840	KY 1074 east (Halson Avenue)	Western terminus of KY 1074
		63.573	102.311	US 41 Alt. north (Nebo Road) / KY 281 east (Island Ford Road) to I-69	Southern terminus of US 41 Alternate; western terminus of KY 281
		64.429	103.688	KY 3062 west (College Drive)	Eastern terminus of KY 3062
		64.652	104.047	KY 1069 north (Stagecoach Road)	Southern terminus of KY 1069
		64.986– 65.079	104.585– 104.734	I-69 north – Henderson	Northbound off-ramp and southbound on-ramp; I-69 Exit 117
	​	66.006	106.226	KY 2657 east (Fowler Road)	Western terminus of KY 2657
	​	67.093	107.976	KY 862 east (Lenin Road)	Western terminus of KY 862
	Hanson	68.553	110.325	KY 260 to I-69
	Slaughters	73.682	118.580	KY 138 to KY 120 to I-69
Webster	​	76.503	123.120	KY 147 north	Southern terminus of KY 147
	​	80.787	130.014	KY 494 west	Eastern terminus of KY 494
	Sebree	83.21	133.91	KY 56 west (Main Street) / KY 370 east	Southern end of KY 56 overlap; western terminus of KY 370
		83.425	134.260	KY 56 east (Jefferson Street) to I-69	Northern end of KY 56 overlap
Henderson	​	86.229	138.772	KY 2097 east (Quinns Landing Road)	Western terminus of KY 2097
	Robards	87.651	141.061	KY 2678 east (Moss and Moss Road)	Western terminus of KY 2678
		88.995	143.224	KY 416 to I-69
	​	90.77	146.08	KY 283 south	Northern terminus of KY 283
	​	94.203	151.605	KY 136 east – Calhoun	Southern end of KY 136 overlap
	Henderson	96.725	155.664	KY 425 west (Henderson Bypass) / KY 2084 north / KY 136 west	Northern end of KY 156 overlap; western terminus of KY 425 as of 2016
		97.500	156.911	I-69 south – Hopkinsville, Fulton, Henderson	Temporary northern terminus of I-69 in Kentucky; former US 43 south
		98.496	158.514	Audubon Parkway east – Owensboro
		99.552	160.213	KY 2084 south	Southbound exit only
		99.99	160.92	KY 351 – Henderson, Zion
		101.958	164.085	US 60 / US 41 Alt. south – Henderson	Northern terminus US 41 Alternate; former US 43 south
		103.734	166.944	John James Audubon State Park
Ohio River		105.045– 106.067	169.054– 170.698	Bi-State Vietnam Gold Star Bridges
Henderson	​	106.394	171.225	KY 3522 south	Northern terminus of KY 3522
Vanderburgh	Evansville	106.952	172.123	US 41 north to I-64 to I-69 – Evansville, Chicago, Indianapolis	State line; continuation into Indiana
1.000 mi = 1.609 km; 1.000 km = 0.621 mi       Concurrency terminus       Incomplete access

Related routes

References

1. Commonwealth of Kentucky. "Official DMI Route Log". Retrieved 28 February 2017.
2. Kentucky Transportation Cabinet (2016). Kentucky Official Highway Map (PDF) (Map). Scale not given. Frankfort: Kentucky Transportation Cabinet.
3. United States System of Highways Adopted for Uniform Marking by the American Association of State Highway Officials (Map). 1:7,000,000. Cartography by U.S. Geological Survey. Bureau of Public Roads. November 11, 1926. OCLC 32889555. Retrieved November 7, 2013.
4. Kentucky Department of State Highways (September 15, 1939). Road Map of Kentucky (PDF) (Map). c. 1:760,320. Frankfort: Kentucky Department of State Highways.
5. Kentucky Department of Highways (1957). Kentucky Official Highway Map (PDF) (Map). c. 1:760,320. Frankfort: Kentucky Department of Highways.

External links

• US 41 at KentuckyRoads.com