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US 60 in Missouri

US 60 in Missouri

 

US 60
Begin Seneca
End Cairo
Length 348 mi
Length 560 km
Route
Oklahoma

Neosho

Monett

Aurora

Marionville

Springfield

Mountain Grove

Willow Springs

Winona

Poplar Bluff

Dexter

Sikeston

Charleston

Illinois

According to bestitude, US 60 is a US Highway in the US state of Missouri. The road forms an east-west route through the south of the state, from the Oklahoma border at Seneca through Neosho, Springfield and Sikeston to the Illinois border at Cairo. The road is 560 kilometers long.

Travel directions

De freeway in Springfield.

At Seneca, US 60 in Oklahoma from Bartlesville enters the state of Missouri in the southwest corner of the state. The road then continues for about 20 kilometers to the east and crosses Interstate 49 at the town of Neosho. The area here consists of meadows and already quite large forests in a rolling landscape. After Neosho, US 60 runs remotely parallel to Interstate 44to Springfield, which is nearly 100 miles away. The road passes through a plain that lies between two parts of the Ozark Mountains. One passes through small towns like Monett and Aurora before reaching larger Springfield. Springfield is one of the larger cities in Missouri. US 60 then forms a highway south of the city and crosses US 160 and on the southeast side of the city US 65.

After Springfield, US 60 has 2×2 lanes for a fairly long distance, until Willow Springs, 140 kilometers to the east. This area is a bit more hilly, but one crosses very few major roads, the occasional state route. Around Mountain Grove, up to Cabool, US 60 is a freeway. At Cabool the US 63 merges from Rolla, both roads are then double-numbered for about 25 kilometers until Willow Springs. The road curves slightly to the southeast here and passes through the Mark Twain National Forest. US 63 then exits to West Plains and Jonesboro in Arkansas. The US 60 then continues as a single-lane road further east, through large nature reserves. This area is densely forested and forms one of the largest forest areas between the Rocky Mountains and the Appalachian Mountains. The route to Poplar Bluff is 160 kilometers long, and leads through a fairly sparsely populated area. Just before Poplar Bluff, US 67 merges from Park Hills and is then briefly double-numbered. US 60 is from here a freeway around Poplar Bluff, after which US 67 exits to Pocahontas in Arkansas. After this, US 60 is a main route with alternating 2×2 at-grade and highway sections. The transition from the mountain area to the Mississippi River plain is quite sudden around Poplar Bluff.

De Cairo Mississippi River Bridge.

You pass Dexter and then after about 80 kilometers you reach the town of Sikeston, where you first cross US 61, and merge US 62 from New Madrid. Shortly afterwards you cross the Interstate 55. US 60 then runs parallel to Interstate 57. At Charleston, it crosses I-57 and US 60 continues to the southern tip of the state of Illinois, around the town of Cairo, where the Mississippi and Ohio Rivers meet. US 60 in Illinois then continues through Cairo to Paducah in Kentucky.

History

According to biotionary, US 60 was created in 1926. The western starting point at the time was the city of Springfield, Missouri. In 1931, the route was required westward to Texas and the current route through Missouri was created. East of Springfield, the route is of more through importance and has therefore been doubled to 4 lanes since the 1970s. The first section widened ran from Springfield to Willow Springs, and then from Poplar Bluff to Sikeston. The middle section was mainly tackled after 2005, and was completely widened to 4 lanes on 9 July 2010.

Springfield

The James River Freeway has been constructed along the south side of Springfield. Construction of the highway began in the early 1990s. The first section to open was between Kansas Expressway and Campbell Avenue which opened in or before 1990. Shortly thereafter, the eastward extension from Campbell Avenue to US 65 was constructed, which opened circa 1992. The third and final section was between US 60 and Kansas Expressway, which opened circa 1995-1996. Later, another section west of US 60 opened as State Route 360 ​​in 2002.

The interchange between US 60 and US 65 on the southeast side of Springfield was originally a cloverleaf without shunting lanes. This has been converted in phases between 2009 and 2011 with large flyovers for traffic from south to west and from west to north. The other connections still go through clover loops.

Springfield – Rogersville

Between September 2014 and November 2016, US 60 between Springfield and Rogersville was converted to a freeway. The project was called “Project Freeway” and involved 11 miles of US 60 between US 65 in Springfield and the east side of Rogersville. The project built three new connections, built parallel roads and removed existing intersections. The project was completed on November 1, 2016.

Future

US 60 is planned east of Springfield in the distant future as part of Interstate 66. A number of bypasses are already freeway, namely around Mansfield, Mountain Grove, Cabool, Poplar Bluff and Dexter.

Traffic intensities

Every day, 7,700 vehicles drive near the Oklahoma border and the section to Springfield still has a fair amount of traffic with 6,000 to 12,000 vehicles. Up to 67,000 vehicles drive through Springfield, descending to 12,000 vehicles on the 2×2 section to Willow Springs. To the east of this is less traffic, about 5,000 vehicles. After Poplar Bluff, this increases again to about 11,000 vehicles. The section parallel to I-57 has 3,000 vehicles.

US 60 in Missouri

Kansas City, Missouri

Kansas City, Missouri

According to CountryAAH.com, Kansas City is the largest city in the state of Missouri (United States) with a population of 630,387 residents. The metropolitan area has about 2 million people and encompasses fifteen counties in two states: Kansas and Missouri. It is located at the confluence of the Missouri River with the Kansas River. The city is divided into two parts by an interstate border, for which there are two cities with the same name, Kansas City (Missouri) and Kansas City (Kansas). The city has two airports: Charles B. Wheeler Urban Airport and Kansas City International Airport.

Demography

The 2000 census indicates that there are 630,387 people, 183,981 households, and 107,444 families residing in the city. The population density is 543.7 hab / km² (1,408.2 / mi²). The city’s racial proportion is 60.68% White, 31.23% Black or (African-American), 1.85% Asian, 0.48% Native American, 0.11% Pacific Islander, 3.21% from other races, and 2.44% from two or more races. Of the 183,981 households, 28.1% have children under the age of 18 living at home, 38.0% are married parents in cohabitation, 16.0% have a female head of household without the presence of a husband, and 41.6 % are single-person families (see new definitions of family). There are 34.1% of households made up of individuals and 9.4% have someone to live with who is over 65 years of age or older. The average size of the family is 3.06 individuals.

In the city, the age curve, with respect to the population, would be 25.4% under 18 years, 9.7% between 18 and 24 years, 32.5% between 25 and 44 years, 20.6 % between 45 and 64 years old, and finally, 11.7% equal or exceed 65 years of age. The average age is 34 years. For every 100 women there are 93.3 men. For every 100 women of legal age (18 years or older), there would then be 89.9 men. The median income for each household in the city is $ 37,198, and the median income for a family is $ 46,012. Men have a median income of $ 35,132 as opposed to $ 27,548 for women. The city’s per capita income is $ 20,753. 14.3% of the population and 11.1% of families are below the poverty line. Of which 20.2% are under 18 and 10.5% are 65 or over.

Attractions and sports

According to Abbreviationfinder, Kansas City is home to an important museum, the Nelson Atkins Museum, which owes its name and origin to two city philanthropists. This museum features both ancient and modern paintings by artists such as Caravaggio, Rembrandt, Van Gogh, and Kandinsky. Kansas City ranks second in the world in the number of Sources (160), surpassed only by Rome. Kansas City has the following sports teams: Kansas City Royals (Major League Baseball), Kansas City Chiefs (NFL football), Sporting Kansas City (MLS football) and Kansas City Warriors (MLUSA). Kansas City is in the process of building a new stadium that is expected to host an NHL hockey team or NBA basketball team.

Twinning with Seville

From the 25 of March of 1969 it is twinned officially with the city of Sevilla, because in 1922, the real estate promoter (citizen of Kansas City) JC Nichols in his travels through Europe, he marveled at the sight he witnessed city Seville, decisive event for the construction of a commercial area (Country Club Plaza) in its American city, where a Sevillian could feel at home when surrounded by similar buildings in his town, such as the Giralda.

This fact is reflected in an equestrian monument showing an “Indian explorer” on horseback located on Avenida de Kansas City, one of the main entrances to Seville, overlooking El Greco Avenue. At first, the place exhibited a white stone monolith with an inscription that was erased over time. The sculpture is called “The Explorer”, the work of the American sculptor Cyrus Edwin Dallin, at first it was exhibited during the Universal Exhibition in the United States pavilion, once it was finished, it was donated to the city and was placed where it is now can watch. Shortly after it was placed, the vandalism kicked in and detached from her head the headdress – a unique bird feather she was wearing.

Twin Cities

1 City Lázaro Cárdenas (Michoacán, Mexico)

2 Flag of Mexico Guadalajara (Jalisco, Mexico)

3 Flag of Colombia Bogota DC, Colombia

4 Flag of Peru Lima, Peru

5 Flag of Mexico Morelia (Michoacan, Mexico)

6 Flag of Mexico San Nicolás de los Garza (Nuevo León, Mexico)

7 Flag of Chile Santiago, Chile

8 Flag of Spain Sevilla (Andalusia, Spain)

Missouri River (United States)

The Missouri River or Missouri River is a long river in the United States, the main tributary of the Mississippi River, it was discovered by the French explorer Étienne de Veniard.

Birth

This river is born in the southwest of Montana, at the confluence of three rivers, (Jefferson, Madison and Gallatin), which have their sources in the Rocky Mountains. It crosses the Great Plains of eastern Montana, North Dakota and South Dakota, marking the border between Nebraska and Iowa, and then between Kansas and Missouri before emptying into the Mississippi just north of St. Louis, Missouri.

Length

With a length of approximately 4,130 km, it is the longest river in the United States and drains a 1,371,010 km² basin, approximately one sixth of the North American subcontinent.

Protected sections

Several stretches of the Missouri River have been declared a national wild and scenic river: on October 12, 1976 a 239.8 km long stretch, in Montana: on November 10, 1978 another 95 km stretch, from Nebraska and South Dakota; on May 24, 1991, a final 62.7 km stretch, also between Nebraska and South Dakota.

Kansas City, Missouri

Countries it crosses

  • USA
  • Mountain
  • North Dakota
  • South Dakota
  • Nebraska
  • Iowa
  • Kansas