U.S. Route 460 in Virginia

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U.S. Route 460
West end:	US 460 near Mouthcard, KY
Major junctions:	US 460 in Bluefield, WV US 460 near Princeton, WV I-81 in Christiansburg US 220 in Roanoke US 29 near Lynchburg I-95 in Petersburg
East end:	US 60 in Norfolk
Virginia Routes < SR 457 I-464 > Primary - Secondary - History

U.S. Route 460 in Virginia runs east-west through the southern part of the state. It has two separate pieces in Virginia, joined by a relatively short section in West Virginia. Most of US 460 is a four-lane divided highway.

US 460 from Interstate 81 at Christiansburg west to Pikeville, Kentucky, including the piece in West Virginia, is Corridor Q of the Appalachian Development Highway System. From West Virginia east to I-81, US 460 is also part of the proposed Interstate 73.

Contents 1 History 1.1 Kentucky to West Virginia 1.2 West Virginia to Norfolk 2 References

[edit] History

Most of present US 460 or its former alignments was part of the initial state highway system defined in 1918. Specifically, the following pieces existed:^[1]

• Claypool Hill to West Virginia (U.S. Route 19 concurrency): State Route 11
• West Virginia to Christiansburg: State Route 23
• Christiansburg to Petersburg (including the U.S. Route 11 concurrency): State Route 10
• Suffolk to Norfolk (U.S. Route 58 concurrency): State Route 10

[edit] Kentucky to West Virginia

In late 1921, the State Highway Commission recommended that the General Assembly add the road from State Route 11 (now U.S. Route 19) at Claypool Hill northwest to Grundy to the state highway system as a spur of SR 11 to provide "an easterly outlet from Buchanan County".^[2] This spur was assigned the designation State Route 11X by 1923,^[3] and later that year it became State Route 111.^[4] It was renumbered State Route 126 in the 1928 renumbering and State Route 84 in the 1933 renumbering. A 6.38-mile (10.27 km) extension from Grundy northwest towards Kentucky was added in 1932,^[5] and the rest to the state line was added in 1936.^[6] In the 1940 renumbering, SR 84 was renumbered State Route 4 to match Kentucky Route 4.^[7]

[edit] West Virginia to Norfolk

In the early 1970s, the former Virginian Railway right-of-way along the north bank of the New River from Glen Lyn to Narrows was acquired by VDOT's predecessor agency from the Norfolk and Western Railway to enable four-laning of the highway through the narrow space between the river and rocky bluffs.

[edit] References

1. ^ Minutes of the First Meeting of the State Highway Commission Created Under the Acts of 1922, Held July 5th, 1922, Richmond, Va.PDF (150 KiB), Proposed "State Highway System" for Virginia, as Recommended by the State Roads Committee, January, 1918
2. ^ Minutes of the Meeting of the State Highway Commission, Held at Richmond, Virginia, November 29th, and December 3rd, 1921, and an Inspection Trip, November 30th, December 1st, and 2nd, 1921, and meeting Washington, D. C. December 2nd, 1921PDF (541 KiB), page 49
3. ^ Minutes of the Tenth Meeting of the State Highway Commission Held in Richmond, Va. March 26th, 27th, and 28th, 1923PDF (321 KiB), page 12
4. ^ Minutes of the Meeting of the State Highway Commission at Pearisburg, Tazewell, and Clintwood, Va. August 21st & 22nd, 1923PDF (13.3 KiB), page 2
5. ^ Minutes of the Meeting of the State Highway Commission of Virginia, Held in Richmond, June 10, 1932PDF (212 KiB), page 8
6. ^ Minutes of the Meeting of the State Highway Commission of Virginia, Held in Richmond, August 12, 1936PDF (402 KiB), page 24
7. ^ Minutes of the Meeting of the State Highway Commission of Virginia, Held in Richmond, October 10, 1940PDF (332 KiB), page 8

Preceded by Kentucky	U.S. Route 460 Virginia	Succeeded by West Virginia
Preceded by West Virginia	U.S. Route 460 Virginia	Succeeded by terminus

< SR 51	Two‑digit State Routes 1923-1933	SR 53 >
none	Spurs of SR 11 1923-1928	SR 112 >
< SR 125	District 1 State Routes 1928-1933	SR 127 >