Everything about U S Route 400 totally explained
U.S. Route 400 is a mostly east-west
U.S. Highway, commissioned in 1994. Its route number is a "violation" of the usual
AASHTO numbering scheme, as there's no US 0.
As of 2004, the highway's eastern terminus is west of
Joplin,
Missouri at an intersection with
Interstate 44, which it shares with
U.S. Route 166. It originally ended in
Garden City,
Kansas; in 1996 it was extended to its current western terminus in
Granada,
Colorado at an intersection with
U.S. Route 385.
Route description
Colorado
US 400 begins in Granada at an intersection with US 385. It then
runs concurrently with
US 50 through
Holly east to the Kansas border.
Kansas
US 400 and US 50 enter Kansas west of
Coolidge. They run concurrently through
Garden City, where it intersects
US 83 and separate at
Dodge City, which is where it intersects
US 56 and
US 283. It continues southeast from Dodge City and first intersects
US 54 at
Mullinville.
US 400 and US 54 begin a long concurrency at Mullinville which passes through
Greensburg,
Pratt, and
Kingman before entering
Wichita. While in Wichita, US 400 and US 54 intersect
Interstate 235 and the concurrency of
US 81 and
Interstate 135.
K-96 provides a short freeway connection to
Interstate 35, which is also the
Kansas Turnpike. At
Augusta, US 400 and US 54 enter into another concurrency with
US 77, and US 400 breaks from this concurrency at
Haverhill.
US 400 continues east through several small towns before turning southeast to go through the
Fredonia area and intersecting
US 75 at
Neodesha. After a brief concurrency with US 75, it turns east, intersecting
US 59 near
Parsons before intersecting
US 69 south of
Pittsburg. It then turns south with US 69 and at
Crestline, follows
US 69A south to
Riverton. US 400 then turns east with
US 166 at
Baxter Springs, and the two highways run concurrently eastward into Missouri.
Missouri
US 400, along with
US 166, terminates at
I-44 about one mile east of the Kansas-
Missouri state line, three miles west of
Joplin.
History
U.S. Route 400 was created to run down a corridor for a possible extension of
Interstate 66 which only runs from
Washington, DC to northern
Virginia. A call had been made to extend this interstate to
California, but extension west of
Wichita,
Kansas has been cancelled due to lack of enthusiasm from the states traversed, expense, and the lack of any other road along that path. US 400 was supposed to be a temporary route until I-66 is built. The eastern terminus of US 400 at I-44 near Joplin, Missouri is where I-66 would leave its proposed
concurrent section with that interstate to enter Kansas. It will be many years before such an interstate will be built, if at all.
A section of U.S. 400 that ran from
Dodge City to
Mullinville, Kansas was
U.S. Route 154 from 1926 to 1982. It later became
K-154 before becoming part of U.S. 400.
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