K-99

[W. Gray]

What Howard city street or streets was/were once designated as K-99?

[frawin]

Waldo I don't remember the street name but it is the one that runs on the East side of the Post Office. It ran South
Over an Old rickety metal bridge and ended at what they called the  Y just West of the Hunter place. The main traffic on the road in the Summer was people going down to the Old Dam to Swim, in the Winter the main traffic was people going to the Dam  to park. I went down to swim and to Park myself,of course I parked alone. People turned West off of the current 99 at where the  Nursing home is now and and went West to the street on the West side of the Courthouse then South.

[frawin]

Waldo, my old Brain finally thought of it, it was Randolph.

[Mom70x7]

I thought it was Pine - just East of the Post Office / West of the Courthouse.

If I remember correctly, up until a few years ago, the Stop Sign at Pine and Washington still had the Highway 99 sign on it.

[frawin]

Wilma you are right, I know you are I won.t say how I know right now .I was thinking wrong, I haven't been up there for a long time.

[Wilma]

Thanks for the credit, Frank, but it was Mom that posted the correct street.  I was still trying to think of it and thinking about pulling a map.  I think Randolph is the east-west street that runs past Joanna's flower shop now.

[W. Gray]

What Howard city street or streets was/were once designated as K-99?

Mom70x7 is correct by my thinking.

It ran west from present day K-99 on Washington Street to Pine Street and then south on Pine, crossed Elk Street, and then crossed the old torn out bridge south of Elk Street and on to Moline.

I thought it was Pine - just East of the Post Office / West of the Courthouse.

If I remember correctly, up until a few years ago, the Stop Sign at Pine and Washington still had the Highway 99 sign on it.

I remember the K-99 sign for north bound traffic being there in the early 90s at Washington and Pine even though it had been years since the highway had been moved. Then on one trip to Howard, it was gone.

Prior to being K-99, it was K-11 and I think that was late 20s or early 30s.

[W. Gray]

1938:
K-11 is shown on Kansas Maps as going through Elk County as late as that year.

1940:
K-11 is now K-99.
K-99 was gravel entirely through Greenwood County and Elk County to Moline.
K-99 from Moline to Sedan was dirt.
U.S. 160 was gravel from Moline to Independence.
U.S. 160 from Moline to Winfield was dirt.


1941:
All of K-99 is paved.
U.S. 160 was paved from Moline to Independence.
U.S. 160 was gravel from Moline to Winfield.