page_title: K-156 (Kansas highway)
section_title: Finney and Hodgeman counties
hierarchical_section_title: K-156 (Kansas highway) / Route description / Finney and Hodgeman counties
caption_attribution_description: English: US-56, K-96, K-156
context_page_description: K-156 is a 175.663-mile-long west–east state highway in the U.S. state of Kansas. K-156's western terminus is at U.S. Route 50 Business and US-83 Bus. in Garden City and the eastern terminus is at Interstate 70 and U.S. Route 40 northeast of Ellsworth. Along the way it intersects several major highways including, US-50, US-83 and US-400 in Garden City, US-283 in Jetmore, US-183 near Rozel, and overlaps its implied parent, US-56, from Larned to east of Great Bend.
  Before state highways were numbered in Kansas there were auto trails, the section of K-156 from Larned to Great Bend followed the National Old Trails Road and Old Santa Fe Trail. By 1927, the section of K-156 from Garden City to Great Bend was established as US-50N. K-156 was originally US-156, an intrastate U.S. Highway that was formed in 1957 and ran from Garden City to Great Bend. Between 1966 and 1967, US-156 was extended northeast, along K-45, to I-70 northeast of Ellsworth. Then in an April 1, 1981 resolution, US-156 was redesignated K-156. On a May 3, 1996, US 400 was established from the Colorado border to the southern end of the overlap between US-83 and US-50 in Garden City.
context_section_description: The route begins in Garden City, on Kansas Avenue at the junction with US-50 Business and US-83 Business (Main Street). The highway continues over Kansas Avenue then turns northeast at a junction with Campus Drive. K-156 then intersects US-50, US-83 and US-400 via a diamond interchange and then continues to follows Kansas Avenue in a northeast direction out of the city. It then curves east at East 6 Mile Road, then intersects Mennonite Road 1.7 miles (2.7 km) later. From here, the highway continues east for about eleven miles (18 km) through rural farmlands before intersecting K-23, passing by Concannon State Fishing Lake and crossing Pawnee River along the way. Here K-156 begins a six-mile-long (9.7 km) overlap with K-23. At the end of the overlap K-23 turns south toward Cimarron, as K-156 continues east. K-156 then passes through Kalvesta, then curves to the northeast as it crosses into Hodgeman County. About one mile (1.6 km) into the county, K-156 curves back to the east, then crosses Sand Creek 1.5 miles (2.4 km) later. Roughly 10.4 miles (16.7 km) further east the highway curves northeast for about one-mile (1.6 km) then curves back east. The highway continues another 3.5 miles (5.6 km) then enters Jetmore. In Jetmore it intersects US-283, also known as Main Street. As it exits the city it travels a short distance then curves to the northeast at Bosse. The roadway then curves more to the northeast and passes to the north of Hanston. As it passes by Hanston, K-156 curves east briefly then back northeast as it begins to parallel a Kansas and Oklahoma Railroad track. About three miles (4.8 km) later, the highway passes through Gray. It continues past Gray for another 3.5 miles (5.6 km) then enters into Pawnee County.
caption: K-156 overlapped with US-56 and K-96
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