This is a list of former and possible future numbered highways in Kentucky - plus some assorted odds and ends.

66

Has never existed in Kentucky but an official map marked it as a future route.

A 1980s proposal would have run I-66 from Paducah to Lexington - mostly on existing parkways - then along I-64 to eventually connect to the existing I-66 in Virginia. A later plan demanded running I-66 on a new freeway from Wickliffe to Paducah, I-24, the Western Kentucky and Natcher parkways, I-65, the Louie B. Nunn Parkway, and a new freeway paralleling KY 80 and the Hal Rogers Parkway and running to the state line near Phelps.

I-66 was apparently canned in 2015 - though some news articles still didn't give up the ghost.

169

Rand Paul proposed numbering the southern half of the Breathitt Parkway as I-169. Because of the atmosphere of partisanship, I had thought it was because Paul just didn't like Ned Breathitt's party affiliation and wanted his name removed from the road. But that was before the Democrats soiled their hat in the 2020s. I-169 was designated under a 2017 federal law, but this designation does not yet appear in Kentucky logs.

175

Never existed in Kentucky. I-175 was an extremely costly road proposed by the George W. Bush regime to run from Chattanooga to Lexington - duplicating what I-75 already did.

369

I-369 has been proposed as a possible future numbering of the Audubon Parkway - as the freeway starts at I-69 and acts as a spur to Owensboro.

464

I-464 was proposed long ago as a number for KY 4 - the Lexington loop - even though it did not intersect I-64 or any other Interstate.

565

In 2016, unpopular Tea Party Gov. Matt Bevin submitted a plan to designate the Natcher Parkway as I-565 and spend $66 million on construction. So much for those budget cuts! As with I-169, I feared the real reason for renumbering this road was that Bevin didn't like William Natcher's party affiliation and wanted his name removed. Whatever the weather, this plan more or less came true in 2019 - though the road became I-165.

569

Planned as the future number for the Western Kentucky Parkway from I-69 to I-165.

37

I don't think US 37 was ever signed but it reportedly appeared on maps in the 1930s and ran from Chattanooga TN to Sellersburg IN. In Kentucky it supposedly used parts of what became US 127; KY 90; US 31E; and US 31.

43

Still exists in the Deep South but once ran as far north as Hopkinsville - before that stretch became US 41A.

52

Runs from the Canadian border in Portal ND (where it becomes SK 39) to Charleston SC.

Though still absent from official logs US 52/119 makes 2 extremely brief entries into Pike County on the north end of Williamson WV. This stretch is part of the Williamson bypass and has entered Kentucky since 1996.

Not a continuation of KY 52 despite having the same number.

143

Never happened! US 143 was once proposed from Nashville to Glasgow KY but it never came to be!

168

An old memory of the U.S. route system's early days. US 168 ran from Louisville to Mount Vernon and became part of US 150 way back in 1934.

227

The intrastate and entirely nonmetropolitan US 227 ran from Richmond to Paris; along US 460 to Georgetown; and then to Carrollton. It was decertified in 1972 - a rare loss of a U.S. route in Kentucky. Generally the old route is now KY 388 and 627 from Richmond to Paris and KY 227 from near Georgetown to Carrollton.

241

Ran only from Nashville to Hopkinsville - and lasted only from 1926 to 1930.

Became US 41E and later part of US 41.

24

Doesn't exist now that I-24 pilfered its number. As late as 1964 it appeared on maps running from US 62 in Mason County to KY 2 at Carter.

50

Remember back in the 1980s when they had those radio ads where they'd sing, ''Man o' War...In your mailbox...''? Well, around that time, KY 50 was Man o' War Boulevard in Lexington. This is an important road - of rather recent vintage - that forms a semicircle for 17 miles on Lexington's south side. The first stretch opened in 1975. The east end of this road is now KY 1425. Wikipedia said, ''Dissatisfaction with Man o' War has been widespread in Lexington almost from the road's completion'' - since many expected it to be an Interstate-style road. (Some people expect everything to be an Interstate-style road!)

US 421 from Frankfort to Lexington was KY 50 until the 1940s.

71

Became US 231.

75

Became US 431.

265

Simpson/Allen 1988 - Renumbered KY 585 due to the advent of I-265 miles away in the Louisville area.

318

Barren 1992 - In Glasgow. According to my 1964 Rand McNally Road Atlas a completely different KY 318 existed as part of what is now either KY 1054 or 330 in Pendleton County.

349

Hopkins 1995 - Northwest and Northeast Railroad Street and Franklin Street in White Plains.

518

Lincoln 2001 - Ran from KY 198 to KY 78.

546

Greenup/Lewis/Mason/Bracken/Pendleton/Campbell 1994 - The original number for the AA Highway (including the leg to Grays Branch but not to Grayson) before it became KY 9 and 10 in 1994. It was designated KY 546 in 1988, when construction was just commencing. (I know construction got under way around that time, because that was around the time I had to walk 7 miles home from high school because the principal made me miss the bus, and I had to traverse a dangerous temporary detour of US 27 that lacked shoulders. Now that could have been a great lawsuit.) The AA Highway from Quincy to Cold Spring opened in 1990.

579

Jackson 1985 - Off KY 30 in Annville.

683

McCreary 1993

684

McCreary 1993

688

Crittenden 2002 - Ran from near Crayne, to Chapel Hill, and about to Marion city limits.

694

Carter 1994 - The Grayson leg of the AA Highway was at first numbered KY 694 and became KY 9.

759

McCreary 1986

809

Hickman 1983

835

Hardin 1994 - Main Street in West Point before becoming Biz US 31W.

939

McLean 2005 - Ran southwest off KY 138 west of Rumsey.

942

Knott 1988

963

Marshall 1997 - Appears to have been P-shaped. Not pee-shaped, but P-shaped. From its start near Briensburg, KY 963 (Moors Camp Highway) ran for 4 miles, intersected with itself, and ran a loop for 4 miles through some subdivisions along Kentucky Lake.

964

Logan 2000 - This was Loy Moore Road but was reduced to just a tiny bridge on that road in 1991.

978

Owen - Ran for 5 miles from US 127 to KY 36.

1018

Boone 1987 - KY 1018 used to be Hopeful Church Road in Florence. It became part of KY 842. I have no idea why they didn't just extend the KY 1018 designation rather than finding a new number.

1051

Meade - Bypass Road around Brandenburg. Became part of KY 313.

1188

Gallatin 2007 - Composed mainly of the bridge at Markland Dam. It began at US 42 and looped over that road as it formed the bridge - forming a prototypical ''Kentucky loop.'' The bridge is now part of the much longer KY 1039. The looped portion of KY 1188 became one of the ramps to US 42.

1398

Estill 2018 - Pryse Road.

1583

Ohio - Horse Branch Loop was dropped from the system circa the early 2020s.

1723

Fayette - South Forbes Road. Previously extended southeast to US 27 using Red Mile Road and Virginia Avenue.

1732

Kenton 2018 - Buds Way.

1776

Ballard 2019 - Lake Drive and North 4th Street in Barlow.

1877

Breathitt 1985

1928

Fayette - Jefferson Street in downtown Lexington.

Christian 1986 - Added to KY 1946 to form KY 2544.

2074

Harlan - A 0.6-mile road dropped circa the early 2020s.

2214

Hardin 1998 - In the northern part of Radcliff near the settlement of Farleigh. (''Eww, Farleigh!''...another inside joke!)

2218

Taylor 1999

2219

Taylor 1986 - In Campbellsville.

2220

Taylor 1999

2221

Taylor 1986 - In Campbellsville.

2223

Taylor 1986 - In Campbellsville.

2260

Henderson 2018 - Trigg-Turner Road.

2263

Butler - Russellville Street in Rochester.

2374

Kenton 2018 - West 3rd Street and Johnson Street in Covington - beginning and ending at KY 8.

2380

McLean - Batsel Road.

Whitley 1981 - In Williamsburg.

2395

Bell 2023 - A 0.766-mile stretch of Balmoral Road and 26th in Middlesboro.

2424

Harlan - Park Drive in Loyall. Dropped circa early 2020s.

2437

McLean - Hatfield-Stevens Road.

2462

Breathitt - A 0.55-mile road in Jackson dropped circa early 2020s.

2471

Breathitt - A 0.186-mile road in Jackson dropped circa early 2020s.

2488

Wolfe - Plummer Street in Campton. Dropped circa early 2020s.

2490

Wolfe - Drake Street and Marion Street in Campton. Dropped circa early 2020s.

2492

Wolfe - Court Street in Campton. Dropped circa early 2020s.

2528

Carter 2018 - Railroad Street in Olive Hill - beginning and ending at US 60.

2591

Simpson - Sam Hollins Road.

McCracken 1982 - In Paducah.

2658

Hopkins 2004 - Freedom Road. It's fitting that a road called Freedom Road would be dropped from the state highway system in 2004, because Americans lost a lot of freedom in 2004.

2659

Hopkins 1989

2661

Hopkins 2000 - Part of Ivan Edwards Lane.

2711

Ohio - Apple House Road near the WK. Decommissioned circa early 2020s.

2719

Ohio - Echols Church Lane. Decommissioned circa early 2020s.

2721

Ohio 1984

2725

Logan 1995 - In Lewisburg.

2728

Grayson 1983 - Became KY 736.

2729

Grayson 1995

2730

Grayson 1995

2732

Grayson 1995

2733

Grayson 1995

2736

Nelson 2001 - In Bardstown.

Grayson 1983

2742

Grayson 1995

2743

Floyd 1985 - Betsy Layne School Road.

2745

Hart 1985

2747

Hart 1999 - Probably most or all of KY 2747 thru 2753 were overpasses over I-65 in Hart County.

2748

Hart 1985

2749

Hart 1988

2751

Hart 1985

2752

Hart 1985

2753

Hart 1985

2755

Hart 1985

2757

Hart 1993

2794

Rockcastle 1991 - KY 2794 to 2797 ranged from 0.159 to 0.864 mile.

2795

Rockcastle 1991

2796

Rockcastle 1991

2797

Rockcastle 1991

2798

Rockcastle 1987 - Became KY 3275.

2799

Hardin 1991 - An unknown 5½-mile road.

Jefferson 1983 - In Louisville.

2865

Woodford - Paralleled the south side of US 60 and looked more like somebody's driveway.

2943

Grant - A small frontage road in Williamstown. Dropped circa early 2020s.

2975

Kenton - Baker Street in Erlanger from KY 236 to Erlanger Road. I once heard the song ''Baker Street'' by Gerry Rafferty on the radio while riding in my parents' Plymouth Horizon on Baker Street. Strange but true!

2977

Kenton 1985 - In Erlanger.

2978

Kenton - Houston Road in Erlanger from KY 236 & 842 to Erlanger Road. Formerly Hartman Road. (Erlanger Road incidentally is one of these like Three Mile that sadly is broken into a zillion pieces by freeways being thrown in their way.)

2979

Kenton 1997 - The mostly residential Pieck Drive in Fort Mitchell and Fort Wright.

2980

Kenton 1994

3000

Whitley 1988

3015

Harlan - Mildred Street and Nola Street in Cawood. Dropped circa early 2020s.

3022

Powell 2018 - Lofty Heights Road.

3023

Jefferson 2002 - Was used for an old part of KY 1230 from 2000 to 2002.

Powell 1990

3071

Mason 2001 - Established 1997 as a new road from the AA Highway to the approach of the William H. Harsha Bridge in Maysville. Became part of US 62 in 2001.

3072

Kenton - Hempfling Road.

3081

Kenton - Oak Island Road.

Jefferson 1983 - In Louisville. The unrelated but obscure KY 3081 in Kenton County was established in 1987.

3088

Grant 2006 - Added as a new road in Williamstown in 1998 from KY 3025 at Baton Rouge Road, over KY 3025, and to US 25. Eliminated when Biz US 25 was cut off at Baton Rouge and rerouted over KY 3088.

Boone 1987

3090

Kenton 2018 - The ''secret'' number for Philadelphia Street in Covington from 5th to 3rd. (Ooh, a secret!)

3100

Breckinridge 2001

3124

Harlan - Cawood Street in Cawood. Dropped circa early 2020s.

3125

Harlan - Carl Street and Hal Street in Cawood. Dropped circa early 2020s.

3178

Lincoln 2022 - A small part of old US 150 east of Cedar Creek Lake that became KY 1369.

Trigg 1983

3235

Kenton - Part of Holly Lane in Erlanger off KY 236. Another ''secret'' number for one of Erlanger's side streets, it shared its number with a road in Owen Couny briefly in 1995 - before that road became KY 3215, eventually leading to yet another case of a number being duplicated. But in 1997, KY 3235 was again duplicated for a road in Marshall County that became KY 3526 after 2 months.

3303

Fleming - Plummers Mill Road. Dropped circa early 2020s.

3457

Harlan - A 0.512-mile road running northwest from Evarts. Dropped circa early 2020s.

3487

Scott - Part of Cherry Blossom Way that became part of KY 620 around the early 2020s.

3502

Bell 2023 - A 0.349-mile stretch of Winchester and 38th in Middlesboro.

6093

Hancock - Skyline Trailer Court.

6094

Hancock - Access Road #3.

6095

Hancock - Access Road #20A.

6096

Hancock - Access Road #4D.

6097

Hancock - Access Road #4.

6099

Hancock - Access Road #6.

6100

Hancock - Accesss Road #8.

6102

Hancock - Accesss Road #9.

6103

Hancock - Accesss Road #10.

6106

Hancock - Accesss Road #16.

6121

Ohio - Country Club Lane near Hartford. Dropped circa early 2020s.

6140

Warren

6168

Kenton 2018 - Mason Road in Taylor Mill from KY 16 to Reidlin Road.

6172

Adair - Richards Hollow Road. Dropped circa early 2020s.

6173

Adair - Gradyville Club Road. Dropped circa early 2020s.

6178

Adair - Conover Lane. Dropped circa early 2020s.

6179

Adair - Sawmill Road. Dropped circa early 2020s.

6180

Adair - Wilson Road. Dropped circa early 2020s.

6181

Adair - Reeves Road. Dropped circa early 2020s.

6182

Adair - Keen Wilson Road. Dropped circa early 2020s.

6183

Adair - White Oak Church Road. Dropped circa early 2020s.

6234

Rowan - Bluebank Road. Dropped circa early 2020s.

6265

Laurel

6325

Jefferson - Dropped circa early 2020s. A Google Street View search at this location shows just a one-lane driveway to a house.