Northeast Endpoint:
Counties Passed through: Edwards, Pawnee, Stafford
Full Description
History
K-19 initially existed from Belpre to Larned as a dirt road when initially designated, along with the rest of the state highway system, in 1927.1 By the following year, it had been upgraded to gravel.2 By 1932, K-37 east of Larned had been re-designated as K-19.3 The stretch east of Larned was gravel by 1933.4
By 1936, the Belpre-Larned segment had been hard surfaced.5 In 1946, work began on a hard-surfacing and re-aligning K-19 east of Larned. The new road would go one mile to the south of the towns of Radium and Seward.6
1 Kansas Highway Commission. Kansas State Highway System [map]. Topeka: Kansas State Printing Plant, 1 Jan. 1927.
2 Kansas Highway Commission. Kansas State Highway System [map]. Topeka: Kansas State Printing Plant, 1 Oct. 1928.
3 Kansas Highway Commission. Kansas State Highway System [map]. Topeka: Kansas State Printing Plant, 1 Apr. 1932. Accessed 11 Aug. 2013
4 Kansas Highway Commission. Kansas State Highway System [map]. Topeka: Kansas State Printing Plant, 1 June 1933. Accessed 11 Aug. 2013
5 Kansas State Highway Commission. Kansas Highway Map [map]. Topeka: Kansas State Printing Plant, Apr. 1936. Accessed 13 Sept. 2013
6 Kansas State Highway Commission. Resolution for Relocation and Redesignation of Road in Stafford County, Project 19-93-F 583 (2) 25 Sept. 1946. Accessed 1 Feb. 2014
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