U.S. Route 6 in Indiana

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This article is about the section of U.S. Route 6 in Indiana. For the entire route, see U.S. Route 6.

U.S. Route 6 marker

U.S. Route 6
Grand Army of the Republic Highway
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US 6 highlighted in red
Route information
Maintained by INDOT
Length: 149.00 mi[2] (239.79 km)
Existed: June 8, 1931[1] – present
Major junctions
West end: US 6 / I-80 / I-94 at Illinois state line
  I-94 / I-80 / SR 51 at Lake Station, Indiana

US 421 near Westville, Indiana
US 35
US 31 near Plymouth, Indiana
US 33 at Ligonier, Indiana

I-69 near Waterloo, Indiana
East end: US 6 at Ohio state line
Highway system
← US 421 IN US 12 →
← SR 5 IN SR 7 →

U.S. Route 6 (US 6) is a part of the United States Numbered Highway that runs from California to Provincetown, Massachusetts. In Indiana, it is part of the Indiana State Road system that enters the state concurrent with the Borman Expressway between Lansing, Illinois, and Munster, Indiana. The 149.0 miles (239.8 km) of US 6 that lie within Indiana serve as a major conduit. Some sections of the highway is listed on the National Highway System. Various sections are rural two-lane highway and urbanized four-lane divided highways. The easternmost community along the highway is Butler at the Ohio state line.

US 6 passes through farm fields and forest lands, and along the northern part of Indiana. The highway is included in the Grand Army of the Republic Highway. US 6 was first designated as a US Highway in 1932. A section of the highway originally served as part of Sauk Indian Trail. US 6 replaced the original State Road 17 designation of the highway which dated back to the formation of the Indiana state road system. SR 17 ran from Ligonier through Kendallville to Waterloo and ended in Butler. US 6 also replaced the second designation of the highway, State Road 6, through most of the state.

Route description

US 6 enters Indiana concurrent with I-80/I-94 on the Borman Expressway. US 6 is concurrent with I-80/I-94 until Lake Station where US 6 leaves the expressway. US 6 heads due south towards Hobart. In Hobart US 6 turns east towards Westville. On the way to Westville the road passes through an interchange with State Road 49 and an intersection with State Road 2. In Westville the route has a concurrency with U.S. Route 421. South of Westville US 421 heads south and US 6 heads east. The route heads towards Walkerton, passing through an intersection with State Road 39, a concurrency with U.S. Route 35, and an intersection with State Road 104. In Walkerton the road has a concurrency with State Road 23. From Walkerton the route heads east towards Bremen, passing through a traffic light with U.S. Route 31.[3][4]

US 6 bypasses Bremen on the north side of town. At the western terminus of the Bremen bypass US 6 has an intersection with State Road 106. Then while on the bypass, the route has an intersection with a service road at connects with State Road 331, US 6 passes over SR 331. Then at the eastern terminus of the bypass US 6 has an intersection with the eastern terminus of SR 106. From Bremen the road heads east towards Nappanee. In Nappanee the route has a traffic light at State Road 19. From Nappanee the road heads east towards Ligonier, passing through an intersection with State Road 15, a concurrency with State Road 13, and a concurrency with US 33. The concurrency with US 33 end at a traffic light with State Road 5 in Ligonier. US 33 heads south and US 6 heads east towards Kendallville. On the way to Kendallville the route has a concurrency with State Road 9. In Kendallville the road has a concurrency with State Road 3. The route heads east from Kendallville towards Waterloo. On the way to Waterloo the road has a concurrency with StateRoad 327 and an interchange with Interstate 69. The route enters Waterloo and has an intersection with State Road 427. From Waterloo the road heads east towards Butler. The road enters Butler and has an intersection with State Road 1. From Butler US 6 heads east toward Ohio state line.[3][4]

Only the segment of US 6 that are concurrent with Interstate 80/Interstate 94 and the segment that is concurrent with U.S. Route 33 are included as a part of the National Highway System (NHS).[5] The NHS is a network of highways that are identified as being most important for the economy, mobility and defense of the nation.[6] The highway is maintained by the Indiana Department of Transportation (INDOT) like all other U.S. Highways in the state. The department tracks the traffic volumes along all state highways as a part of its maintenance responsibilities using a metric called average annual daily traffic (AADT). This measurement is a calculation of the traffic level along a segment of roadway for any average day of the year. In 2010, INDOT figured that lowest traffic levels were the 2,620 vehicles and 930 commercial vehicles used the highway daily between US 35 and Walkerton. The peak traffic volumes were 166,160 vehicles and 42,090 commercial vehicles AADT along the section of US 6 that is concurrent with the I–80 and I–94.[7]

History

US 6 was established in the late 1700s as the old Sauk Indian Trail also known as the Great East-West Trail. In 1843 the road between Ligonier and Kendallville became a gravel road surface.[8] The first number was State Road 17 in 1918, from Ligonier to the Ohio state line. The rest of what is now US 6 was unsigned.[9][10] The name of the road was changed to the Chicago Road in the 1920, SR 17 was still in use on this road.[8] In 1926 signs for State Road 6 were installed from the Illinois state line to Westville and from Ligonier to Ohio state line.[11][12] US 6 signs were installed and the road was paved during the summer of 1932. The rest of the road from Westville to Ligonier was under construction during this year.[13][14]

Northwest Indiana

Before the route of US 6 was changed to the Borman Expressway, US 6 entered Indiana from Illinois on Ridge Road. US 6 headed east passing through Munster, Highland, and New Chicago. This route became Bus US 6 and now this route is unnumbered from Illinois to Indiana State Road 912 and is still BUS US 6 from SR 912 to US 6 in Hobart.

Bremen

SR 106 was the first route of US 6 through Bremen. Then a bypass was built around the north side of Bremen. The route through Bremen was cosigned BUS US 6 and SR 106, now it is only SR 106.

Major intersections

County Location mi[2] km Exit[2][15] Destinations Notes
Lake Hammond 0.00 0.00 I-80 west / I-94 west / US 6 west – Chicago, Des Moines US 6 crosses the Illinois state line from the Kingery Expressway concurrent with I-80/I-94 on the Borman Expressway
0.87 1.40 1 US 41 north (Calumet Avenue) – Hammond, Munster Western end of US 41 concurrency
2.39 3.85 2 US 41 south / SR 152 north (Indianapolis Boulevard) – Hammond, Highland Eastern end of US 41 concurrency; serves Purdue University Calumet
Gary 4.92 7.92 5 SR 912 (Cline Avenue) – East Chicago, Griffith Serves Gary/Chicago International Airport
9.92 15.96 10 SR 53 (Broadway) – Merrillville, Gary Serves Indiana University Northwest
11.01–
11.80		 17.72–
18.99		 11
12		 I-65 to I-90 to Indiana Toll Road – Indianapolis Signed as exits 11 (south) and 12 (north) eastbound and exits 12A (south) and 12B (north) westbound; freeway narrows from 4 to 3 lanes
Lake Station 15.00 24.14 15 I-80 east / I-94 east to I-90 / SR 51 north – Detroit, Toledo Eastern end of I-80/I-94 concurrency and northern end of SR 51 concurrency
Hobart 17.27 27.79
Bus. US 6 west / SR 51 south – New Chicago, Hobart		 Southern end of SR 51 concurrency
Porter South Haven 23.32 37.53 SR 149 – Burns Harbor
Liberty Township 27.30–
27.46		 43.94–
44.19		 27 SR 49 – Valparaiso, Porter
La Porte Westville 34.30 55.20 SR 2 – Valparaiso, Westville, La Porte
35.42 57.00 US 421 north – Westville, Michigan City Northern end of US 421 concurrency
36.51 58.76 US 421 south – Monticello, Indianapolis Southern end of US 421 concurrency
Scipio Township 44.59 71.76 SR 39 – Monticello, La Porte
Kingsbury 46.81 75.33 US 35 north – La Porte, Michigan City Northern end of US 35 concurrency
South Center 51.76 83.30 US 35 south – Knox Southern end of US 35 concurrency
St. Joseph Walkerton 59.37 95.55 SR 104 north – La Porte
60.05 96.64 SR 23 north – South Bend Northwestern end of SR 23 concurrency
60.18 96.85 SR 23 south – Koontz Lake Southeastern end of SR 23 concurrency
Marshall Lapaz 69.58 111.98 US 31 – Plymouth, South Bend
Bremen 74.99 120.68 SR 106 east – Bremen Western terminus of SR 106
77.60 124.89 78 SR 331 – Bremen, Mishawaka
79.13 127.35 SR 106 west – Bremen Eastern terminus of SR 106
Elkhart Nappanee 86.20 138.73 SR 19 – Peru, Elkhart
Jackson Township 92.34 148.61 CR 17 – Goshen, Dunlap, Elkhart Future junction with CR 17[16]
94.42 151.95 SR 15 – Warsaw, Goshen
Benton Township 99.28 159.78 SR 13 south / CR 33 north – Syracuse, Wabash, Goshen Western end of SR 13 concurrency
102.05 164.23 US 33 north / SR 13 north – Goshen, Elkhart, Millersburg, Middlebury Eastern end of SR 13 concurrency; western end of US 33 concurrency
Noble Ligonier 107.83 173.54 US 33 south / SR 5 / Lincoln Highway – Fort Wayne, Shipshewana Eastern end of US 33 concurrency
Orange Township 116.59 187.63 SR 9 south – Albion, Columbia City Western end of SR 9 concurrency
119.45 192.24 SR 9 north – Rome City, Lagrange Eastern end of SR 9 concurrency
Kendallville 124.07 199.67 SR 3 south – Fort Wayne Western end of SR 3 concurrency
124.70 200.69 SR 3 north – Mongo Eastern end of SR 3 concurrency
Dekalb Corunna 130.94 210.73 SR 327 north – Orland Western end of SR 327 concurrency
131.41 211.48 SR 327 south – Garrett Eastern end of SR 327 concurrency
Waterloo 136.27–
136.39		 219.31–
219.50		 I-69 – Fort Wayne, Lansing Exit 334 on I-69
138.14 222.31 SR 427 north / CR 427 south – Hamilton, Auburn
Butler 144.35 232.31 CR 61 – St. Joe
145.83 234.69 SR 1 – Fort Wayne, Hamilton
Stafford Township 149.00 239.79 US 6 east – Edgerton, Bryan, Napoleon Ohio state line
1.000 mi = 1.609 km; 1.000 km = 0.621 mi

See also

References

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