K-47 (Kansas highway)

K-47
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Route information
	Maintained by KDOT
Length:	61.556 mi (99.065 km)
Major junctions
West end:	North 20th Street in Fredonia
East end:	US-69 in Franklin
Location
Counties:	Wilson, Neosho, Crawford
Highway system

'K-47' is a 61.6-mile-long (99.1 km) state highway in the U.S. state of Kansas. It is an east-west route, and connects small towns in southeast Kansas.

Route description

K-47 begins a Lua error in Module:Convert at line 452: attempt to index field 'titles' (a nil value). west of U.S. Highway 400 (US-400) at an intersection with North 20th Street in Fredonia. It then meets US-400 at a roundabout intersection east if the city. K-47 then travels east to Altoona, where it intersects US-75. The highway continues eastward through rural Wilson County until it meets US-169 in western Neosho County north of Thayer. It continues east to US-59, where it shares a short one-mile (1.6 km) concurrency with the U.S. Highway. K-47 resumes its easterly course, crossing the Neosho River, and passing through St. Paul before entering Crawford County. The highway then passes through Greenbush and intersects the southern terminus of K-3 before arriving in Girard, where it meets K-7. K-47 continues east seven miles (11 km)) where it terminates at US-69 in Franklin.^[1]

History

K-47 has followed its current route since 2005, and was much shorter previously.^[2] Some time before 1956, the western terminus was at K-96 (now US-400) north of New Albany, following current-day county roads 1100 Road and Barber Road. Its eastern terminus was at US-59, and the rest of the route was an old routing of K-57.^[3]^[4]

Major intersections

County	Location	mi^[5]	km	Destinations	Notes
Wilson	Fredonia	0.0	0.0	North 20th Street	Western terminus
	Fredonia	0.35	0.56	US-400
	Altoona	8.3	13.4	US-75
Neosho		18.5	29.8	US-169
		29.5	47.5	US-59	Western end of US-59 concurrency
		30.5	49.1	US-59	Eastern end of US-59 concurrency
Crawford	Greenbush	47.5	76.4	K-3
	Girard	53.9	86.7	K-7
	Franklin	61.556	99.065	US-69	Eastern terminus
1.000 mi = 1.609 km; 1.000 km = 0.621 mi Concurrency terminus