Abstract is: U.S. Route 6 (US 6), also called the Grand Army of the Republic Highway, honoring the American Civil War veterans association, is a main route of the U.S. Highway system. While it currently runs east-northeast from Bishop, California, to Provincetown, Massachusetts, the route has been modified several times. The highway's longest-lasting routing, from 1936 to 1964, had its western terminus at Long Beach, California. During this time, US 6 was the longest highway in the country. In 1964, the state of California renumbered its highways, and most of the route within California was transferred to other highways. This dropped the highway's length below that of US 20, making it the second-longest U.S. Highway in the country. US 6 is a diagonal route, whose number is out of sequence with the rest of the U.S. Highway grid in the western US. When it was designated in 1926, US 6 only ran east of Erie, Pennsylvania. Subsequent extensions, largely replacing the former U.S. Route 32 (US 32) and US 38, have taken it south of US 30 at Joliet, Illinois, US 40 near Denver, Colorado (past the end of US 38), US 50 at Ely, Nevada, and US 70 near Los Angeles, California, due to its north–south alignment in that state. US 6 does not serve a major transcontinental corridor, unlike other highways. George R. Stewart, author of U.S. 40: Cross Section of the United States of America, initially considered US 6, but realized that "Route 6 runs uncertainly from nowhere to nowhere, scarcely to be followed from one end to the other, except by some devoted eccentric".
Abstract is: U.S. Route 6 (US 6) is a transcontinental United States Numbered Highway, stretching from Bishop, California, in the west to Provincetown, Massachusetts, in the east. The California portion of US 6 lies in the eastern portion of the state from Bishop in the Owens Valley north to the Nevada state line in Mineral County. Prior to a 1964 Highway renumbering project US 6 extended to the Pacific Ocean in Long Beach, California, as part of the historic auto trail named the Grand Army of the Republic Highway.
P17 | country | United States of America | Q30 |
P571 | inception | 1926-01-01 | |
P3096 | KML file | Template:Attached KML/U.S. Route 6 | Q26330362 |
P2043 | length | 3198.87 | |
P131 | located in the administrative territorial entity | Massachusetts | Q771 |
California | Q99 | ||
Illinois | Q1204 | ||
Nevada | Q1227 | ||
Rhode Island | Q1387 | ||
Colorado | Q1261 | ||
Pennsylvania | Q1400 | ||
Ohio | Q1397 | ||
Indiana | Q1415 | ||
Nebraska | Q1553 | ||
Iowa | Q1546 | ||
New York | Q1384 | ||
P126 | maintained by | Indiana Department of Transportation | Q4925393 |
Ohio Department of Transportation | Q4955209 | ||
Nebraska Department of Transportation | Q16861277 | ||
P127 | owned by | Indiana Department of Transportation | Q4925393 |
Ohio Department of Transportation | Q4955209 | ||
Nebraska Department of Transportation | Q16861277 | ||
P1824 | road number | 6 | |
P559 | terminus | U.S. Route 395 in California | Q400550 |
Massachusetts Route 6A | Q2483951 | ||
P609 | terminus location | Provincetown | Q49154 |
Bishop | Q852658 | ||
P910 | topic's main category | Category:U.S. Route 6 | Q8851373 |
P16 | transport network | United States Numbered Highway System | Q408192 |
numbered roads in Indiana | Q1852213 | ||
numbered highways in Ohio | Q2491774 | ||
Nebraska State Highway System | Q20750635 |
Description: 600 mm × 600 mm (24 in × 24 in) U.S. Highway shield, made to the specifications of the 2004 edition of Standard Highway Signs. (Note that there is a missing "J" label on the left side of the diagram.) Uses the Roadgeek 2005 fonts. (United States law does not permit the copyrighting of typeface designs, and the fonts are meant to be copies of a U.S. Government-produced work anyway.)
Artist: Fredddie, originally SPUI
License: Public domain