Loading AI tools
State highway in Kentucky, United States From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Kentucky Route 343 (KY 343) is a 4.225-mile-long (6.799 km) state highway in the U.S. state of Kentucky. The highway connects Fleming-Neon and McRoberts, within Letcher County.
 | This article relies largely or entirely on a single source. (May 2016) |
Kentucky Route 343 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
 KY 343 highlighted in red | ||||
| Route information | ||||
| Maintained by KYTC | ||||
| Length | 4.225 mi[1] (6.799 km) | |||
| Major junctions | ||||
| South end |  KY 317 in Fleming-Neon | |||
 KY 3409 in McRoberts | ||||
| North end | McRoberts Road in McRoberts | |||
| Location | ||||
| Country | United States | |||
| State | Kentucky | |||
| Counties | Letcher | |||
| Highway system | ||||
| ||||
| ||||
KY 343 begins at an intersection with KY 317 (Main Street) in the western part of Fleming-Neon, within Letcher County. It travels to the east-southeast and curves to the east-northeast. It passes a U.S. Post Office before it crosses over Yonts Fork on the SP4 Robert "Bug" Smith Memorial Bridge. Here, it begins paralleling Wright Fork. The highway crosses over Wright Fork on the Lt. Col. Claude E. Hounshell Bridge. It curves to the northeast and crosses over the fork again on the Master Sgt. John K. Holland Bridge. It curves to the east-southeast and then back to the east-northeast before it enters McRoberts. It crosses over She Fork before passing a U.S. Post Office. It intersects the northern terminus of KY 3409 (Dunham Road). KY 343 crosses over Wright Fork twice more, on unnamed bridges, before it ends and McRoberts Road continues into the northeastern part of McRoberts.[1]
The entire route is in Letcher County.
| Location | mi[1] | km | Destinations | Notes | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Fleming-Neon | 0.000 | 0.000 | KY 317 (Main Street) | Southern terminus | |
| 0.081 | 0.130 | SP4 Robert "Bug" Smith Memorial Bridge | Crossing of Yonts Fork | ||
| 0.461 | 0.742 | Lt. Col. Claude E. Hounshell Bridge | Crossing of Wright Fork | ||
| 0.642 | 1.033 | Master Sgt. John K. Holland Bridge | Crossing of Wright Fork | ||
| McRoberts | 3.125 | 5.029 |  KY 3409 south (Dunham Road) | Northern terminus of KY 3409 | |
| 4.225 | 6.799 | McRoberts Road north | Northern terminus | ||
| 1.000 mi = 1.609 km; 1.000 km = 0.621 mi | |||||
Seamless Wikipedia browsing. On steroids.
Every time you click a link to Wikipedia, Wiktionary or Wikiquote in your browser's search results, it will show the modern Wikiwand interface.
Wikiwand extension is a five stars, simple, with minimum permission required to keep your browsing private, safe and transparent.
