K-111 (Kansas highway)

K-111
K-111 highlighted in red
Route information
Maintained by KDOT
Length	5.334 mi[2] (8.584 km)
Existed	September 28, 1948[1]–present
Major junctions
South end	F Street at Kanopolis city limits
Major intersections	K-140 north of Kanopolis
North end	K-156 northeast of Ellsworth
Location
Country	United States
State	Kansas
Counties	Ellsworth
Highway system
Kansas State Highway System Interstate US State Spurs
← K-110 → K-112

K-111 is an approximately 5.33-mile-long (8.58 km) state highway in the U.S. state of Kansas. Its southern terminus is at F Street at the Kanopolis city limits, and the northern terminus is at K-156 northeast of the city of Ellsworth. Along the way it intersects K-140 north of Kanopolis. K-111 travels through mostly flat rural farmlands south of K-140, and small rolling hills covered with grasslands north of K-140. It is a two-lane highway its entire length.^[3]

Before state highways were numbered in Kansas, there were auto trails. The highway crosses the former Golden Belt at its junction with K-140. When K-111 was first designated a state highway on September 28, 1948, as a short spur between Kanopolis and U.S. Route 40 (US-40), which is modern K-140. On October 13, 1967, US-40 was rerouted to overlap the newly constructed section of I-70 from Dorrance to Salina. At that time K-111 was extended northward to US-156, which is modern K-156. Then on November 27, 1968, old US-40 from Ellsworth eastward to Salina was designated K-140. In an American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials (AASHTO) meeting on October 13, 1979, it was approved to remove US-156 as a U.S. highway. Then on April 4, 1981, US-156 was redesignated as K-156.^[4]