State Route 185 (SR 185) is an east to west secondary highway in
Gibson County,
Tennessee
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that is 7.67 miles (12.3 km) long. Its western terminus is in
Dyer at the junction with
US 45W. Its eastern terminus is just outside
Bradford
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at
SR 54. East of Dyer the highway is also called Poplar Grove Road.
Route description
SR 185 begins just west of downtown
Dyer at an interchange with
US 45W/
SR 5/
SR 77. It goes east as Yorkville Street to enter downtown, where it turns south as Main Street (Old US 45W). It passes through downtown before turning east onto Poplar Grove Road, where it leaves Dyer and continues east through farmland before coming to an end at an intersection with
SR 54.
History
The original western terminus was in Dyer at the intersection of Main Street (then US 45W) and Poplar Grove Road. In 2001, when US 45W was realigned to a newly constructed bypass route to the west of Dyer, SR 185 was extended through Dyer on Main Street and Yorkville Street (formerly
SR 77) to the new US 45W. This change went unsigned until May 2008.
Major intersections
See also
*
List of Tennessee state highways
The Tennessee state routes do not follow a systematic numbering system unlike the U.S. Highway System and some other states' highway systems. The routes are separated into primary and secondary routes though. Many of the routes are hidden in tha ...
References
*Tennessee Department of Transportation (24 January 2003). "State Highway and Interstate List 2003".
External links
Tennessee Department of Transportation
185
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Transportation in Gibson County, Tennessee
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