Iowa Highway 192
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Iowa 192 highlighted in red
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| Length: | 5.090 mi (8.192 km) | |||
| Existed: | 1980 – 2016 | |||
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| South end: |
  I-29 / I-80 in Council Bluffs
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 US 6 in Council Bluffs |
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| North end: |
I-29 in Council Bluffs |
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| Counties: | Pottawattamie | |||
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Iowa Highway 192 (Iowa 192) was a north–south highway within the city limits of Council Bluffs, Iowa. It had a length of 5 miles (8.0 km). It began and an interchange with Interstate 29 (I-29) and I-80 in the southern part of the city. It briefly overlapped U.S. Highway 6 (US 6) near downtown. It ended at another interchange with I-29 just south of the northern city limits. It was designated in 1980 and turned over to the city of Council Bluffs in 2016.
Iowa 192 existed from the 1930s to the 1970s in a route similar to this route. That route served as an access road from downtown Council Bluffs to Lake Manawa State Park.
Iowa 192 began at an interchange with I-29 / I-80 in southern Council Bluffs. It headed north along the four-lane South Expressway parallel to a line of the BNSF Railway. A grain elevator towered over the road and railway just north of the I-29 / I-80 interchange. Between 23rd and 19th avenues, the highway eased one block to the west.
North of the stoplight at 19th Avenue, it became an elevated highway in order to avoid level crossings with the multiple railroad tracks that passed beneath. Immediately after crossing 9th Street, the elevated highway returned to the surface and the two directions of traffic split into a one-way couplet – S. 6th Street northbound and S. 7th Street southbound. The division of the two directions also marked the end of the South Expressway. As Iowa 192 approached the west side downtown Council Bluffs, it passed the historic Pottawattamie County Jail, a three-story rotary jail used from 1885 to 1969.
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