Louisiana Highway 137
| Louisiana Highway 137 | |
|---|---|
| Location: | Morehouse and Richland Parishes |
| Length: | 18.08 mi (29.10 km) |
Louisiana Highway 137 (LA 137) was a state highway in Louisiana that serves Richland Parish and Morehouse Parish. It spanned 18.08 miles (29.10 km) in a south to north direction. LA 137 is now signed as U.S. 425 for its entire length.
From the south, LA 137 began as a state highway at an intersection with LA 15 north of Mangham in the small town of Archibald. It went north and intersected LA 584 before intersecting LA 135.
Passing under I-20, LA 137 met LA 3048 in the town of Rayville. After intersecting US 80, LA 137 entered Morehouse Parish, continuing north as a two-lane road until it swapped the U.S. 425 designation with LA 133.
LA 137 is a divided, four-lane highway south of Rayville, a pair of two one-way roads inside of Rayville, and an undivided, two-lane road north of Rayville. Before the 1955 renumbering, LA 137 was State Route 47 from Archibald to Rayville. The current routing for LA 137 did not exist, and travelers had to take US 80 west, then State Route 47 (Current LA 133) to Oak Ridge.
LA 137 was removed from the state highway system in 2005, when US 425 was extended south to Mississippi. It is still signed, however, as LA 137 and US 425.
- Major junctions
| Parish | Location | Mile | km | Destinations | Notes | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Richland |
Archibald | 0.00 | 0.00 | LA 15 – Monroe, Winnsboro | southern terminus, U.S. 425 picks up LA 15 | |||
| 3.80 | 6.12 | LA 584 | ||||||
| Richland | 6.78 | 10.91 | LA 135 | |||||
| Rayville | 7.40 | 11.91 | I-20 – Monroe, Vicksburg | |||||
| Rayville | 8.21 | 13.21 | LA 3048 (Foster St.) | |||||
| Rayville | 8.74 | 14.07 | US 80 – Monroe, Delhi | |||||
| Morehouse |
Oak Ridge | 8.74 | 14.07 | LA 133 | northern terminus, U.S. 425 picks up LA 133 | |||
| 1.000 mi = 1.609 km; 1.000 km = 0.621 mi | ||||||||
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