Editing Manhattan, Kansas (section)

===Highways===
Manhattan is served by several highways:
* {{jct|state=KS|I|70|US|40}} runs about {{convert|9|mi|km|0}} south of Manhattan. Three exits have a direct connection to Manhattan.
** Exit 313 – [[K-177 (Kansas highway)|K-177]]
** Exit 307 – McDowell Creek Road
** Exit 303 – [[K-18 (Kansas highway)|K-18]]
* {{jct|state=KS|US|24}} runs through Manhattan.  East on 24 is Wamego, west is Clay Center. US-24 comes in from Clay Center, runs north of the city, turns into a four-lane highway near Tuttle Creek State Park and travels south into the city as Tuttle Creek Boulevard until an intersection with East Poyntz Avenue, and then turns northeast towards Wamego.
* {{jct|state=KS|K|177}} runs north from I-70 as [[Bill Snyder]] Highway until the Kansas River viaduct. A half-leaf interchange with [[K-18 (Kansas highway)|K-18]] (Tuttle Creek Blvd. and Ft. Riley Blvd.) and officially ends at the intersection with [[U.S. Route 24 (Kansas)|U.S. Route 24]] in Manhattan.
* {{jct|state=KS|K|18}} is a major connector in Manhattan. It begins about {{convert|18|mi|km}} east of Manhattan, at [[K-99 (Kansas highway)|K-99]]. It runs through Wabaunsee and Zeandale to K-177, crosses to Kansas River, and runs west toward the [[Manhattan Regional Airport]] and Ogden. It then travels south to I-70 as a major gateway to Manhattan.
* {{jct|state=KS|K|113}} (Seth Child Road) runs from [[K-18 (Kansas highway)|K-18]] in southern Manhattan to [[U.S. Route 24|US-24]], passing through the western areas of the city.

Historically, Manhattan was located on the national [[Victory Highway]], one of the original 1920s [[auto trail]]s.  With the creation of the [[United States Numbered Highways|numbered federal highway system]] in 1926, the highway became [[U.S. Route 40 in Kansas|U.S. Route 40]].  From 1926 to 1935, Route 40 diverged west out of Manhattan into "40N" and "40S" routes; the two routes met again in [[Limon, Colorado]].<ref>{{cite web | last = Weingroff  | first = Richard | title = From Names to Numbers: The Origins of the U.S. Numbered Highway System | publisher=Federal Highway Administration | url = https://www.fhwa.dot.gov/infrastructure/numbers.cfm | access-date = May 18, 2011 }}</ref>

In the 1950s, Route 40 was rerouted nine miles south of Manhattan, due to security concerns that originally arose during World War II about the highway passing through neighboring [[Fort Riley]].<ref name=Frontier/> The new route followed a more direct line between Topeka and Junction City, and in 1956 it was designated as [[Interstate 70 (Kansas)|Interstate 70]].