Kentucky Route 58 (KY 58) is a 56.845-mile-long (91.483 km) state highway in Kentucky that runs from a dead end near Columbus to U.S. Route 68 (US 68) near Briensburg, Kentucky via Columbus, Clinton, Mayfield, and Benton.

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Kentucky Route 58
KY 58 highlighted in red
Route information
Maintained by KYTC
Length	56.845 mi[1] (91.483 km)
Major junctions
West end	former ferry landing near Columbus
Major intersections	US 51 in Clinton US 45 near Pryorsburg US 641 in Benton
East end	US 68 near Briensburg
Location
Country	United States
State	Kentucky
Counties	Hickman, Graves, Marshall
Highway system
Kentucky State Highway System Interstate US State Parkways
← KY 57 → KY 59

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KY 58 begins at a ferry landing on the Mississippi River in Columbus, in Hickman County, where KY 80 used to connect with Missouri Route 80 at Belmont, Missouri. Following a short concurrency with KY 123, KY 58 begins turning southeast to Clinton After a brief concurrency with US 51, it continues eastward into Graves County where it traverses the Purchase Parkway (Future I-69), and begins a concurrency US 45 from Pryorsburg to downtown Mayfield.

KY 58 leaves US 45 by turning onto East Broadway and continues eastward to Marshall County, where it turns northeastward to Benton KY 58 joins US 641 to head towards Draffenville, but end that concurrency by turning east onto Briensburg Road about a couple of miles short of the town proper. KY 58 ends at US 68 in Briensburg.

Kentucky Route 58 was part of the initial Commonwealth of Kentucky highway numbering plan developed in the early 1920s as a primary east–west route through far western Kentucky. The original route began at Kentucky Route 93 in Eddyville, located in Lyon County, and immediately crossed the Cumberland River via ferry. The route exited Lyon County via a ferry over the Tennessee River into Marshall County at Birmingham, and continued west to Briensburg via US 68 from just southeast of Briensburg. where it joined its modern-day eastern terminus. The route continued via its modern-day route through Benton, Mayfield and Clinton.^[2] The route exited Kentucky via a ferry over the Lower Mississippi River at Columbus into Missouri.