Interstate 630

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Interstate 630
Auxiliary route of the Interstate Highway System

Eisenhower Memorial Highway

Length:

7 mi (11.265408000000 km)

Formed:

middle 1980s (completed) ^[1]

West end:

I-430 west of Little Rock, AR

Major
junctions:

US 67 in Little Rock, AR

East end:

I-30/US 65/US 167 in Little Rock, AR

Highways in Arkansas
< Hwy. 549		Hwy. 818 >

Interstate 630 (abbreviated I-630) in Arkansas is an east-west connector within Little Rock. It is also known as the Wilbur D. Mills Freeway and starts in the east at Interstate 30, traveling west to the intersection of Shackleford Road and Financial Centre Parkway.^{[citation needed]}

It was started by the city of Little Rock in the 1960s as the East-West Expressway or 8th Street Expressway; it was not originally an interstate, or even an Arkansas state highway. In the 1970s, U.S. Rep. Wilbur D. Mills (D-AR) caused it to be added to the interstate system by rounding down the mileage allocations of all other states, then adding the rounding differences to Arkansas' total; this kept the total nationwide allocation within the original limit of 42,500 miles.^{[citation needed]}

After it was added to the interstate system, Little Rock initially renamed it for Mills; however, when the Arkansas State Highway Department (now Highway & Transportation Department) formally brought it into the state highway system as required by Arkansas law, they removed the name, as their policy at the time prohibited the naming of state highways after individuals. AHTD later changed its policy and re-adopted the Mills name early in the new millennium.

The highway connects burgeoning West Little Rock to the downtown core. It feeds into I-430, a north-south route that slices through West Little Rock, Arkansas.^{[citation needed]}

[edit] Exit list

#	Destinations	Notes
139	I-30 – North Little Rock, Texarkana	Eastbound exit and westbound entrance; signed as exits 139A (east) and 139B (west)
1	15th Street	Eastbound exit and westbound entrance
1A	Main Street, Center Street
1B	Center Street, Broadway
2A	Chester Street
2B	Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Drive, Marshall Street
3A	Woodrow Street
3B	Pine Street, Cedar Street
4	Fair Park Boulevard
5	University Avenue	Signed as exits 5A (north) and 5B (south) westbound
6A	Rodney Parham Road, Mississippi Avenue
6B	Barrow Road
7	Baptist Medical Center
8	I-430	Signed as exits 8A (north) and 8B (south); no eastbound exit 8B (access is via Shackleford Street)
	Shackleford Road to Kanis Road, Markham Street