Indiana State Road 312
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State Road 312 in the U.S. state
U.S. state
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 of Indiana
Indiana
Indiana is a US state, admitted to the United States as the 19th on December 11, 1816. It is located in the Midwestern United States and Great Lakes Region. With 6,483,802 residents, the state is ranked 15th in population and 16th in population density. Indiana is ranked 38th in land area and is...

 is an east–west state highway in the northwestern part of the state.

Route description

State Road 312 runs from the Illinois
Illinois
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 state line east to SR 912
Indiana State Road 912
State Road 912, known along its entire length as Cline Avenue, is a freeway north of the Borman Expressway , and a local access road serving Griffith south of the Borman. The portion of Cline Avenue marked as SR 912 is long. Indiana 912 can be considered a child route of U.S...

 in East Chicago
East Chicago, Indiana
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. At one point, it used to continue for less than a mile east of SR 912 to end at U.S. Route 12
U.S. Route 12
U.S. Route 12 or US 12 is an east–west United States highway, running from Grays Harbor on the Pacific Ocean, in the state of Washington, to downtown Detroit, for almost . As a thoroughfare, it has mostly been supplanted by I-90 and I-94, but remains an important road for local travel.The...

. This is a distance of 5.7 miles (9.2 km).

This state road is primarily local in nature, serving an industrial area of East Chicago and allowing easy access to Cline Avenue. State Road 312 is concurrent with Chicago Avenue for most of the eastern 5 miles (8 km). It turns north onto Sheffield Avenue and west onto Gostlin Street before becoming Brainard Avenue in Illinois.

Major intersections

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