It begins traveling southward through flat rural farmland for roughly 4.5 miles (7.2 km) to an at-grade crossing with two Cimarron Valley Railroad (CVR) tracks.

[5] The roadway continues southeast through farmland before curving south away from the railroad at County Road Ff.

[7] K-190 continues south as a two-lane roadway through flat rural farmland before curving southeast and entering into Seward County.

[4][13] On August 11, 1954, resolutions were approved that once Grant, Haskell and Seward counties had furnished a right of way of 100-foot-wide (30 m), that the road would be added to the state highway system.

[3] Then, in a resolution approved on December 22, 1954, the road was designated as K-190 and added to the state highway system.

Then, on June 27, 1956, the American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials approved US-56, which replaced K-45 through the city.