No section of State Route 158 is included as a portion of the National Highway System.

That segment was abandoned when the Interstate was extended towards Columbus in the late 1960s.

Jurisdiction of the former stretch of the state highway north of Interstate 70 was turned over to Licking County, which renamed the roadway as County Road 40.

[5][6] Then, in 1969, Interstate 70 was completed along its present alignment heading west from State Route 158, and the former alignment of Interstate 70 that hooked in with U.S. Route 40 was abandoned as a freeway.

This, in turn, brought the highway to its current northern terminus at U.S. Route 40 in the western end of Kirkersville.