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The Federal Aid Highway Act of 1956 brought the Interstate Highway System to the United States and 700 miles (1,100 km) of new highways to Iowa, which included a highway along the eastern bank of the Missouri River. Construction began, in segments, on what would become I-29 in the late 1950s near Sioux City and Council Bluffs. When the 20-mile ...
U.S. Highway 63. U.S. Highway 63 ( US 63) is a United States Highway that runs through the eastern third of Iowa. It begins at the Missouri state line southwest of Bloomfield and travels north through Ottumwa, Oskaloosa, Tama, Waterloo, and New Hampton. It ends at the Minnesota state line at Chester. Between Ottumwa and Oskaloosa, the highway ...
Scenic. ← US 65. → US 69. U.S. Highway 67 ( US 67) is a U.S. Highway in extreme eastern Iowa. The route begins in Davenport at the Rock Island Centennial Bridge where it crosses the Mississippi River and ends at an intersection with US 52 and Iowa Highway 64 (Iowa 64) west of Sabula. It passes through Bettendorf, Le Claire, and Clinton.
Since before the Iowa Primary Highway System was created in 1920, the Council Bluffs-to-Davenport, by way of Des Moines, corridor has always been important. Two roughly parallel auto trails, the Great White Way and the River-to-River Road, served cross-state traffic. The two routes were merged into one route, the Whiteway Highway, in 1922. [44]
U.S. Highway 30 ( US 30) is a major east–west U.S. Highway which spans 330 miles (530 km) across the state of Iowa. It is the longest primary highway in the state and is maintained by the Iowa Department of Transportation (Iowa DOT). The route in Iowa begins at the Missouri River crossing at Blair, Nebraska, and ends at the Mississippi River ...
Iowa Registered Highway Routes: 1914–1925 (PDF) (Map). Iowa Department of Transportation. 1986; Iowa Department of Transportation. "Routes and Roads Listed by County" Junior Road Map: Eastern Iowa (Map). Rand McNally & Company. 1926; Junior Road Map: Western Iowa (Map).
Great River Road Route information Length 2,069.0 mi (3,329.7 km) Location Country United States States Minnesota, Wisconsin, Iowa, Illinois, Missouri, Kentucky, Tennessee, Arkansas, Mississippi, Louisiana Highway system Scenic Byways National National Forest BLM NPS The distinctive route marker displayed along the entire 10-state routing of the Great River Road The Great River Road is a ...
Iowa highways were signed with a circle with the route's number beneath the word Iowa. U.S. Highways in Iowa as designated in 1926. In the late 1920s and early 1930s, highway paving had begun in earnest. In September 1929 alone, the Iowa State Highway Commission spent $3 million ($53.2 million, adjusted for inflation) on road construction, with ...