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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 ...
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 ...
I‑235 crossing the Des Moines River in Des Moines, Iowa The Edna M. Griffin Memorial Bridge carrying I‑235 across the Des Moines River The I‑480 bridge over the Missouri River between Council Bluffs, Iowa and Downtown Omaha, Nebraska
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]
Analogous to Interstate 29 and Iowa Highway 12: Daniel Boone Trail St. Louis, Mo. to St. Paul, Minn. Counties: Boone Analogous to U.S. Route 63, Iowa Highway 163, Iowa Highway 415, Iowa Highway 17, U.S. Route 30, and U.S. Route 169: Denison – Sioux City Cut-Off Denison to Sioux City Detroit, Lincoln, and Denver Highway
Iowa. In Iowa, the Avenue of the Saints is a 282-mile-long (454 km) [ 1] highway, which begins in Lee County where Missouri Route 27 crosses the Des Moines River, and ends at the Iowa state line in Worth County, concurrent with Interstate 35. Construction of the Avenue of the Saints corridor in Iowa was completed on May 23, 2006.
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 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 ...