Minnesota State Highway 1

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Trunk Highway 1 marker

Trunk Highway 1
Route information
Maintained by Mn/DOT
Length: 345.954 mi[2] (556.759 km)
Existed: 1933[1] – present
Major junctions
West end: ND 54 at the Red River,
the Minnesota — North Dakota state line
 

US 75 at Warren
US 59 at Thief River Falls
MN 89 at Red Lake
US 71 / MN 46 at Northome
MN 38 at Effie
MN 65 at Togo
US 53 at Cook

MN 169 at Ely
East end: MN 61 at Illgen City
Location
Counties: Marshall, Pennington, Clearwater, Beltrami, Koochiching, Itasca,
Saint Louis, Lake
Highway system

Minnesota Trunk Highways
Interstate • US • State • Legislative routes

← I-694 US 2 →

Minnesota State Highway 1 is a highway in northwest and northeast Minnesota, which runs from North Dakota Highway 54 at the North Dakota state line (at the Red River in Oslo) and continues east to its eastern terminus at its intersection with Minnesota Highway 61 at the unincorporated town of Illgen City in Beaver Bay Township on the North Shore of Lake Superior. At 346 miles (557 km) in length, Highway 1 is the longest state route in Minnesota.[1]

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[edit] Route description

State Highway 1 serves as an east–west route between Oslo, Warren, Thief River Falls, Red Lake, Northome, Cook, Tower, Ely, and Beaver Bay Township.

The roadway passes through the following forests:

Intersection of Highways 1 and 169 in Ely

The route runs concurrent with State Highway 169 for 26 miles (42 km) from Vermilion Lake Township (west of Tower) to Ely.

State Highway 1 also runs concurrent with State Highway 89 for 28 miles (45 km) on the southwest side of Red Lake. This is the longest concurrency with another state highway within Minnesota.

[edit] History

Most of State Highway 1 was authorized in 1933,[3] except for a section between U.S. 75 and State Highway 32 at Thief River Falls which was part of Minnesota Constitutional Route 33 authorized in 1920.[1]

The route was given the Highway 1 designation because it was one of the longest trunk highways, and would allow re-use of the Route 1 markers removed from along U.S. 61 and U.S. 65 in 1934.[1]

When it was marked in 1934, it was only paved from U.S. 75 to Highway 32 and from Highway 169 to Ely.[4]

As recently as 1963, significant portions of Highway 1 were unpaved.

Highway 1 still had an unpaved segment in 1996, between U.S. 53 and State Highway 169 in northern Saint Louis County. At that point it was swapped with paved Saint Louis County Road 22.[1]

[edit] Major intersections

County Location Mile[5][2] Destinations Notes
Red River of the North 0.000 ND 54
Marshall
 Oak Park Township 1.554 MN 220 West end of MN 220 concurrency
Alvarado 6.555 MN 220 East end of MN 220 concurrency
Warren 17.050 US 75  
Pennington
 Thief River Falls 44.457 US 59 West end of US 59 concurrency
45.771 US 59
MN 32		 East end of US 59 concurrency
South end of MN 32 concurrency
46.118 MN 32 North end of MN 32 concurrency
Goodridge Township 63.367 MN 219  
Clearwater
 No major junctions
Beltrami
 Red Lake Indian Reservation 89.331 MN 89 North end of MN 89 concurrency
116.960 MN 89 South end of MN 89 concurrency
Cormant Township 141.331 MN 72 West end of MN 72 concurrency
Shooks 146.400 MN 72 East end of MN 72 concurrency
Koochiching
 Northome (unorganized territory) 151.288 US 71 South end of US 71 concurrency
Northome 154.276 US 71 North end of US 71 concurrency
154.564 MN 46  
Northome (unorganized territory) 178.128 MN 6 North end of MN 6 concurrency
Itasca
 Effie (unorganized territory) 180.452 MN 6 South end of MN 6 concurrency
Effie 186.656 MN 38  
Carpenter Township 211.369 MN 65 West end of MN 65 concurrency
215.424 MN 65 East end of MN 65 concurrency
St. Louis
 Linden Grove 229.223 MN 73  
Field Township 236.245 US 53 North end of US 53 concurrency
Sherman Corner 244.377 US 53 South end of US 53 concurrency
Peyla 258.848 MN 169 West end of MN 169 concurrency
Tower 263.159 MN 135  
Ely 286.208 MN 169 East end of MN 169 concurrency
Lake
 Illgen City 347.340 MN 61  
1.000 mi = 1.609 km; 1.000 km = 0.621 mi
     Concurrency terminus •      Closed/former •      Incomplete access •      Unopened

[edit] References

  1. ^ a b c d e Steve Riner (July 26, 2003). Details of Routes 1-25. Unofficial Minnesota Highways Page. Accessed August 27, 2004.
  2. ^ a b "Trunk Highway Log Point Listing - Construction District 1" (PDF). Minnesota Department of Transportation. September 4, 2009. http://www.dot.state.mn.us/roadway/data/reports/logpoint/d1.pdf. Retrieved August 21, 2010. 
  3. ^ "Chapter 440-H.F. No. 2000", Session Laws of Minnesota for 1933 (Mike Holm, Secretary of State): pp. 881-897 
  4. ^ Minnesota Highway Department (May 1, 1934). 1934 Map of Trunk Highway System, State of Minnesota (Map). http://reflections.mndigital.org/cdm4/item_viewer.php?CISOROOT=/mdt&CISOPTR=210&DMSCALE=25&DMWIDTH=800&DMHEIGHT=800&DMX=1418&DMY=484&DMMODE=viewer&DMTEXT=&REC=15&DMTHUMB=1&DMROTATE=0. Retrieved November 16, 2010. 
  5. ^ "Trunk Highway Log Point Listing - Construction District 2" (PDF). Minnesota Department of Transportation. September 4, 2009. http://www.dot.state.mn.us/roadway/data/reports/logpoint/d2.pdf. Retrieved August 21, 2010. 

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