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Obvious question #1

Is it Wisconsin State Highway 10 or Wisconsin Highway 10? :-) —Rob (talk) 19:33, 21 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Neither. It's US-10. Or in verbose form, "U.S. Highway 10." If, however, your question was regarding the standard naming convention for Wisconsin's state trunk highways and, more specifically, the non-U.S. Highways and non-Interstate Highways, that would officially by "State Trunk Highway xx", as in "State Trunk Highway 11." Obviously, the verbose form is almost never used and you generally see the common abbreviated form, "STH-11." In common speech, however, Wisconsinites say "Highway 11" for STH-11, but then again, they also say "Highway 41" for US-41, "Highway C" for (County Trunk Highway) CTH-C, and sometimes even "Highway 94" for I-94. See the Wisconsin Highways website and the "STH"..."CTH"..."Highway"? Help! page as well. CBessert 01:52, 26 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]

1926 renumbering

(info from Wisconsin Highways)

WIS 10: US 51 IL-Hurley, US 2 Hurley-MN
WIS 11: US 61 Dubuque-La Crosse (note some differences to serve Prairie du Chien), US 53 La Crosse-Superior
WIS 12: US 12 MN-IL
WIS 14: US 8 MN-Pembine
WIS 15: US 41 Milwaukee-MI
WIS 16: WIS 29 Chippewa Falls-Green Bay, US 141 Green Bay-Manitowoc
WIS 17: US 141 Milwaukee-Manitowoc
WIS 18: WIS 34 MN-Humbird, US 10 Humbird-Manitowoc
WIS 19: US 18 IA-Madison
WIS 23: US 118 Dickeyville-Dodgeville
WIS 29: US 16 MN-Milwaukee
WIS 31: US 151 Madison-Fond du Lac
WIS 41: US 18 Cambridge-Milwaukee (also continued west from Madison on US 14?)
WIS 51: WIS 72 Ellsworth-Menomonie
WIS 53: WIS 95 Fountain City-Neillsville
WIS 57: US 41 IL-Milwaukee
WIS 61: WIS 14 Cassville-Milwaukee
WIS 69: US 2 MI-MI (and Hurley-MI?)
WIS 95: US 110 Fremont-Oshkosh
WIS 110: WIS 112 extended Marengo-Ashland
WIS 118: WIS 115 Hustisford-Juneau
WIS 141: WIS 146 Fall River-Cambria
WIS 151: unknown

Later renumberings caused by U.S. Highways

WIS 11 (1933): US 14 La Crosse-Madison
WIS 13 (1933): US 14 Madison-Evansville (concurrent)
WIS 14 (1933): WIS 81 Cassville-Beloit, WIS 15 Beloit-Milwaukee
WIS 20 (1933): US 14 Janesville-north of Darien
WIS 31 (1934): US 151 Fond du Lac-Manitowoc
WIS 34 (1934): US 10 MN-Humbird
WIS 45 (1934): WIS 34 Wisconsin Rapids-Knowlton
WIS 57 (1928): US 141 Abrams-MI
WIS 63 (1934): WIS 17 Merrill-Eagle River
WIS 89 (1933): US 14 north of Darien-IL
WIS 92 (1933): US 14 Evansville-Janesville

1917 log

(info from Wisconsin Highways)

10 IL - Beloit - Madison - Wausau - Hurley - Superior - MN
11 Prairie du Sac - Gotham - La Crosse - Eau Claire - Superior - MN
12 MN - Hudson - Eau Claire - Tomah - Baraboo - Madison - Genoa City - IL
13 Wisconsin Dells - Wisconsin Rapids - Marshfield - Ashland - Bayfield
14 MN - St. Croix Falls - Ladysmith - Rhinelander - Armstrong Creek - Florence
15 Milwaukee - Fond du Lac - Oshkosh - Appleton - Green Bay - Marinette - MI
16 Chippewa Falls - Wausau - Green Bay - Manitowoc
17 IL - Kenosha - Milwaukee - Sheboygan - Manitowoc - Sturgeon Bay - Sister Bay

east-west

18 Humbird - Stevens Point - Appleton - Manitowoc
19 Prairie du Chien - Dodgeville - Madison - Sun Prairie - Watertown - Waukesha - Milwaukee
20 IA - Hazel Green - Monroe - Janesville - Burlington - Rochester - Racine
21 La Crosse - Sparta - New Lisbon - Necedah - Coloma - Oshkosh
22 Wautoma - Waupaca - Shawano - Oconto
23 Packwaukee - Fond du Lac - Sheboygan

north-south

24 east of Spooner - Stone Lake - Hayward - Ashland
25 Galesville - Nelson - Menomonie
26 Janesville - Watertown - Theresa
27 Prairie du Chien - Viroqua - Sparta
28 IA - Dickeyville - Dodgeville - Spring Green

blah

29 New Lisbon - Wisconsin Dells - Portage - Watertown (by 1923 at least - [1])
30 Platteville - Lancaster - Readstown
31 Madison - Columbus - Fond du Lac
32 Woodruff - Eagle River - Crandon
33 Baraboo - Reedsburg - Elroy - Camp Douglas
34 MN - Prescott - Mondovi
35 St. Croix Falls - Danbury
36 Lake Geneva - Milwaukee
37 Alma - Eau Claire
38 Abrams - Wausaukee
39 Birnamwood - Antigo - Pelican Lake
40 Bruce - Radisson
41 Madison - Jefferson - Waukesha - Milwaukee (probably - but also continued west from Madison along US 14? that was 11 at least just east of Richland Center)
42 IL - Monroe - Verona
43 Cadott - Ladysmith ([2])
44 Portage - Manchester - Princeton
45 Wisconsin Rapids - Knowlton ???
46 Roberts - New Richmond - north of Amery
47 Appleton - Bonduel
48 Sheboygan - Chilton - Hilbert
49 Green Lake - Fremont
50 Delavan - Kenosha
51 Ellsworth - Downsville ?
52 Galesville - Black River Falls
53 Fountain City - Blair - Neillsville ?
54 Green Bay - Algoma
55 Richfield - West Bend - Kewaskum - Theresa
56 Fond du Lac - Chilton
57 Racine - Thompsonville - Milwaukee
58 Sextonville - LaValle
59 La Grange - Waukesha
60 Boscobel - Gotham
61 unknown
62 east of Schullsburg - Mineral Point
63 Merrill - Rhinelander - Eagle River ?
64 Pound - Marinette
65 Baraboo - Portage
66 Wisconsin Rapids - Plover
67 Plymouth - Elkhart Lake - New Holstein
68 West Bend - Port Washington
69 MI - Florence - MI (also Hurley - MI?)
70 Grantsburg - Siren
71 Elroy - Mauston
72 New Munster - Burlington
73 Sherwood - Kaukauna
74 Whitefish Bay - Fox Point - Brown Deer
75 76th Street in Milwaukee from Forest Home Avenue to Blue Mound Road
76 Casco - Kewaunee
77 downtown Milwaukee
78 Hartford - Slinger

All-time list

(not necessarily for the article, just a way to keep track - as always info is from Wisconsin Highways)

If you can handle waiting just a little longer, I'm working on finishing my own Wisconsin Highways Master List 1917-Present, similar to the one on my Michigan site [3]. — CBessert 02:03, 23 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Eh, I just find it fun to do stuff like this, and it's probably good to coordinate the links for the former routes. I've made a complete one for U.S. Highways. --SPUI (T - C) 02:40, 23 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Name	Years	Link	Notes
US 2	1925-present	U.S. Highway 2 (Wisconsin)
US 8	1926-present	U.S. Highway 8 (Wisconsin)
US 10	1925-1926	U.S. Highway 10 (Wisconsin 1925)	planning stages only; became US 12
US 10	1926-present	U.S. Highway 10 (Wisconsin)
WIS 10	1917-1926	Highway 10 (Wisconsin)	became US 51 and US 2
WIS 11	1917-1933	Highway 11 (Wisconsin 1917)	became US 14, La Crosse to Madison? But apparently US 61 all the way to Dubuque supplanted WIS 11? That was 30, and disappeared by 1924
WIS 11	1933?-present	Highway 11 (Wisconsin)
US 12	1925-1926	U.S. Highway 12 (Wisconsin 1925)	planning stages only; became US 10
US 12	1926-present	U.S. Highway 12 (Wisconsin)
WIS 12	1917-1926	Highway 12 (Wisconsin)	became US 12
WIS 13	1917-present	Highway 13 (Wisconsin)
US 14	1933-present	U.S. Highway 14 (Wisconsin)
WIS 14	1917-1926	Highway 14 (Wisconsin 1917)	became US 8
WIS 14	1926-1933	Highway 14 (Wisconsin 1926)	became WIS 81 and WIS 15
WIS 15	1917-1931	Highway 15 (Wisconsin 1917)	became WIS 42
WIS 15	1933-1987	Highway 15 (Wisconsin 1933)	became I-43
WIS 15	1998-present	Highway 15 (Wisconsin)
US 16	1925-1978	U.S. Highway 16 (Wisconsin)
WIS 16	1917-1916	Highway 16 (Wisconsin 1917)	became WIS 29 and US 141
WIS 16	1978-present	Highway 16 (Wisconsin)
WIS 17	1917-by 1932	Highway 17 (Wisconsin 1917)	became WIS 42
WIS 17	1934-present	Highway 17 (Wisconsin)
US 18	1925-present	U.S. Highway 18 (Wisconsin)
WIS 18	1917-1926	Highway 18 (Wisconsin)	became WIS 34 and US 10
WIS 19	1917-present	Highway 19 (Wisconsin)
WIS 20	1917-present	Highway 20 (Wisconsin)
WIS 21	1917-present	Highway 21 (Wisconsin)
WIS 22	1917-present	Highway 22 (Wisconsin)
WIS 23	1917-present	Highway 23 (Wisconsin)
WIS 24	1917-present	Highway 24 (Wisconsin)
WIS 25	1917-present	Highway 25 (Wisconsin)
WIS 26	1917-present	Highway 26 (Wisconsin)
WIS 27	1917-present	Highway 27 (Wisconsin)
WIS 28	1917-early 1920s	Highway 28 (Wisconsin 1917)
WIS 28	by 1924-present	Highway 28 (Wisconsin)
WIS 29	1917?-1926	Highway 29 (Wisconsin 1917)?	became US 16
WIS 29	1926-present	Highway 29 (Wisconsin)
WIS 30	1917-by 1924	Highway 30 (Wisconsin 1917)	became WIS 11???
WIS 30	by 1924-present	Highway 30 (Wisconsin)
WIS 31	1917-1934	Highway 31 (Wisconsin 1917)	became US 151
WIS 31	1936-present	Highway 31 (Wisconsin)
WIS 32	1917-present	Highway 32 (Wisconsin)
WIS 33	1917-present	Highway 33 (Wisconsin)
WIS 34	1917-early 1920s	Highway 34 (Wisconsin 1917)	became WIS 18
WIS 34	early 1920s-1926	Highway 34 (Wisconsin early 1920s)	became WIS 116
WIS 34	1926-1934	Highway 34 (Wisconsin 1926)	became US 10
WIS 34	1934-present	Highway 34 (Wisconsin)
WIS 35	1917-present	Highway 35 (Wisconsin)
WIS 36	1917-present	Highway 36 (Wisconsin)
WIS 37	1917-present	Highway 37 (Wisconsin)
WIS 38	1917-by 1924	Highway 38 (Wisconsin 1917)	became WIS 57
WIS 38	by 1924-present	Highway 38 (Wisconsin)
I-39	1992-present	Interstate 39 (Wisconsin)
WIS 39	1917-by 1924	Highway 39 (Wisconsin 1917)	became WIS 26 and WIS 47
WIS 39	by 1924-present	Highway 39 (Wisconsin)

Interstate 57?

I'm lost... when was I-57 supposed to route north into Wisconsin? jwhouk 07:53, 19 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

In the 1950s. It was the route number proposed for the Milwaukee-to-Green Bay Interstate that was eventually rejected by the federal government. I-57 would've run concurrently with I-94 between downtown Chicago and downtown Milwaukee. CBessert 01:16, 21 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

List split

Following the concepts embodied in the "Michigan Plan", I boldly split the list into three and spun out Wisconsin State Trunk Highway System as the new focus article for the system. Also, in doing so, I put List of Interstate Highways in Wisconsin and List of U.S. Highways in Wisconsin onto the templates developed for WP:USRD/STDS/L and corrected a few of the most glaring errors (US 53 can't intersect I-35 in WI because I-35 doesn't enter WI or end at the state line... the northern segment of US 141 wasn't included, etc). Now the future task will be to get this list onto the templates, and fill in all of the information with verified, and cited, details. Imzadi 1979 → 01:10, 20 March 2014 (UTC)[reply]

WIS 185

Where was WIS 185 in 1947? I can't find it. I saw a map showing that WIS 94 was renumbered WIS 185, but where was the first WIS 185? Alexlatham96 (talk) 00:23, 22 August 2019 (UTC)[reply]

WIS 177

Where was WIS 177 in 1947? The only known WIS 177 is not on the 1949 map, but is on the 1951 map, so where was the first WIS 177?Alexlatham96 (talk) 21:26, 8 September 2022 (UTC)[reply]