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The county-designated highways in Michigan comprise a 1,241.6-mile-long (1,998.2 km) system of primary county roads across the US state of Michigan. Unlike the State Trunkline Highway System , these highways have alphanumeric designations with letters that correspond to one of eight lettered zones in the state.
Part of Dix–Toledo Highway; labeled "I-75 connector" on state maps; previously part of US 25 and later Connector 3 [234] Connector 25: 0.265: 0.426 BL I-69/BL I-94 in Port Huron: M-25 in Port Huron 1973 [240] current Labeled "I-94 connector" on state maps; previously part of US 25 [240] and later Connector 13 [234] Connector 30: 0.629: 1.012
The first state road agency, the Michigan State Highway Department (MSHD), was created on July 1, 1905. At first the department administered rewards to the counties and townships for building roads to state minimum specifications. In 1905, there were 68,000 miles (110,000 km) of roads in Michigan.
State: Michigan: County: Allegan: Area ... Monterey Township is a civil township of ... About 2.2% of families and 4.8% of the population were below the poverty line, ...
The longest US Highway in the state is US Highway 23 (US 23) at just over 362 miles (583 km) spanning from the Ohio state line north to the Straits of Mackinac in the Lower Peninsula, while the shortest is the 2.3-mile (3.7 km) segment of US 8 south of Norway in Dickinson County.
In 1919, the Michigan State Highway Department signposted the highway system in the state for the first time. [12] At that time, M-57 designation was originally used in Charlevoix County from Boyne Falls at M-13 (now US 131) through Boyne City and back to then M-13. [13] That highway's number was changed to M-75 in 1926.
The three-digit number is unique to each individual county within a state, but to be unique within the entire United States, it must be prefixed by the state code. This means that, for example, the number 001 is shared by Alcona County, Michigan, Adams County, Wisconsin, and Adair County, Iowa. To uniquely identify Alcona County, Michigan, one ...
M-50 is a state trunkline highway in the US state of Michigan.Although designated as an east–west highway, it is nearly a diagonal northwest–southeast route. The western terminus is at exit 52 along Interstate 96 (I-96) near Alto a few miles east of the metro Grand Rapids area, and its eastern terminus is in downtown Monroe at US Highway 24 (US 24, Telegraph Road).