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On October 5, 1998, a Piper PA-28 Cherokee was destroyed when it impacted power lines northeast of the Huron County Memorial Airport while approaching the airport. Witnesses reported the aircraft made a normal traffic pattern entry and flew an expected course, but the aircraft remained roughly 75-100 feet above the ground.
The system was created and expanded in scope c. October 5, 1970, after it was approved by the County Road Association of Michigan and the State Highway Commission. The system uses eight lettered zones which are divided by major state highways. Each county road in the system is designated with the zone letter followed by a number.
Bad Axe is a city in the U.S. state of Michigan and the county seat of Huron County [4] in the Thumb region of the Lower Peninsula. The population was 3,021 at the 2020 census , making it the largest community in Huron County and second largest in the Upper Thumb, after Caro .
Huron County (/ ˈ h jʊər ɒ n,-ən / HURE-on, -ən) is a county in the U.S. state of Michigan. As of the 2020 Census, the population was 31,407. [2] The county seat is Bad Axe. [3] Huron County is at the northern tip of the Thumb, which is a sub region of Mid Michigan.
M-19 is a north–south state trunkline highway in the US state of Michigan.The trunkline begins northeast of Detroit at a junction with Interstate 94 (I-94) near New Haven and runs northward to a junction with M-142 just east of Bad Axe in The Thumb region of the Lower Peninsula.
North of Bad Axe, M-142 leaves Pigeon Road to turn southward along Van Dyke Road for about mile and a half (2.4 km). Along this section, the highway runs concurrently with M-53 into town. At the intersection with Huron Avenue, M-142 turns east and M-53 turns west, ending the overlap of the two highways.
M-55 was shifted off the road when several highways in the Houghton Lake area were rerouted. US 27 was moved to the west side of the lakes in the area, and M-55 was moved follow US 27, replace the original M-169 in the area and replace a section of the former routing of US 27 in Houghton Lake in 1949.
The first roadway along the route of the modern M-553 was a county road; it was first shown on maps by 1936. At the time, the northern half of this county road was "improved", meaning it was gravel or stone, while the southern half was an earthen road. The southern end started in downtown Gwinn at the time. [12]