Minnesota_State_Highway_228

Minnesota State Highway 228

Minnesota State Highway 228

State highway in Minnesota, United States

Minnesota State Highway 228 (MN 228) was a 7.785-mile-long (12.529 km) highway in west-central Minnesota, which ran from its intersection with Otter Tail County Roads 4 and 17 in Vergas and continued east to its eastern terminus at its intersection with U.S. Highway 10 in the unincorporated town of Luce in Gorman Township.

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MN 228 passed through the communities of Vergas, Hobart Township, and Gorman Township.

Route description

Highway 228 served as an east–west connector route in west-central Minnesota between U.S. Highway 10 at Gorman Township and the town of Vergas.

Highway 228 was also known as Main Street and Frazee Avenue in Vergas.

The route passed around the west side of Long Lake in Vergas.

The route was legally defined as Route 227 in the Minnesota Statutes.[4]

History

Highway 228 was authorized on July 1, 1949.[2] The route was paved in 1954 or 1955.[5][6] Highway 228 has been decommissioned 66 years later on July 1, 2015, by MnDOT and has been turned over to Otter Tail County as an extension of Otter Tail County Roads 4 and 60.[3]

Major intersections

The entire route was in Otter Tail County.

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References

  1. [1]
    Minnesota Department of Transportation (August 14, 2014). "Statewide Trunk Logpoint Listing" (PDF). St. Paul: Minnesota Department of Transportation. Retrieved November 12, 2015.
  2. [2]
    "Chapter 663-H.F. No. 1792", Session Laws of Minnesota for 1949, Earl L. Berg, Commissioner of Administration, pp. 1177–1185
  3. [3]
    Moerke, Jeremiah (June 25, 2015). "Highway 228 becomes County Road 4, County Road 60 on July 1". Minnesota Department of Transportation. Archived from the original on September 5, 2015. Retrieved August 11, 2015.
  4. [4]
    "161.115, Additional Trunk Highways". Minnesota Statutes. Office of the Revisor of Statutes, State of Minnesota. 2010. Retrieved December 18, 2010.
  5. [5]
    1954 Official Road Map of Minnesota (Map). Cartography by The H.M. Gousha Company. Minnesota Department of Highways. January 1, 1954. § D10. Archived from the original on August 25, 2011. Retrieved December 18, 2010.
  6. [6]
    1956 Official Road Map of Minnesota (Map). Cartography by The H.M. Gousha Company. Minnesota Department of Highways. 1956. § D10. Archived from the original on August 25, 2011. Retrieved December 18, 2010.
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