Minnesota State Highway 32 Explained

State:MN
Type:MN
Route:32
Map Custom:yes
Map Notes:MN 32 highlighted in red
Established:November 2, 1920
Length Mi:144.845
Length Ref:[1]
Direction A:South
Direction B:North
Junction: near Hawley
at Syre
near Twin Valley
at Fertile
at Marcoux
near Red Lake Falls
at Thief River Falls
Counties:Clay, Norman, Polk, Red Lake, Pennington, Marshall, Roseau
Previous Type:MN
Previous Route:30
Next Type:MN
Next Route:33

Minnesota State Highway 32 (MN 32) is a 144.845-longNaN-long highway in west-central and northwest Minnesota, which runs from its intersection with State Highway 34 in Tansem Township near Barnesville and continues north to its intersection with State Highway 11 at Greenbush in Roseau County.

Route description

State Highway 32 serves as a north - south route between Tansem Township, Twin Valley, Fertile, Red Lake Falls, Thief River Falls, and Greenbush in west-central and northwest Minnesota.

The route is also known as:

Highway 32 parallels U.S. 75 and U.S. 59 throughout its route.

The route passes through the Glacial Ridge National Wildlife Refuge in Polk County, east of Crookston, west of Erskine.[2] [3]

History

State Highway 32 was established November 2, 1920.[4] At this time, it ran from State Highway 8 (present-day U.S. 2) east of Crookston to Greenbush.

By 1923, the road was mostly graveled, with a section of unimproved dirt between Holt and Middle River and another north of Strathcona.[5] All graveling was completed by 1930.[6]

In 1933, the route was extended south, from U.S. 2 to State Highway 34 south of Rollag. This extension was graveled in its entirety.[7]

When U.S. 59 was established in Minnesota in 1935, it ran concurrent with Highway 32 between Thief River Falls and present-day Marshall County State-Aid Highway 28 (north of Holt) until 1960.

North of U.S. 2, the highway was paved in sections throughout the 1940s.[8] [9] [10] [11] [12] [13] [14]

South of U.S. 2, the first section of highway to be paved was from the junction with then-Highway 31 (now Highway 200) north of Twin Valley to a point just south of Fertile in 1937;[15] [16] paving was extended into both Fertile and Twin Valley in 1940,[17] [16] as well as from U.S. 10 to Hitterdal (although part of the latter segment was reverted to gravel in 1943).[18] In 1948, it was paved from U.S. 10 north to Ulen, and then from Ulen to Twin Valley the following year.[18] [17] Paving from Highway 102 to U.S. 2 and from Rollag to U.S. 10 was done in 1952 and the final segment from Highway 34 to Rollag in 1954,[19] [20] making the route paved in its entirety.[21]

External links

Highway 32 at The Unofficial Minnesota Highways Page

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Statewide Trunk Logpoint Listing . PDF . Minnesota Department of Transportation . December 27, 2011 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20120914220734/http://www.dot.state.mn.us/roadway/data/reports/logpoint/statelpt.pdf . September 14, 2012 .
  2. http://www.fws.gov/midwest/GlacialRidge/ U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service website -- Glacial Ridge Refuge - Link
  3. http://www.mn.nrcs.usda.gov/news/features04/glacial_ridge.html U.S. Dept. of Agriculture / Natural Resources Conservation website -- Glacial Ridge article - Link
  4. Web site: § 161.114, Constitutional Trunk Highways . Minnesota Statutes . Minnesota Office of the Revisor of Statutes . Minnesota State Legislature . 2010 . October 18, 2010.
  5. Map of Trunk Highway System, State of Minnesota . May 1, 1923 . Minnesota Highway Department . McGill-Warner Co. . C-3 through C-7 . November 26, 2018.
  6. 1930 Map of Trunk Highway System, State of Minnesota . April 1, 1930 . Minnesota Highway Department . McGill-Warner Co. . D-11 through K-9 . November 26, 2018.
  7. 1934 Map of Trunk Highway System, State of Minnesota . May 1, 1934 . Minnesota Highway Department . McGill-Warner Co. . C-3 through C-11 . November 26, 2018.
  8. Web site: Construction Project Log Record: Control Section 6301 . Minnesota Department of Transportation . November 26, 2018.
  9. Web site: Construction Project Log Record: Control Section 5703 . Minnesota Department of Transportation . November 26, 2018.
  10. Web site: Construction Project Log Record: Control Section 5704 . Minnesota Department of Transportation . November 26, 2018.
  11. Web site: Construction Project Log Record: Control Section 4503 . Minnesota Department of Transportation . November 26, 2018.
  12. Web site: Construction Project Log Record: Control Section 4504 . Minnesota Department of Transportation . November 26, 2018.
  13. Web site: Construction Project Log Record: Control Section 6805 . Minnesota Department of Transportation . November 26, 2018.
  14. Minnesota 1950 Official Highway Map . January 1, 1950 . Minnesota Department of Highways . C-3 through C-11 . November 26, 2018.
  15. Web site: Construction Project Log Record: Control Section 5405 . Minnesota Department of Transportation . November 26, 2018.
  16. Web site: Construction Project Log Record: Control Section 6006 . Minnesota Department of Transportation . November 26, 2018.
  17. Web site: Construction Project Log Record: Control Section 5404 . Minnesota Department of Transportation . November 26, 2018.
  18. Web site: Construction Project Log Record: Control Section 1403 . Minnesota Department of Transportation . November 26, 2018.
  19. Web site: Construction Project Log Record: Control Section 6007 . Minnesota Department of Transportation . November 26, 2018.
  20. Web site: Construction Project Log Record: Control Section 1402 . Minnesota Department of Transportation . November 26, 2018.
  21. 1955 Official Road Map of Minnesota . January 1, 1955 . Minnesota Department of Highways . The H.M. Gousha Co. . C-3 through C-10 . November 26, 2018.

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