Minnesota State Highway 54

Minnesota State Highway 54 (MN 54) is a 10.851-mile-long (17.463 km) highway in west-central Minnesota, which runs from its intersection with State Highway 27 in Roseville Township of Grant County and continues north to its northern terminus at its intersection with U.S. Highway 59 / State Highway 55 (co-signed) in Elbow Lake. The route has a speed limit of 60 miles per hour (97 km/h) for its entire length.

Trunk Highway 54
MN 54 highlighted in red
Route information
Defined by MS § 161.114
Maintained by MnDOT
Length10.851 mi[1] (17.463 km)
Existed1920[2]–present
Major junctions
South end MN 27 in Roseville Township
North end U.S. 59 / MN 55 in Elbow Lake
Location
CountiesGrant
Highway system
  • Minnesota Trunk Highways
← US 53MN 55 →

Highway 54 passes through Roseville Township, Lien Township, Sanford Township, and Elbow Lake.

Route description

State Highway 54 serves as a north–south route between the city of Elbow Lake and State Highway 27.

Highway 54, together with Highway 27, serve as an arterial route between Herman and the county seat at Elbow Lake.

The route is legally defined as Constitutional Route 54 in the Minnesota Statutes.[3]

Highway 54 is currently slated for a turnback to Grant County by 2023 due to low traffic and because it is a major collector, which functions more as a county state-aid highway or county road. In exchange, Minnesota State Highway 78 will extend south to Erdahl via CSAH 10.[4][5][6]

The turnback of Highway 54 to Grant County occurred on June 1st.[7]

History

Highway 54

Trunk Highway 54
LocationElbow Lake to Herman
Length19 mi (31 km)
Existed1920–1934

State Highway 54 was authorized in 1920 from Elbow Lake to Herman.[3] In 1934, the east-west portion of this route near Herman became part of State Highway 27.[2]

The route was still gravel in 1949. It was fully paved by 1953.[2]

Major intersections

The entire route is in Grant County.

Locationmi[1]kmDestinationsNotes
Roseville Township0.0000.000 MN 27 – Herman, Hoffman
CR 35 south (210th Avenue)		Southern terminus; road continues south as CR 35/210th Avenue
Lien Township2.0213.252 CR 35 east, CR 34 west (170th Street)
4.0346.492 CR 36 east (190th Street)
5.0408.111 CSAH 8 west (200th Street)Southern end of CSAH 8 concurrency
6.0479.732 CSAH 8 east (210th Street)Northern end of CSAH 8 concurrency
Lien–Sanford
township line		7.11111.444 CSAH 12 west (220th Street)
Sanford Township8.18413.171 CR 46 west (230th Street)
10.22416.454 CSAH 25 west (250th Street) to CSAH 1
Elbow Lake10.85117.463 US 59 / MN 55Northern terminus
1.000 mi = 1.609 km; 1.000 km = 0.621 mi

References

KML is from Wikidata
  1. Minnesota Department of Transportation (August 14, 2014). "Statewide Trunk Logpoint Listing" (PDF). St. Paul: Minnesota Department of Transportation. Retrieved December 8, 2015.
  2. Riner, Steve. "Details of routes 51–75". The Unofficial Minnesota Highways Page. Self-published. Retrieved October 22, 2010.
  3. Minnesota State Legislature (2010). "§ 161.114, Constitutional Trunk Highways". Minnesota Statutes. Minnesota Office of the Revisor of Statutes. Retrieved October 20, 2010.
  4. (PDF) https://www.dot.state.mn.us/govrel/reports/2018/2018-turnback-program-report.pdf. Missing or empty |title= (help)
  5. https://www.revisor.mn.gov/laws/2019/1/3/laws.3.7.0#laws.3.7.0. Missing or empty |title= (help)
  6. (PDF) https://www.dot.state.mn.us/stateaid/programlibrary/jrp-final-report.pdf. Missing or empty |title= (help)
  7. http://www.dot.state.mn.us/d4/newsrels/20/05/28-hwy54.html. Missing or empty |title= (help)

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