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M-99 (Michigan Highway)
M-99 is a north–south state trunkline highway in the Lower Peninsula of the US state of Michigan. It runs from the Ohio state border, where it connects to State Route 15 (SR 15), north to Lansing, where it terminates at a junction with Interstate 496 (I-496). The highway mainly serves local communities along the route as it passes through farm lands in the southern part of the state. One short segment, in Jonesville, is routed concurrently with US Highway 12 (US 12). The segment within Lansing follows Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard. The current highway is the third to carry the M-99 designation. The others were located near Lake Michigan near Muskegon in the Lower Peninsula and Gulliver in the Upper Peninsula in the 1920s and 1930s. The current highway was first designated as parts of M-34 and M-64 in 1919. These numbers were later dropped in favor of an M-9 designation in 1929. For part of 1934, a loop route was designated M-158 in Hillsdale ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pioneer, Ohio
Pioneer is a village in Williams County, Ohio, United States. The population was 1,429 at the 2020 census. History Pioneer was platted in 1853. A post office has been in operation at Pioneer since 1851. From 1903, the village was the terminus of an electric interurban passenger railroad from Toledo called the Toledo and Western Railway, which was hoping to become a link in an electric rail service from that city to Chicago but which got no further. The line closed to passengers in 1933 but continued freight service until 1943, from 1934 as the Pioneer and Fayette Railroad. This was only formally abandoned in 1991. Geography According to the United States Census Bureau, the village has a total area of , of which is land and is water. Demographics As of 2000 the median income for a household in the village was $37,153, and the median income for a family was $46,369. Males had a median income of $32,917 versus $21,466 for females. The per capita income for the village was ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ohio State Route 15
State Route 15 (SR 15) is a north–south and east–west route in northwestern Ohio. Its southern (eastern) terminus is at its interchange with U.S. Route 23 in Ohio, U.S. Route 23/Ohio State Route 103, State Route 103 (US 23/SR 103) near Carey, Ohio, Carey, and its northern (western) terminus is at the Michigan state line north of Pioneer, Ohio, Pioneer, where the route continues in Michigan as M-99 (Michigan highway), M-99. The route is signed east–west from Carey to Bryan, Ohio, Bryan, and it is signed north–south from there to the Michigan state line. SR 15 is an expressway for its southernmost : where it concurrency (road), runs concurrently with Interstate 75 in Ohio, Interstate 75 (I-75), where it runs concurrently with U.S. Route 68 in Ohio, US 68, and the final as a stand-alone limited-access road until its junction with US 23. The final are part of a heavily traveled corridor providing the most direct route between Detroit, Toledo, Oh ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
M-99 Welcome Sign (a.k.a. Immobilon or M99), a veterinary tranquilizer
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M99 or M-99 may refer to: Places * M-99 (Michigan highway), a state highway in south central Michigan * Messier 99, an unbarred spiral galaxy approximately 60 million light-years away in the constellation Coma Berenices * M99 road (Johannesburg), Metropolitan route in the City of Johannesburg, South Africa Rifles * Barrett M99, a sniper rifle * Zijiang M99, a Chinese anti-materiel rifle Tranquilizer * Etorphine Etorphine (M99) is a semi-synthetic opioid possessing an analgesic potency approximately 1,000–3,000 times that of morphine. It was first prepared in 1960 from oripavine, which does not generally occur in opium poppy extract but rather the re ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hillsdale College
Hillsdale College is a Private university, private, Conservatism in the United States, conservative, Christian liberal arts college in Hillsdale, Michigan, United States. It was founded in 1844 by members of the Free Will Baptists. Women were admitted to the college in 1844, making the college the List of earliest coeducational colleges and universities in the United States, second-oldest coeducational institution in the United States. Hillsdale's required core curriculum includes courses on the Great Books, the Constitution of the United States, U.S. Constitution, theology, biology, chemistry, and physics. Since the late 20th century, in order to opt out of government mandates tied to funding, Hillsdale has declined both state and federal financial support. Instead, Hillsdale depends entirely on private donations to supplement students' tuition. Hillsdale no longer has any denominational affiliation but, according to its website, "the moral tenets of Christianity as commonly und ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Loop Route
In road transportation in the United States, a special route is a road in a numbered highway system that diverts a specific segment of related traffic away from another road. They are featured in many highway systems; most are found in the Interstate Highway System, U.S. highway system, and several state highway systems. Each type of special route possesses generally defined characteristics and has a defined relationship with its parent route. Typically, special routes share a route number with a dominant route, often referred as the "parent" or "mainline", and are given either a descriptor which may be used either before or after the route name, such as Alternate or Business, or a letter suffix that is attached to the route number. For example, an alternate route of U.S. Route 1 may be called "Alternate U.S. Route 1", "U.S. Route 1 Alternate", or "U.S. Route 1A". Occasionally, a special route will have both a descriptor and a suffix, such as U.S. Route 1A Business. Nomenc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
M-64 (Michigan Highway)
M-64 is a north–south Michigan Highway System, state trunkline highway in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan, Upper Peninsula of the US state of Michigan. It runs for approximately through the western part of the state in land that is part of the Ottawa National Forest. The highway connects with County Trunk Highway B (CTH-B) at the state line near Presque Isle (community), Wisconsin, Presque Isle, Wisconsin. As it passes through dense forests, M-64 runs along lakes Lake Gogebic, Gogebic and Lake Superior, Superior. The northern end is at a junction with U.S. Route 45 in Michigan, US Highway 45 (US 45) in Ontonagon, Michigan, Ontonagon. The M-64 designation was used on two other separate highways before it was used for the current highway. The first was at the other end of the state near the Ohio state line, and the second was on the Keweenaw Peninsula near Eagle Harbor, Michigan, Eagle Harbor. The current highway has carried the M-64 moniker since 1930, when it was ass ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
M-34 (Michigan Highway)
M-34 is an east–west Michigan State Trunkline Highway System, state trunkline highway in the Southeast Michigan, southeastern region of the US state of Michigan. It has a western terminus near Osseo, Michigan, Osseo on M-99 (Michigan highway), M-99 and runs through forest and farm lands to its eastern terminus at U.S. Route 223 Business (Adrian, Michigan), Business US Highway 223 (BUS US 223) and M-52 (Michigan highway), M-52 in Adrian, Michigan, Adrian. The highway serves a number of smaller communities in the area and intersects two United States Highway System, US Highways while carrying between 4,200 and 11,300 vehicles on a daily basis. M-34 was designated and signed with the beginning of the state highway system around July 1, 1919, along a route that extended to either end of its current routing. These western and eastern extensions were added to other highways during the 1920s, shortening M-34 to roughly its current length. A few more changes were made in the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Upper Peninsula Of Michigan
The Upper Peninsula of Michigan—also known as Upper Michigan or colloquially the U.P. or Yoop—is the northern and more elevated of the two major landmasses that make up the U.S. state of Michigan; it is separated from the Lower Peninsula of Michigan, Lower Peninsula by the Straits of Mackinac. It is bounded primarily by Lake Superior to the north, separated from the Canadian province of Ontario at the east end by the St. Marys River (Michigan–Ontario), St. Marys River, and flanked by Lake Huron and Lake Michigan along much of its south. Although the peninsula extends as a geographic feature into the state of Wisconsin, the state boundary follows the Montreal River (Wisconsin–Michigan), Montreal and Menominee River, Menominee rivers and a line connecting them. First inhabited by Algonquian languages, Algonquian-speaking native American tribes, the area was explored by French colonists, then occupied by British forces, before being ceded to the newly established United Sta ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Muskegon, Michigan
Muskegon ( ) is a city in and the county seat of Muskegon County, Michigan, United States. Situated around a harbor of Lake Michigan, Muskegon is known for fishing, sailing regattas, and boating. It is the most populous city along Lake Michigan's eastern shore. At the 2020 United States census, 2020 census, the city's population was 38,318. The city is administratively autonomous from adjacent Muskegon Township, Michigan, Muskegon Township, and several locations in Muskegon Township and other surrounding townships have Muskegon addresses. Muskegon is the center of the Muskegon metropolitan statistical area, which is coextensive with Muskegon County and had a population of 175,824 as of the 2020 census. It is also part of the larger Grand Rapids, Michigan, Grand Rapids-Kentwood, Michigan, Kentwood-Muskegon-Grand Rapids metropolitan area, combined statistical area. History The name "Muskegon" is derived from the Ottawa dialect, Ottawa , meaning "marshy river or swamp". The "M ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lake Michigan
Lake Michigan ( ) is one of the five Great Lakes of North America. It is the second-largest of the Great Lakes by volume () and depth () after Lake Superior and the third-largest by surface area (), after Lake Superior and Lake Huron. To the east, its basin is conjoined with that of Lake Huron through the wide and deep Straits of Mackinac, giving it the same surface elevation as its eastern counterpart; hydrologically, the two bodies are Lake Michigan–Huron, a single lake that is, by area, the largest freshwater lake in the world. Lake Michigan is the only Great Lake located fully in the United States; the other four are shared between the U.S. and Canada. It is the world's List of lakes by area, largest lake, by area, located fully in one country, and is shared, from west to east, by the U.S. states of Wisconsin, Illinois, Indiana, and Michigan. Ports along its shores include Chicago, Illinois, Gary, Indiana, Gary, Indiana, Milwaukee and Green Bay, Wisconsin, Green Bay, Wis ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
