Minnesota State Highway 54 (MN 54) was a
highway
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in west-central
Minnesota
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, which ran from its
intersection
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with
State Highway 27 in
Roseville Township of
Grant County Grant County may refer to:
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and continued north to its northern terminus at its intersection with
U.S. Highway 59
U.S. Route 59 (US 59) is a north–south United States highway (though it was signed east–west in parts of Texas). A latecomer to the U.S. numbered route system, US 59 is now a border-to-border route, part of the NAFTA Corridor Highway Sy ...
/
State Highway 55 (
co-signed) in
Elbow Lake. The route has a speed limit of for its entire length.
Highway 54 passed through Roseville Township,
Lien Township,
Sanford Township, and Elbow Lake.
Route description
State Highway 54 served as a north–south route between the city of
Elbow Lake and
State Highway 27.
Highway 54, together with Highway 27, served as an arterial route between
Herman
Herman may refer to:
People
* Herman (name), list of people with this name
* Saint Herman (disambiguation)
* Peter Noone (born 1947), known by the mononym Herman
Places in the United States
* Herman, Arkansas
* Herman, Michigan
* Herman, Minne ...
and the county seat at
Elbow Lake.
The route was legally defined as
Constitutional Route
In the U.S. state of Minnesota, a legislative route is a highway number defined by the Minnesota State Legislature. The routes from 1 to 70 are constitutional routes, defined as part of the Babcock Amendment to the Minnesota State Constitution, pa ...
54 in the Minnesota Statutes.
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History
Highway 54
State Highway 54 was authorized in 1920 from Elbow Lake to Herman
Herman may refer to:
People
* Herman (name), list of people with this name
* Saint Herman (disambiguation)
* Peter Noone (born 1947), known by the mononym Herman
Places in the United States
* Herman, Arkansas
* Herman, Michigan
* Herman, Minne ...
.[
Highway 54 was turned back to Grant County on June 1, 2020 due to low traffic volumes and its status as a major collector, which functions more as a county state-aid highway or county road. The road is now known as CSAH 54. In exchange, ]Minnesota State Highway 78
Minnesota State Highway 78 (MN 78) is a highway in west-central Minnesota, which runs from State Highway 79 near Erdahl and continues north to its northern terminus at its interchange with U.S. Highway 10 in Perham.
Route description
Stat ...
was extended south to Erdahl via CSAH 10.
Major intersections
References
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Transportation in Grant County, Minnesota