Minnesota State Highway 228

Trunk Highway 228
Trunk Highway 228
	MN 228 highlighted in red
Route information
	Maintained by MnDOT
Length	7.785 mi[1] (12.529 km)
Existed	July 1, 1949[2]–July 1, 2015[3]
Major junctions
West end	CSAH 4 / CSAH 17 at Vergas
East end	US 10 at Gorman Township
Location
Country	United States
State	Minnesota
Counties	Otter Tail
Highway system
	Minnesota Trunk Highway System; Interstate; US; State; Legislative; Scenic;

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.

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.

Location	mi[1]	km	Destinations
Vergas	0.000	0.000	CSAH 4 south / CSAH 17 north (1st Avenue)
Vergas	0.680	1.094	CSAH 4 (E. Frazee Road)
Hobart Township	5.366	8.636	CSAH 36
Gorman Township	7.785	12.529	US 10 / CSAH 60 east
1.000 mi = 1.609 km; 1.000 km = 0.621 mi

References

Minnesota Department of Transportation (August 14, 2014). "Statewide Trunk Logpoint Listing" (PDF). St. Paul: Minnesota Department of Transportation. Retrieved November 12, 2015.
"Chapter 663-H.F. No. 1792", Session Laws of Minnesota for 1949, Earl L. Berg, Commissioner of Administration, pp. 1177–1185
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.
"161.115, Additional Trunk Highways". Minnesota Statutes. Office of the Revisor of Statutes, State of Minnesota. 2010. Retrieved December 18, 2010.
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.
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.

External links

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Highway 228 at the Unofficial Minnesota Highways Page

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[logpoint4-1] Minnesota Department of Transportation (August 14, 2014). "Statewide Trunk Logpoint Listing" (PDF). St. Paul: Minnesota Department of Transportation. Retrieved November 12, 2015.

[laws1949-2] "Chapter 663-H.F. No. 1792", Session Laws of Minnesota for 1949, Earl L. Berg, Commissioner of Administration, pp. 1177–1185

[Moerke-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.

[161.115-4] "161.115, Additional Trunk Highways". Minnesota Statutes. Office of the Revisor of Statutes, State of Minnesota. 2010. Retrieved December 18, 2010.

[1954map-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.

[1956map-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.