Iowa Non-Registered Routes
This section identifies routes known to have traversed the state, but were not officially registered with the Iowa State Highway Commission under the 1913 Iowa Highway Route Registration Act.
Profiles for Non-Registered Routes beginning with:
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Notes: Referenced in the 1912 Huebinger's Automobile and Good Road Atlas of Iowa within the county map for Butler County.
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Notes: Referenced on Map of Iowa Showing Principal Automobile Routes 1919, route #73. Referenced in the 1912 Huebinger's Automobile and Good Road Atlas of Iowa within the county map for Iowa County.
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Notes: Ansel Briggs was a stagecoach driver who came to Iowa in 1836 and operated a stage in Jackson County. He became the first governor of the State of Iowa. Ref. http://iagenweb.org/history/soi/soi27.htm. Referenced in the road association file in DOT Library.
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Termini: St. Joseph, MO, and Des Moines, IA
Cities along route:
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Missouri: St. Joseph
Iowa: Des Moines
http://www.marion.ohio-state.edu/fac/schul/trails/state/ayr.html. Road association file in DOT Library.
Notes: Referenced on Map of Iowa Showing Principal Automobile Routes 1919, route #40; Referenced in the 1912 Huebinger's Automobile and Good Road Atlas of Iowa within the county maps of Benton, Black Hawk and Tama counties.
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Termini: St. Louis, MO, and Fort Dodge, IA
Cities along route:
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Missouri: St. Louis, St. Charles, Warrenton, Fulton, Columbia, New Franklin, Keytesville, Brunswick, Chillicothe, Jamesport, and Blythedale
Iowa: Fort Dodge
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Notes: Referenced in the 1912 Huebinger's Automobile and Good Road Atlas of Iowa within the county maps for Lucas and Warren counties.
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Notes: Referenced in the 1912 Huebinger's Automobile and Good Road Atlas of Iowa within the county map for Lee County.
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Notes: Referenced on Map of Iowa Showing Principal Automobile Routes 1919, route #38; Referenced in the 1912 Huebinger's Automobile and Good Road Atlas of Iowa within the county maps for Jefferson, Van Buren and Wapello counties.
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Notes: Referenced on the Map of Iowa Showing Principal Automobile Routes 1919, route #37. Referenced in the 1912 Huebinger's Automobile and Good Road Atlas of Iowa within the county maps for Jefferson and Van Buren counties.
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Notes: Referenced on the Map of Iowa Showing Principal Automobile Routes 1919, route #39. Referenced in the 1912 Huebinger's Automobile and Good Road Atlas of Iowa within the county map for Henry County.
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Termini: Waterloo, IA, and Ottumwa, IA
Cities along route:
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Iowa: Waterloo, Dysart, Victor, What Cheer, and Ottumwa
Notes: Shown as "BVD Trail" in 1924 road atlas. The AAA booklet also mentions a Blue Valley Drive in Lincoln, Nebraska. Referenced on the National Auto Trails Web site by Schul,
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Notes: Referenced on the Map of Iowa Showing Principal Automobile Routes 1919, route #104.

Notes: Referenced on the Map of Iowa Showing Principal Automobile Routes 1919, route #9. Referenced in the 1912 Huebinger's Automobile and Good Road Atlas of Iowa on the 1912 county maps for Pottawattamie and Shelby counties.

Notes: Referenced in the 1912 Huebinger's Automobile and Good Road Atlas of Iowa within the county map for Carroll County.
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Termini: Burlington, IA, and Peoria, IL
Cities along route:
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Iowa: Burlington
Illinois: Roseville, Farmington and Peoria
Notes: Referenced on the National Auto Trails Web site by Schul.
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Notes: Referenced in the 1912 Huebinger's Automobile and Good Road Atlas of Iowa. Shown on the 1912 county map for Des Moines County.
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Notes: Referenced on the Map of Iowa Showing Principal Automobile Routes 1919, route #32. Referenced in the 1912 Huebinger's Automobile and Good Road Atlas of Iowa on the 1912 county maps for Des Moines and Louisa counties.
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Notes: Referenced in the 1912 Huebinger's Automobile and Good Road Atlas of Iowa within the county map for Winneshiek County.
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Notes: Referenced on the Map of Iowa Showing Principal Automobile Routes 1919, route #24. Referenced in the 1912 Huebinger's Automobile and Good Road Atlas of Iowa on page 9 depicting the pole markers of prominent organized highways and on the county map for Decatur County.

Notes: Referenced on the Map of Iowa Showing Principal Automobile Routes 1919, route #77.
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Notes: Referenced in the 1912 Huebinger's Automobile and Good Road Atlas of Iowa within the county map for Iowa County.
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Notes: Referenced on the Map of Iowa Showing Principal Automobile Routes 1919, route #46. Referenced in the 1912 Huebinger's Automobile and Good Road Atlas of Iowa within the county maps of Benton and Linn counties.
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Notes: Referenced on the Map of Iowa Showing Principal Automobile Routes 1919, route #46. Referenced in the 1912 Huebinger's Automobile and Good Road Atlas of Iowa within the county maps of Benton and Linn counties.
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Notes:Referenced in the 1912 Huebinger's Automobile and Good Road Atlas of Iowa within the county map for Benton County.
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Notes: Referenced in the 1912 Huebinger's Automobile and Good Road Atlas of Iowa within the county map for Linn County.
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Notes: Referenced in the 1912 Huebinger's Automobile and Good Road Atlas of Iowa within the county maps for Jackson, Jones and Linn counties.
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Notes: Referenced on the Map of Iowa Showing Principal Automobile Routes 1919, route #47. Referenced in the 1912 Huebinger's Automobile and Good Road Atlas of Iowa within the county maps for Bremer, Buena Vista, Butler, Cherokee, Fayette, Franklin, Humboldt, Pocahontas, and Wright counties.
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Notes: Referenced in an advertising display in the 1912 Huebinger's Automobile and Good Road Atlas of Iowa.
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Termini: Chicago, IL, and Kansas City, MO
Cities along route:
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Illinois: Chicago, Geneva, Rochelle, Sterling, and Moline
Iowa: Davenport, Iowa City and Washington
Missouri: Powersville, Chillicothe, Excelsior Springs, and Kansas City
Notes: This trail may have extended into Kansas. Referenced on the Map of Iowa Showing Principal Automobile Routes 1919, route #83. Road association file in DOT Library.

Notes: Referenced in an advertising display in the 1912 Huebinger's Automobile and Good Road Atlas of Iowa (trunkline route to Southern California via Santa Fe Trail).
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Notes: Referenced in the 1912 Huebinger's Automobile and Good Road Atlas of Iowa within the county maps for Franklin, Hardin and Wright counties.
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Notes: Referenced in the 1912 Huebinger's Automobile and Good Road Atlas of Iowa within the county map for Clinton County.
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Notes: Referenced on the Map of Iowa Showing Principal Automobile Routes 1919, route #48. Referenced in the 1912 Huebinger's Automobile and Good Road Atlas of Iowa within the county map for Iowa County.
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Notes: Referenced on the Map of Iowa Showing Principal Automobile Routes 1919, route #25. Referenced in the 1912 Huebinger's Automobile and Good Road Atlas of Iowa on page 9 depicting the pole markers of prominent organized highways and shown in the county maps of Appanoose, Clarke, Davis, Decatur, Des Moines, Lee, Ringgold, Taylor, Van Buren, and Wayne counties. Road association file in DOT Library.

Notes: Referenced on the Map of Iowa Showing Principal Automobile Routes 1919, route #81.

Termini: Sioux City, IA, and Oklahoma City, OK
Cities along route:
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Iowa: Sioux City
Nebraska: Fremont, Lincoln and Beatrice
Kansas: Manhattan, Junction City, Newton, and Wichita
Oklahoma: Perry, Guthrie and Oklahoma City
Corresponding U.S. highways: U.S. 77, except for Newton/Wichita, Kansas, section

Notes: Referenced in the 1912 Huebinger's Automobile and Good Road Atlas of Iowa within the county map for O'Brien County.
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Notes: Referenced on the Map of Iowa Showing Principal Automobile Routes 1919, route #3. Referenced in the 1912 Huebinger's Automobile and Good Road Atlas of Iowa within the county maps for Mills and Pottawattamie counties.
Notes: Referenced on the Map of Iowa Showing Principal Automobile Routes 1919, route #11. Referenced in the 1912 Huebinger's Automobile and Good Road Atlas of Iowa on page 9 depicting the pole markers of prominent organized highways, and shown on the county maps for Cherokee, Dickinson, Harrison, Monona, Osceola, Plymouth, Pottawattamie, and Woodbury counties.
Notes: Referenced on the Map of Iowa Showing Principal Automobile Routes 1919, route #78. Referenced in the 1912 Huebinger's Automobile and Good Road Atlas of Iowa on page 9 depicting the pole markers of prominent organized highways and within the county map for Howard County.
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Notes: Referenced in the 1912 Huebinger's Automobile and Good Road Atlas of Iowa within the county map for Howard County.
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Notes: An index of the road association files in the DOT's Library, prepared in the 1970s, lists this route along U.S. 61 in Clinton County. No other information about this route currently exists.
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Notes: Referenced in the 1912 Huebinger's Automobile and Good Road Atlas of Iowa within the county maps for Clinton and Jackson counties.
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Notes: Referenced in the 1912 Huebinger's Automobile and Good Road Atlas of Iowa within the county map for Scott County.
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Notes: Referenced in the 1912 Huebinger's Automobile and Good Road Atlas of Iowa within the county maps for Cedar and Scott counties.
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Notes: Referenced in the 1912 Huebinger's Automobile and Good Road Atlas of Iowa within the county maps for Dallas and Humboldt counties.
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Notes: Route: Boone, Webster City, Clarion, Clear Lake. Referenced on the Map of Iowa Showing Principal Automobile Routes 1919, route #19. Referenced in the 1912 Huebinger's Automobile and Good Road Atlas of Iowa within the county maps for Boone, Cerro Gordo, Franklin, Hamilton, Polk, and Wright counties.
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Notes: Referenced on the Map of Iowa Showing Principal Automobile Routes 1919, route #51. Referenced in an advertising display in the 1912 Huebinger's Automobile and Good Road Atlas of Iowa and within the county maps for Boone, Hamilton, Hancock, Polk, and Wright counties.
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Notes: Referenced in the 1912 Huebinger's Automobile and Good Road Atlas of Iowa within the county maps for Polk and Warren counties.
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Notes: Referenced on the Map of Iowa Showing Principal Automobile Routes 1919, route #27. Referenced in the 1912 Huebinger's Automobile and Good Road Atlas of Iowa within the county maps for Boone, Greene, Humbodt, and Kossuth counties.
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Notes: Referenced on the Map of Iowa Showing Principal Automobile Routes 1919, route #20. Referenced in the 1912 Huebinger's Automobile and Good Road Atlas of Iowa on page 9 depicting the pole markers of prominent organized highways, and within the county maps for Boone, Dickinson, Emmet, Greene, Lyon, Osceola, Palo Alto, Pocahontas, and Polk counties.

Notes: Referenced on the Map of Iowa Showing Principal Automobile Routes 1919, route #22. Referenced in the 1912 Huebinger's Automobile and Good Road Atlas of Iowa on page 9 depicting the pole markers of prominent organized highways, and within the county maps for Cerro Gordo, Franklin, Hamilton, Hardin, Polk, Story, and Worth counties.

Notes: Referenced on the Map of Iowa Showing Principal Automobile Routes 1919, route #49. Referenced in the 1912 Huebinger's Automobile and Good Road Atlas of Iowa within the county maps for Buena Vista, Calhoun, Greene, Guthrie, and Pocahontas counties.
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Notes: Referenced in the 1912 Huebinger's Automobile and Good Road Atlas of Iowa within the county maps for Dubuque, Jones and Linn counties.
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Notes: Referenced in the 1912 Huebinger's Automobile and Good Road Atlas of Iowa within the county map for Dubuque County.
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Notes: Referenced on the Map of Iowa Showing Principal Automobile Routes 1919, route #35. Referenced in the 1912 Huebinger's Automobile and Good Road Atlas of Iowa on page 9 depicting the pole markers of prominent organized highways and shown in the county maps for Clayton, Clinton, Decatur, Dubuque, Jackson, and Scott counties.

Notes: Referenced on the Map of Iowa Showing Principal Automobile Routes 1919, route #21. Referenced in the 1912 Huebinger's Automobile and Good Road Atlas of Iowa on page 9 depicting the pole markers of prominent organized highways, and identified with the county maps of Allamakee, Clayton, Clinton, Dubuque, Jackson, Scott, and Winneshiek counties.

Notes: Referenced on the Map of Iowa Showing Principal Automobile Routes 1919, route #42. Referenced in an advertising display ad in the 1912 Huebinger's Automobile and Good Road Atlas of Iowa and within the county maps for Clayton and Fayette counties.
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Notes: Referenced in the 1912 Huebinger's Automobile and Good Road Atlas of Iowa within the county maps for Jefferson and Washington counties.
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Notes: Referenced on the Map of Iowa Showing Principal Automobile Routes 1919, route #43. Referenced in the 1912 Huebinger's Automobile and Good Road Atlas of Iowa within the county maps for Iowa, Jefferson and Keokuk counties.
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Notes: Referenced in the 1912 Huebinger's Automobile and Good Road Atlas of Iowa within the county map for Wright County.
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Notes: Referenced on the National Auto Trails Web site by Schul, http://www.marion.ohio-state.edu/fac/schul/trails/state/grainland.html
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Notes: Road association file in DOT Library. The file contains copies of newspaper articles. The first article is from the 1940s. It indicates that the G.A.R was actually named for the "unity between these 48 states from coast to coast, to the vision of the boys of the Civil War." It followed what was Highway 6. One article is an extremely detailed account of the route, and the cities and states it went through. The formal dedication of the G.A.R. was in 1953.
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Termini: Chicago, IL, and Seaside, OR
Cities along route:
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Illinois: Chicago, Elgin, Rockford, and Galena
Iowa: Dubuque, Waterloo, Fort Dodge, Webster City, Blairsburg, Williams, Cherokee, and Sioux City
Nebraska: O'Neill, Springview, Gordon and Chadron
South Dakota: Rosebud
Wyoming: Casper, Lander and Moran
Idaho: St. Anthony, Idaho Falls, Pocatello, Twin Falls, and Boise
Oregon: Ontario, Baker, Pendleton, Portland, Astoria, and Seaside
Notes: This route originated in 1916 and was named after President Ulysses S. Grant. To identify this route three bands were painted on corner poles; top and bottom were yellow, and the middle band was black. Through Iowa, this trail was roughly along what is commonly referred to as "old Highway 20." Referenced on the North American Auto Trails Web site created by Dave Schul, http://www.marion.ohio-state.edu/fac/schul/trails/national/grant.html

Notes: Referenced on the North American Auto Trails Web site created by Dave Schul
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Termini: Woodville, MS, and Grand Rapids, MN
Cities along route:
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Minnesota: St. Cloud, Minneapolis and Winona
Wisconsin: Prescott, Centerville, La Crosse, Prairie du Chien, and Dickeyville
Iowa: Keokuk, Fort Madison, Davenport, Dubuque, Marquette, and Lansing
Illinois: Rock Island, Moline, Quincy, and Cairo
Arkansas Blytheville, Turrell, DeWitt, McGehee, Dermott, and Eudora
Mississippi: Vicksburg, Port Gibson, Natchez, and Woodville
Notes: The Mississippi River Parkway Commission/Great River Road records are housed at the National River Museum & Aquarium. There are over 50 linear feet of materials from the Great River Road, an organization of ten states organized along the Mississippi River in 1938.

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Notes: Referenced on the Map of Iowa Showing Principal Automobile Routes 1919, route #13.
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Notes: Referenced on the Map of Iowa Showing Principal Automobile Routes 1919, route #29. Referenced in the 1912 Huebinger's Automobile and Good Road Atlas of Iowa within the county maps for Buena Vista, Cherokee, Plymouth, and Woodbury counties.
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Notes: Referenced in the 1912 Huebinger's Automobile and Good Road Atlas of Iowa on page 9 depicting the pole markers of prominent organized highways.

Notes: Referenced in the 1912 Huebinger's Automobile and Good Road Atlas of Iowa on page 9 depicting the pole markers of prominent organized highways.
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Notes: Referenced on the Map of Iowa Showing Principal Automobile Routes 1919, route #44. Referenced in the 1912 Huebinger's Automobile and Good Road Atlas of Iowa on page 9 depicting the pole markers of prominent organized highways, and shown in the county maps for Page, Ringgold, Taylor, and Union counties.
Termini: St. Paul, Minnesota, and Kansas City, Missouri
Cities along route:
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Minnesota: Perry, Guthrie and Oklahoma City
Iowa: Northwood, Manly, Mason City, Sheffield, Hampton, Iowa Falls, Hubbard, Zearing, Colo, Nevada, Ames, Ankeny, Des Moines, Indianola, Osceola, Leon, Davis City, Lamoni
Missouri: Bethany, Albany, Stanberry, King City, Saint Joseph, Gower, Smithville, and Kansas City
Notes: Click here for complete details about this route, including its connection to the Jefferson Highway. Route: Indianola, Lamoni, Kansas City, St. Joe. Referenced on the Map of Iowa Showing Principal Automobile Routes 1919 as Inter State Trail, route #23. Referenced in the 1912 Huebinger's Automobile and Good Road Atlas of Iowa (Des Moines, Kansas City, St. Joseph) on page 9 depicting the pole markers of prominent organized highways, and shown in the county maps for Clarke, Decatur, Polk, and Warren counties. Road association file in DOT Library.

Notes: Referenced in the 1912 Huebinger's Automobile and Good Road Atlas of Iowa within the county map for Johnson County.
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Notes: Referenced on the Map of Iowa Showing Principal Automobile Routes 1919, route #53. Referenced in the 1912 Huebinger's Automobile and Good Road Atlas of Iowa within the county maps of Benton, Grundy, Hardin, Linn, and Tama counties.
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Notes: Referenced in the 1912 Huebinger's Automobile and Good Road Atlas of Iowa (Clinton to Omaha) on page 9 depicting the pole markers of prominent organized highways and in same publication as the first cross-state road. The route extended from Clinton to Council Bluffs through Cedar Rapids, Marshalltown, Boone, Ames, Jefferson, Carroll, and Denison. It closely followed the right of way of the Chicago & Northwestern Railway. It is shown in the county maps of Benton, Boone, Carroll, Cedar, Clinton, Crawford, Greene, Harrison, Linn, Marshall, Pottawattamie, Story, and Tama counties. Road association file in DOT Library.
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Notes: Referenced in the 1912 Huebinger's Automobile and Good Road Atlas of Iowa within the county map for Allamakee County.
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Termini: Winnipeg, Mannitoba, Canada, and New Orleans, LA
Cities along route:
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Manitoba: Winnipeg
Minnesota: Itasca SP, Park Rapids, Wadena, Long Prairie, Willmar, Redwood Falls, Windom, and Jackson
Iowa: Spirit Lake, Spencer, Storm Lake, Carroll, Atlantic, and Clarinda
Missouri: Maryville
Arkansas: Not Available
Louisiana: New Orleans
Notes: Referenced on the North American Auto Trails Web site by Schul.
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Termini: Winnipeg, Mannitoba, Canada, and Brownsville, TX
Cities along route:
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Manitoba: Winnipeg and Emerson
Iowa: Hawarden, Dubuque
Nebraska: Omaha and Nebraska City
Kansas: Hiawatha, Atchison, Leavenworth, Lawrence (Kansas City KS on older route), Ottawa, Iola, and Oswego
Oklahoma: Vinita, Muskogee, McAlester, and Durant
Texas: Denison, Dallas, Waco, Austin, San Antonio, Corpus Christi, Edinburg, and Brownsville
Notes: Referenced on the Map of Iowa Showing Principal Automobile Routes 1919, route #105. Road association file in DOT Library.
Notes: Referenced on the Map of Iowa Showing Principal Automobile Routes 1919, route #58. Referenced in the 1912 Huebinger's Automobile and Good Road Atlas of Iowa within the county maps of Benton and Iowa counties. Road association file in DOT Library.
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Notes: Referenced on the Map of Iowa Showing Principal Automobile Routes 1919, route #97. Road association file in DOT Library.

Notes: Referenced on the Map of Iowa Showing Principal Automobile Routes 1919, route #57. Referenced in the 1912 Huebinger's Automobile and Good Road Atlas of Iowa within the county maps for Cerro Gordo and Hancock counties.
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Termini: Scaledonia, MN, and Harrison, AK
Cities along route:
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Minnesota: Caledonia
Iowa: Charles City, Marshalltown, Newton, and Chariton
Missouri: Princeton, Marshall (?) and Springfield (?)
Arkansas: Harrison
Notes: There are no details about the route through Missouri, though since both Princeton and Harrison are on U.S. 65, there is a chance the highway took that route. Information would be appreciated.
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Notes: Referenced on the Map of Iowa Showing Principal Automobile Routes 1919, route #56. Referenced in the 1912 Huebinger's Automobile and Good Road Atlas of Iowa within the county map for Decatur County.
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Notes: Referenced on the Map of Iowa Showing Principal Automobile Routes 1919, route #62. Referenced in the 1912 Huebinger's Automobile and Good Road Atlas of Iowa within the county maps for Decatur, Jackson, Jones, and Linn counties.
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Notes: Referenced on the Map of Iowa Showing Principal Automobile Routes 1919, route #54. Referenced in the 1912 Huebinger's Automobile and Good Road Atlas of Iowa within the county maps for Clayton, Decatur and Fayette counties.
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Notes: Referenced in the 1912 Huebinger's Automobile and Good Road Atlas of Iowa within the county map for Marshall County.
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Notes: Referenced in the 1912 Huebinger's Automobile and Good Road Atlas of Iowa within the county map for Grundy County.
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Notes: Referenced in the 1912 Huebinger's Automobile and Good Road Atlas of Iowa within the county map for Grundy County.
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Notes: Referenced in the 1912 Huebinger's Automobile and Good Road Atlas of Iowa within the county map for Butler County.
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Termini: Warroad, MN, and Rock Rapids, IA
Cities along route:
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Minnesota: Warroad, Roseau, Karlstad, Donaldson, Crookston, Moorhead, Breckenridge, Ortonville, Ivanhoe, Pipestone, and Luverne
Iowa: Rock Rapids
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Branch 1: Warroad, Baudette, Pelland, Big Falls, Bergville, Blackduck, Cass Lake, Walker, Brainerd, Garrison, Onamia, Milaca, Elk River, and Minneapolis
Branch 2: Pelland and International Falls<
Branch 3: Bergville, Max, Round Lake, Bigfork, Holman, Hibbing, Virginia, and Ely
Branch 4: Cass Lake, Schley, Bena, (short N and S split), Ball Club, Deer River, Grand Rapids, Martins and Duluth
Branch 5: Walker, Park Rapids, Detroit Lakes, Perham, Alexandria, Sauk Centre, and St. Cloud
Connections between:
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Moorhead and Detroit Lakes
Holman and Grand Rapids
Virginia and Martins
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Termini: Winnipeg, Mannitoba, Canada; New Orleans, LA; Galveston, TX; and Fort Meyers, FL
Cities along route:
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Manitoba: Winnipeg and Letellier
North Dakota: Pembina
Minnesota: Warren, Red Lake Falls, Detroit Lakes, St. Cloud, Minneapolis, St. Paul, Hastings, and Winona
Iowa: Dubuque, Clinton, Davenport, Burlington, and Keokuk
Illinois: Quincy, Shepherd (E. Hannibal), Rockport, Grafton, Alton, and Granite City
Missouri: St. Louis, Ste. Genevieve and Cape Girardeau
Arkansas: Blytheville
Tennessee: Memphis
Mississippi: Tunica, Clarksdale, Greenville, Leland, Vicksburg, and Natchez
Louisiana: Baton Rouge, Port Allen, Donaldsonville, and New Orleans
Alabama: Mobile
Florida: Pensacola, Tallahassee, St. Petersburg, and Fort Meyers
Texas: Beaumont, Houston and Galveston
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Branch 1: Port Arthur, ON; Duluth, MN; Siren, WI; and St. Croix Falls, Stillwater and St. Paul, MN
Branch 2: Shepherd (E. Hannibal), Hannibal, Louisiana, Troy, St. Charles, St. Louis, MO
Branch 3: Clarksdale, Greenwood, Yazoo City, Jackson, Hattiesburg, Mobile, AL, Pensacola, Tallahassee, St. Petersburg, and Fort Myers, FL
Branch 4: Port Allen, Ville Platte, Opelousas, Rayne, Lake Charles, Beaumont, Houston, and Galveston, TX
Connection: between Grafton and St. Charles, MO
Connection: between Leland and Greenwood, FL
Notes: The Mississippi River Scenic Highway was established in 1920.

Notes: Referenced on the North American Auto Trails Web site by Schul. Road association file in DOT Library.
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Notes: Referenced in the 1912 Huebinger's Automobile and Good Road Atlas of Iowa.
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Notes: Referenced in the 1912 Huebinger's Automobile and Good Road Atlas of Iowa within the county map for Tama County.
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Notes: Referenced in the 1912 Huebinger's Automobile and Good Road Atlas of Iowa within the county map for Poweshiek County.
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Termini: Bemidji, MN, and Sanborn, IA
Cities along route:
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Minnesota: Bemidji
Iowa: Sanborn
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Notes: Referenced in the 1912 Huebinger's Automobile and Good Road Atlas of Iowa within the county map for Chickasaw County.
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Notes: Referenced on the Map of Iowa Showing Principal Automobile Routes 1919, route #59. Referenced in the 1912 Huebinger's Automobile and Good Road Atlas of Iowa within the county maps for Chickasaw and Winneshiek counties.
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Notes: Referenced in the 1912 Huebinger's Automobile and Good Road Atlas of Iowa within the county map for Jasper County.
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Notes: Referenced on the Map of Iowa Showing Principal Automobile Routes 1919, route #1. Referenced in the 1912 Huebinger's Automobile and Good Road Atlas of Iowa county maps of Audubon, Buena Vista, Carroll, Cass, Fremont, Montgomery, Page, and Sac counties.

Notes: Referenced on the Map of Iowa Showing Principal Automobile Routes 1919; route #15. Referenced in the 1912 Huebinger's Automobile and Good Road Atlas of Iowa on page 9 depicting the pole markers of prominent organized highways. Followed a route from Sioux Falls and Canton, through Sheldon, Spencer, Ruthven, Emmetsburg, Algona, Britt, Garner, Clear Lake, Mason City, Charles City, and New Hampton to Dubuque and McGregor. Listed in the 1912 county maps for Cerro Gordo, Chickasaw, Clay, Clayton, Fayette, Floyd, Hancock, Jones, Kossuth, Lyon, O'Brien, Palo Alto, and Sioux counties.

Notes: Referenced on the Map of Iowa Showing Principal Automobile Routes 1919, route #55. Referenced in the 1912 Huebinger's Automobile and Good Road Atlas of Iowa on page 9 depicting the pole markers of prominent organized highways and shown in the county maps for Buchanan, Fayette and Linn counties.
Termini: Council Bluffs, IA, and St. Joseph, MO
Cities along route:
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Iowa: Council Bluffs
Missouri: St. Joseph
Notes: Referenced on the Map of Iowa Showing Principal Automobile Routes 1919, route #4. Referenced in the 1912 Huebinger's Automobile and Good Road Atlas of Iowa on page 9 depicting the pole markers of prominent organized highways and shown in the county maps for Fremont, Mills, Page, and Pottawattamie counties. Referenced on the National Auto Trails Web site by Schul.

Termini: St. Paul, MN, and Madison, WI
Cities along route:
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Minnesota: St. Paul, Owatonna, Austin, and Leroy
Iowa: Cresco and Postville
Wisconsin: Prairie du Chien and Madison
Notes: The route between Prairie du Chien and Madison is unknown.

Termini: St. Paul, MN, and Madison, WI
Cities along route:
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Minnesota: St. Paul, Owatonna, Austin, and Leroy
Iowa: Cresco and Postville
Wisconsin: Prairie du Chien and Madison
Notes: The route between Prairie du Chien and Madison is unknown. Referenced on the Map of Iowa Showing Principal Automobile Routes 1919, route #89.

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Termini: Omaha, NE, and St. Louis, MO
Cities along route:
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Nebraska: Omaha
Iowa:
Missouri: Tarkio, Maryville, Albany, Gallatin, Chillicothe, Brunswick, and St. Louis
Notes: Route from Omaha to Tarkio and from Brunswick to St. Louis is unknown. Referenced on the North American Auto Trails Web site by Schul.
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Termini: Omaha, NE, and St. Joseph, MO
Cities along route:
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Nebraska: Omaha
Iowa: Dubuque, Mitchell
Missouri: Tarkio, Mound City and St. Joseph
Notes: Route from Omaha to Tarkio and from Brunswick to St. Louis is unknown. Referenced on the North American Auto Trails Web site by Schul.
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Notes: Referenced on the Map of Iowa Showing Principal Automobile Routes 1919, route #61. Referenced in the 1912 Huebinger's Automobile and Good Road Atlas of Iowa within the county maps for Buena Vista, Clay, Crawford, Dickinson, Harrison, Pottawattamie, and Sac counties.
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Notes: Referenced on the Map of Iowa Showing Principal Automobile Routes 1919, route #80.
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