NationMaster - Encyclopedia: United States Highway 65

U.S. Highway 65 is a north-south United States highway stretching from Albert Lea, Minnesota to Natchez, Mississippi. Parts of its modern route in Iowa and historic route in Minnesota follow the old Jefferson Highway. Current U.S. Highway shield The United States Highway System is an integrated system of roads in the United States numbered within a nationwide grid. ... Albert Lea is a city located in Freeborn County, Minnesota. ... Natchez is a city located in Adams County, Mississippi. ... The Jefferson Highway was an automobile highway stretching through the central United States from New Orleans, Louisiana to Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. ...

Termini

As of 2004, the highway's northern terminus is in Albert Lea, Minnesota, merging into Interstate 35 just south of Interstate 90. Its southern terminus is at Natchez, Mississippi at an intersection with U.S. Highway 61. 2004 is a leap year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Albert Lea is a city located in Freeborn County, Minnesota. ... Interstate 35 is an interstate highway in the central United States. ... Interstate 90 is the longest interstate highway in the United States. ... Natchez is a city located in Adams County, Mississippi. ... United States Highway 61 is the official designation for a United States highway that once ran from New Orleans through Memphis and Iowa through Duluth, Minnesota all the way to Thunder Bay, Ontario in Canada. ...

Historic termini

At its creation in 1926, U.S. 65 ran from St. Paul, Minnesota to Vidalia, Louisiana. Its current endpoints were established in 1980 when a segment paralleling Interstate 35 was dropped in Minnesota. 1926 was a common year starting on Friday (link will take you to calendar). ... State capitol building in Saint Paul Saint Paul is the capital and second-largest city of the state of Minnesota in the United States of America. ... Vidalia is a town located in Concordia Parish, Louisiana. ... 1980 is a leap year starting on Tuesday. ... Interstate 35 is an interstate highway in the central United States. ...

Historic routes

From the Twin Cities to Faribault, Minnesota U.S. 65 followed what today is Minnesota State Highway 3. Faribault is a city located in Rice County, Minnesota. ... Minnesota State Highway 3 is a highway in Minnesota. ...

In 1934, its route in southern Iowa between Indianola and Leon was replaced by U.S. 69 as it took a new route through Lucas. In 1939, 65 took a new route running northeast of Des Moines. 1934 was a common year starting on Monday (link will take you to calendar). ... Indianola is a city located in Warren County, Iowa. ... Leon is a city located in Decatur County, Iowa. ... US 69 is a north-south United States highway. ... Lucas is a city located in Lucas County, Iowa. ... The State Capitol of Iowa, featuring its golden dome. ...

Between 1994 and 2002 a freeway bypass of Des Moines was constructed and 65 moved to this new route. 1994 was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar, and was designated the International year of the Family. ... 2002 is a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

Through central Arkansas, 65 follows roads close to or along Interstate 40 between Conway and Little Rock. In 1999, the 46 mile (74 km) section of U.S. 65 between Little Rock and Pine Bluff was designated Interstate 530. State nickname: The Natural State Other U.S. States Capital Little Rock Largest city Little Rock Governor Mike Huckabee Official languages English Area 137,732 km² (29th) - Land 134,856 km² - Water 2,876 km² (2. ... Interstate 40 is a major west-east interstate highway in the United States. ... Conway is a city located in Faulkner County, Arkansas. ... Little Rock is the capital and largest city in the U.S. state of Arkansas. ... Pine Bluff is a city located in Jefferson County, Arkansas. ... Interstate 530 in Arkansas is a nearly 47-mile long spur route from Little Rock at the junction of Interstate 30 and Interstate 440 in the northwest, to Pine Bluff in the southeast. ...

Principal cities

Albert Lea is a city located in Freeborn County, Minnesota. ... Mason City is a city located in Cerro Gordo County, Iowa. ... The State Capitol of Iowa, featuring its golden dome. ... Springfield is the third largest city in Missouri. ... Little Rock is the capital and largest city in the U.S. state of Arkansas. ... Pine Bluff is a city located in Jefferson County, Arkansas. ... Natchez is a city located in Adams County, Mississippi. ...

States traversed

State nickname: North Star State Other U.S. States Capital Saint Paul Largest city Minneapolis Governor Tim Pawlenty Official languages None Area 225,365 km² (12th) - Land 206,375 km² - Water 18,990 km² (8. ... State nickname: The Hawkeye State Other U.S. States Capital Des Moines Largest city Des Moines Governor Thomas Vilsack Official languages English Area 145,743 km² (26th) - Land 144,701 km² - Water 1,042 km² (0. ... Missouri, named after the Missouri Siouan Indian tribe meaning canoe, is a Midwestern state of the United States with Jefferson City as its capital. ... State nickname: The Natural State Other U.S. States Capital Little Rock Largest city Little Rock Governor Mike Huckabee Official languages English Area 137,732 km² (29th) - Land 134,856 km² - Water 2,876 km² (2. ... State nickname: Pelican State Other U.S. States Capital Baton Rouge Largest city New Orleans Governor Kathleen Blanco Official languages None; English and French de facto Area 134,382 km² (31st) - Land 112,927 km² - Water 21,455 km² (16%) Population (2000) - Population 4,468,976 (22nd) - Density 39. ... State nickname: Magnolia State Other U.S. States Capital Jackson Largest city Jackson Governor Haley Barbour Official languages English Area 125,546 km² (32nd) - Land 121,606 km² - Water 3,940 km² (3%) Population (2000) - Population 2,697,243 (31st) - Density 23. ...

Related US Routes

U.S. Highway 165 is a spur of U.S. Highway 65. ... This list of United States Highways is grouped by the 1- or 2-digit parent highway. ...

Sources and external links

Categories: Road stubs | United States Highway system Current U.S. Highway shield The United States Highway System is an integrated system of roads in the United States numbered within a nationwide grid. ... Us highway Shield, blank. ... United States Highway 1 is a United States highway which parallels the east coast of the United States. ... United States Highway 2 is an east-west United States highway. ... United States Highway 3 is a north-south United States highway that runs from northern New Hampshire to Boston, Massachusetts. ... United States Highway 4 is a United States highway that runs from Portsmouth, New Hampshire to East Greenbush (town), New York. ... Categories: Stub | United States Highway system ... U.S. Highway 6 is a largely east-west United States Highway that connects Bishop, California with Provincetown, Massachusetts on Cape Cod. ... Sources and External Links U.S. Highways: from US 1 to (US 830) (Robert V. Droz) Categories: Stub | United States Highway system ... United States Highway 8 is a United States highway that runs primarily east-west for 281 miles (452 km), mostly within the state of Wisconsin. ... United States Highway 9 is a north-south United States highway in the states of Delaware, New Jersey, and New York in the United States. ... Categories: Stub | United States Highway system | U.S. highways in North Dakota ... Categories: Stub | United States Highway system ... United States Highway 12 is an east-west United States highway. ... Source and External Link U.S. Highways: from US 1 to (US 830) (Robert V. Droz) Categories: Stub | United States Highway system ... United States Highway 14 (US 14), an east-west route, is one of the original United States highways of 1926. ... Source and external link U.S. Highways: from US 1 to (US 830) (Robert V. Droz) Categories: Stub | United States Highway system ... United States Highway 16 is an east-west United States highway between Rapid City, South Dakota and Yellowstone National Park in Wyoming. ... Categories: Road stubs | United States Highway system | U.S. Highways in Florida ... United States Highway 18 (US 18), an east-west route, is one of the original United States highways of 1926. ... United States Highway 19 is a north-south United States highway. ... Categories: Stub | United States Highway system ... U.S. Highway 21 in the pre-Interstate era was a north-south highway connecting the area around Lake Erie and the coastal South. ... United States Highway 22, an east-west route, is one of the original United States highways of 1926. ... U.S. Highway 23 is a long north-south U.S. highway between Mackinaw City, Michigan and Jacksonville, Florida. ... United States Highway 24, a dual north-south/east-west route, is one of the original United States highways of 1926. ... U.S. Highway 25 is a north-south US highway in the eastern United States of America that now connects Cincinnati, Ohio at the Ohio River to Brunswick, Georgia near the Atlantic Ocean. ... United States Highway 26 is an east-west United States highway. ... United States Highway 27 (US 27), is a north-south United States highway. ... U.S. Highway 28 is a defunct designation (since the early 1950s) of an east-west highway between Astoria, Oregon and Ontario, Oregon. ... United States Highway 29 is a north-south United States highway that runs for 1,036 miles (1,667 km) from the western suburbs of Baltimore to Pensacola, Florida. ... United States Highway 30 is an east-west United States highway that traverses the United States. ... US Highway 31 is a long north-south highway connecting northern Michigan to southern Alabama, with termini at Interstate 75 near Mackinaw City, Michigan, and U.S. Highway 90 and U.S. Highway 98 at Spanish Fort, Alabama. ... U.S. Highway 32, or US-32, is an early (1926) designation of an east-west highway between Chicago, Illinois and Council Bluffs, Iowa. ... Categories: Road stubs | United States Highway system ... Source and External Link U.S. Highways: from US 1 to (US 830) (Robert V. Droz) Categories: Stub | United States Highway system ... Source and External Link U.S. Highways: from US 1 to (US 830) (Robert V. Droz) Categories: Road stubs | United States Highway system ... United States Highway 36 is an east-west United States highway that runs for 1,414 miles from east-central Ohio to Rocky Mountain National Park, Colorado. ... U.S. Highway 37 was a proposal for a north-south U.S. Highway put forth by AASHO between 1934 and 1944. ... U.S. Highway 38 is the early, long-defunct (since the 1930s) designation of an east-west route connecting Omaha, Nebraska and Denver, Colorado. ... United States Highway 40 is an east-west United States highway. ... U.S. Highway 41 in northern Michigan United States Highway 41 is a north-south United States highway that runs from the Upper Peninsula of Michigan to Miami Beach, Florida. ... United States Highway 42 is an east-west United States highway that runs northeast-southwest for 355 miles from Cleveland, Ohio to Louisville, Kentucky. ... United States Highway 43 is a north-south United States highway that runs for 410 miles (649 km) from central Tennessee to Mobile, Alabama. ... United States Highway 44 is an east-west United States highway that runs for 238 miles from Plymouth, Massachusetts to the Hudson Valley region of New York. ... United States Highway 45 is a north-south United States highway. ... US 46 is an east-west United States highway. ... United States Highway 48 is an east-west United States highway that currently runs for 148 miles from northern Virginia to central West Virginia. ... US 49 is a north-south United States highway. ... United States Highway 50 is an east-west United States highway. ... United States Highway 51 is a north-south United States highway that runs for 1,286 miles from northern Wisconsin to the western suburbs of New Orleans, Louisiana. ... United States Highway 52 is an unusual United States highway. ... United States Highway 53 is a north-south United States highway that runs for 403 miles from northern Minnesota to La Crosse, Wisconsin. ... United States Highway 54 is an east-west United States highway that runs northeast-southwest for 1,197 miles (1,926 km) from western Illinois to El Paso, Texas. ... United States Highway 55 was a north-south United States highway. ... United States Highway 56 is an east-west United States highway that runs for 640 miles from Kansas City, Missouri to northern New Mexico. ... United States Highway 57 is a north-south United States highway that follows a nearly east-west route in southwest Texas. ... United States Highway 58 is an east-west United States highway that runs for 508 miles from Virginia Beach, Virginia to northeast Tennessee. ... United States Highway 59 is a north-south United States highway (though it is signed east-west in parts of Texas). ... US 60 is an east-west United States highway, running 2,670 miles (4,300 km) from Virginia to Arizona. ... United States Highway 61 is the official designation for a United States highway that once ran from New Orleans through Memphis and Iowa through Duluth, Minnesota all the way to Thunder Bay, Ontario in Canada. ... U.S. Highway 62 runs from the US-Canadian border at Niagara Falls, New York all the way to the US-Mexican border at El Paso, Texas. ... United States Highway 63 is an north-south United States highway that runs for 1,286 miles from northern Wisconsin to northern Louisiana. ... United States Highway 64 is an east-west United States highway that runs for 2,326 miles from eastern North Carolina to just southwest of the Four Corners in northeast Arizona. ... U.S. Highway 66 or Route 66 was and is the most famous road in the U.S. Highway system and quite possibly the most famous and storied highway in the world. ... United States Highway 67 is a north-south United States highway. ... United States Highway 68 is an east-west United States highway that runs for 560 miles from northwest Ohio to western Kentucky. ... US 69 is a north-south United States highway. ... United States Highway 70 is an east-west United States highway that runs for 2,385 miles from eastern North Carolina to east-central Arizona. ... United States Highway 71 is a north-south United States highway. ... United States Highway 72 is an east-west United States highway that runs for 432 miles from southeast Tennesee through northern Alabama and northern Mississippi to southwest Tennessee. ... United States Highway 73 is a north-south United States highway that runs for 112 miles from southeast Nebraska to northeast Kansas. ... United States Highway 74 is an east-west United States highway that runs for 524 miles from southeast North Carolina to Chattanooga, Tennessee. ... US 75 is a north-south United States highway. ... United States Highway 76 is an east-west United States highway that runs for 548 miles from southeast North Carolina to Chattanooga, Tennessee. ... US 77 is a north-south United States highway. ... United States Highway 78 is an east-west United States highway that runs for 715 miles from Charleston, South Carolina to Memphis, Tennessee. ... United States Highway 79 is a north-south United States highway. ... US 80 is an east-west United States highway. ... United States Highway 81 is a north-south United States highway. ... United States Highway 82 is an east-west United States highway. ... United States Highway 83 is a north-south United States highway. ... United States Highway 84 is an east-west United States highway. ... United States Highway 85 is a north-south United States highway that runs for 1,479 miles from the Canadian border in North Dakota to the Mexican border in El Paso, Texas. ... United States Highway 87 is a north-south United States highway that runs for 1,998 miles from northern Montana to southern Texas. ... United States Highway 89 is a north-south United States highway with two branches. ... United States Highway 90 is an east-west United States highway. ... United States Highway 91 is a north-south United States highway. ... Current route US 92 runs for 177 miles from SR 595 and SR 687 in downtown St. ... United States Highway 93 is a major north-south United States highway in the western U.S., extending between the Canadian border in Montana, where it connects with B.C. Highway 93, and Wickenburg, Arizona, a small town about 50 miles (80 km) northwest of Phoenix. ... US 94 is now part of U.S. Highway 41; see that article for details. ... US 95 is a north-south United States highway. ... US 96 is a north-south United States highway. ... United States Highway 97 is a major north-south United States highway in the western United States. ... United States Highway 98 is an east-west United States highway that runs from southern Florida to western Mississippi. ... Detail from antique road map of US 99 through California. ... U.S. Highway 101, or U.S. Route 101 (U.S. 101), is a north-south highway that is aligned along the Pacific West Coast of the United States. ... U.S. Highway 163 is not related to U.S. Highway 63 despite the numbers implication of such. ... US 400 is an east-west U.S. Highway. ... United States Highway 412 is an east-west United States highway. ... US 425 is an north-south United States highway. ... This list of United States Highways is grouped by the 1- or 2-digit parent highway. ... On the U.S. Highway system, many alternates and spurs are designated with a banner plate above the route shield, or a suffix after the number in the shield. ...

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