June 18, 2018: Old IA 79 remains labeled “DMC Hwy 79” but Des Moines County changed it to J20 — while not doing anything to Old US 34, which runs east from here. Middletown prettied up the intersection with a welcome sign.
For the first time in (gulp) more than a decade, I’ve augmented a handful of end pages in southeast Iowa.
- IA 68 and IA 97 are twins in a lot of ways, and my second ever trips to Melrose and Russell carry on that pairing.
- More information and new photos for IA 405, which from 1980 to 2003 was the shortest signed state highway, but went a little farther south before then.
- IA 406 gets a couple more shots from the US 61 endpoint.
- IA 305 gets a digital photo of its west endpoint, along with an update about the US 61 expressway on its east. (This my second time to Letts. It was pretty empty.)
- Updated photo for IA 213 in Blakesburg, which has been confirmed to use one east-west block.
- Updated photos for IA 79 in Middletown, showing the revision to J20 at Old US 34.
- One more go-round for the east end of IA 78 before the US 61 four-lane is built in the next decade. I also had to update the information about Sterzing’s potato chips.
- New photos for the east end of Business US 34 (Fairfield), which has no “End” sign but still square IA 163 shields.
- Elsewhere, I put some new photos with IA 51. Nothing changed there except the new-style shields and arrows.