A county road project this year ties into Iowa highway history in Jasper County.
The Newton News reports that the “third phase” of a project on County Road F48 west of Colfax includes widening the curve at 124th Street. The curve will get a larger turning radius. This road was part of US 6 until 1980. The curve here was already widened once, during a repavement in the 1950s that replaced the original concrete from the 1920s.
Much of the county’s work on F48 in recent years has been to update the road as it was received from the state when US 6 was turned over between Newton and Altoona.