{"id":8651,"date":"2023-06-26T10:00:23","date_gmt":"2023-06-26T15:00:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/?p=8651"},"modified":"2023-06-25T23:46:16","modified_gmt":"2023-06-26T04:46:16","slug":"dikes-role-in-nebraska-highway-history","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/2023\/06\/dikes-role-in-nebraska-highway-history\/","title":{"rendered":"Dike’s role in Nebraska highway history"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\nThe 1953 state highway map has a crudely drawn line for what was to become IA 370 and the designation still attached to the town of Dike. That would change.<\/em><\/p>\n

It turns out a remark I made on one route page is untrue, and there’s a story in the correction.<\/p>\n

I thought Iowa had numbers to spare when the Missouri River toll bridge at Bellevue opened at the end of 1952. After in-depth examination of the state maps around that period, Iowa did not<\/em>. All the free numbers were in use in Nebraska.<\/p>\n

But sometime in 1952, the Iowa Highway Commission eliminated a five-block-long highway into downtown Dike. Dike’s city limits were along a state-maintained road (US 20, now D19), but the town is one of a dozen such cases that managed to get a spur route into downtown anyway.\u00a0Its number, assigned in 1939, was 370.<\/p>\n

When the Bellevue bridge was being built in 1951 and 1952, there was no connection to US 275 on the Iowa side. According to the Lincoln Evening Journal<\/em> on December 27, 1952,\u00a0“[a] newly graded road on the Iowa side of the river had not been surfaced by the opening day, but it was to be graveled.”<\/p>\n

Iowa needed to come up with a number, and on September 10, 1952, shortly before the bridge opened, the Highway Commission grabbed the lowest number that wasn’t in use in either state…370<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

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\nOctober 22, 2014<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Shortly after the opening of the new US 34 bridge, IA 370 disappeared<\/a>, but the number is still alive in Nebraska, because of a little highway designated in Dike in 1939.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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