(July 1, 1920-November 1957)
- In 1920, they knew it as: The Perry Creek road (2 counties)
- We know it as: County Road K22. Both IA 29 and IA 80 stayed in place until the interstate highway system needed the numbers.
- Let's get granular: Court Street (if it stopped at IA 23), 5th Street, Nebraska Street, 27th Street, Stone Park Boulevard, McDonald Street, Dearborn Boulevard (broken at Perry Creek, has a double-dead-end scrap at 36th Street), Summit Street, 38th Street, Hamilton Boulevard, the driveway to 5005-15 Hamilton Boulevard, K22, IA 3
- The Normandy restaurant, "a landmark structure" at the corner of 38th and Summit, was demolished after a fire in 2014 and replaced with an expanded Casey's.
- Related routes:
- IA 7 (III), the number for this highway in the 1960s
- IA 985 (II), the secret designation for the route inside Sioux City when that 7 was decommissioned
- See also: Sioux City Highway Chronology
NORTH End: IA 27, now IA 3 at K22 (north junction), Plymouth County
Facing north on 29, now heading west on 3 (7/17/20)
This route is special, because it has something I do not see anywhere else on the 1919 state map. It is the only primary road with both ends at other primary roads that did not end in a city. The designation of every other primary on the map, when one came to a rural intersection, continued ahead to the next community. For example, IA 58, instead of ending where IA 8 does today, continued to Vinton. This practice was changed in the Great Truncation of winter 1924-25, and such endpoints because very common after the 1926 system was established.
The north-south mile of the road between Akron and Le Mars was moved over from Brunsville upon that road's paving in 1954.
July
16, 1919.
The board in session today adopted the following resolution.
That, whereas, it is the judgment of this board that the following
described county road, as now located shall be added to the primary road
system as now located, to-wit:
1. The County Road running due north, from Kingsley, to intersect with
said Primary Road, now Remsen. [This
became IA 30 -Ed.]
2. The County Road running from west from Kingsley to where it
intersects said Primary Road, at Hinton. [County
Road C70 -Ed.]
3. The County Road running north from the county line between Woodbury
and Plymouth counties, known as the Perry Creek Road, to where it
intersects said Primary Road at the southwest corner of Section 3, in
Johnson township in Plymouth County, Iowa.
And, whereas, the board believes that said roads should be added to the
Primary Road System, so as to be in position as to be ultimately paved,
because said roads are main market roads connecting the county seat and
main market centers. Moreover, the said Perry Creek Road is separated
from the Primary Road along the Floyd river by a natural barrier of
hills, making access to said Primary Road impossible most of the year.
Therefore, be it resolved: That the State Highway Commission be and is
hereby requested to add the above described County Road to the present
Primary Road System. Signed by T. Kloster, Acting Chairman.
— Plymouth County Supervisors minutes, as printed in the Le
Mars Semi-Weekly Sentinel, August 29, 1919
SOUTH End: IA 23/IA 34, now Court Ave. at 4th St., Sioux City, Woodbury County
Fourth Street was a major commercial artery in Sioux City. IA 29 most likely ended here, not McDonald Street at IA 12/Stone Park Boulevard (too far from downtown), and probably not a block north on 5th at Court (where IA 12/29 met IA 5/22 heading northeast to Le Mars). That would have made 4th and Court the intersection of four routes.
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