One note about a minor intersection in Marshall County has led me to investigate the status of an even more minor location.
The Marshall County Board of Supervisors approved turning the intersection of E35 (Main Street Road) and T37 (Zeller Road) into a four-way stop, the Marshalltown Times-Republican reports. This intersection is a slightly odd case, county-road-wise, because the paved road makes a turn. Because of this, the county engineer said, “your brain just thinks that rock road must stop, and it doesn’t.”
The Marshall County engineer told the supervisors that he plans to pave Main Street Road east from the intersection this summer. This is interesting because the road on other side of the county line isn’t much. Main Street Road turns into gravel 290th Street on the Tama County side and wobbles its way southeast to C Avenue and then T47.
South of the intersection, T37 goes to Le Grand. There is an abandoned bridge at a skew to the road, and it was used into the 1950s. Looking at that bridge made me scroll a little westward, and a completely unrelated road got interesting.
Three Bridges Road connects E35 to Quarry Road, except that it doesn’t. Sometime in the 1980s, a bridge on the road was closed. The bridge remains in place, but I can’t look up any information at the moment. Bridgehunter’s website is in the midst of a radical redesign that’s adding dynamic elements, something that often ends in pain for everyone involved.
As late as the 2013 Marshall County map, a bridge icon was at the location with a road going over it. The 2022 county map does not show any bridges on Three Bridges Road, but does show a continuous road north of Quarry. That should be dead-ended and the line between the intersection of Three Bridges and Yates roads and the stream removed.