Talk:List of state trunk highways in Wisconsin

Obvious question #1
Is it Wisconsin State Highway 10 or Wisconsin Highway 10? :-) &mdash; Rob (  talk  ) 19:33, 21 April 2006 (UTC)


 * Neither. It's US-10. Or in verbose form, "U.S. Highway 10." If, however, your question was regarding the standard naming convention for Wisconsin's state trunk highways and, more specifically, the non-U.S. Highways and non-Interstate Highways, that would officially by "State Trunk Highway xx", as in "State Trunk Highway 11." Obviously, the verbose form is almost never used and you generally see the common abbreviated form, "STH-11." In common speech, however, Wisconsinites say "Highway 11" for STH-11, but then again, they also say "Highway 41" for US-41, "Highway C" for (County Trunk Highway) CTH-C, and sometimes even "Highway 94" for I-94. See the Wisconsin Highways website and the "STH"..."CTH"..."Highway"? Help! page as well. CBessert 01:52, 26 April 2006 (UTC)

1926 renumbering
(info from Wisconsin Highways)
 * WIS 10: US 51 IL-Hurley, US 2 Hurley-MN
 * WIS 11: US 61 Dubuque-La Crosse (note some differences to serve Prairie du Chien), US 53 La Crosse-Superior
 * WIS 12: US 12 MN-IL
 * WIS 14: US 8 MN-Pembine
 * WIS 15: US 41 Milwaukee-MI
 * WIS 16: WIS 29 Chippewa Falls-Green Bay, US 141 Green Bay-Manitowoc
 * WIS 17: US 141 Milwaukee-Manitowoc
 * WIS 18: WIS 34 MN-Humbird, US 10 Humbird-Manitowoc
 * WIS 19: US 18 IA-Madison
 * WIS 23: US 118 Dickeyville-Dodgeville
 * WIS 29: US 16 MN-Milwaukee
 * WIS 31: US 151 Madison-Fond du Lac
 * WIS 41: US 18 Cambridge-Milwaukee (also continued west from Madison on US 14?)
 * WIS 51: WIS 72 Ellsworth-Menomonie
 * WIS 53: WIS 95 Fountain City-Neillsville
 * WIS 57: US 41 IL-Milwaukee
 * WIS 61: WIS 14 Cassville-Milwaukee
 * WIS 69: US 2 MI-MI (and Hurley-MI?)
 * WIS 95: US 110 Fremont-Oshkosh
 * WIS 110: WIS 112 extended Marengo-Ashland
 * WIS 118: WIS 115 Hustisford-Juneau
 * WIS 141: WIS 146 Fall River-Cambria
 * WIS 151: unknown


 * Later renumberings caused by U.S. Highways
 * WIS 11 (1933): US 14 La Crosse-Madison
 * WIS 13 (1933): US 14 Madison-Evansville (concurrent)
 * WIS 14 (1933): WIS 81 Cassville-Beloit, WIS 15 Beloit-Milwaukee
 * WIS 20 (1933): US 14 Janesville-north of Darien
 * WIS 31 (1934): US 151 Fond du Lac-Manitowoc
 * WIS 34 (1934): US 10 MN-Humbird
 * WIS 45 (1934): WIS 34 Wisconsin Rapids-Knowlton
 * WIS 57 (1928): US 141 Abrams-MI
 * WIS 63 (1934): WIS 17 Merrill-Eagle River
 * WIS 89 (1933): US 14 north of Darien-IL
 * WIS 92 (1933): US 14 Evansville-Janesville

1917 log
(info from Wisconsin Highways)
 * 10 IL - Beloit - Madison - Wausau - Hurley - Superior - MN
 * 11 Prairie du Sac - Gotham - La Crosse - Eau Claire - Superior - MN
 * 12 MN - Hudson - Eau Claire - Tomah - Baraboo - Madison - Genoa City - IL
 * 13 Wisconsin Dells - Wisconsin Rapids - Marshfield - Ashland - Bayfield
 * 14 MN - St. Croix Falls - Ladysmith - Rhinelander - Armstrong Creek - Florence
 * 15 Milwaukee - Fond du Lac - Oshkosh - Appleton - Green Bay - Marinette - MI
 * 16 Chippewa Falls - Wausau - Green Bay - Manitowoc
 * 17 IL - Kenosha - Milwaukee - Sheboygan - Manitowoc - Sturgeon Bay - Sister Bay
 * east-west
 * 18 Humbird - Stevens Point - Appleton - Manitowoc
 * 19 Prairie du Chien - Dodgeville - Madison - Sun Prairie - Watertown - Waukesha - Milwaukee
 * 20 IA - Hazel Green - Monroe - Janesville - Burlington - Rochester - Racine
 * 21 La Crosse - Sparta - New Lisbon - Necedah - Coloma - Oshkosh
 * 22 Wautoma - Waupaca - Shawano - Oconto
 * 23 Packwaukee - Fond du Lac - Sheboygan
 * north-south
 * 24 east of Spooner - Stone Lake - Hayward - Ashland
 * 25 Galesville - Nelson - Menomonie
 * 26 Janesville - Watertown - Theresa
 * 27 Prairie du Chien - Viroqua - Sparta
 * 28 IA - Dickeyville - Dodgeville - Spring Green
 * blah
 * 29 New Lisbon - Wisconsin Dells - Portage - Watertown (by 1923 at least - )
 * 30 Platteville - Lancaster - Readstown
 * 31 Madison - Columbus - Fond du Lac
 * 32 Woodruff - Eagle River - Crandon
 * 33 Baraboo - Reedsburg - Elroy - Camp Douglas
 * 34 MN - Prescott - Mondovi
 * 35 St. Croix Falls - Danbury
 * 36 Lake Geneva - Milwaukee
 * 37 Alma - Eau Claire
 * 38 Abrams - Wausaukee
 * 39 Birnamwood - Antigo - Pelican Lake
 * 40 Bruce - Radisson
 * 41 Madison - Jefferson - Waukesha - Milwaukee (probably - but also continued west from Madison along US 14? that was 11 at least just east of Richland Center)
 * 42 IL - Monroe - Verona
 * 43 Cadott - Ladysmith
 * 44 Portage - Manchester - Princeton
 * 45 Wisconsin Rapids - Knowlton ???
 * 46 Roberts - New Richmond - north of Amery
 * 47 Appleton - Bonduel
 * 48 Sheboygan - Chilton - Hilbert
 * 49 Green Lake - Fremont
 * 50 Delavan - Kenosha
 * 51 Ellsworth - Downsville ?
 * 52 Galesville - Black River Falls
 * 53 Fountain City - Blair - Neillsville ?
 * 54 Green Bay - Algoma
 * 55 Richfield - West Bend - Kewaskum - Theresa
 * 56 Fond du Lac - Chilton
 * 57 Racine - Thompsonville - Milwaukee
 * 58 Sextonville - LaValle
 * 59 La Grange - Waukesha
 * 60 Boscobel - Gotham
 * 61 unknown
 * 62 east of Schullsburg - Mineral Point
 * 63 Merrill - Rhinelander - Eagle River ?
 * 64 Pound - Marinette
 * 65 Baraboo - Portage
 * 66 Wisconsin Rapids - Plover
 * 67 Plymouth - Elkhart Lake - New Holstein
 * 68 West Bend - Port Washington
 * 69 MI - Florence - MI (also Hurley - MI?)
 * 70 Grantsburg - Siren
 * 71 Elroy - Mauston
 * 72 New Munster - Burlington
 * 73 Sherwood - Kaukauna
 * 74 Whitefish Bay - Fox Point - Brown Deer
 * 75 76th Street in Milwaukee from Forest Home Avenue to Blue Mound Road
 * 76 Casco - Kewaunee
 * 77 downtown Milwaukee
 * 78 Hartford - Slinger

All-time list
(not necessarily for the article, just a way to keep track - as always info is from Wisconsin Highways)


 * If you can handle waiting just a little longer, I'm working on finishing my own Wisconsin Highways Master List 1917-Present, similar to the one on my Michigan site . — CBessert 02:03, 23 July 2006 (UTC)


 * Eh, I just find it fun to do stuff like this, and it's probably good to coordinate the links for the former routes. I've made a complete one for U.S. Highways. --SPUI (T - C) 02:40, 23 July 2006 (UTC)

Interstate 57?
I'm lost... when was I-57 supposed to route north into Wisconsin? jwhouk 07:53, 19 August 2006 (UTC)


 * In the 1950s. It was the route number proposed for the Milwaukee-to-Green Bay Interstate that was eventually rejected by the federal government. I-57 would've run concurrently with I-94 between downtown Chicago and downtown Milwaukee. CBessert 01:16, 21 August 2006 (UTC)

List split
Following the concepts embodied in the "Michigan Plan", I boldly split the list into three and spun out Wisconsin State Trunk Highway System as the new focus article for the system. Also, in doing so, I put List of Interstate Highways in Wisconsin and List of U.S. Highways in Wisconsin onto the templates developed for WP:USRD/STDS/L and corrected a few of the most glaring errors (US 53 can't intersect I-35 in WI because I-35 doesn't enter WI or end at the state line... the northern segment of US 141 wasn't included, etc). Now the future task will be to get this list onto the templates, and fill in all of the information with verified, and cited, details.  Imzadi 1979  →   01:10, 20 March 2014 (UTC)

WIS 185
Where was WIS 185 in 1947? I can't find it. I saw a map showing that WIS 94 was renumbered WIS 185, but where was the first WIS 185? Alexlatham96 (talk) 00:23, 22 August 2019 (UTC)

WIS 177
Where was WIS 177 in 1947? The only known WIS 177 is not on the 1949 map, but is on the 1951 map, so where was the first WIS 177?Alexlatham96 (talk) 21:26, 8 September 2022 (UTC)