Iowa Highway 130

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Iowa Highway 130 is a 32-mile west-east state highway that traverses northwestern Scott County and eastern Cedar County in Iowa.

The highway's west end is in Tipton in Cedar County, and spirals southeastward to its eastern terminus at Interstate 80, on the north edge of Davenport.

Cities along the route, west to east, include Tipton, Bennett, New Liberty, Plain View, Maysville and Davenport.

[edit] History

Iowa Highway 130 was designated on January 1, 1969, as the eastern section of the former Iowa Highway 150. Highway 150 had extended to Calmar, in Winneshiek County.

According to the Iowa Highways Page, Iowa Highway 150 had been intended to be an extension of U.S. Highway 150, whose route wound through part of Rock Island County, Illinois; however, this never happened.

Eventually, Iowa Highway 150 was truncated west of Cedar Rapids, and the section from Tipton eastward redesignated to Iowa Highway 130.

Until the mid-1980s, Highway 130 extended to U.S. Highway 67 downtown Davenport, following Northwest Boulevard and Harrison Street. However, the highway was truncated at Interstate 80 in 1985, one year after Harrison and Brady streets were redesignated for one-way traffic. Harrison Street became the southbound artery of U.S. Highway 61.