U.S. Route 141

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U.S. Route 141

Length:

174.3 mi (280.5 km)

Formed:

1926^[1]

South end:

I-43/CTH-MM near Bellevue, WI

Major
junctions:

US 41 from Howard, WI to Abrams, WI

US 2 from Iron Mountain to Crystal Falls, MI

North end:

US 41/M-28 near Covington, MI

United States Numbered Highways
Spur of US 41
List - Bannered - Divided - Replaced

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U.S. Route 141

U.S. Route 141 (US 141) is a north-south highway in the U.S. states of Michigan and Wisconsin. US 41 is its parent route. Its northern terminus, on US 41, is near Covington, Michigan; its southern terminus, with I-43 near Bellevue, Wisconsin; it remains in existence in Green Bay, Wisconsin as a surface street. From Green Bay northward, US 141 runs concurrently with the US 41 freeway to Abrams.

1 Route description
2 History
3 See also
4 Major intersections
5 References
6 External links

[edit] Route description

US 141 in the Green Bay area runs along city streets. In Howard, it joins with US 41, running concurrently with the US 41 freeway north to Abrams. US 141 splits off to the west as a four-lane expressway from Abrams to Pound. From Pound north, US 141 is a two-lane rural highway north. US 141 crosses into Michigan on the Menominee River bridge in Niagara.

Once in Michigan, 1 mile (2 km) west of Quinnesec US 141 meets and joins US 2. The two highway designations run together along Stephenson Avenue in Iron Mountain. M-95 joins the two passing Lake Antoine. M-95 turns off north of town and US 2/US 141 crosses the Menominee River back into Wisconsin.

US 2/US 141 makes a short 14.46-mile (23.27 km) swing through Florence County, serving the communities of Spread Eagle and Florence. The highway crosses back into Michigan on a bridge over the Brule River south of Crystal Falls, Michigan

US 141 separates from the US 2 concurrency in Crystal Falls. Running northward, US 141 passes to the east of the Ottawa National Forest. South of Covington, US 141 turns east along M-28 before terminating at US 41.

Communities Cities listed from south to north
Green Bay, Wisconsin Abrams, Wisconsin Lena, Wisconsin Coleman, Wisconsin Pound, Wisconsin Crivitz, Wisconsin Wausaukee, Wisconsin Amberg, Wisconsin Beecher, Wisconsin Pembine, Wisconsin Niagara, Wisconsin Iron Mountain, Michigan Florence, Wisconsin Crystal Falls, Michigan Covington, Michigan

[edit] History

The portion north of Crystal Falls was once U.S. Route 102. As originally proposed in 1925, US 102 was to have departed from US 2 at Rapid River, continued via Marquette and westerly into Baraga County, where it would have ended at US 41 near Covington. However, when the final plan was approved and implemented in 1926-27, US 41 had been rerouted over the originally-proposed route of US 102, while US 102 had been moved to the west via a route originally proposed for US 41 from Crystal Falls to Covington. Only two years later, in 1928, US 102 was decommissioned when US 141 was extended northerly from Wisconsin via Iron Mountain to Crystal Falls, then north to Covington over the route formerly occupied by US 102.^[2]

U.S. 141 had a southern terminus in downtown Milwaukee, Wisconsin before Interstate 43 supplanted almost all of the segment between Green Bay and Milwaukee. North of Green Bay it lies generally to the west of U.S. 41 except for a short segment that it shares with U.S. 41, and is a shorter route than U.S. 41 between the Keweenaw Peninsula and Green Bay. From Green Bay southward it lay to the east of U.S. 41 and was a shorter route than U.S. 41; much of it was close to the western shore of Lake Michigan through such cities as Manitowoc; Sheboygan; and Port Washington. As Interstate 43 was completed in 1981 it supplanted all of U.S. 141 south of its current southern terminus.

[edit] See also

List of U.S. Routes

[edit] Major intersections

Mileage numbers reset at the Michigan/Wisconsin state line crossings.

County	Location	Mile^[3]	Roads	Notes
Brown	Bellevue		I-43	Southern Terminus
Brown	Green Bay		US 41
Oconto	Abrams		US 41
Oconto	Oconto Falls		STH-22
Marinette	Pound		STH-64
	Pembine		US 8
	Niagara		US 8
		X.XX	Michigan State Line
Dickinson	Quinnesec	1.16	US 2
	Iron Mountain		M-95
	Iron Mountain		M-95
		8.06	Wisconsin State Line
Florence	Florence		STH-70
		X.XX	Michigan State Line
Iron	Crystal Falls	10.01	M-69
Iron	Crystal Falls		US 2
Baraga	Covington		M-28
Baraga	Covington		US 41 M-28	Northern terminus