Wikipedia:WikiProject U.S. Highways
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 M-35 is a state trunkline highway in the Upper Peninsula (UP) of the U.S. state of Michigan. Running for 127.99 miles (205.98 km) in a general north–south direction, it connects the cities of Menominee, Escanaba and Negaunee. The southern section of M-35 in Menominee and Delta counties carries two additional designations. M-35 forms a segment of the Lake Michigan Circle Tour, and it is the UP Hidden Coast Recreational Heritage Trail, which is a part of the Michigan Heritage Routes system. Along the southern section, the highway is the closest trunkline to the Bay of Green Bay, a section of Lake Michigan, and is also the shortest route between Menominee and Escanaba. The northern section of the highway turns inland through wooded terrain, connecting rural portions of Delta and Marquette counties. M-35 is an original state trunkline that was first designated on 1 July 1919, originally intended to run from Menominee in the south to near Big Bay in the north, before turning toward L'Anse to end at Ontonagon. However, the section through the Huron Mountains in northern Marquette and Baraga counties was never built. Automobile pioneer Henry Ford helped halt this construction to gain favor with and membership in the exclusive Huron Mountain Club. Some discontinuous sections were later ceded to local control. The northern segment of the route between Ontonagon and Baraga was retained as a discontinuous segment of the highway; this northern segment was redesignated as another state trunkline. The northern end was rerouted out of the City of Negaunee into Negaunee Township to avoid mining activity near Palmer. Recently selected: New York State Route 22 - U.S. Route 50 in Nevada - Interstate 70 in Colorado |
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[edit] Scope
This WikiProject covers all U.S. highways in the U.S. Highway System. Articles about Interstates, state routes, and county routes are not covered by this project.
[edit] Goals
To standardize the format of the U.S. Highway articles.
[edit] Naming conventions
All articles are to be named "U.S. Route x". For U.S. Routes that traverse three or more states, state-specific U.S. Route pages can be made and are to be named "U.S. Route X in Y". (where X is the route number and Y is the state name)
If more than one route of the same number exists then a disambiguation page needs to be made for that U.S. Route at "U.S. Route X". The separate routes are then given their own pages, disambiguated by state.
[edit] Resources
[edit] Relationships
[edit] Parent WikiProject
[edit] Sibling WikiProjects
- Interstate Highways | U.S. Highways | auto trails | List of state-level WikiProjects
- Alabama | California (County Routes) | Connecticut | Florida (County Roads) | Georgia | Illinois | Indiana | Iowa | Kansas | Kentucky | Louisiana | Maryland | Massachusetts | Michigan (County Designated Highways) | Minnesota | Missouri | Nebraska | Nevada | New Hampshire | New Jersey | New York | North Carolina | Ohio | Oklahoma | Oregon | Pennsylvania (Susquehanna Valley) | Rhode Island | South Carolina | Tennessee | Texas | Utah | Vermont | Virginia | Washington | West Virginia | Wisconsin
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[edit] Participants
Per recent discussion at WT:USRD, the participant list for this project has been merged into Wikipedia:WikiProject U.S. Roads/Participants. To sign up for this project, please visit the USRD participant page, sign up, and add "USH" as one of your projects.
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Members of this project are encouraged to add {{Wikipedia:WikiProject U.S. Highways/Userbox}} or {{User:Triadian/Userboxes/WikiProject U.S. Highways}} to their user page. The resulting userboxes are shown below.
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[edit] Structure
All articles are to begin with a brief description of the route in general: mileage, etc.
[edit] Route description
These are subsections. The description should be broken up by states using third level headings (===California===, for example). If this state is CA or WA, then put the sections that that WP wants here. Otherwise describe the routing through this state. Optionally, use {{main}} to define detail pages (like U.S. Route 24 in Illinois) at the beginning of the paragraph, followed by a general paragraph that contains less detail than the detail page. If no detail page exists, simply write a general paragraph of the route's routing through the state. States should be listed from south to north and west to east.
For intrastate U.S. routes and detail pages, third-level headings are not required.
[edit] Major cities
Place the list of cities in an infobox located at the top of the "Route description" section. Use the following coding to generate the box:
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The cities should be listed from south to north and west to east.
[edit] History
A history of the U.S. route. This can be as brief as a few sentences or as elaborate as a few paragraphs.
[edit] Miscellanea
Put all oddities, trivia, etc. here.
[edit] Major intersections
A bulleted list of intersections with other Interstates, U.S. highways and other notable roads.
[edit] Bannered routes
Any bannered routes of the U.S. route. Use existing lists (Bannered routes of U.S. Route 71) and articles (U.S. Route 219 in New York) as examples on how to format this section.
[edit] See also
Articles relating to the U.S. route.
[edit] Related routes
A list of spur routes or a link to the route's parent. Also include any suffixed routes here.
[edit] References
Put references here, using the new footnoting system.
[edit] External links
Links having to do with entire highway go here. If it's state-specific, consider including it on the state subpage or in a third-level heading in this section.
[edit] Categories
- All primary US highways without their own category go here with a 2 digit sort code (08 for US-8, 85 for US-85, etc.)
- Category:U.S. Highways in California (or Arizona, etc... there is even one for District of Columbia and Puerto Rico)
- All US highways that run through that state go here. For 2dis, use a 2 digit sort code as above. For 3dis, follow this example: 05-7 for US-705. 25-8 for US-825.
[edit] Infobox
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The infobox for multi-state U.S. highways is {{Infobox U.S. Route}}. Go to Template:Infobox U.S. Route for a primer on how to use this routebox. An example can be found to the right.
U.S. highways that do not cross state boundaries -- and state detail pages -- may also use {{Infobox U.S. Route}}, or can use the infobox specified by that state's WikiProject (usually {{infobox road}} with the state= parameter) instead.
[edit] Junctions and termini
To create these columns, simply add the following to the "junction" parameter:
- [[Image:I-8.svg|20px]] [[Interstate 8|I-8]] at [[San Diego, CA]]<br>
To add more routes, simply copy and paste this code into the "junction" parameter as many times as needed.
Note:
- Only major junctions go into the U.S. Route routebox. These would be other Interstates, U.S. Routes, and other notable highways, such as Turnpikes. For primary routes with several junctions, then only 2di junctions are to be listed (excluding termini); otherwise, the routebox becomes unwieldy and too long. If any routebox has over 10 junctions, then some of the junctions need to be removed.
In summary:
- Generally, only list junctions with other Interstates and U.S. Routes.
- For a long route, only list 2di junctions.
- For any U.S. Route that is long enough to have 8 or more 2di junctions, such as the main routes (ending in 1 or 0, or some of the 6 ones), only list 2di junctions where the number follows the like rules.
[edit] Templates
[edit] Stub
{{UShighway-stub}}
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Designates this article relating to U.S. Routes as a stub. Articles are listed in Category:U.S. Highway stubs.
[edit] Browse numbered routes
For routes entering two or more states only.
Type the following code at the bottom of the article after {{US Highways}}.
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{{end box}}
In between the start and end templates, the state browse templates should be added. These templates exist in the form
{{XX browse|previous_type=|previous_route=|route=|next_type=|next_route=}}
where XX is the two-letter abbreviation of the state in lowercase (California is ca, New York is ny, etc.).
For the above parameters here's what you should fill in:
- previous_type: previous route (by number) in that state. Interstate, US (for U.S. routes), and (2-letter state abbrev.).
- previous_route: route number.
- route: a link to the list page for that state's highway system.
- next_type: the same as previous_type, but for the next route.
- next_route: same as previous_route, but for the next route.
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