Former Michigan spur routes
The US state of Michigan has used several highway designated as spur routes to connect a highway with a town. These former spur routes listed below predate the usage of business route designations and are all decommissioned.
M-101
M-101 was the designation of a former state trunkline route in the US state of Michigan. A spur route out of Millersberg in Presque Isle County which connected the town with the nearby US 23 highway to the north.[2]
Like many state highway spurs that served a town that was bypassed, M-101 was very short when it existed. The road, now known as Millersburg Road, ran from Big Cut Highway in Millersburg, north to a junction with the former route of U.S. Route 23, which is now M-68, covering a distance of just 1.22 miles (1.96 km).
M-160
M-160 was a state highway that served as a spur route from M-29 into Selfridge Field (now Selfridge Air National Guard Base) near Mt. Clemens in Macomb County in the 1940s.[2]
M-162
M-162 was a state highway that served as a spur route from M-94 (now M-28) into AuTrain in Alger County from 1935 to 1939.[2] It would follow the route of today's H-03.
M-164
M-164 was a state highway that served as a spur route from M-19 into Snover in Sanilac County in the 1930s.[2]
M-165
M-165 was a state highway that served as a spur route from M-21 into Ovid in Clinton County in the 1930s.[2]
M-166
M-166 was a state highway that served as a spur route from M-21 into Lyons in Ionia County in the 1930s. It was later extended east and south to US 16 (now former BS I-96) in Portland.[2]
M-167
M-167 was a state highway that served as a spur route from M-21 into Saranac in Ionia County in the 1930s.[2]
M-169
M-169 was a state trunkline highway in the US state of Michigan that served as a connector route between US 27 and M-55 near Houghton Lake in Roscommon County.[2] At the time, US 27 traveled around Houghton Lake to the east. M-169 was replaced by M-55 when the route of M-55 through Houghton Lake Heights was designated as BUS M-55. The former M-169 later became a part of US 27 (now OLD US 27) when US 27 was rerouted on a western bypass of Houghton Lake.
M-170
M-170 was a state highway that served as a spur route from M-28 into McMillan in the 1930s.[2]
M-172
M-172 was a state highway that served as a spur route from M-37 into Middleville in Barry County in the 1930s.[2]
M-173
M-173 was a state highway that served as a spur route from M-44 into Orleans in Ionia County in the 1930s. It was also the last designation applied along a route connecting the Ann Arbor Railroad ferry docks to US 41 from 1939 to 1972.[2]
M-174, Buchanan
M-174 was a state highway that served as a spur route from US 112 (now US 12) into Buchanan in Berrien County in the 1930s. [2]
M-174, Lansing
The M-174 designation was also applied to the portion of Logan Street in Lansing from Grand River Avenue to the Ingham/Clinton county line until the early 1970s.[2]
M-175
M-175 was a state highway that served as a spur route from US 112 (now US 12) into Galien in Berrien County in the 1930s.[2]
M-176
M-176 was a state highway that served as a spur route from M-71 into Durand in Shiawassee County in the 1930s.[2]
M-177
M-177 was a state highway that replaced the routing of M-46 (along Michigan Avenue) into St. Louis from US 27/M-46 to US 27A (current BUS US 127) in Alma until 1939.[2]
M-178
M-178 was a state highway that served as a connector route from M-94 in Munising, Michigan to M-28 at Wetmore in Alger County in the 1930s.[2] At this time, M-28 ran along M-94's current routing, while M-94 continued north from Shingleton to Van Meer along the current routing of H-15. From there M-94 turned to Munising and eventually AuTrain along the current H-58 and the current routing of M-28. In between M-28 and M-94, there existed a one-mile (1.6 km) connector designated M-178. In 1941, M-28 and M-94 were moved to their current routings, eliminating M-178.
M-180
M-180 was a state highway that served as a spur route from US 41 to the Ann Arbor Railroad ferry docks in Menominee from 1933 until late 1935.[2]
M-181
M-181 was a state highway that served as a spur route from M-24 into Metamora in Lapeer County in the 1930s.[2]
M-184
M-184 was a state highway that served as a spur route from M-89 to the Kellogg Bird Sanctuary (now the Kellogg Biological Station) in the 1930s.[2]
M-191
M-191 was a state highway that served as a spur route from M-14 into Fenwick in Montcalm County in the 1930s.[2]
M-193
M-193 was a state highway that served as a spur route from M-78 into Morrice in Shiawassee County in the 1930s.[2]
M-194
M-194 was a state highway that served as a spur route from M-13 into New Lothrop in Shiawassee County in the 1930s.[2]
M-195
M-195 was a state highway that served as a spur route from M-52 into Henderson in Shiawassee County in the 1930s.[2]
M-196
M-196 was a state highway that served as a spur route from US 10 into Hersey in Osceola County in the 1930s.[2]
M-198
M-198 was a state highway that served as a spur route from M-46 into Lakeview in the 1930s.
M-200
M-200 was a state highway that served as a spur route from US 41 into Stephenson in Menominee County in the 1930s.[2]
M-208
M-208 was a state highway that served as a spur route from US 27 (current BL I-75) to the "Wakeley Bridge" in Crawford County in the 1930s. When the connection from the bridge to M-72 at Eldorado was completed, M-72 was extended over M-208, and M-208 was deleted.[2]
M-215
M-215 was a state highway that served as a connector route from US 12 in Lawrence to M-43 near Bangor in Van Buren County until 1953 or 1954.[2]
M-219
M-219 was a state highway that served as a spur route from US 2 at Manistique in Schoolcraft County, Michigan, United States from around 1935 until 1966. It existed to connect the Ann Arbor Railroad carferry docks to US 2 and the state highway system.[2]
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