List of state highways in Marquette County, Michigan

The list of highways in Marquette County, Michigan includes all state trunkline highways located in Marquette County, on the Upper Peninsula (UP) of Michigan. These roads account for about convert|173|mi|km of the highway system in Michigan. Most roads within the county are two-lane highways, while others are sections of four-lane highways or city streets. There are no interstate highways in Marquette County. There is one U.S. Highway that runs through the county, U.S. Highway 41 and six other currently signed trunklines. There is a state-maintained business loop in the county included in the total. There are two former trunklines, one of which was a business loop.

Roadways

The roadways in Marquette County fall into one of three general classifications: state trunklines, county roads or city streets. The Michigan Department of Transportation (MDOT) maintains two categories of trunklines that run through the county: US highways and regular state trunklines. There have been 13 state trunkline highway designations used in Marquette County, six of which have been transferred to the jurisdiction of a city or redesignated with another number. Trunklines that are not Interstate or US highways bear a M-route designation with the diamond marker.

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U.S. highways

There has been one U.S. highway in Marquette County, U.S. Highway 41, which spans for over convert|60|mi|km within the county. The route was numbered by 1919 as M-15, however this designation was changed in 1926. Since its designation, US 41 has served the cities of Marquette, Negaunee, and Ishpeming. US 41 has had two business loops in the county, although neither of them still exist as BUS US 41.cite map |publisher=Michigan Department of Transportation |title=Official 2008 Department of Transportation Map |url=http://www.michigan.gov/mdot/0,1607,7-151-9622_11033_11151---,00.html |year=2008|scale=1 in:15 mi/1 cm:9 km] BUS US 41 in Marquette was transferred to the City of Marquette in 2005, and BUS US 41 in Ishpeming and Negaunee is now just BUS M-28.cite map |publisher=Michigan State Highway Department |title=City of Ishpeming Act 51 Map |year=1951] US 41/M-28 run concurrently through the county, forming a major artery for Michigan and even Canadian traffic.cite web | title=US 41/M-28 Access Management Plan, Chapter One | date=2004-04-28 | publisher=Michigan Department of Transportation | url= http://michigan.gov/documents/MDOT_US-41_M28_chapter1_108596_7.pdf | accessdate=2008-01-18 |format=PDF ]

Other state trunklines

Of the 13 trunkline designations used in Marquette County, ten of them have been used for regular state trunklines. Four of these designations are no longer in use. M-15 is now US 41, and M-45 is now M-95. M-554 has been transferred to the City of Marquette and was reclassified as a city street. The BUS M-28 designation on the former BUS US 41 was retired in the late 1970s. Other trunklines in the county include M-35 and the M-route trunkline that bears the highest number in the state, M-553. The longest M-route state trunkline, M-28 which runs for convert|290.46|mi|km|2 across the UP crosses Marquette County as well.

County-maintained roads

All public roadways in Michigan that are not state trunklines or city streets are maintained by the county road commission, including streets in communities that are a part of a township.cite web |url=http://www.micountyroads.org/page.cfm/18/ |title=History |publisher=County Road Association of Michigan| accessdate= 2008-09-08] Marquette County signs primary county roads with a marker bearing a three-digit number. Other roads are assigned double- or triple-letter designations in addition to any names assigned to the roadways by a city or township.

City streets

The remaining category of public roadway in Marquette County is that of city streets. The streets are maintained by one of the three cities in the county: Ishpeming, Negaunee, or Marquette. The cities are responsible for maintaining any streets that are not otherwise under the control of state or county. Lakeshore Drive in Ishpeming was transferred to state control in 1999 to become part of BUS M-28,cite web | author= | title=State Adminitrative Board Resolutions | date=1940-Present | work=State of Michigan | url= http://www.michigan.gov/documents/resolution_list_155716_7.pdf | accessdate=2008-02-13|format=PDF ] and Grove Street in Marquette is also CR 500. These two streets, like others in the county, are under the jurisdiction of the state or county.

Statistics

The chart below shows the state trunkline highways in Marquette County by year of creation, length, and municipalities crossed.

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