Talk:List of state trunk highways in Wisconsin

Obvious question #1

Is it Wisconsin State Highway 10 or Wisconsin Highway 10? :-) —Rob (talk) 19:33, 21 April 2006 (UTC)

Neither. It's US-10. Or in verbose form, "U.S. Highway 10." If, however, your question was regarding the standard naming convention for Wisconsin's state trunk highways and, more specifically, the non-U.S. Highways and non-Interstate Highways, that would officially by "State Trunk Highway xx", as in "State Trunk Highway 11." Obviously, the verbose form is almost never used and you generally see the common abbreviated form, "STH-11." In common speech, however, Wisconsinites say "Highway 11" for STH-11, but then again, they also say "Highway 41" for US-41, "Highway C" for (County Trunk Highway) CTH-C, and sometimes even "Highway 94" for I-94. See the Wisconsin Highways website and the "STH"..."CTH"..."Highway"? Help! page as well. CBessert 01:52, 26 April 2006 (UTC)

1926 renumbering

(info from Wisconsin Highways)

• WIS 10: US 51 IL-Hurley, US 2 Hurley-MN
• WIS 11: US 61 Dubuque-La Crosse (note some differences to serve Prairie du Chien), US 53 La Crosse-Superior
• WIS 12: US 12 MN-IL
• WIS 14: US 8 MN-Pembine
• WIS 15: US 41 Milwaukee-MI
• WIS 16: WIS 29 Chippewa Falls-Green Bay, US 141 Green Bay-Manitowoc
• WIS 17: US 141 Milwaukee-Manitowoc
• WIS 18: WIS 34 MN-Humbird, US 10 Humbird-Manitowoc
• WIS 19: US 18 IA-Madison
• WIS 23: US 118 Dickeyville-Dodgeville
• WIS 29: US 16 MN-Milwaukee
• WIS 31: US 151 Madison-Fond du Lac
• WIS 41: US 18 Cambridge-Milwaukee (also continued west from Madison on US 14?)
• WIS 51: WIS 72 Ellsworth-Menomonie
• WIS 53: WIS 95 Fountain City-Neillsville
• WIS 57: US 41 IL-Milwaukee
• WIS 61: WIS 14 Cassville-Milwaukee
• WIS 69: US 2 MI-MI (and Hurley-MI?)
• WIS 95: US 110 Fremont-Oshkosh
• WIS 110: WIS 112 extended Marengo-Ashland
• WIS 118: WIS 115 Hustisford-Juneau
• WIS 141: WIS 146 Fall River-Cambria
• WIS 151: unknown

Later renumberings caused by U.S. Highways

• WIS 11 (1933): US 14 La Crosse-Madison
• WIS 13 (1933): US 14 Madison-Evansville (concurrent)
• WIS 14 (1933): WIS 81 Cassville-Beloit, WIS 15 Beloit-Milwaukee
• WIS 20 (1933): US 14 Janesville-north of Darien
• WIS 31 (1934): US 151 Fond du Lac-Manitowoc
• WIS 34 (1934): US 10 MN-Humbird
• WIS 45 (1934): WIS 34 Wisconsin Rapids-Knowlton
• WIS 57 (1928): US 141 Abrams-MI
• WIS 63 (1934): WIS 17 Merrill-Eagle River
• WIS 89 (1933): US 14 north of Darien-IL
• WIS 92 (1933): US 14 Evansville-Janesville

1917 log

(info from Wisconsin Highways)

• 10 IL - Beloit - Madison - Wausau - Hurley - Superior - MN
• 11 Prairie du Sac - Gotham - La Crosse - Eau Claire - Superior - MN
• 12 MN - Hudson - Eau Claire - Tomah - Baraboo - Madison - Genoa City - IL
• 13 Wisconsin Dells - Wisconsin Rapids - Marshfield - Ashland - Bayfield
• 14 MN - St. Croix Falls - Ladysmith - Rhinelander - Armstrong Creek - Florence
• 15 Milwaukee - Fond du Lac - Oshkosh - Appleton - Green Bay - Marinette - MI
• 16 Chippewa Falls - Wausau - Green Bay - Manitowoc
• 17 IL - Kenosha - Milwaukee - Sheboygan - Manitowoc - Sturgeon Bay - Sister Bay

east-west

• 18 Humbird - Stevens Point - Appleton - Manitowoc
• 19 Prairie du Chien - Dodgeville - Madison - Sun Prairie - Watertown - Waukesha - Milwaukee
• 20 IA - Hazel Green - Monroe - Janesville - Burlington - Rochester - Racine
• 21 La Crosse - Sparta - New Lisbon - Necedah - Coloma - Oshkosh
• 22 Wautoma - Waupaca - Shawano - Oconto
• 23 Packwaukee - Fond du Lac - Sheboygan

north-south

• 24 east of Spooner - Stone Lake - Hayward - Ashland
• 25 Galesville - Nelson - Menomonie
• 26 Janesville - Watertown - Theresa
• 27 Prairie du Chien - Viroqua - Sparta
• 28 IA - Dickeyville - Dodgeville - Spring Green

blah

• 29 New Lisbon - Wisconsin Dells - Portage - Watertown (by 1923 at least - [1])
• 30 Platteville - Lancaster - Readstown
• 31 Madison - Columbus - Fond du Lac
• 32 Woodruff - Eagle River - Crandon
• 33 Baraboo - Reedsburg - Elroy - Camp Douglas
• 34 MN - Prescott - Mondovi
• 35 St. Croix Falls - Danbury
• 36 Lake Geneva - Milwaukee
• 37 Alma - Eau Claire
• 38 Abrams - Wausaukee
• 39 Birnamwood - Antigo - Pelican Lake
• 40 Bruce - Radisson
• 41 Madison - Jefferson - Waukesha - Milwaukee (probably - but also continued west from Madison along US 14? that was 11 at least just east of Richland Center)
• 42 IL - Monroe - Verona
• 43 Cadott - Ladysmith ([2])
• 44 Portage - Manchester - Princeton
• 45 Wisconsin Rapids - Knowlton ???
• 46 Roberts - New Richmond - north of Amery
• 47 Appleton - Bonduel
• 48 Sheboygan - Chilton - Hilbert
• 49 Green Lake - Fremont
• 50 Delavan - Kenosha
• 51 Ellsworth - Downsville ?
• 52 Galesville - Black River Falls
• 53 Fountain City - Blair - Neillsville ?
• 54 Green Bay - Algoma
• 55 Richfield - West Bend - Kewaskum - Theresa
• 56 Fond du Lac - Chilton
• 57 Racine - Thompsonville - Milwaukee
• 58 Sextonville - LaValle
• 59 La Grange - Waukesha
• 60 Boscobel - Gotham
• 61 unknown
• 62 east of Schullsburg - Mineral Point
• 63 Merrill - Rhinelander - Eagle River ?
• 64 Pound - Marinette
• 65 Baraboo - Portage
• 66 Wisconsin Rapids - Plover
• 67 Plymouth - Elkhart Lake - New Holstein
• 68 West Bend - Port Washington
• 69 MI - Florence - MI (also Hurley - MI?)
• 70 Grantsburg - Siren
• 71 Elroy - Mauston
• 72 New Munster - Burlington
• 73 Sherwood - Kaukauna
• 74 Whitefish Bay - Fox Point - Brown Deer
• 75 76th Street in Milwaukee from Forest Home Avenue to Blue Mound Road
• 76 Casco - Kewaunee
• 77 downtown Milwaukee
• 78 Hartford - Slinger

All-time list

(not necessarily for the article, just a way to keep track - as always info is from Wisconsin Highways)

If you can handle waiting just a little longer, I'm working on finishing my own Wisconsin Highways Master List 1917-Present, similar to the one on my Michigan site [3]. — CBessert 02:03, 23 July 2006 (UTC)

Eh, I just find it fun to do stuff like this, and it's probably good to coordinate the links for the former routes. I've made a complete one for U.S. Highways. --SPUI (T - C) 02:40, 23 July 2006 (UTC)

Name	Years	Link	Notes
US 2	1925-present	U.S. Highway 2 (Wisconsin)
US 8	1926-present	U.S. Highway 8 (Wisconsin)
US 10	1925-1926	U.S. Highway 10 (Wisconsin 1925)	planning stages only; became US 12
US 10	1926-present	U.S. Highway 10 (Wisconsin)
WIS 10	1917-1926	Highway 10 (Wisconsin)	became US 51 and US 2
WIS 11	1917-1933	Highway 11 (Wisconsin 1917)	became US 14, La Crosse to Madison? But apparently US 61 all the way to Dubuque supplanted WIS 11? That was 30, and disappeared by 1924
WIS 11	1933?-present	Highway 11 (Wisconsin)
US 12	1925-1926	U.S. Highway 12 (Wisconsin 1925)	planning stages only; became US 10
US 12	1926-present	U.S. Highway 12 (Wisconsin)
WIS 12	1917-1926	Highway 12 (Wisconsin)	became US 12
WIS 13	1917-present	Highway 13 (Wisconsin)
US 14	1933-present	U.S. Highway 14 (Wisconsin)
WIS 14	1917-1926	Highway 14 (Wisconsin 1917)	became US 8
WIS 14	1926-1933	Highway 14 (Wisconsin 1926)	became WIS 81 and WIS 15
WIS 15	1917-1931	Highway 15 (Wisconsin 1917)	became WIS 42
WIS 15	1933-1987	Highway 15 (Wisconsin 1933)	became I-43
WIS 15	1998-present	Highway 15 (Wisconsin)
US 16	1925-1978	U.S. Highway 16 (Wisconsin)
WIS 16	1917-1916	Highway 16 (Wisconsin 1917)	became WIS 29 and US 141
WIS 16	1978-present	Highway 16 (Wisconsin)
WIS 17	1917-by 1932	Highway 17 (Wisconsin 1917)	became WIS 42
WIS 17	1934-present	Highway 17 (Wisconsin)
US 18	1925-present	U.S. Highway 18 (Wisconsin)
WIS 18	1917-1926	Highway 18 (Wisconsin)	became WIS 34 and US 10
WIS 19	1917-present	Highway 19 (Wisconsin)
WIS 20	1917-present	Highway 20 (Wisconsin)
WIS 21	1917-present	Highway 21 (Wisconsin)
WIS 22	1917-present	Highway 22 (Wisconsin)
WIS 23	1917-present	Highway 23 (Wisconsin)
WIS 24	1917-present	Highway 24 (Wisconsin)
WIS 25	1917-present	Highway 25 (Wisconsin)
WIS 26	1917-present	Highway 26 (Wisconsin)
WIS 27	1917-present	Highway 27 (Wisconsin)
WIS 28	1917-early 1920s	Highway 28 (Wisconsin 1917)
WIS 28	by 1924-present	Highway 28 (Wisconsin)
WIS 29	1917?-1926	Highway 29 (Wisconsin 1917)?	became US 16
WIS 29	1926-present	Highway 29 (Wisconsin)
WIS 30	1917-by 1924	Highway 30 (Wisconsin 1917)	became WIS 11???
WIS 30	by 1924-present	Highway 30 (Wisconsin)
WIS 31	1917-1934	Highway 31 (Wisconsin 1917)	became US 151
WIS 31	1936-present	Highway 31 (Wisconsin)
WIS 32	1917-present	Highway 32 (Wisconsin)
WIS 33	1917-present	Highway 33 (Wisconsin)
WIS 34	1917-early 1920s	Highway 34 (Wisconsin 1917)	became WIS 18
WIS 34	early 1920s-1926	Highway 34 (Wisconsin early 1920s)	became WIS 116
WIS 34	1926-1934	Highway 34 (Wisconsin 1926)	became US 10
WIS 34	1934-present	Highway 34 (Wisconsin)
WIS 35	1917-present	Highway 35 (Wisconsin)
WIS 36	1917-present	Highway 36 (Wisconsin)
WIS 37	1917-present	Highway 37 (Wisconsin)
WIS 38	1917-by 1924	Highway 38 (Wisconsin 1917)	became WIS 57
WIS 38	by 1924-present	Highway 38 (Wisconsin)
I-39	1992-present	Interstate 39 (Wisconsin)
WIS 39	1917-by 1924	Highway 39 (Wisconsin 1917)	became WIS 26 and WIS 47
WIS 39	by 1924-present	Highway 39 (Wisconsin)

Interstate 57?

I'm lost... when was I-57 supposed to route north into Wisconsin? jwhouk 07:53, 19 August 2006 (UTC)

In the 1950s. It was the route number proposed for the Milwaukee-to-Green Bay Interstate that was eventually rejected by the federal government. I-57 would've run concurrently with I-94 between downtown Chicago and downtown Milwaukee. CBessert 01:16, 21 August 2006 (UTC)

List split

Following the concepts embodied in the "Michigan Plan", I boldly split the list into three and spun out Wisconsin State Trunk Highway System as the new focus article for the system. Also, in doing so, I put List of Interstate Highways in Wisconsin and List of U.S. Highways in Wisconsin onto the templates developed for WP:USRD/STDS/L and corrected a few of the most glaring errors (US 53 can't intersect I-35 in WI because I-35 doesn't enter WI or end at the state line... the northern segment of US 141 wasn't included, etc). Now the future task will be to get this list onto the templates, and fill in all of the information with verified, and cited, details. Imzadi 1979 → 01:10, 20 March 2014 (UTC)

WIS 185

Where was WIS 185 in 1947? I can't find it. I saw a map showing that WIS 94 was renumbered WIS 185, but where was the first WIS 185? Alexlatham96 (talk) 00:23, 22 August 2019 (UTC)

WIS 177

Where was WIS 177 in 1947? The only known WIS 177 is not on the 1949 map, but is on the 1951 map, so where was the first WIS 177?Alexlatham96 (talk) 21:26, 8 September 2022 (UTC)