Minnesota State Highway 270
{{short description|State highway in Minnesota, United States}}
{{Use American English|date=May 2025}}
{{Use mdy dates|date=January 2025}}
{{Infobox road
|state=MN
|type=MN
|route = 270
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|map_custom=yes
|map_notes=MN 270 highlighted in red
|established = {{start date|1949|07|01}}{{cite book |chapter=Chapter 663-H.F. No. 1792 |title=Session Laws of Minnesota for 1949 |editor-first= Earl L. |editor-last= Berg |publisher= State of Minnesota |pages=1177–1185}}
|length_mi = 7.659
|section=115
|subsection=201
|direction_a = West
|direction_b = East
|terminus_a = {{jct|state=MN|CSAH|13|county1=Rock}} in Hills
|terminus_b = {{jct|state=MN|US|75}} in Clinton Township
|counties=Rock
|previous_type=MN
|previous_route=269
|next_type=MN
|next_route=271}}
Minnesota State Highway 270 (MN 270) is a {{convert|7.659|mi|km|-long|adj=mid}} state highway in the southwest corner of Minnesota, which runs from its intersection with County State-Aid Highway 13 (CSAH 13) in the city of Hills, and continues east to its eastern terminus at its intersection with U.S. Highway 75 (US 75) in Clinton Township, {{convert|8|mi|km|spell=in}} south of Luverne. {{Citation needed|date=February 2021}}
Route description
MN 270 serves as a short east–west connector route in southwest Minnesota between Hills and US 75. Its route follows 1st Street in Hills. The western terminus of Highway 270 at Hills is located approximately {{convert|4|mi|km|spell=in}} from the South Dakota state line and {{convert|2|mi|km|spell=in}} from the Iowa state line.{{cite map |url=http://www.dot.state.mn.us/maps/cadd/county/rock.pdf |format=PDF |title=General Highway Map of Rock County |publisher=Minnesota Department of Transportation |year=2010 |accessdate=May 4, 2010 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20081206050114/http://www.dot.state.mn.us/maps/cadd/county/rock.pdf |archivedate=December 6, 2008 }} The highway is legally defined as Route 270 in the Minnesota Statutes.{{cite book |chapter-url=https://www.revisor.mn.gov/statutes/?id=161.115 |chapter=161.115, Additional Trunk Highways |title=Minnesota Statutes |author= Minnesota Legislature |publisher= Office of the Revisor of Statutes, State of Minnesota |year=2010 |accessdate=January 23, 2011}}
History
MN 270 was authorized in 1949. Originally, the highway turned southward along present-day CSAH 11 and back east on a local road to pass through Steen. It was moved to its present direct routing in 1953.{{cite map |url=http://reflections.mndigital.org/cdm4/document.php?CISOROOT=/mdt&CISOPTR=1177&REC=13 |title=1953 Official Road Map of Minnesota |publisher=Minnesota Department of Highways |date=January 1, 1953 |section=C20 |cartography=The H.M. Gousha Company |accessdate=January 23, 2011 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20110721132115/http://reflections.mndigital.org/cdm4/document.php?CISOROOT=%2Fmdt&CISOPTR=1177&REC=13 |archivedate=July 21, 2011 }}{{cite map |url=http://reflections.mndigital.org/cdm4/document.php?CISOROOT=/mdt&CISOPTR=1183&REC=14 |title=1954 Official Road Map of Minnesota |publisher=Minnesota Department of Highways |date=January 1, 1954 |section=C20 |cartography=The H.M. Gousha Company |accessdate=January 23, 2011 |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20110825214357/http://reflections.mndigital.org/cdm4/document.php?CISOROOT=%2Fmdt&CISOPTR=1183&REC=14 |archivedate=August 25, 2011 |url-status=dead }}
Major intersections
{{jcttop|length_ref=|state=MN|county=Rock}}
{{MNint
|location=Hills
|mile=0.000
|road={{jct|state=MN|CSAH|13|county1=Rock}}
|notes=Western terminus at western city limits
}}
{{MNint
|township=Clinton
|ctdab=Rock
|mile=7.659
|road={{jct|state=MN|US|75|city1=Luverne}}
|notes=Eastern terminus
}}
{{jctbtm}}
References
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External links
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- [http://www.steve-riner.com/mnhighways/r219-287.htm#270 Highway 270 at the Unofficial Minnesota Highways Page]