Minnesota State Highway 32
{{short description|State highway in Minnesota, United States}}
{{Use American English|date=April 2025}}
{{Use mdy dates|date=January 2025}}
{{Infobox road
|state=MN
|type=MN
|route=32
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|map_custom=yes
|map_notes=MN 32 highlighted in red
|length_mi=144.845
|direction_a=South
|direction_b=North
|terminus_a={{Jct|state=MN|MN|34|CR|county2=Clay|35}} near Barnesville |
|terminus_b={{Jct|state=MN|MN|11}} at Greenbush |
|junction={{Jct|state=MN|US|10}} near Hawley
{{Jct|state=MN|MN|113}} at Syre
{{Jct|state=MN|MN|200}} near Twin Valley
{{Jct|state=MN|MN|102}} at Fertile
{{Jct|state=MN|US|2}} at Marcoux
{{Jct|state=MN|MN|92}} near Red Lake Falls
{{Jct|state=MN|US|59|MN|1}} at Thief River Falls
|counties=Clay, Norman, Polk, Red Lake, Pennington, Marshall, Roseau
|previous_type=MN
|previous_route=30
|next_type=MN
|next_route=33
}}
Minnesota State Highway 32 (MN 32) is a {{convert|144.845|mi|km|-long|adj=mid}} highway in west-central and northwest Minnesota, which runs from its intersection with State Highway 34 in Tansem Township near Barnesville and continues north to its intersection with State Highway 11 at Greenbush in Roseau County.
Route description
State Highway 32 serves as a north–south route between Tansem Township, Twin Valley, Fertile, Red Lake Falls, Thief River Falls, and Greenbush in west-central and northwest Minnesota.
The route is also known as:
- 1st Street in Ulen
- 1st Street in Twin Valley
- Mill Street in Fertile
- Main Avenue and Bridge Street in Red Lake Falls
- Broadway Avenue in St. Hilaire
- Main Avenue in Thief River Falls
- 1st Street in Middle River
Highway 32 parallels U.S. 75 and U.S. 59 throughout its route.
The route passes through the Glacial Ridge National Wildlife Refuge in Polk County, east of Crookston, west of Erskine.[http://www.fws.gov/midwest/GlacialRidge/ U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service website -- Glacial Ridge Refuge - Link][http://www.mn.nrcs.usda.gov/news/features04/glacial_ridge.html U.S. Dept. of Agriculture / Natural Resources Conservation website -- Glacial Ridge article - Link] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060924055358/http://www.mn.nrcs.usda.gov/news/features04/glacial_ridge.html |date=2006-09-24 }}
History
State Highway 32 was established November 2, 1920.{{cite web |url=https://www.revisor.mn.gov/statutes/?id=161.114 |work=Minnesota Statutes |title=§ 161.114, Constitutional Trunk Highways |publisher=Minnesota Office of the Revisor of Statutes |author=Minnesota State Legislature |date=2010 |accessdate=October 18, 2010}} At this time, it ran from State Highway 8 (present-day U.S. 2) east of Crookston to Greenbush.
By 1923, the road was mostly graveled, with a section of unimproved dirt between Holt and Middle River and another north of Strathcona.{{cite map |title=Map of Trunk Highway System, State of Minnesota |date=May 1, 1923 |publisher=Minnesota Highway Department |cartography=McGill-Warner Co. |section=C-3 through C-7 |url=http://cdm16022.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/singleitem/collection/mdt/id/215/rec/4 |accessdate=November 26, 2018}} All graveling was completed by 1930.{{cite map |title=1930 Map of Trunk Highway System, State of Minnesota |date=April 1, 1930 |publisher=Minnesota Highway Department |cartography=McGill-Warner Co. |section=D-11 through K-9 |url=http://cdm16022.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/singleitem/collection/mdt/id/222/rec/11 |accessdate=November 26, 2018}}
In 1933, the route was extended south, from U.S. 2 to State Highway 34 south of Rollag. This extension was graveled in its entirety.{{cite map |title=1934 Map of Trunk Highway System, State of Minnesota |date=May 1, 1934 |publisher=Minnesota Highway Department |cartography=McGill-Warner Co. |section=C-3 through C-11 |url=http://cdm16022.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/singleitem/collection/mdt/id/210/rec/15 |accessdate=November 26, 2018}}
When U.S. 59 was established in Minnesota in 1935, it ran concurrent with Highway 32 between Thief River Falls and present-day Marshall County State-Aid Highway 28 (north of Holt) until 1960.
North of U.S. 2, the highway was paved in sections throughout the 1940s.{{cite web |url=http://www.dot.state.mn.us/roadway/data/docs/projlog/county63/6301.pdf |title=Construction Project Log Record: Control Section 6301 |publisher=Minnesota Department of Transportation |accessdate=November 26, 2018}}{{cite web |url=http://www.dot.state.mn.us/roadway/data/docs/projlog/county57/5703.pdf |title=Construction Project Log Record: Control Section 5703 |publisher=Minnesota Department of Transportation |accessdate=November 26, 2018}}{{cite web |url=http://www.dot.state.mn.us/roadway/data/docs/projlog/county57/5704.pdf |title=Construction Project Log Record: Control Section 5704 |publisher=Minnesota Department of Transportation |accessdate=November 26, 2018}}{{cite web |url=http://www.dot.state.mn.us/roadway/data/docs/projlog/county45/4503.pdf |title=Construction Project Log Record: Control Section 4503 |publisher=Minnesota Department of Transportation |accessdate=November 26, 2018}}{{cite web |url=http://www.dot.state.mn.us/roadway/data/docs/projlog/county45/4504.pdf |title=Construction Project Log Record: Control Section 4504 |publisher=Minnesota Department of Transportation |accessdate=November 26, 2018}}{{cite web |url=http://www.dot.state.mn.us/roadway/data/docs/projlog/county68/6805.pdf |title=Construction Project Log Record: Control Section 6805 |publisher=Minnesota Department of Transportation |accessdate=November 26, 2018}}{{cite map |title=Minnesota 1950 Official Highway Map |date=January 1, 1950 |publisher=Minnesota Department of Highways |section=C-3 through C-11 |url=http://cdm16022.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/compoundobject/collection/mdt/id/1291/rec/30 |accessdate=November 26, 2018}}
South of U.S. 2, the first section of highway to be paved was from the junction with then-Highway 31 (now Highway 200) north of Twin Valley to a point just south of Fertile in 1937;{{cite web |url=http://www.dot.state.mn.us/roadway/data/docs/projlog/county54/5405.pdf |title=Construction Project Log Record: Control Section 5405 |publisher=Minnesota Department of Transportation |accessdate=November 26, 2018}}{{cite web |url=http://www.dot.state.mn.us/roadway/data/docs/projlog/county60/6006.pdf |title=Construction Project Log Record: Control Section 6006 |publisher=Minnesota Department of Transportation |accessdate=November 26, 2018}} paving was extended into both Fertile and Twin Valley in 1940,{{cite web |url=http://www.dot.state.mn.us/roadway/data/docs/projlog/county54/5404.pdf |title=Construction Project Log Record: Control Section 5404 |publisher=Minnesota Department of Transportation |accessdate=November 26, 2018}} as well as from U.S. 10 to Hitterdal (although part of the latter segment was reverted to gravel in 1943).{{cite web |url=http://www.dot.state.mn.us/roadway/data/docs/projlog/county14/1403.pdf |title=Construction Project Log Record: Control Section 1403 |publisher=Minnesota Department of Transportation |accessdate=November 26, 2018}} In 1948, it was paved from U.S. 10 north to Ulen, and then from Ulen to Twin Valley the following year. Paving from Highway 102 to U.S. 2 and from Rollag to U.S. 10 was done in 1952 and the final segment from Highway 34 to Rollag in 1954,{{cite web |url=http://www.dot.state.mn.us/roadway/data/docs/projlog/county60/6007.pdf |title=Construction Project Log Record: Control Section 6007 |publisher=Minnesota Department of Transportation |accessdate=November 26, 2018}}{{cite web |url=http://www.dot.state.mn.us/roadway/data/docs/projlog/county14/1402.pdf |title=Construction Project Log Record: Control Section 1402 |publisher=Minnesota Department of Transportation |accessdate=November 26, 2018}} making the route paved in its entirety.{{cite map |title=1955 Official Road Map of Minnesota |date=January 1, 1955 |publisher=Minnesota Department of Highways |cartography=The H.M. Gousha Co. |section=C-3 through C-10 |url=http://cdm16022.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/compoundobject/collection/mdt/id/5641/rec/35 |accessdate=November 26, 2018}}
Major intersections
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{{MNint
|county=Clay
|cspan=2
|location=Tansem Township
|mile=0.000
|road={{jct|state=MN|MN|34|location1=I-94|location2=US 59|city3=Barnesville}}
|notes=Southern terminus}}
{{MNint
|location=Eglon Township
|mile=15.389
|mile2=15.598
|road={{jct|state=MN|US|10|city1=Moorhead|city2=Detroit Lakes}}
|notes=Interchange}}
{{MNint
|county=Norman
|cspan=3
|location=Home Lake Township
|mile=36.460
|road={{jct|state=MN|MN|113|dir1=east|city1=Waubun}}
|notes=Western terminus of MN 113}}
{{MNint
|location=Wild Rice Township
|lspan=2
|type=concur
|mile=44.822
|road={{jct|state=MN|MN|200|dir1=west|city1=Ada}}
|notes=Southern end of MN 200 concurrency}}
{{MNint
|type=concur
|mile=46.949
|road={{jct|state=MN|MN|200|dir1=east|city1=Mahnomen}}
|notes=Northern end of MN 200 concurrency}}
{{MNint
|county=Polk
|cspan=2
|location=Garfield Township
|ctdab=Polk
|mile=62.425
|road={{jct|state=MN|MN|102|dir1=north|city1=Crookston}}
|notes=Southern terminus of MN 102}}
{{MNint
|location=Grove Park-Tilden Township
|mile=77.001
|road={{jct|state=MN|US|2|city1=Crookston|city2=Bagley}}}}
{{MNint
|county=Red Lake
|location=Lake Pleasant Township
|mile=82.130
|road={{jct|state=MN|MN|92|dir1=east|city1=Brooks}}
|notes=Western terminus of MN 92}}
{{MNint
|county=Pennington
|cspan=2
|location=Thief River Falls
|lspan=2
|mile=104.234
|type=concur
|road={{jct|state=MN|US|59|MN|1|dir2=west|name2=3rd Street W, 3rd Street E}}
|notes=Southern end of MN 1 concurrency}}
{{MNint
|mile=104.588
|type=concur
|road={{jct|state=MN|MN|1|dir1=east|name1=8th Street E|location1=Northland Community & Technical College}}
|notes=Northern end of MN 1 concurrency}}
{{MNint
|county=Roseau
|location=Greenbush
|mile=144.879
|road={{jct|state=MN|MN|11|city1=Roseau|city2=Karlstad}}
|notes=Northern terminus}}
{{Jctbtm|keys=concur}}
References
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External links
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- [http://www.steve-riner.com/mnhighways/r26-50.htm#32 Highway 32 at The Unofficial Minnesota Highways Page]
Category:Transportation in Clay County, Minnesota
Category:Transportation in Norman County, Minnesota
Category:Transportation in Polk County, Minnesota
Category:Transportation in Red Lake County, Minnesota