State Trunk Highway 53 (often called Highway 53, STH-53 or WIS 53) was a
state highway
A state highway, state road, or state route (and the equivalent provincial highway, provincial road, or provincial route) is usually a road that is either ''numbered'' or ''maintained'' by a sub-national state or province. A road numbered by a ...
in the U.S. state of
Wisconsin
Wisconsin () is a state in the upper Midwestern United States. Wisconsin is the 25th-largest state by total area and the 20th-most populous. It is bordered by Minnesota to the west, Iowa to the southwest, Illinois to the south, Lake M ...
. WIS 53 used to travel along these present-day routes:
*
Wisconsin Highway 121 from
Arcadia
Arcadia may refer to:
Places Australia
* Arcadia, New South Wales, a suburb of Sydney
* Arcadia, Queensland
* Arcadia, Victoria
Greece
* Arcadia (region), a region in the central Peloponnese
* Arcadia (regional unit), a modern administrative un ...
to
Independence
Independence is a condition of a person, nation, country, or state in which residents and population, or some portion thereof, exercise self-government, and usually sovereignty, over its territory. The opposite of independence is the statu ...
. WIS 53 had travel along present-day WIS 121 until 1923.
*
Wisconsin Highway 93 from Independence to
Whitehall
Whitehall is a road and area in the City of Westminster, Central London. The road forms the first part of the A roads in Zone 3 of the Great Britain numbering scheme, A3212 road from Trafalgar Square to Chelsea, London, Chelsea. It is the main ...
. WIS 53 had travel along present-day WIS 93 until 1923.
*
Wisconsin Highway 95
State Trunk Highway 95 (often called Highway 95, STH-95 or WIS 95) is a state highway in the west-central area of the US state of Wisconsin
Wisconsin () is a state in the upper Midwestern United States. Wisconsin is the 25th-largest st ...
from
Fountain City to
Neillsville
Neillsville is a city in Clark County in the U.S. state of Wisconsin. The population was 2,384 at the 2020 census. It is the county seat.
History
The Ojibwa were the earliest known residents of the Neillsville area.
The first settlers of Europ ...
. WIS 53 had always been traveling along at least a large portion of present-day WIS 95 until 1926.
References
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