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Hello and welcome to the Minnesota State Highways task force! If you would like to help, please jump in and start adding or editing. The task force's completion list still has redlinks that need to be created.

Goals

1. Bring all of the Minnesota State Highway articles under the same format.
2. Create an article for all Minnesota State Highways.

Assessment

See the Assessment Department for details on how to assess articles for this task force.

Minnesota road transport articles by quality and importance
Quality	Importance
	High	Mid	Low	NA	Total
FA		1			1
GA		4			4
B		8			8
C		192	12		204
Start	1	2	2		5
Stub			1		1
List	4	5	37	1	47
Category				71	71
Disambig				5	5
File				2	2
Project				16	16
Redirect				1,101	1,101
Template				7	7
Other			1		1
Assessed	5	212	53	1,203	1,473
Total	5	212	53	1,203	1,473
WikiWork factors (?)		ω = 879			Ω = 3.94

Recognized content

Featured articles

• U.S. Route 8

Good articles

• Interstate 35E (Minnesota)
• Minnesota State Highway 7
• Minnesota State Highway 36
• Minnesota State Highway 610

Main page featured articles

• U.S. Route 8 (2022-12-30)

Did you know? articles

• Minnesota State Highway 7 (2012-04-18)
• Minnesota State Highway 36 (2024-06-27)

Resources

• Roadway Data Mn/DOT's current page listing all the data they provide, including the statewide highway logpoint file, construction project logs, and other valuable information about the state's highway network.
• Constitutional and legislative routes
• 1934 renumbering
• Twin Cities highways
• County shield usage
• All-time list
• Online GIS map of Minnesota roads
• State highway maps, 1919 to present

• • Staff (November 6, 2013). Statewide Trunk Logpoint Listing (PDF). Minnesota Department of Transportation.
    • <ref name=statelpt>{{cite book |author=Staff |url=http://www.dot.state.mn.us/roadway/data/reports/logpt/statelpt.pdf |title= Statewide Trunk Logpoint Listing |format=PDF |publisher=Minnesota Department of Transportation |date=November 6, 2013 |accessdate=}}</ref>

• Interstate Open Dates (PDF) (Map). Cartography by Office of Transportation Data and Analysis. Minnesota Department of Transportation. April 2011. Archived from the original on April 7, 2012.
  • <ref name=IntOpenDate>{{cite map |publisher= Minnesota Department of Transportation |date=April 2011 |title= Interstate Open Dates |url= http://www.dot.state.mn.us/library/Interstate%20Open%20Dates%20MN.pdf |format= PDF |cartography= Office of Transportation Data and Analysis |inset= |archiveurl= http://www.webcitation.org/66kE7M8x8 |archivedate= April 7, 2012 |url-status= live|accessdate= }}</ref>

Structure and standards

See WP:USRD/STDS for details on an article's structure and formatting standards.

Naming conventions

Articles should be named "Minnesota State Highway X" per WP:USSH. Additional articles may be named "U.S. Route X in Minnesota" or "Interstate X in Minnesota" if there is a Minnesota-specific article. County Roads should use either "County Road X (Y County, Minnesota)" or "County Road X (Minnesota)" depending on if the road is contained in one county or multiple counties. Other articles should use the common name of the roadway as a title.

Categories

All state highways should include the category tag: [[Category:Minnesota state highways|nnnA]] where nnn is 3-digit route number, and A is the letter designation if any (e.g. Route 1A is "001A", Route 2 is "002").

Shields

State

Minnesota has used four different types of shields:

• 
  The shield used from 1920 to 1933.
• 
  The shield used from 1934 to 1956.
• 
  The shield used from 1954 to 1969.
• 
  The current shield, used since 1969.

According to official state maps, both the star and white square shields were in use between 1954 and 1956.

All state route shields have been created in the format MN-X.svg, where X is the route number. They reside in the category Minnesota State Route markers.

All of the state highway markers past and present have been created and reside on the Commons. Shield pages in Sister projects

State Route shields on Wikicommons

County/CSAH

County shields, where they exist, reside on Commons here. If necessary, there are two blank shields for county roads. File:County blank.svg is the pentagonal style, and File:White County Plate Template.svg is the square style. See this page for a guide to which shield is used for which roads in which counties.

Templates

Browse Template

If a route is decommissioned, it still needs a browse box at the bottom of the article.

{{start srbox}}
{{mn browse|previous_type=MN|previous_route=XX|route=[[List of Minnesota state highways|MN]]|next_type=MN|next_route=XX}}
{{end box}}

will create something like

Browse numbered routes
← MN 1	MN	→ MN 3

Replace previous and next type with "US" or "Interstate" if and only if the previous or next route is not a Minnesota state highway. If the previous or next route is a U.S. Route, _type=US if it is an interstate, type=Interstate

This box should only be placed on pages that do not have an infobox, or are an article for an Interstate or U.S. Route in the Minnesota state highway system. On pages where a browse box already exists, you can omit the start and end templates, and just insert the mn browse, keeping the list in chronological order from south/west to north/east. For an example, see the browse box at U.S. Route 1 at the bottom of the article.

Stub

use {{Minnesota-road-stub}} to label stub articles.

Project notice

{{WikiProject U.S. Roads|state=MN}}

Designates the current article as part of the Minnesota State Highways WikiProject. Place on the article's talk page.

Link template for Steve Riner's page

The template {{Riner}} will create an automatic citation for Steve Riner's Unofficial Minnesota Highways Page:

Usage: {{Riner|route=<route>|access date= <accessdate>}}

Example: {{Riner|route=610|access date=2024-12-28}} gives a reference to Highway 610 on the 288-694 page and dates it today.

Note: Steve Riner's website is not a reliable source under Wikipedia policy and better sources that are not self-published should be used instead.

User templates

{{Wikipedia:WikiProject U.S. Roads/Minnesota/Userbox}} produces:

This user edits articles about Minnesota State Highways.

Userbox for participants of this project. For a customized box: {{Wikipedia:WikiProject U.S. Roads/Minnesota/Userbox|1}} where 1 can be replaced with your favorite state route marker

This user edits articles about Minnesota State Highways.

{{USRD Announcements}}

Template containing news for all USRD WikiProjects.