Minnesota State Highway 21

Trunk Highway 21
Route information
Maintained by Mn/DOT
Length:	38.370 mi[1] (61.751 km)
Existed:	1920[2] – present
Major junctions
South end:	MN 60 and CR 48 at Faribault
	MN 3 at Faribault I-35 at Faribault MN 99 at Erin Township MN 13 at Montgomery MN 13 , MN 19 at New Prague MN 282 at Jordan
North end:	U.S. 169 at Jordan
Location
Counties:	Rice, Le Sueur, Scott
Highway system
Minnesota Trunk Highways Interstate US State Legislative routes ← MN 20 MN 22 →

Minnesota State Highway 21 (MN 21) is a highway in Minnesota, which runs from its intersection with State Highway 60 in Faribault and continues north to its northern terminus at its interchange with U.S. Highway 169 in Jordan, southwest of Shakopee.

Highway 21 is 38 miles (61 km) in length.

Route description

State Highway 21 serves as a north–south route between Faribault, Montgomery, New Prague, and Jordan.

Highway 21 is also known as:

• Broadway Street in Jordan
• Helena Boulevard in Scott County
• 4th Avenue N.W. in New Prague
• Lyndale Avenue in Faribault

The Lyndale Avenue portion in Faribault is built as a four-lane divided highway.

The southern terminus for Highway 21 is its intersection with State Highway 60 in Faribault. Highway 21 becomes Rice County Road 48 upon crossing its intersection with Highway 60.

History

State Highway 21 was authorized in 1920, running from Zumbrota to St. Peter.^[3] In 1934, the segment east of Faribault became State Highway 60, and the segment west of Shieldsville became State Highway 99. Highway 21 was then extended northwest to Highway 13 at Montgomery, then north through New Prague to Jordan.

The southernmost section of Highway 21 through Faribault is second-generation old U.S. Highway 65 (constructed in the late 1950s), which was connected to a divided highway coming off Interstate Highway 35 in the 1960s.

Highway 21 was paved north of State Highway 19 by 1940. The remainder of Highway 21 was paved in the late 1940s.

Major intersections

County	Location	mi[1]	km	Destinations	Notes
Rice	Faribault	0.000	0.000	MN 60
		1.165	1.875	MN 3
		1.884– 2.121	3.032– 3.413	I-35	Interchange
	Wells Township	2.537	4.083	CR 46
	Shieldsville Township	7.115	11.450	CR 10 (Dodd Road)
	Erin Township	9.153	14.730	MN 99
	Montgomery Township	10.725	17.260	CR 4 (Independence Avenue)
Le Sueur	Montgomery	18.370	29.564	MN 13	South end of MN 13 concurrency
				CR 26 east (Boulevard Avenue)
				CR 26 west (Lexington Avenue)
	Lanesburgh Township			CR 28
	New Prague	26.407	42.498	MN 13 MN 19	North end of MN 13 concurrency
Scott	Helena Township	28.434	45.760	CR 2 (260th Street West)
	Sand Creek Township	34.085	54.854	CR 11 (Delmar Avenue)
	Jordan	35.829	57.661	MN 282
		36.673	59.019	US 169
1.000 mi = 1.609 km; 1.000 km = 0.621 mi       Concurrency terminus

References

Route map: Bing / Google

1. "Statewide Trunk Logpoint Listing" (PDF). Minnesota Department of Transportation. Retrieved December 24, 2011.
2. Riner, Steve. "Details of Routes 1-25". The Unofficial Minnesota Highways Page. Retrieved 2007-02-24.
3. Minnesota State Legislature (2010). "§ 161.114, Constitutional Trunk Highways". Minnesota Statutes. Minnesota Office of the Revisor of Statutes. Retrieved October 5, 2010.