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Iowa Highway 210

state highway in Iowa, United States

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMay 15, 2026
Entity authorityQ1478695 ↗
Source-derived summary

Iowa Highway 210 (Iowa 210) is an east–west highway in central Iowa covering 34.86 miles (56.10 km). It begins at Iowa Highway 141 south of Woodward and ends at U.S. Highway 65 south of Collins. The routing closely parallels and crosses the former Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul and Pacific Railroad grade. Passing through mostly rural farmland, Iowa 210 serves as a collector for two central Iowa freeways — Interstate 35 and Iowa 141.

Route description

Iowa Highway 210 begins at an interchange with Iowa Highway 141 south of Woodward. Just north of Woodward, and immediately after crossing into Boone County, Iowa 210 turns east at the entrance to the Woodward Resource Center. The route crosses the meandering Des Moines River next to the former Milwaukee Road high bridge before entering Madrid. At Madrid, Iowa 210 shares one block, 0.078 mi (410 ft; 126 m), with Iowa Highway 17.

Iowa Highway 210 continues east and enters Story County and the town of Slater.

Editorial summary

“Iowa Highway 210” enters the record as state highway in Iowa, United States. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Iowa, Highway and state can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA dependable orientation record for establishing vocabulary, names and a first evidence trail. The current 162-word lead offers orientation but no explicit four-digit date, so chronology should not be assumed. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1938-01-08. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Iowa, Highway and state.
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“Iowa Highway 210” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Iowa, Highway and state provides the most credible route into that argument.

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Vocabulary and entity names are the principal evidence signals here, because they determine the precision of every later search. The source revision retrieved here is dated May 15, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q1478695. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank.

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This entry incorporates text from “Iowa Highway 210” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.