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Minnesota State Highway 267

highway in Minnesota

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionFeb 18, 2026
Entity authorityQ2484804 ↗
Source-derived summary

Minnesota State Highway 267 (MN 267) is a 5.353-mile-long (8.615 km) highway in southwest Minnesota, which runs from its intersection with Murray County State-Aid Highway 4 (Grace Avenue) in Iona and continues north to its northern terminus at its intersection with State Highway 30, 1.5 miles west of Slayton.

Route description

Highway 267 serves as a north–south connector route in southwest Minnesota between Iona and State Highway 30 near Slayton.

Highway 267 follows Parnell Street in Iona.

It passes by the runway for the Slayton Municipal Airport near its northern terminus.

The route is legally defined as Route 267 in the Minnesota Statutes.

History

Highway 267 was authorized on July 1, 1949.

The route was paved in 1951.

The 2021 Minnesota Legislature authorized removal of the route, to become effective when a turnback agreement is reached with Murray County.

Major intersections

The entire route is in Murray County.

Editorial summary

Begin with the source’s own compact description: “Minnesota State Highway 267” is highway in Minnesota. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Minnesota, State and Highway, not as a finished interpretation.

Editorial reviewA dependable orientation record for establishing vocabulary, names and a first evidence trail. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1949, 1951, 2021—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1949-07-01. For this dossier, Minnesota, State and Highway is the immediate research focus.
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The citation trail is more important than the brevity of the summary: it shows where individual claims can be examined in context. The source revision retrieved here is dated Feb 18, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q2484804. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1949, 1951 and 2021.

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This entry incorporates text from “Minnesota State Highway 267” 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.