Minnesota State Highway 247

Trunk Highway 247
Trunk Highway 247
	Map MN 247 highlighted in red
Route information
	Defined by MS § 161.115(178)
	Maintained by MnDOT
Length	12.604 mi (20.284 km)
Existed	July 1, 1949–present
Major junctions
West end	US 63 / CR 12 near Rochester
East end	MN 42 / CR 8 in Plainview
Location
Country	United States
State	Minnesota
Counties	Olmsted, Wabasha
Highway system
	Minnesota Trunk Highway System; Interstate; US; State; Legislative; Scenic;

Minnesota State Highway 247 (MN 247) is a 12.604-mile-long (20.284 km) highway in southeast Minnesota, which runs from its intersection with U.S. Highway 63 in Farmington Township, north of Rochester; and continues east to its eastern terminus at its intersection with State Highway 42 in the city of Plainview.

Route description

Plainview Welcome Home on Minnesota State Highway 247

Highway 247 serves as an east–west route between Farmington Township, the unincorporated community of Potsdam, and the city of Plainview.

In the city of Plainview, Highway 247 follows West Broadway, which is also the main street of Plainview.

The route is legally defined as Route 247 in the Minnesota Statutes.^[2]

Highway 247 was authorized on July 1, 1949.^[1]

At the time it was marked, the highway was only paved in Potsdam and Plainview.^[3] The remainder of the route was paved in the mid-1950s.^[4]^[5]

County	Location	mi^[6]	km	Destinations
Olmsted	Farmington Township	0.000	0.000	US 63, CR 12 west
	Farmington Township	2.982	4.799	CR 11 south
	Potsdam	3.981	6.407	CR 11 north
Wabasha	Elgin Township	7.950	12.794	CR 2
	Plainview	11.977	19.275	CR 8 (10th Street NW)
		12.043	19.381	CR 57 (9th Street SW)
		12.471	20.070	CR 56 (3rd Street SW)
		12.681	20.408	MN 42 (Wabasha Street), CR 8 (East Broadway) east
1.000 mi = 1.609 km; 1.000 km = 0.621 mi

^ ^a ^b "Chapter 663-H.F. No. 1792", Session Laws of Minnesota for 1949, Earl L. Berg, Commissioner of Administration, pp. 1177–1185
^ "161.115, Additional Trunk Highways". Minnesota Statutes. Office of the Revisor of Statutes, State of Minnesota. 2010. Retrieved December 29, 2010.
^ Minnesota 1950 Official Highway Map (Map). Minnesota Department of Highways. January 1, 1950. § O21-P21. Archived from the original on July 21, 2011. Retrieved December 29, 2010.
^ 1954 Official Road Map of Minnesota (Map). Cartography by The H.M. Gousha Company. Minnesota Department of Highways. January 1, 1954. § M18-N18. Archived from the original on August 25, 2011. Retrieved December 29, 2010.
^ 1956 Official Road Map of Minnesota (Map). Cartography by The H.M. Gousha Company. Minnesota Department of Highways. 1956. § M18-N18. Archived from the original on August 25, 2011. Retrieved December 29, 2010.
^ "Trunk Highway Log Point Listing" (PDF). Minnesota Department of Transportation. February 2, 2012. Archived from the original (PDF) on September 14, 2012. Retrieved July 9, 2012.