History
Primary Road No. 78 was created in the 1920s as a 5-mile (8.0 km) long spur route which connected Winfield to Primary Road No. 40 at Olds. By 1947, the route had been extended in both directions. It began at Iowa 77 in Richland in the west, and ended at U.S. Route 61 in the east. The original section from Olds to just south of Winfield was the only fully paved road at the time. The short segment from Iowa 78 to Winfield was designated Iowa 249. That segment was turned over to Henry County on July 1, 2003. By 1952, the route had been extended west to Iowa 149 near Martinsburg, absorbing most of Iowa 304, which served Ollie. The section from Iowa 78 to Ollie remained as Iowa 304 until 1980. Before the US 218 / Iowa 27 freeway was built, Iowa 78 overlapped US 218 through Olds. After the expressway opened in 1999, US 218 was placed onto the new road while Iowa 78 stayed on the old two-lane alignment.
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