
Street Rivalry: Here Are the Only Places in Michigan Where Wolverine and Spartan Streets Intersect
Given the popularity of Michigan's two largest universities, you might think there would be lots of streets named Spartan and Wolverine in the state, but there are just two places where Spartan meets Wolverine.
According to Crossings.us, a website (no longer maintained) that allowed a user to find any intersection of streets by name, these are the only two places in Michigan where a Spartan Street crosses Wolverine.
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Battle Creek - Spartan and Wolverine Drive
Shown above, on Battle Creek's northwest side, Spartan and Wolverine Drives are short residential streets that run between Limit Street and Waubascon Road.
Madison Heights - Spartan and Wolverine
In the Detroit suburb of Madison Heights, Wolverine Street runs between Lincoln Ave and 11 Mile Road. Spartan Drive (and yes it is signed as a 'Drive' by Madison Heights despite being labeled 'Street' on the Google Map) is a short dead-ending stub off of Wolverine.
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Here's what the intersection looks like:
Outside of Michigan - Big 10 School Streets
In North Liberty, Iowa, in the shadow of the University of Iowa, there is a subdivision within a manufactured home community where all the streets are named after Big 10 school mascots - of course these are pre-expansion schools included like Hoosier, Buckeye, Badger and Boilermaker. Don't go looking for recent arrivals like Trojans and Bruins or even the Rutgers/Nebraska-era Big 10 jiners. Here is the only other intersection of Wolverine and Spartan in America that we can find:
Here's a look at those street signs:
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