Everything about 8 Mile Road totally explained
M-102 is a
state trunkline in the
U.S. state of
Michigan, running along the northern boundary of
Detroit. It is known as
8 Mile Road for most of its length. M-102 is the physical and psychological boundary between Detroit and the northern suburbs. M-102 is routed on only a portion of 8 Mile Road which extends both east and west of the M-102 designation. The routing of M-102 changes to Vernier Road just west of Beaconsfield Road. M-102's eastern terminus is at the junction of Vernier and
I-94. Its western terminus is at the junction of 8 Mile Road and
M-5/Grand River Avenue. The 8 Mile Road designation continues west to Pontiac Trail near
South Lyon. A discontinuous portion of 8 Mile is located west of
US 23 as well.
8 Mile Road
The boundary between the city of
Detroit (and
Wayne County) and Detroit's northern
suburbs in
Oakland and
Macomb counties is formed by 8 Mile Road. Residents of Detroit, and, as a whole, the state of Michigan, refer to this road (and other "mile" roads) as "Eight Mile", or "Eight" (as in 8 and
Woodward). It extends west of Detroit and is also the boundary between Wayne and
Washtenaw counties on the south and Macomb, Oakland, and
Livingston counties on the north. Past Middlebelt Road in
Livonia, 8 Mile Road becomes known as Base Line Road because it was the base line for surveying the Northwest Territories.
The name comes from the
Mile Road System, a method used to delineate east/west roads through the Detroit area. Mile roads begin at the intersection of
Woodward and
Michigan Avenues in downtown Detroit; therefore 8 Mile Road is approximately 8 miles north of that point. 8 Mile Road, along with 5 Mile, 6 Mile, 7 Mile and 9 Mile road all end in
Whitmore Lake.
8 Mile Road generally follows a straight line east of
Northville. Between Griswold Street and Taft Road, 8 Mile bends toward the north, avoiding the city center before returning to its base line. Further west, 8 Mile crosses Pontiac Trail (which connects
South Lyon and
Ann Arbor) before becoming a dirt road; it then ends about a mile east of
Whitmore Lake. West of Whitmore Lake, 8 Mile Road picks up briefly and crosses
US 23. The far western end of 8 Mile past US 23, at a junction with Hall Road, a local road near
Hamburg.
History
M-102
The eastern terminus of M-102 changed a number of times before the completion of I-94. Initially ending at
US 25/Gratiot Avenue (present-day
M-3, M-102 was, for a time, extended east, then north, to connect with
M-29. However, once I-94 was completed, M-102's eastern terminus became fixed at the new freeway.
In film
The movie
8 Mile, starring Detroit area
hip hop artist
Eminem, as well as his song "
Lose Yourself", both take their names and subject matter from this high-traffic and broad thoroughfare.
8 Mile in music
There are a number of songs that name-drop "8 Mile."
8 Mile in surveying
8 Mile Road is also known as
Base Line Road, and marks the
baseline used in the
survey of Michigan land. It forms the boundary for many southern Michigan counties. Prior to the system used in Michigan, county boundaries were often set by geographic markers such as rivers, hills, and trees, and were therefore rather irregular. Michigan counties in the
Lower Peninsula tend to be regularly bounded, and evenly sized, except in the cases of counties bordering one of the
Great Lakes.
Where 8 Mile deviates from the base line in Northville, a portion of Base Line Road is a residential street, running from Old Novi Road to Center Street (Sheldon Road). Running slightly off alignment east of Old Novi because of a
tributary of the
River Rouge, Base Line reconnects to 8 Mile via Griswold Street. 8 Mile Road is also parallel with the boundary between
Wisconsin and
Illinois.
Major intersections
Mile points are only given along the M-102 designation.
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M-102 follows Vernier Road
8 Mile continues east to Mack AvenueFurther Information
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