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In 1858, hearing of the overland route, the U.S. Army sent an expedition led by Captain James H. Simpson to survey it for a military road to get supplies to the Army's Camp Floyd in Utah. Simpson came back with a surveyed route that was also about 280 miles (450 km) shorter than the "standard" California Trail route along the Humboldt River.
A transportation route through central Nevada had been scouted by Howard Egan in 1855, and then surveyed by Captain James H. Simpson for the U.S. Army in 1859. Simpson established a trading post at the south end of Ruby Valley, and George Chorpenning built a way station there for his mail and stagecoach line in 1860.
Primary state routes are assigned three-digit numbers based upon the county in which the majority of the route resides (or, in some instances, the county of the major town on the route). State routes in a county are grouped together with similar numbers, which are assigned in order based upon alphabetical order of county names.
The freeway serves the Reno metropolitan area, and it also goes through the towns of Fernley, Lovelock, Winnemucca, Battle Mountain, Elko, Wells, and West Wendover on its way through the state. The Nevada portion of I-80 follows the paths of the Truckee and Humboldt rivers, which have been used as a transportation corridor since the California ...
U.S. Route 1 or U.S. Highway 1 (US 1) is a major north–south United States Numbered Highway that serves the East Coast of the United States. It runs 2,370 miles (3,810 km) from Key West , Florida , north to Fort Kent, Maine , at the Canadian border , making it the longest north–south road in the United States. [ 2 ]
Prior route of US 95 through Fernley US 95 Alt. 105.0: 169.0 US 95 in Schurz: I-80 / US 95 north of Fallon: 1941: current Extended in mid-1970s US 95 Bus. 6.7 [7] 10.8 US 95 in Las Vegas (at exit 77) US 95 in Las Vegas (at exit 90A) 1982 [8] current Overlaps with SR 599 US 95 Truck: 1.297: 2.087 US 95 east of Hawthorne: US 95 in Hawthorne — —
For example, while State Routes 27 and 28 were designated along highways near Lake Tahoe in northwestern Nevada, State Route 29 connected to Death Valley in central Nevada and State Route 30 was connected to Utah in northeastern Nevada. Additionally, several suffixed highways, branching from the original parent route, were also designated.
The 1939 City of San Francisco derailment occurred along today's Elko Subdivision, near a rail siding called Harney, between Beowawe and Palisade. [4]In the 1980s both tracks were relocated out of downtown Elko along the banks of the Humboldt River, [5] resulting in Elko having two historical train depots downtown, with neither connected to track today.