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The FIPS state alpha code for each U.S. states and the District of Columbia are identical to the postal abbreviations by the United States Postal Service. From September 3, 1987, the same was true of the alpha code for each of the outlying areas, with the exception of U.S. Minor Outlying Islands (UM) as the USPS routes mail for these islands ...
The purpose, rather than to standardize state abbreviations per se, was to make room in a line of no more than 23 characters for the city, the state, and the ZIP code. [4] Since 1963, only one state abbreviation has changed.
Boise, ID — 1980 This was the only suffixed three-digit Interstate (until I-480N in Ohio was designated); all other spurs of suffixed routes had no suffix; became I-184: I-270 Spur: 2.10 [5] 3.38 I-270 in Bethesda, MD: I-495 in Bethesda, MD: 1975: current Signed as I-270 Spur; designated internally by MDSHA as I-270Y. I-480N: 1.99 [6] 3.20
Truck Business US 17 ends at its parent in Elizabeth City, North Carolina. In the field, the special route is typically distinguished from the parent route with the use of auxiliary words or suffix letters placed on the route shield or on an adjacent sign, known as a "banner" or "plate" or according to the Manual on Uniform Traffic Control Devices, a "route sign auxiliary sign". [1]
Websites based in, or having to do with, the U.S. state of Mississippi also use the .ms domain [2] as MS is the ISO 3166-2:US code and official United States Postal Service abbreviation for the state. Some companies based in the Brazilian state of Mato Grosso do Sul (officially abbreviated as MS) use the .ms TLD
Lake Ontario State Parkway (SH 69-2, SH 70-3, SH 69-1, SH 50-2, SH 49-1, SH 49-2, SH 51-3, SH 52-2, SH 53-5, SH 55-1, SH 58-4, and SH C58-25) Lake Avenue in Rochester Maintained by the New York State Department of Transportation (partially under New York State Office of Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation jurisdiction)
The Manual on Uniform Traffic Control Devices for Streets and Highways (usually referred to as the Manual on Uniform Traffic Control Devices, abbreviated MUTCD) is a document issued by the Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) of the United States Department of Transportation (USDOT) to specify the standards by which traffic signs, road surface markings, and signals are designed, installed ...
Grammatical abbreviations are generally written in full or small caps to visually distinguish them from the translations of lexical words. For instance, capital or small-cap PAST (frequently abbreviated to PST) glosses a grammatical past-tense morpheme, while lower-case 'past' would be a literal translation of a word with that meaning.