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It gave the counties the power to levy taxes and appropriate labor for construction. In 1860, a project to build a 190-mile-long (310 km) road from Nebraska City to Fort Kearney was initiated by the Nebraska City community and Otoe County Commissioners in what became one of the most traveled roads in the west as part of the Denver Trail. In ...
Per state law in Nebraska, all communities with a population above 1000 residents are to be connected to the state highway system. Prior to the 1970s, short spur routes that were offshoots of main highways were given route numbers based on the main highway. The spurs were numbered sequentially from west to east or north to south and prefixed to ...
Every significant section of roadway maintained by the state is assigned a number, officially State Highway No. X [2] but also commonly referred to as Nebraska Highway X, as well as N-X. State highways are signed with a white trapezoidal field on a black background with the state, route number and oxen pulled covered wagon displayed in black ...
Highway 15 as it heads straight south through the rolling hills of northern Nebraska, June 2012. Nebraska Highway 15 begins at the Kansas border south of Fairbury. This southern terminus for NE 15 is also the northern terminus for K-15. It goes north through farmland towards Fairbury and crosses the Little Blue River.
According to 1937 and 1940 state maps, [3] [4] the first N-8 designation began in Omaha on Military Road (which was rerouted at least once in the Omaha area, according to the 1955 state map). [5] It then passed through Irvington and Elk City before terminating in Fremont. The original route designation largely disappeared from state maps by ...
U.S. Highway 20 (US-20) is a part of the United States Numbered Highway System that runs for 3,365 miles (5,415 km) from Newport, Oregon, to Boston, Massachusetts.Within the state of Nebraska, it is a state highway that begins on the Wyoming–Nebraska state line west of Harrison near the Niobrara River and runs to the Nebraska–Iowa state line in South Sioux City.
Created in 1951, extended into Nebraska in 1960 over N-3; known as the Heritage Highway [3] US 138: 11.47: 18.46 US-138 at Colorado border north of Julesburg: US-30 north of Big Springs: 1926: current US 159: 13.86: 22.31 US-73/US-159 at Kansas state line South of Falls City: US-159 at Missouri state line on Missouri River in Rulo: 1934: current
The Nebraska Department of Transportation (NDOT) is the state government agency charged with building and maintaining the state highways in the U.S. state of Nebraska, as well as the state's airports. The main headquarters of the agency is located in Lincoln, the capital city. There are currently eight NDOT district offices located across the ...