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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 1879, the Nebraska Legislature passed a law providing all section lines become public roads.
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 ...
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 ...
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.
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
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 ...
Continuing east the highway crosses the Little Blue River before entering the city of Fairbury. Fairbury was the home of the Western Division headquarters of the Rock Island Railroad until 1965. The Rock Island Depot was constructed in 1913 at a cost of $40,000 (equivalent to $907,384 in 2023 [ 13 ] ) to accommodate increased passenger and ...
U.S. Highway 30 (US 30) is part of the United States Numbered Highway System that runs for 3,112 miles (5,008 km) from Astoria, Oregon, to Atlantic City, New Jersey. Within the state of Nebraska , it is a state highway that travels 451.74 miles (727.01 km) west to east across the state from the Wyoming state line west of Bushnell to the ...