AARoads:Nevada

Nevada
A state resource page of the AARoads Wiki

Welcome to the Nevada Roads task force of the U.S. Roads WikiProject! If you would like to help, please jump in and start adding or editing.

Scope

This task force concentrates on creating quality articles pertaining to roads and highways in Nevada. Articles within the scope of this task force include:

• All State Routes (including former routes),
• State-detail articles about Interstates and U.S. highways in Nevada,
• signed county routes, and
• other notable roads and highway-related topics (such as Summerlin Parkway).

Goals

• Create an article for every state-maintained highway and significant roadway in Nevada.
• Improve the quality of all articles in the project.

Content

User:WP 1.0 bot/Tables/Project/Nevada road transport

Lists

• List of Interstate Highways in Nevada
• List of U.S. Routes in Nevada
• List of state routes in Nevada
  • List of state routes in Nevada prior to 1976
• Nevada Scenic Byways

Categories

• Category:Nevada
  • Category:Interstate Highways in Nevada
  • Category:Nevada Scenic Byways
  • Category:State highways in Nevada
    • Category:Former state highways in Nevada
  • Category:U.S. Highways in Nevada
    • Category:Former U.S. Highways in Nevada

Images

Media related to Nevada at Wikimedia Commons
Media related to Nevada at Wikimedia Commons

• Images in the "Roads in Nevada" Commons category generally follow the category scheme used above.

Data

• Wikidata page for Nevada road articles

Popular pages

• The task force's Popular Pages report

Resources

The following is a short list of web references and links which may help in the creation and expansion of articles:

• NDOT
• NDOT - State Maintained Highways: Descriptions & Maps (current year only, contains mileages)

Instead of raw links to this resource please use Template: NDOT SMBook. If/when Nevada DOT revamps their webpage using this template allows us to have one place to update the URL instead of hundreds of articles to update.

• NDOT - Maps webpage, with links to current and historical maps

use Template:Cite NDOT map instead of raw links

• • UNR - Historic Official State Highway maps (higher quality than NDOT site)
  • UNR - Historic city/county area maps (higher quality than NDOT site, in ZIP files)
• NDOT GeoHub
• County GIS sources

• NDOT - Annual Traffic Reports

• Nevada DOT Department history
• Nevada State Journal (Newspapers.com - Publishers Extra after 1922, NewspaperArchive - before 1977 on both)
• Reno Evening Gazette (NewspaperArchive before 1977, Newspapers.com - Publishers Extra after 1920s, SF library)
• Elko Daily Free Press (Newspapers.com - Publishers Extra and recent only)
• Las Vegas Review-Journal (library)

These are links to internal pages of editing notes/resources:

• /Legislative definitions
• /History notes
• /Post-renumbering history
• Redirect completion list
• /National Highway System
• /Federal aid numbers

Structure of articles

Nevada highway articles follow the layout and conventions outlined in AA:MURA. Please consult that document first, as the guidelines detailed here supplement the AARW standards.

Naming conventions

• Articles about numbered highways shall follow the appropriate naming conventions established at AA:NC.
• Other articles within the scope of this project should use a commonly recognized name.

Infobox

{{Infobox road}} is the standard template used to create the information box on Nevada roads articles. See the template documentation for full a complete list of parameters and usage instructions.

Below is the basic syntax necessary to generate an infobox with the parameters most commonly used on Nevada articles, along with Nevada-specific parameter notes.

Basic Infobox Road syntax and Nevada-specific parameter notes

{{Infobox road |state=NV |type= |route= |alternate_name= |map= |length_mi= |length_round= |length_ref= |established= |history= |direction_a= |terminus_a= |junction= |direction_b= |terminus_b= |previous_type= |previous_route= |next_type= |next_route= }}

alternate_name: Use where the entire route (or a significant portion thereof) has a specific name. For example, State Route 431 is called Mount Rose Highway for its entire length. maint: If left blank, this is automatically filled in with "NDOT" by the template. Fill in with an appropriate agency if not maintained by NDOT. If the road is not an active highway, use none. length_ref: Most route lengths should be cited using Nevada State Maintained Highways: Descriptions & Maps established: This is the date the route was assigned to its current alignment. For most current state routes, this will be 1976. history: Can be used to briefly explain history of a pre-1976 state route number that shared the same alignment. junction: Include all junctions with Interstates, U.S. Highways, and freeways. State Route junctions should only be included if the article is about a state route and the junction is with a significant state highway. counties: Where used, all counties the route passes through should be wikilinked in a comma-delimited list, presented in order from south-to-north or west-to-east. Previous/Next route browsing: Auxiliary/Special routes, Interstate business loops, and pre-1976 state routes (except SR 28 and SR 88) are not included in the browse order. See Nevada State Route 376 for a typical example of Infobox Road in action.

Junction lists

All Nevada road articles about an active numbered highway shall have a junction table created in compliance with AA:MURA. Tabular road junction lists shall be created using the {{jctint}} family of templates, using {{NVint}} for each row entry and enclosing the table between {{jcttop}} and {{jctbtm}} tags. Use of background colors is encouraged (subject to AA:MURA provisions).

Participation

User templates

{{AARW user|USA|NV}}

Produces a userbox for editors' user pages.

This editor is interested in Nevada roads and highways.