Nevada State Route 856
{{Short description|Highway in Nevada}}
{{Use American English|date=May 2025}}
{{Use mdy dates|date=January 2025}}
{{Infobox road
|state=NV
|type=SR
|route=856
|alternate_name=Airport Road
|map={{maplink|frame=yes|plain=yes|frame-align=center|frame-width=290|frame-height=240|type=line|raw={{Wikipedia:Map data/Wikipedia KML/Nevada State Route 856}}}}
|map_custom=yes
|map_notes=SR 856 highlighted in red
|length_mi=1.398
|length_round=3
|length_ref={{cite web
|title=State Maintained Highways of Nevada: Descriptions and Maps
|author=Nevada Department of Transportation
|author-link=Nevada Department of Transportation
|url=http://www.nevadadot.com/doing-business/about-ndot/ndot-divisions/planning/roadway-systems/state-maintained-highways-descriptions-index-maps
|date=January 2017
|access-date=2017-01-12
}}
|established=1976
|decommissioned=
|direction_a=West
|terminus_a={{jct|state=NV|SR|396}} in Lovelock
|junction={{jct|state=NV|I|80|US|95}} in Lovelock
|counties=Pershing
|direction_b=East
|terminus_b=Reservoir Road near Lovelock
|previous_type=SR
|previous_route=854
|next_type=SR
|next_route=858
}}
State Route 856 (SR 856) is a state highway in Pershing County, Nevada serving Lovelock. The western portion of the route is also signed as Interstate 80 Business.
Route description
State Route 856 begins as a continuation of Cornell Avenue (I-80 Bus.) at the intersection of Upper Valley Road (State Route 396) and 14th Street in northwestern Lovelock. The highway heads northeast as Airport Road, crossing over Upper Valley Road, an irrigation canal, and the Union Pacific Railroad tracks towards a half-interchange with Interstate 80 and U.S. Route 95. The route then continues east, crossing the Humboldt River and passing south of the now-abandoned Lovelock Airpark, reaching its terminus near the intersection of Reservoir Road.{{cite map |publisher=Nevada Department of Transportation |title=Lovelock Area |url=http://www.nevadadot.com/traveler/maps/areamaps/pdfs/lovelock.pdf |date=2004 |access-date=2009-07-08 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090810210236/https://www.nevadadot.com/traveler/maps/areamaps/pdfs/lovelock.pdf |archive-date=2009-08-10 }}
Cornell Avenue, as a historic routing of U.S. Route 40–95,{{cite web |title=Lovelock Area |publisher=Nevada Department of Highways |year=1968 |quote=See TIFF image in file 'pershingcounty1968lovelock.zip' |url=http://keck.library.unr.edu/data/HistHwyMaps/HistHwgMaps.html |access-date=2009-07-08}} is designated as Interstate 80 Business through Lovelock. SR 856 carries the business loop from the northern end of Lovelock back to I-80, since Cornell Avenue does not intersect the interstate.
History
Airport Road appears on maps as early as 1954, although it was not assigned a state highway number at the time.{{cite web |title=General Highway Map – Pershing County, Nevada (sheet 1 of 2) |publisher=Nevada State Highway Department |year=1954 |quote=See TIFF image in file 'PershingCounty1954_001.zip' |url=http://keck.library.unr.edu/data/HistHwyMaps/HistHwgMaps.html |access-date=2009-07-08}} The road was assigned to State Route 856 on July 1, 1976.{{cite book |title=Nevada State Maintained Highways: Descriptions, Index and Maps |date=January 2001 |publisher=Nevada Department of Transportation |page=113 }}
Major intersections
{{NVint
|type=concur
|location=Lovelock
|mile=0.00
|road={{jct|state=NV|BL|80|dir1=west|dab1=Lovelock|SR|396|name1=Cornell Avenue|name2=Upper Valley Road|road|14th Street}}
|notes=West end of I-80 Business overlap}}
{{NVint
|type=concur
|location=none
|mile=
|road={{jct|state=NV|I|80|dir1=east|US|95|dir2=north|city1=Winnemucca}}
|notes=East end of I-80 Business; I-80 exit 107; No access from I-80 eastbound or to I-80 westbound}}
{{NVint
|location=none
|mile=1.39
|road=Reservoir Road / Airport Road
}}
{{jctbtm|keys=concur}}
See also
- {{Portal-inline|United States}}
- {{Portal-inline|U.S. Roads}}
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