County route A county highway (also county road or county route; usually abbreviated CH or CR) is a road in the United States and in the Canadian province of Ontario that is designated and/or maintained by the county highway department. Route numbering can ...

s in

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are maintained by the Nassau County Public Works Department. Route numbers were originally posted on unique blue-on-orange pentagonal

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s reflecting the county's official colors; however, all county route signage was removed in the mid-1970s after the

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enacted new standards for county route markers in 1973. The county legislature refused to allocate funds to replace the signs with new markers conforming to the federal government's

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, leaving the routes

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. The route numbers are still used by the county for internal purposes only. __TOC__

Numbered routes

Route numbers, lengths, and termini are derived from the

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's county road listing for Nassau County, unless otherwise noted.

Lettered routes

This list of county routes (derived from the

's county road listing for Nassau County) have designations that begin with a letter, followed by a number. As information on Nassau County routes is limited, the following list is likely incomplete.

References

External links

* * {{DEFAULTSORT:List Of County Routes In Nassau County, New York Long Island-related lists

Numbered routes

Lettered routes

See also

References

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