State Route 757 (SR 757) is a
state highway
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in
Douglas County,
Nevada
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. Formerly a part of
State Route 19, the route connects the
Genoa
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area to the
Johnson Lane area.
Route description
State Route 757 begins on Muller Lane at a junction with Foothill Road (
State Route 206) on the west side of the
Carson Valley
Douglas County is a county in the northwestern part of the U.S. state of Nevada. As of th2020 Census the population was 49,488. Its county seat is Minden. Douglas County comprises the Gardnerville Ranchos, NV Micropolitan Statistical Area, wh ...
just south of Genoa. From there, the highway heads due east along Muller Lane, passing through farmlands and open fields. The route crosses over the west and east forks of the
Carson River
The Carson River is a northwestern List of Nevada rivers, Nevada river that empties into the Carson Sink, an endorheic basin. The main stem of the river is long although the addition of the East Fork makes the total length , traversing five co ...
on its trek. After about , the route comes to an end at
U.S. Route 395
U.S. Route 395 (US 395) is a U.S. Route in the western United States. The southern terminus of the route is in the Mojave Desert at Interstate 15 near Hesperia. The northern terminus is at the Canada–US border near Laurier, where the road be ...
just north of
Minden
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.
History
![Nevada 19](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/57/Nevada_19.svg)
SR 757 originally carried the designation of the longer State Route 19. That route, designated by 1929, connected a branch of
State Route 3 (now
U.S. Route 50
U.S. Route 50 or U.S. Highway 50 (US 50) is a major east–west route of the U.S. Highway system, stretching from Interstate 80 (I-80) in West Sacramento, California, to Maryland Route 528 (MD 528) in Ocean City, Maryland, on the Atlanti ...
) near
South Lake Tahoe
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to
California
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southeast of
Gardnerville.
The 1941 edition of Nevada's state highway map is the earliest to show this portion of the highway in its present alignment.
The route was paved by 1948.
Nevada started
renumbering its state highways on July 1, 1976. At that time, the Muller Lane portion of SR 19 was reassigned to State Route 757.
The new number was not shown on the official state map right away; the 1978–1979 edition of the state's tourist map continued to show SR 57 unchanged.
The road was still shown on state maps without a route number in 1982.
SR 757 was finally shown as a numbered highway on the 1991–1992 edition of the official state map.
Major intersections
References
{{commons category, Nevada State Route 757
757
757 may refer to:
* Boeing 757: a narrow-body airliner
* AD 757: a year
* 757 BC: a year
* 757 (number): a number
* Area code 757
Image:Area code 757.png, The area colored red indicates the southeast corner of Virginia served by area code 757
pol ...
Transportation in Douglas County, Nevada