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State Route 304 (SR 304) is a
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in
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,
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, United States. The road is the main street through the town of Battle Mountain, and is also designated Interstate 80 Business (I-80 Bus.). The highway was part of SR 1 and
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(US 40) prior to the mid-1970s.


Route description

SR 304 begins just west of the
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(I-80) West Battle Mountain interchange northwest of Battle Mountain. The route heads briefly passes through a portion of the Te-Moak Tribe
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as it turns southeast into the town. The highway parallels the
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right through the middle of the Battle Mountain business district. SR 304 has a junction with State Route 305, which connects to
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in southern Lander County, as well as State Route 806, providing access to mining districts north of the town. The route exits the town limits, crossing over the
Reese River The Reese River is a tributary of the Humboldt River, located in central Nevada in the western United States. The Reese rises in the southern section of the Toiyabe Range, on the flanks of Arc Dome. In its upper reaches, the Reese River is ...
before turning south to reconnect to I-80 at the East Battle Mountain interchange and terminating just south of there. The majority of State Route 304 is also designated Interstate 80 Business, a
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of Interstate 80.


History

Front Street in Battle Mountain was formerly part of State Route 1, a route designated with the creation of the Nevada State Highway System in 1917. The adoption of the
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in 1926 by the
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created US 40 in Nevada, which was also routed along Front Street through Battle Mountain. Both SR 1 and US 40 were shown on Nevada state maps as early as 1929. The State Route 304 designation was applied to Front Street through Battle Mountain on July 1, 1976, in the renumbering of Nevada's state highways. In this process, Route 1 was removed from the state highway system. US 40 was also gone in Nevada, having mostly been replaced by the freeway that would become I-80.


Major intersections


See also

*
List of state routes in Nevada The following is a list of all State Routes that have existed in the U.S. state of Nevada since July 1, 1976. All active state-numbered highways in this list are maintained by the Nevada Department of Transportation. __TOC__ Primary routes (0� ...
* List of highways numbered 304


References


External links

{{commonscat, Nevada State Route 304/Interstate 80 Business (Battle Mountain, Nevada)
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Transportation in Lander County, Nevada Interstate 80