Nebraska Highway 19

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Nebraska Highway 19

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Nebraska Highway 19 highlighted in red
Route information
Maintained by NDOT
Length 10.91 mi [1] (17.56 km)
Existed 1925 [2] – present
Major junctions
South endColorado 113.svg SH 113 south of Lorenzo
 I-80.svg I-80 west of Sidney
North endUS 30.svg US 30 west of Sidney
Location
Counties Cheyenne
Highway system
N-18.svg N-18 US 20 US 20.svg

Nebraska Highway 19 is a highway in Nebraska. It has a southern terminus at the Colorado border south of Sidney and a northern terminus west of Sidney at an intersection with U.S. Highway 30.

Nebraska State of the United States of America

Nebraska is a state that lies in both the Great Plains and the Midwestern United States. It is bordered by South Dakota to the north; Iowa to the east and Missouri to the southeast, both across the Missouri River; Kansas to the south; Colorado to the southwest; and Wyoming to the west. It is the only triply landlocked U.S. state.

Colorado State of the United States of America

Colorado is a state of the Western United States encompassing most of the southern Rocky Mountains as well as the northeastern portion of the Colorado Plateau and the western edge of the Great Plains. It is the 8th most extensive and 21st most populous U.S. state. The estimated population of Colorado was 5,695,564 on July 1, 2018, an increase of 13.25% since the 2010 United States Census.

Sidney, Nebraska City in Nebraska, United States

Sidney is a city in and the county seat of Cheyenne County, Nebraska, United States. This city is nine miles north from the Colorado state line. The population was 6,757 at the 2010 census.

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Route description

Nebraska Highway 19 begins at the Colorado border at a point which is also the north terminus of Colorado State Highway 113. It goes northeasterly through Lorenzo. It continues this way, then goes due north shortly before meeting Interstate 80 at Exit 55 of that interstate highway. It continues due north and ends at U.S. Highway 30 west of Sidney.

Colorado State Highway 113 highway in Colorado

State Highway 113 is an 18.8-mile-long (30.3 km) state highway in northeastern Colorado. It runs from U.S. Highway 138 (US 138) in rural Logan County north to Nebraska Highway 19 (N-19) at the Nebraska state line.

Lorenzo, Nebraska Census-designated place in Nebraska, United States

Lorenzo is an unincorporated community and census-designated place in Cheyenne County, Nebraska, United States. As of the 2010 census it had a population of 58. It is located on Nebraska Highway 19, 10 miles (16 km) southwest of Sidney, the county seat, and 3.5 miles (5.6 km) north of the Colorado border.

Interstate 80 Interstate from California to New Jersey

Interstate 80 (I-80) is an east–west transcontinental freeway in the United States that runs from downtown San Francisco, California, to Teaneck, New Jersey, in the New York City Metropolitan Area. The highway was designated in 1956 as one of the original routes of the Interstate Highway System. Its final segment was opened to traffic in 1986. It is the second-longest Interstate Highway in the United States, following I-90. The Interstate runs through many major cities including Oakland, Sacramento, Reno, Salt Lake City, Omaha, Des Moines, and Toledo, and passes within 10 miles (16 km) of Chicago, Cleveland, and New York City.

The segment of Nebraska Highway 19 north of Interstate 80 is shared with Business Loop 80, which passes through Sidney.

History

Nebraska Highway 19 was a highway which spanned the width of the Nebraska Panhandle. It followed the original route of U.S. Highway 385, going north to the South Dakota border. In 1958, US 385 was designated over the former route of Nebraska Highway 19 north of Sidney. Today, the former route follows US 385 except for the section north of Alliance, which follows Nebraska Highway 2 in Alliance, Nebraska Highway 87 north out of Alliance, and Nebraska Link 7E west from NE 87 to the current US 385.

Nebraska Panhandle

The Nebraska Panhandle is an area in the western part of the state of Nebraska and one of several U.S. state panhandles, or elongated geographical regions that extend from their main political entity.

South Dakota State of the United States of America

South Dakota is a U.S. state in the Midwestern region of the United States. It is named after the Lakota and Dakota Sioux Native American tribes, who compose a large portion of the population and historically dominated the territory. South Dakota is the seventeenth largest by area, but the fifth smallest by population and the 5th least densely populated of the 50 United States. As the southern part of the former Dakota Territory, South Dakota became a state on November 2, 1889, simultaneously with North Dakota. Pierre is the state capital and Sioux Falls, with a population of about 187,200, is South Dakota's largest city.

Alliance, Nebraska City in Nebraska, United States

Alliance is a city in Box Butte County, in the northwestern part of the state of Nebraska, in the Great Plains region of the United States. Its population was 8,491 at the 2010 census. It is the county seat of Box Butte County.

Major intersections

CountyLocationmi [1] kmDestinationsNotes
Cheyenne 0.000.00Colorado 113.svg SH 113  Peetz Continuation into Colorado
9.4115.14I-80.svg I-80  North Platte, Cheyenne, WY Exit 55 on I-80
10.9117.56US 30.svg US 30  Sidney, Kimball Northern terminus
1.000 mi = 1.609 km; 1.000 km = 0.621 mi

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References

  1. 1 2 "Nebraska Highway Reference Log Book" (PDF). Nebraska Department of Roads. 2015. p. 65. Retrieved January 7, 2017.
  2. Nebraska Roads: NE 11-20

Route map: Google

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