Nevada State Route 858
Encyclopedia
State Route 858 is a short state highway
State highway
State highway, state road or state route can refer to one of three related concepts, two of them related to a state or provincial government in a country that is divided into states or provinces :#A...

 in Pershing County
Pershing County, Nevada
Pershing County is a county located in the U.S. state of Nevada. As of the 2000 census, the population was 6,693. Its county seat is Lovelock. The county was named after army general John J. Pershing . It was formed from Humboldt County in 1919, and the last county to be established in...

, Nevada
Nevada
Nevada is a state in the western, mountain west, and southwestern regions of the United States. With an area of and a population of about 2.7 million, it is the 7th-largest and 35th-most populous state. Over two-thirds of Nevada's people live in the Las Vegas metropolitan area, which contains its...

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Route description

SR 858 begins on the west side of Interstate 80
Interstate 80 in Nevada
In the U.S. state of Nevada, Interstate 80 traverses the northern portion of the state. The freeway serves the Reno-Sparks metropolitan area, and also goes through the towns of Fernley, Lovelock, Winnemucca, Battle Mountain, Elko, Wells and West Wendover on its way through the state.I-80 follows...

 and U.S. Route 95
U.S. Route 95 in Nevada
In the U.S. state of Nevada, U.S. Route 95 is a major U.S. highway traversing the state from north to south directly through Las Vegas and providing connections to both Carson City and Reno...

 at the Oreana Interchange (Exit 119). The route crosses under the freeway and ends at the I-80 frontage road on the east side of the interstate. The frontage road (Old US 40) provides access to the town site of Oreana southwest of the interchange.

History

SR 858 was the southwestern end of former State Route 50. Established by 1935, that route traveled from the Oreana area east and north to Mill City
Mill City, Nevada
Mill City is an unincorporated community in Pershing County, Nevada, United States. The ZIP Code of Mill City is 89418.Mill City was established to process the ore from nearby mines at a location with water from the Humboldt River and railroad access...

 via Rochester
Rochester, Nevada
Rochester, Nevada, was a silver-mining town in Pershing County, Nevada, approximately east of Reno. It is now a ghost town. Lower Rochester is still available to visitors; Upper Rochester has been buried under mine tailings of the more recent Coeur Rochester open pit mine.-History:Rochester is...

. SR 50 was deleted in the 1976 renumbering of Nevada's state highways. In that process, most of the route was renumbered to today's State Route 400, the small southwest end became present-day State Route 858, and the remaining unimproved section of the highway was removed from the state highway system.

Major intersections

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