Front Plate Required: Yes
Area Codes: 702, 725, 775
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Nevada uses distinctive black plated bollards and unique white mile markers. Each mile marker says the road you're on, then a two letter designation for the county, and the distance from the road's source. A list of county abbreviations can be found here. You'll occasionally find temporary plastic bollards, but Nevada is otherwise among the most consistent states with bollards.
Scrub desert
White mile marker
Standard bollard plating
Nevada lane marker
Bollard with snowpole
In the north, Nevada coverage is primarily of US highways and interstate freeways. Some coverage is of state highways, but as of 2023, it's all gen 1. Major intersections are usually marked with a red diamond, but you will occasionally see a red & white stripe barrier. State signs are reinforced with thin metal bands, and some flatter areas will also use diagonal support structures to protect from high winds.
State road with Gen1 coverage
Red diamond with red reflectors
Thin metal support bands
V-Shaped diagonal supports
The only state roads with newer coverage are in the south, notably NV-376, NV-316/NV-361, and- remarkably- county road 89, which is a wide gravel road through the desert. The Elko area has snow in the 2023 coverage.
Newer coverage on NV-376
NV CR-89
Snow coverage in Elko
The standard license plate is relatively unique for the geography, but it's more useful for identifying urban areas than the desert highways. On the other hand, the solid blue 1982 replica license plate is much more identifyable, but also much less common. In Nevada, traffic signals are over the same street as the lamp above it, as opposed to Utah, where the lamps are over the opposite street. The thin metal support bands are often used behind signs in cities as well, and a poles will often have another traffic signal in addition to the one hanging over the street.
Two standard Nevada plates
1982 replica plate
Thin metal bands behind signs
Traffic signal structure
A handful of small desert towns have coverage, but the two major cities are Reno and Las Vegas. Interstate highways in the Reno area end in "80" (I-80 & I-580), while those around Las Vegas end in "15" (I-15, I-215, I-515). On smaller roads, one major difference between the two cities is how road lines are marked. Where Reno uses the standard paint, Las Vegas- and most of Henderson County- uses circle raised pavement markers instead of paint to mark road lines called Botts' dots.
Botts' dots in Las Vegas
Botts' dot close-up
Standard paint in Reno
The standard North Dakota license plate looks similar to one of the two Nevada standard plates.
Nevada
Thanks to 5ummr for the street sign symbols and for explaining whet a Botts dot is.