State Route 293 is an unsigned state highway

State highway

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 in Humboldt County

Humboldt County, Nevada

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, Nevada

Nevada

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. It connects the Kings River Valley to U.S. Route 95 at the town of Orovada

Orovada, Nevada

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.

Route description

SR 293 begins at a Nevada Department of Transportation

Nevada Department of Transportation

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 monument in the north-central portion of Humboldt County, just a few miles east of the Kings River

Kings River

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. From there, the route heads east through a mountain pass and then southward. After crossing the Quinn River

Quinn River

The Quinn River, once known as the Queen River, is an intermittent river, approximately long, in the desert of northwestern Nevada in the United States. It drains an enclosed basin inside the larger Great Basin....

, SR 293 heads eastward through the Quinn River Valley to its terminus at US 95 at the town of Orovada.

History

The road first appears on official state maps 1968, although it was not labeled as being part of Nevada's numbered highway system at that time. The highway was fully paved by 1971, but still had no route number on the state map. Interestingly, the entire road was removed from state highway maps entirely beginning with the 1973 edition. Despite this, the highway officially became State Route 293 on July 1, 1976, when Nevada officials began renumbering the state's numbered routes. The road returned to the state highway map, complete with the SR 293 designation, in the 1982 edition.

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