View source for Nevada State Route 304

{{Short description|Highway in Nevada}}
{{Use American English|date=April 2025}}
{{Use mdy dates|date=September 2019}}
{{Infobox road
 | state = NV
 | type = BLSR
 | route = 304
 | alternate_name =Interstate 80 Business, Front Street
|map={{maplink|frame=yes|plain=yes|frame-align=center|frame-width=290|frame-height=240|type=line|raw={{Wikipedia:Map data/Wikipedia KML/Nevada State Route 304}}}}
|map_custom=yes
|map_notes=SR 304 / I-80 Bus. highlighted in red
 | length_mi = 3.788
 | length_round = 3
 | length_ref=<ref name="NDOT_Log">{{cite web|title=State Maintained Highways of Nevada: Descriptions and Maps|author=Nevada Department of Transportation|author-link=Nevada Department of Transportation|url=http://www.nevadadot.com/doing-business/about-ndot/ndot-divisions/planning/roadway-systems/state-maintained-highways-descriptions-index-maps|date=January 2017|accessdate=April 15, 2017}}</ref>
 | established = July 1, 1976
 | decommissioned =
 | history =
 | direction_a = West
 | terminus_a = {{jct|state=NV|I|80}} northwest of [[Battle Mountain, Nevada|Battle Mountain]]
 | junction = {{plain list|
* {{jct|state=NV|SR|305}} in Battle Mountain
* {{jct|state=NV|SR|806}} in Battle Mountain}}
 | direction_b = East
 | terminus_b = {{jct|state=NV|I|80}} southeast of Battle Mountain
 | county = Lander
 | previous_type = NV
 | previous_route = 294
  |next_type = NV
  |next_route = 305
}}
'''State Route 304''' ('''SR 304''') is a [[state highway]] in [[Lander County, Nevada|Lander County]], [[Nevada]], United States. The road is the main street through the town of [[Battle Mountain, Nevada|Battle Mountain]], and is also designated '''Interstate 80 Business''' ('''I-80 Bus.'''). The highway was part of [[Nevada State Route 1|SR 1]] and [[U.S. Route 40 in Nevada|U.S. Route 40]] (US 40) prior to the mid-1970s.

==Route description==
[[File:2014-05-31 14 50 06 Signs at the east end of westbound Nevada State Route 304 in Battle Mountain, Nevada.JPG|thumb|left|View west from the east end of SR&nbsp;304, May 2014]]
SR 304 begins just west of the [[Interstate 80 in Nevada|Interstate 80]] (I-80) West Battle Mountain interchange northwest of Battle Mountain. The route heads briefly passes through a portion of the [[Te-Moak Tribe of Western Shoshone Indians of Nevada|Te-Moak Tribe]] [[Indian reservation]] as it turns southeast into the town. The highway parallels the [[Union Pacific Railroad]] right through the middle of the Battle Mountain business district. SR 304 has a junction with [[Nevada State Route 305|State Route 305]], which connects to [[Austin, Nevada|Austin]] in southern Lander County, as well as [[Nevada State Route 806|State Route 806]], providing access to mining districts north of the town. The route exits the town limits, crossing over the [[Reese River]] before turning south to reconnect to I-80 at the East Battle Mountain interchange and terminating just south of there.<ref name=NDOT_Log/><ref name=BattleMtnMap>{{cite map |publisher=Nevada Department of Transportation |title=Battle Mountain Area |year=2005 |url=http://www.nevadadot.com/uploadedFiles/NDOT/Traveler_Info/Maps/battlemountain.pdf |format=PDF |accessdate=July 29, 2011 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20111129200247/http://www.nevadadot.com/uploadedFiles/NDOT/Traveler_Info/Maps/battlemountain.pdf |archivedate=November 29, 2011 }}</ref><ref name=googlemaps>{{google maps |title=Overview of SR 304 |url=https://maps.google.com/maps?saddr=Allen+Rd&daddr=40.65475,-116.95258+to:Hill+Top+Rd&hl=en&ll=40.640009,-116.937962&spn=0.048457,0.090895&sll=40.620916,-116.91644&sspn=0.006018,0.011362&geocode=FTpYbAIdz00H-Q%3BFZ5XbAId_HEH-SmX-QhbOqWmgDFmO89cWkYmsg%3BFXLNawIdBggI-Q&mra=dme&mrsp=2&sz=17&via=1&t=h&z=14 |accessdate=July 29, 2011}}</ref>

The majority of State Route 304 is also designated Interstate 80 Business, a [[business loop]] of Interstate 80.<ref name=IntGuide>{{cite web |url=http://www.interstate-guide.com/business-routes/bus80.html |title=Interstate Business Route 80 |date=November 6, 2005 |work=AARoads Interstate Guide |publisher=AARoads.com |accessdate=July 29, 2011}}</ref>

==History==
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| align = right
| image1 = Nevada 1.svg
| width1 = 45
| alt1 = 
| caption1 = 
| image2 = US 40.svg
| width2 = 45
| alt2 = 
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| footer = SR 304 was part of State Route 1 and US 40 from the 1920s through the 1970s.
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Front Street in Battle Mountain was formerly part of State Route 1,<ref name=NDOT_Log/> a route designated with the creation of the Nevada State Highway System in 1917.<ref name=NVlaw1917>{{cite book |title=Statutes of the State of Nevada Passed at the Twenty-Eighth Session of the Legislature |year=1917 |publisher=State Printing Office |location=Carson City, Nevada |pages=23–24 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=D0E4AAAAIAAJ |accessdate=July 29, 2011}}</ref> The adoption of the [[U.S. Highway System]] in 1926 by the [[Bureau of Public Roads]] created US 40 in Nevada,{{citation needed|date=February 2018}} 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.<ref name=map1929>{{cite map |publisher=Nevada Department of Highways |title=Highway Map State of Nevada |year=1929 |url=http://contentdm.library.unr.edu/u?/hmaps,457 |accessdate=July 29, 2011 }}</ref>

The State Route 304 designation was applied to Front Street through Battle Mountain on July 1, 1976, in the [[1976 renumbering (Nevada)|renumbering]] of Nevada's state highways.<ref name=NDOTsmh2001>{{cite book |title=Nevada State Maintained Highways: Descriptions, Index and Maps |date=January 2001 |publisher=Nevada Department of Transportation |page=107}}</ref> 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==
{{mileposts}}
{{jcttop|state=NV|county=Lander}}
{{NVint
 | location=none
 | mile=0.00
 | road={{jct|state=NV|I|80|city1=Winnemucca|city2=Elko}}<br>{{jct|state=NV|BL|80|dab1=Battle Mountain|dir1=begins|nolink1=yes}}
 | notes=Western terminus}}
{{NVint
 | location=Battle Mountain
 | lspan=2
 | mile =
 | road={{jct|state=NV|SR|305|dir1=south|name1=South Broad Street|city1=Austin}}
 | notes=}}
{{NVint
 | mile=
 | road={{jct|state=NV|SR|806|dir1=north|name1=North Reese Road|city1=North Battle Mountain}}
 | notes=}}
{{NVint
 | location=none
 | mile=3.788
 | road={{jct|state=NV|I|80|city1=Winnemucca|city2=Elko}}<br>{{jct|state=NV|BL|80|dab1=Battle Mountain|dir1=ends|nolink1=yes}}
 | notes=Eastern terminus}}
{{jctbtm}}

==See also==
{{Portal|Nevada|U.S. Roads}}
* [[List of state routes in Nevada]]
* [[List of highways numbered 304]]

==References==
{{Reflist|22em}}

==External links==
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{{commonscat|Nevada State Route 304/Interstate 80 Business (Battle Mountain, Nevada)}}

[[Category:State highways in Nevada|304]]
[[Category:Transportation in Lander County, Nevada]]
[[Category:Interstate 80]]