Nevada State Route 118 is an approximately 3.48-mile rural highway located in Churchill County. Nevada State Route 118 begins at Harrigan Road (former US Route 50 and current Nevada State Route 115) and extends eastward along Wildes Road to New River Canal at the northern boundary of Naval Air Station Fallon. This corridor was originally designated in 1939 in Nevada State Route 62 which served the air station radio range. The current highway number of 118 was designated as part of the 1976 Nevada State Highway renumbering. Part 1; the history of Nevada State Route 118 Nevada State Route 118 follows Wildes Road east from Schurz Highway (US Route 95) from the outskirts of Fallon. Wildes Road was constructed alongside the L Line Canal which connects to Stillwater Slough. Wildes Road can be seen alongside L Line Canal east from Fallon to Stillwater Slough on the 1908 United States Geological Survey map of Carson Sink. Wildes Road is show...
Fallon has been the seat of Churchill County since 1904 and during the automotive era has been part of numerous historic highways. Fallon was first designated as part of the Lincoln Highway in 1913 and was part of three distinct alignment generations of the trans-continental corridor. By November 1926 the last generation of the Lincoln Highway in Fallon was repurposed as part of US Route 50. By 1939 US Route 95 was aligned through Fallon when the corridor was extended through Nevada to Blythe, California. The current alignments of US Routes 50 and 95 began to evolve during the 1950s and would be in place by 1959. Numerous older segments of US Route 50 since 1976 have been repurposed as Nevada State Routes 115 and 119. This blog serves as an examination of the alignment history of the US Routes and the Lincoln Highway within the Fallon area. Early US Route 50 and Nevada State Route 1A (later US Route 95) can be seen passing through Fallon t...