Custom county route shields

[shoptb1]

I was driving back from West Virginia this weekend, and I noticed that Scioto county in SE Ohio seems to have their own custom county route shields.  They even feature an outline of the county shape!  Has anyone noticed this sort of thing elsewhere in the US?  I guess I've always just seen the standard blue & gold county route signs like those prevalent in New Jersey.  

[froggie]

Orange County, NY does something similar.

[agentsteel53]

I can think of these offhand:

Utah:


New York:






many other countries use the older white-square standard, especially in Minnesota, where the white square is still on the books for a road that is maintained entirely with county funds, while the pentagon is used for routes that have some state funding. (because the average driving public cares about the distinction!)



also, Iowa has an older green-square standard that floats around, and before that, they too used white squares.



there are lots of other options out there too; I just can't think of them offhand.

[froggie]

many other countries use the older white-square standard

Assuming you mean "many other states".

especially in Minnesota, where the white square is still on the books for a road that is maintained entirely with county funds, while the pentagon is used for routes that have some state funding. (because the average driving public cares about the distinction!)

This is actually on a county-by-county basis.  Some counties do as you mention...using pentagon shields for state-aid routes and the white square shields for non-state-aid routes (Stearns and Freeborn come to mind).  However, there are some counties that use the pentagon shield exclusively (such as Hennepin or Anoka), while other counties use the white square exclusively (like Olmsted and Carver).

There was also a time, at least up until about 2 decades ago, when you could find green square county shields in Minnesota...particularly in Freeborn and Steele Counties.  Alas, that was back before I started taking road photos.

[agentsteel53]

Assuming you mean "many other states".

oops!

There was also a time, at least up until about 2 decades ago, when you could find green square county shields in Minnesota...particularly in Freeborn and Steele Counties.  Alas, that was back before I started taking road photos.

I certainly have never seen such a thing.

[florida]

Don't recall seeing one with the county outline, but there are a few variations down here. Green pentagons, an outline of Florida with "Holmes" at the top and "County at the bottom with the number in between, and county-made state route shields all dot the roadsides in Holmes County. Walton County uses vertical rectangles that plainly state, "CR 1883" (as an example). And of course, there are those old Secondary Route markers that were converted for County Routes.

[ctsignguy]

Ohio varies by county....some do their own route shields, and others....well they place the county road number in tiny font on the green road-name blades (some counties, tinier than others)...a few have only main roads so marked, and township roads are just as varied

[roadfro]

The non-Interstate portion of the Las Vegas Beltway uses this custom pentagon shield. The diamond outline and shape is based on the Clark County logo.

Image from the AARoads Shield Gallery:


The five sides of the pentagon on older shields were much closer to being equal on all sides. Some newer shields are using a darker blue color, which provides a better contrast.


The shields used for "county routes" in northwestern Washoe County near Gerlach vary from standard pentagons, standard circles, and (old) Nevada state route shields. Nobody's put any logical thought into signs out there...

[golden eagle]

I've always seen the customary blue and gold pentagon-shaped signs.

[cjk374]

Here in Lincoln Parish, LA we used to have blue-square-w/white-lettering for our parish roads.  Then in the early '90s (?) they were replaced with names on standard street signs like you would find in a town or city--blue w/white lettering.

[agentsteel53]

I don't suppose you have a picture of such a thing?

[florida]

This was on somebody's mailbox.



And a random one.

[vdeane]

Franklin county, NY has a green square:
http://picasaweb.google.com/lh/photo/W8I83w_STDpfZSn-1kPbfg?feat=directlink

[cjk374]

I don't suppose you have a picture of such a thing?

I wish I did.  I don't have any technology available to post pics with.  also, I forgot to mention that the change from numbers to names occured when Lincoln Parish installed their E-911 system.

[formulanone]

I know, necro-post...but here's what the original poster was talking about: Looks like a cross between a machine gun and a transmission housing, but I also think they are pretty neat.

This was on somebody's mailbox.

Seen that one outside of Keystone Heights...that's one of the oddest signs I've ever seen in the field, but it's definitely a piece someone crafted themselves!



Palm Beach County job.

[the49erfan15]

Not exactly a county route, but Charlotte, NC has one specified route - Charlotte Route 4.



It's a partial loop around the city, all four-lane secondary roads, except for a limited-access expressway known as Billy Graham Parkway which (along with I-485) connects I-77 to Charlotte-Douglas International Airport. There are no other Charlotte Routes (1, 2, 3, 5, etc) - it gets its name because it has a radius of roughly 4 miles.

[national highway 1]

A special shield that New Mexico uses on its frontage roads - a state outline compared with the usual Zia that's conventionally used on its state highways:
This one is similar to a neutered AZ outline:
(credits to Corco)

Another inverted color variant:
(credits to Alex)

[the49erfan15]

^That NM marker looks really good. If the Zia wasn't such a good symbol, I'd say go for that for the state markers.

[Coelacanth]

However, there are some counties that use the pentagon shield exclusively (such as Hennepin or Anoka), while other counties use the white square exclusively (like Olmsted and Carver).

Hennepin still uses the white square on some construction signing, marking detours, etc. There are a lot of white square 153's around the Lowry Bridge, for example.

[froggie]

Hennepin still uses the white square on some construction signing, marking detours, etc. There are a lot of white square 153's around the Lowry Bridge, for example.

I think that's more the contractor than anything with the county.  Note how many of those white 153 shields are woefully out of standard.  Mdcastle has a photo of one in another thread.

[hbelkins]

Orange County, NY.

[bjrush]

Pemiscot County in the Missouri Bootheel is phasing these out. They are supposed to look like the county outline, but they don't really resemble it at all.


(not my picture)

[NE2]

Picasso sign?

[US71]

Picasso sign?

Sorta looks like it

[vtk]

I know, necro-post...but here's what the original poster was talking about: Looks like a cross between a machine gun and a transmission housing, but I also think they are pretty neat.

Love that description!

IIRC, Paulding County OH uses a square with huge helvetica bold numbers, in the colors of yellow or white on green.  Delaware County OH falls into the tiny-number-on-name-blade category, but its official county map uses an outline of the county for its county route numbers.  That map makes a lot of design choices I strongly disagree with...