Custom county route shields

[Hot Rod Hootenanny]

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…

But it's better than the B/W with names, sans route number, versions they did from 1933 to 1995.

[Alps]

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)

Luckily, somehow, as I was traveling on I-55 this past weekend, Lou pointed out "oh, hey, county pentagons!" I quickly realized they didn't look like pentagons, and somehow remembered this thread, and realized I was in THE COUNTY. I got a bunch of snaps once I got off the Interstate. The other thing Pemiscot used to do is pentagons with straight (not angled) sides. Hideous stuff, really. They don't know what they're doing there.

[national highway 1]

Scanned by Polaroid Roadgeek Michael Summa:

[xcellntbuy]

Orange County, NY.

Ulster County, New York uses a similar blue and yellow diamond sign with that County's outline, too.

[Alps]

Orange County, NY.

Ulster County, New York uses a similar blue and yellow diamond sign with that County's outline, too.

Used. There are very few of the old Ulsters left, compared to the number you'll see in Orange. However, there are very few old OC shields - they clearly kept using the county outline longer than Ulster.