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Are your state highway signs the shape of your state?


Posted - February 22, 2022

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  • 13395
    I don't think so but it's been a long time since I've been on any of the highways.
      February 22, 2022 2:15 PM MST
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  • 44603
    Some of our state highways are two lane country roads. My daughter and family live at the one in the pic.
      February 22, 2022 2:18 PM MST
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  • 10635
    No.  They're in the shape of a shield.  I believe they are the only non rectangular state signs in the nation.
      February 22, 2022 2:53 PM MST
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  • 44603
    The shield signs here are US Highways.

      February 23, 2022 7:41 AM MST
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  • 10635
    Those are US route signs.  These are California state highway signs...



      February 23, 2022 10:58 AM MST
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  • 44603
    OK, I didn't recognize a shields. The US signs do look the shields to me.
      February 23, 2022 12:51 PM MST
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  • 5451
    Yes


    Sometimes they don’t quite get the shape of the state right.




      February 22, 2022 3:59 PM MST
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  • 53504


      If I were from Colorado or Wyoming they would be!


    ~

      February 22, 2022 4:23 PM MST
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  • 5451
    Wyoming’s and Colorado’s state highway signs are rectangles.  I guess that actually does make them the shape of their states.  I never thought of them that way before, lol.


    Also, here’s one with a county highway sign that’s the shape of its county.

      February 23, 2022 8:15 PM MST
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  • 17592
    Yes.

      February 22, 2022 6:01 PM MST
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  • They are not. National routes have a pentagonal sign. Provincial routes have a rectangular sign. All of our provinces use rectangles for their provincial route signs.

    National Route 12:


    Provincial Route 125:
      February 22, 2022 9:41 PM MST
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  • 5451
    Here are some state highway signs that weren’t the shape of their state.  They were the shape of somebody else’s state instead, lol. 


    The federal government used the Alabama state highway sign as an example for state highway signs in its manual for road signs.  It was supposed to be just an example, but a sign-making company took it too literally when it made the signs for the junction of Massachusetts Highway 10 and Massachusetts Highway 141 in Easthampton, MA.
      February 23, 2022 9:01 PM MST
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  • 34251
      February 24, 2022 8:01 AM MST
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