History
The highway connecting Searchlight to Nipton first appears on maps as a county road in 1933. By 1940, the unimproved road was designated State Route 68. The road had been graded by 1950 and was finally paved by 1963.
In 1976, the Nevada Department of Transportation began a project to simplify and renumber the state highway system. During this process, the road was reassigned to State Route 164. The route has been largely unchanged since.
Read more about this topic: Nevada State Route 164
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