[7] Their son Ulysses Sherman Alderman later served on the Iowa House of Representatives.

The Nevada Journal publishes a weekly newspaper which comes out on Thursday, and the "Story Today" released on Wednesday.

[20] National news coverage is provided on a daily basis by the Des Moines Register and the Ames Tribune.

While Nevada has no broadcast stations of its own, it is well served from the Ames-Des Moines television and radio markets.

A new US Highway 30 bypass was built in the 1970s to the south of the city and Lincoln Way through town was reduced to county road status.

Nevada is also served well by a network of paved farm to market county roads.

The Union Pacific Railroad now owns the line which crosses the city east to west north of the business district.

Up until the mid-1980s, all railroad crossings except for a new one in the northwest section of town were protected by WRRS center harp style wigwag signals.

Shortly thereafter, these signals were replaced with standard flashers and gates due to safety concerns and lack of available wigwag parts.

Nevada was also served by the Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railroad's "Spine Line" between Minneapolis, MN and Kansas City, MO.

An agency station was maintained until 1980 when the Rock Island went bankrupt and ceased to function.

The C&NW purchased the Rock Island "Spine Line" which offered better and more direct connections for Minneapolis and Kansas City.

Since the two rail lines did not directly interchange east of town where the C&NW crosses over the Rock Island, a new connection on the west side of Nevada was built.

It goes from the C&NW east-west main line to connect with the former Rock Island on the southwest side of Nevada.

This new line necessitated the building of an overpass for the old Lincoln Highway on the west side of Nevada.

The 2017 novel Universal Harvester by American novelist and singer-songwriter John Darnielle is set primarily in Nevada.