Moving from Killeen and Temple to Reno

Killeen is at 882 feet and the Sparks warehouse is at 4,437. The Killeen-Temple metro has about 494,000 people, and renters make up 42.1 percent of its households. The route to Reno is mostly highway rather than interstate.

TX 153, US 84, I-40 and US 95

The printed route starts with about 71 miles of TX 153 and 253 miles of US 84, joins I-40 for 586 miles and finishes with 272 miles of US 95 through Nevada. Those four named roads cover 1,182 of the 1,655 miles; shorter links fill the rest. No road carries more than 35 percent of the trip, so this is a route of many hand-offs.

The map line is about 1,368 miles and the roads add roughly 290. Check Texas, New Mexico, Arizona and Nevada road-condition sites before a winter departure, and NDOT for the Nevada end. US 95 crosses long stretches of desert.

Four driving days

Wheel time is about 30 h 24 min, which the planning rule rounds to four days at 500 miles a day. A shipment moves through the carrier network on its own schedule, and the delivery window in your written estimate is the date to plan around.

Reno's July high is 93.9 degrees and its July nights fall to 60.4. January highs average 47.7, and the city gets 20.9 inches of snow a year on only 7.35 inches of precipitation. Texas households should plan for winter coats and a first cold season.

How the move works with O'Brien's

You book the move with O'Brien's, the Bekins Van Lines agent in Sparks. We coordinate it from your Killeen or Temple address through the Bekins network, then deliver, unpack and store in the Reno area. Our 30,000 square foot warehouse holds a shipment until your new home is ready, and vault storage starts from $40 per month.

Military households can read about military moves and storage. For any move, start with a phone ballpark or the online request.

Killeen and Reno compared

Killeen city has about 158,000 people, a Census median household income of $60,977 and a median home value of $215,400. The Killeen-Temple metro's median household income is $69,923 and its median home value is $234,500. The Reno metro's median household income is $87,485 and its median home value is $502,300. Median gross rent is $1,217 in the metro and $1,592 in Reno.

For the state picture, see moving to Reno from Texas and routes between Reno and Texas.