You see them very sparsely around the roads and streets of Nassau County.

And usually, you only notice them if you’re looking hard.

There’s one on the corner of Stonytown Road and Port Washington Boulevard, in Port Washington.

Hey, look, there’s another one at the intersection of Shelter Rock Road and Northern Boulevard in Manhasset.

And driving on Dosoris Lane in Glen Cove, you can’t miss it.

But good luck finding more than one in Manhasset. And you won’t see any recent ones in Great Neck, either.

What are we talking about? Highway signs and billboards commemorating the achievements of local high school sports teams.

In towns and burghs across America, you see them congratulating the local boys basketball team for its county title, or the girls volleyball team for winning states.

Heck, here on Long Island you see them in certain places, like Wantagh, which is lousy with them.

But in our area of Nassau, these signs are few and far between. And some investigating as to the reasons why revealed that, well, there really isn’t one reason why there aren’t more of them.

“It’s definitely something we’ve wondered about and been frustrated by,” said Port Washington athletics director Nick Schratweiser, whose school is only represented in town by the 2016 girls badminton county title sign, on Stonytown Road and Port Boulevard.

According to county and local officials, there is a process for teams to get recognized.

Mike Fricchione, a communications spokesperson for county Legislature Minority Leader Delia Deriggi-Whitton, said the first thing schools need to do is formally request the county put up a sign, as the Glen Cove High School athletics department did after the school’s boys soccer team won the county title in 2022.

Email communications from the school, the county, and legislator Deriggi-Whitton’s office showed a relatively simple process, with the county communications team asking questions about where the signs would be located, and where they’d be fabricated.

Tim Messner, the deputy commissioner of the Nassau County Parks Department, explained in a phone interview that county championship signs could only go up on county roads, so that’s a consideration when sign location is discussed.

Schratweiser said when the Port Washington boys lacrosse team won the county title in 2022, he was told by school administrators that road signs weren’t being made up any more, so he decided to honor teams by putting up banners around the outside of the school’s athletic fields.

Town of North Hempstead Councilmembeer Mariann Dalimonte, who represents District 6, said it has bothered her that the badminton triumph from eight years ago is the only sign about Port Washington’s teams.

“In my opinion, if you’re not going to update it, then take it down,” Dalimonte said. “I have tried repeatedly to get that sign changed and updated.”

In Manhasset, athletics director Christine Raffo’s school is replete with county and state title teams lately; in the 2021-22 school year alone, the boys basketball, girls lacrosse and boys lacrosse teams all won state championships.

But no signs commemorating those wins are visible in the area.

When fellow Manhasset school St. Mary’s won a girls basketball title in 2021-22, school director of communications Eileen Symonds reached out to the county and the Dept. of Public Works, and even designed the sign emblem herself.

“Within 3-6 months they were up there on the county road (Shelter Rock Road),” Symonds said. “The process was fairly easy, and our local government has been very receptive to our requests over the years.”

In Mineola, a phenomenal recent sports season in 2023-24 saw the boys soccer team and the girls volleyball squad win county and Long Island championships, and advance to the state semifinals. The girls bowling team has also won three county championships in a row.

Instead of going through the county, Mineola mayor Paul Pereira and athletics director Christopher McCann decided to make signs up themselves, paid for by the village.

The signs now stand on the corner of Roslyn Road and Old Country Road in Mineola.

“It’s really special for the kids and a real sense of pride for the community, driving by there,” McCann said. “It’s something that’s going to last forever and it feels great, a reminder of what those kids accomplished.”

For his part, Schratweiser said he’s going to now try again to get some recent Port Washington accomplishments, like the Long Island championship won by the girls tennis team in 2022, recognized with signs.

“We’ve put banners up around the fields but it would be great to see them get recognition (on signs),” Schratweiser said. “We’re so proud of all of these athletes.”