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Lost US Highways of Texas |
Texas
holds many secrets in its extensive landscape. Among those
secrets is a good bit of highway history. The following
decommissioned routes are listed to aid hobbyists and historians.
US 66 US 70 [II] US 80N US 96 [I] US 164 US 366 [I] US 366 [II] US 370 US 385 [I]
US 66
From: Oklahoma state line at east of Shamrock
To: New Mexico state line at Glen Rio
Length in TX: 177 miles
Dates Signed in TX: 1926 - 1985
History in TX: 1925: proposed as US 60 along Texas Highways 75
and 13; 1926: assigned as US 66; 1985: officially replaced by
Interstate 40
US 70 [II]
From: New Mexico state line at Fort Bliss
To: Mexican International border at El Paso
Length in TX: 20 miles
Dates Signed in TX: 1932 - 1934
History in TX: 1932: replaced US 366; 1934: replaced by US 54;
Modern: Much of this route is now Business US 54
US 80N
From: Metcalf Gap
To: Abeline
Length in TX: 88 miles
Dates Signed in TX: 1932 - 1934
History in TX: 1932: assigned along Texas Highway 1A; 1934:
replaced by Alt US 80; Modern alignment now US 180 and TX-351
US 96 [I]
From: Rosenburg (Houston 1932-1934)
To: Mexican border at Brownsville
Length in TX: 1926-1932: 371 miles; 1932-1934: 403 miles;
1934-1939: 305 miles
Dates Signed in TX: 1926 - 1939
History in TX: 1925: proposed; 1926: assigned along Texas Highway
12; 1932: extended along US 90 to Houston; 1934: north end
truncated at Rosenburg; 1934: south end truncated at Alice,
replaced southward by US 281; 1934 extended west to Laredo; 1939:
replaced by US 59
US 164
From: Oklahoma state line at Higgins
To: Amarillo
Length in TX: 128 miles
Dates Signed in TX: 1928 - 1930
History in TX: 1928: assigned along Texas Highway 33; 1930:
replaced by US 60
US 366 [I]
From: Amarillo
To: New Mexico state line at Farwell
Length in TX:
Dates Signed in TX: 1926 - 1932
History in TX: 1925: proposed as US 360; 1926: assigned as US 366
along Texas Highway 33; 1932: replaced by US 60
US 366 [II]
From: New Mexico state line at Fort Bliss
To: Mexican International border at El Paso
Length in TX: 20 miles
Dates Signed in TX: 1926 - 1932
History in TX: 1925: proposed as US 360; 1926: assigned as US 366
along Texas Highway 33; 1932 replaced by US 70
[II]
US 370
From: Bowie
To: Claude
Length in TX: 260 miles
Dates Signed in TX: 1926 - 1939
History in TX: 1925: proposed as part of US 85; 1926: assigned
along Texas Highway 5; 1935: extended to Amarillo; 1939 replaced
by US 287
US 385 [I]
From: New Mexico state line at Texline
To: Comfort
Length in TX: 604 miles
Dates Signed in TX: 1926 - 1935
History in TX: 1926: assigned along Texas Highways 5 and 9; 1935
replaced by US 87
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This page last updated Sunday, January 06, 2002
Page originally created by Robert V. Droz on December 31, 2001
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