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Was on County Road 351 from SH 267 to US 67. Was cancelled when the US 67 relief route was completed. SH 168 — — — — 1932: 1934 Partially redesignated SH 97: SH 168: 0.87: 1.40 SH 87 in Galveston: Galveston naval installation 1986: current Shortest signed state highway in Texas; [2] former routing of SH 87 SH 169 — — — —
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The first section of Interstate Highway from county line to county line to open in the state was a 43-mile (69 km) section of I-35 in Bexar County. By 1967, the highway system controlled 66,000 miles (106,000 km) of highway. [5] In 1984, US 66 was replaced by I-40 and the US 66 designation was removed from the state highway system the following ...
A previous route numbered Loop 281 was designated in Wichita County on December 3, 1954, from then-US 82/US 287 southeast of Wichita Falls northwest alongside the Missouri–Kansas–Texas Railroad and Fort Worth and Denver Railway rail lines to then-US 281 on the city's north side.
The first use of the Loop 175 designation was in Coleman County, from US 84, 1.5 miles (2.4 km) southeast of Coleman west to Commercial Avenue near the south side of Coleman, then south 1 mile (1.6 km) to US 67 near Coleman Airport with a spur connection along Commercial Avenue into Coleman.
Loop 61 was designated on September 25, 1939, as a loop off US 175 in Eustace. On June 21, 1990, by district request, a 0.16-mile (0.26 km) section from US 175 to FM 316 was removed from the highway system (this section is now Wheeler Street) and the remaining 0.1 mile section from FM 316 to US 175 became an extension of FM 316.
Loop 545 was designated on April 20, 1984, from US 67 northeast 5.1 miles (8.2 km) to Main Street, then north along Main Street 0.5 mile to US 67 along an old routing of US 67. On March 29, 1988, a 1.1-mile (1.8 km) section from US 87 to FM 380 was removed and returned to the city of San Angelo.
A 50-mile (80 km) stretch of I-45 between Galveston and Houston was opened in 1951, eight years before it was designated I-45. It was also the first urban expressway in Texas. In 1962, 43 miles (69 km) of I-35 opened in Bexar County, the first section of Interstate Highway to open from county line to county line in a large metropolitan area. [3]