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From Ector County Courthouse, take US 385 North about 7.6 mile, go West on FM 1882 & continue 1/10 mile to Dirt Road going North,(marker on private property on east wall of two houses). Ector County Discovery Well 1381: I-20 south service road 2.5 mi. W of Penwell
Registered Texas Historic Landmark Image Marker number Physical address Nearest city Year designated Description Burch-Cauble House 11359: 1936 FM 2097. Chester: 1964 N of Chester via US 287 E to FM 2097 N 5 mi to Peach Tree Village Colmesneil, W.T., House 15459
The following are lists in a series of Recorded Texas Historic Landmarks (RTHLs) arranged by county as designated by the Texas Historical Commission and local county historical commissions in Texas. Purchase and display of a historical marker is a required component of the RTHL designation process.
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 ...
The U.S. state of Texas is divided into 254 counties, more than any other U.S. state. [1] While only about 20% of Texas counties are generally located within the Houston—Dallas—San Antonio—Austin areas, they serve a majority of the state's population with approximately 22,000,000 inhabitants.
US 285 briefly runs through Culberson County before crossing the state line into New Mexico. US 285 has acquired the nickname "Death Highway" because the traffic from oil tank trucks has increased the number of road fatalities by 67% since the beginning of the 2010s oil boom.
[c] Mile marker 880 and its corresponding exit number in Orange, Texas, are the highest-numbered mile marker and exit on any freeway in North America. Since widening was completed in 2008, a portion of the highway west of Houston is now also believed to be the widest in the world, at 26 lanes when including feeders .
U.S. Highway 181 is a south–north U.S. Highway located entirely in the state of Texas.Both termini are at Interstate 37, the road that it mainly parallels to the east.US 181 begins in Corpus Christi, Texas at mile marker 0 [citation needed] to the south, through south-central Texas to just south of San Antonio to the north (mile marker 131), for a total length of 137 miles (220 km).