State Highway 15 | ||||
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| Route information | ||||
| Maintained by TxDOT | ||||
| Length | 125.2 mi[1] (201.5 km) | |||
| Existed | 1954[1]–present | |||
| Major junctions | ||||
| West end |  US 54 at Stratford | |||
 US 83 in Perryton | ||||
| East end |  SH-15 east of Follett | |||
| Location | ||||
| Country | United States | |||
| State | Texas | |||
| Highway system | ||||
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State Highway 15 (SH 15) is a state highway in the U.S. state of Texas. It runs from the Oklahoma state line 6 miles (9.7 km) east of Follett to US 287 in Stratford.
Route description
SH 15 begins at an intersection with US 287 in Stratford. It travels eastward through the far northern reaches of the Texas Panhandle, mainly through farmlands. The route passes through the towns of Spearman and Perryton, before exiting eastward into Northwest Oklahoma, where the road transitions to Oklahoma State Highway 15.
History
On October 26, 1954, SH 117 was redesignated as SH 15 for its entire route from the Texas/Oklahoma state line in Lipscomb County through the northeast Panhandle to an intersection with U.S. Highway 287 at Claude. The route was renumbered to correspond to the connecting Oklahoma State Highway 15. On September 1, 1965, the section from Spearman southward was redesignated as SH 207, while SH 15 was rerouted westward to Stratford over cancelled routes SH 282 and FM 289.
Previous route
SH 15 was one of the original twenty five state highways proposed on June 21, 1917, overlaid on top of the Dallas-Louisiana Highway.[2] From 1917 the routing mostly followed present day U.S. Highway 80 from Dallas to Wills Point. It continued on, routed along present day SH 64 from Wills Point into Tyler and up U.S. Highway 271 into Gladewater, and east along US 80 into Longview. On June 17, 1918, the section of SH 15 from Gladewater to Longview was transferred to SH 11. On January 21, 1919, an alternate route of SH 15 was designated east of Wills Point, going through Mineola to Gladewater, via US 80.[3]
On November 27, 1922, the section of SH 15 from Wills Point to Tyler was redesignated as SH 15A, which extended to Carthage.[4] The section of SH 15 from Tyler to Gladewater was transferred to an extended SH 31. On August 21, 1923, SH 15A was renumbered as SH 64.[5] On October 26, 1925, SH 15A was designated from Gladewater to Kilgore. On March 19, 1930, this became part of SH 135. On September 18, 1929, another SH 15A was designated along the Scyene Road from SH 15 to SH 14.[6] This highway was erroneously omitted on the March 19, 1930 log, so was unnumbered that day. On November 30, 1932, the former SH 15A was added to the state highway log, but was renumbered as SH 183.
SH 15 was extended east to the Louisiana state line on August 21, 1923, replacing a section of SH 11. In 1926, U.S. Highway 80 was routed over SH 15. The routes were marked concurrently. On December 16, 1929, SH 15 was extended west to Fort Worth.[7] On June 24, 1931, this extension to Fort Worth was cancelled.[8] On September 11, 1934, SH 15 was extended west back to Fort Worth.[9] On August 8, 1935, SH 15 was extended west via Albany via Seminole to the New Mexico state line, replacing SH 83 and part of SH 1A, though this was not effective until September 1, 1935.[10] On September 26, 1939, the section of SH 15 east of Albany was deleted (already part of US 80 and US 80 Alternate). The remainder of SH 15 was redesignated as US 180 on September 6, 1943.
Major intersections
| County | Location | mi | km | Destinations | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sherman | Stratford |  US 287 (Poplar Street) – Dalhart, Texhoma | |||
| |   FM 2232 south | ||||
| |  FM 119 – Texhoma, Sunray | ||||
| |   FM 1290 north – Texhoma | ||||
| Hansford | |   FM 1573 west – Sunray | |||
| |  FM 1262 north – Guymon | ||||
| Gruver |  SH 136 north – Guymon | west end of SH 136 overlap | |||
  SH 136 south (Main Avenue) / FM 278 east – Stinnett | east end of SH 136 overlap | ||||
 Loop 84 west – Gruver | |||||
| |  SH 207 north – Guymon | west end of SH 207 overlap | |||
| |  FM 2018 west – Sunray | ||||
| |  FM 2387 north – Hardesty | ||||
| Spearman |   FM 760 north – Lake Palo Duro, Airport | west end of FM 760 overlap | |||
| SH 207 south – Stinnett | east end of SH 207 overlap | ||||
 FM 759 east / FM 760 south (West Kenneth Avenue) | east end of FM 760 overlap | ||||
| Ochiltree | |  FM 1267 east | |||
| Farnsworth |  FM 376 south | ||||
| |  Spur 192 east – Frank Phillips College Allen Campus | ||||
| Perryton |  Loop 143 | ||||
| US 83 (Main Street) – Liberal, Canadian | |||||
| Loop 143 | |||||
| Lipscomb | Booker |  SH 23 – Beaver, Canadian | |||
| Darrouzett |  FM 2172 south | ||||
| |  RM 2248 north | ||||
| |  SH 305 south – Lipscomb | ||||
| |  FM 1455 | ||||
| Follett |  FM 2741 north | west end of FM 2741 overlap | |||
| FM 2741 south (South Main Street) | east end of FM 2741 overlap | ||||
 FM 1454 south – Higgins | west end of FM 1454 overlap | ||||
| | FM 1454 north | east end of FM 1454 overlap | |||
| | SH-15 east – Shattuck | Oklahoma state line | |||
| 1.000 mi = 1.609 km; 1.000 km = 0.621 mi | |||||
References
- 1 2 Transportation Planning and Programming Division (n.d.). "State Highway No. 15". Highway Designation Files. Texas Department of Transportation.
- ↑ "Minutes of the tenth and adjorned Regular Meeting of the STATE HIGHWAY DEPARTMENT, held in Mineral Wells, TX, at the Standard Pavillion, at 2:00 p.m." (PDF). publicdocs.txdot.gov. Texas Department of Transportation. Retrieved 29 April 2023.
- ↑ "Minutes" (PDF). publicdocs.txdot.gov. Texas Department of Transportation. January 21, 1919. Archived (PDF) from the original on October 24, 2017. Retrieved 29 April 2023.
- ↑ "Minutes" (PDF). publicdocs.txdot.gov. Texas Department of Transportation. November 27, 1922. Archived (PDF) from the original on October 27, 2017. Retrieved 29 April 2023.
- ↑ "Minutes" (PDF). publicdocs.txdot.gov. Texas Department of Transportation. August 21, 1923. Archived (PDF) from the original on October 26, 2017. Retrieved 29 April 2023.
- ↑ "Minutes" (PDF). publicdocs.txdot.gov. Texas Department of Transportation. September 17, 1929. Archived (PDF) from the original on November 7, 2017. Retrieved 29 April 2023.
- ↑ "Minutes" (PDF). publicdocs.txdot.gov. Texas Department of Transportation. December 16, 1929. Archived (PDF) from the original on June 18, 2018. Retrieved 29 April 2023.
- ↑ "Minutes" (PDF). publicdocs.txdot.gov. Texas Department of Transportation. June 22, 1931. Archived (PDF) from the original on January 29, 2018. Retrieved 29 April 2023.
- ↑ "Minutes" (PDF). publicdocs.txdot.gov. Texas Department of Transportation. September 10, 1934. Archived (PDF) from the original on September 14, 2017. Retrieved 29 April 2023.
- ↑ "Minutes" (PDF). publicdocs.txdot.gov. Texas Department of Transportation. July 15, 1935. Archived (PDF) from the original on October 20, 2017. Retrieved 29 April 2023.