1939 general re-description of highway system (Texas)

This article is part of the
highway renumbering series.
Alabama 1928, 1957
Arkansas 1926
California 1964
Colorado 1953, 1968
Connecticut 1932, 1963
Florida 1945
Indiana 1926
Iowa 1926, 1969
Louisiana 1955
Maine 1933
Massachusetts 1933
Minnesota 1934
Missouri 1926
Montana 1932
Nebraska 1926
Nevada 1976
New Jersey 1927, 1953
New Mexico 1988
New York 1927, 1930
North Carolina 1934, 1937, 1940, 1961
Ohio 1923, 1927, 1962
Pennsylvania 1928, 1961
Puerto Rico 1953
South Carolina 1928, 1937
South Dakota 1927, 1975
Tennessee 1983
Texas 1939
Utah 1962, 1977
Virginia 1923, 1928, 1933, 1940, 1958
Washington 1964
Wisconsin 1926
Wyoming 1927

In 1939, the Texas Highway Department renumbered all highways that ran concurrently with U.S. Highways. Sections of state highways that were separated by a concurrency with a US Highway were renumbered, and all suffixed routes (that did not become part of other highways or other state highways) were renumbered.

New Old From To Notes
U.S. Highway 54 State Highway 56 Oklahoma New Mexico
U.S. Highway 54 State Highway 33 New Mexico El Paso
U.S. Highway 59 State Highway 8 Maud Tenaha
U.S. Highway 59 State Highway 35 Timpson Houston
U.S. Highway 59 State Highway 12 Rosenberg Laredo
U.S. Highway 60 State Highway 33 Oklahoma New Mexico
U.S. Highway 62 State Highway 138 Oklahoma North of Childress
U.S. Highway 62 State Highway 18 Matador Dickens
U.S. Highway 62 State Highway 137 Lubbock Brownfield
U.S. Highway 62 State Highway 130 New Mexico El Paso
U.S. Highway 66 State Highway 75 Oklahoma Amarillo
U.S. Highway 66 State Highway 13 Amarillo New Mexico
U.S. Highway 67 State Highway 1 Texarkana Dallas
U.S. Highway 67 State Highway 68 Dallas Stephenville
U.S. Highway 67 State Highway 10 Stephenville Alpine
U.S. Highway 67 State Highway 17 Marfa Presidio
U.S. Highway 69 State Highway 160 Denison Whitewright
U.S. Highway 69 State Highway 42 Whitewright Mineola
U.S. Highway 69 State Highway 37 Mineola Jacksonville
U.S. Highway 69 State Highway 40 Jacksonville Lumberton
U.S. Highway 70 State Highway 28 Vernon Muleshoe
U.S. Highway 71 State Highway 47 Arkansas Texarkana
U.S. Highway 75 State Highway 6 Oklahoma Dallas
U.S. Highway 75 State Highway 14 Dallas Richland
U.S. Highway 75 State Highway 32 Richland Huntsville
U.S. Highway 75 State Highway 19 Huntsville Houston
U.S. Highway 75 State Highway 6 Houston Galveston
U.S. Highway 77 State Highway 40 Oklahoma Dallas
U.S. Highway 77 State Highway 6 Dallas Waco
U.S. Highway 77 State Highway 44 Waco Hallettsville
U.S. Highway 77 State Highway 72 Hallettsville Cuero
U.S. Highway 77 State Highway 44 Victoria Sinton
U.S. Highway 79 State Highway 64 Louisiana Henderson
U.S. Highway 79 State Highway 43 Henderson Round Rock
U.S. Highway 80 State Highway 15 Louisiana Dallas
U.S. Highway 80 State Highway 1B Dallas Cockrell Hill
U.S. Highway 80 State Highway 1 Cockrell Hill New Mexico (US 80/SH 1 went via what is now US 180 and SH 16 until 1938)
U.S. Highway 80 Alternate State Highway 15 Weatherford West of Albany
U.S. Highway 80 Alternate State Highway 1A West of Albany Abilene
U.S. Highway 80 Alternate State Highway 1 (Loop) El Paso South of Canutillo
U.S. Highway 81 State Highway 2 Oklahoma Laredo
U.S. Highway 81 Alternate State Highway 2 (Loop) South of Fort Worth Fort Worth
U.S. Highway 82 State Highway 5 Texarkana Wichita Falls
U.S. Highway 82 State Highway 24 Seymour Lubbock
U.S. Highway 83 State Highway 4 Oklahoma Brownsville
U.S. Highway 84 State Highway 35 Louisiana Timpson
U.S. Highway 84 State Highway 22 Timpson Palestine
U.S. Highway 84 State Highway 7 Northeast of Oakwood New Mexico
U.S. Highway 87 State Highway 5 New Mexico Hartley
U.S. Highway 87 State Highway 152 Hartley Dumas
U.S. Highway 87 State Highway 9 Dumas San Antonio
U.S. Highway 87 State Highway 27 San Antonio Port Lavaca
U.S. Highway 90 State Highway 3 Louisiana Waelder
U.S. Highway 90 State Highway 3A Waelder Seguin
U.S. Highway 90 State Highway 3 Seguin Van Horn
U.S. Highway 90 State Highway 54 Van Horn South of El Capitan US 90 was proposed to overlap with US 62 to El Paso. Changed back to 54 5 months later.
U.S. Highway 96 State Highway 8 Tenaha Port Arthur
U.S. Highway 175 State Highway 40 Dallas Jacksonville Originally planned as part of US 287 Alternate
U.S. Highway 181 State Highway 16 San Antonio Corpus Christi
U.S. Highway 183 State Highway 28 Oklahoma Vernon
U.S. Highway 183 State Highway 191 Albany Coleman
U.S. Highway 183 State Highway 16 Santa Anna Brady
U.S. Highway 190 State Highway 63 Louisiana Jasper
U.S. Highway 190 State Highway 45 Jasper Huntsville
U.S. Highway 190 State Highway 69 Hearne Cameron
U.S. Highway 190 State Highway 53 Belton Lampasas
U.S. Highway 190 State Highway 74 Lampasas Brady
U.S. Highway 271 State Highway 24 Oklahoma Paris
U.S. Highway 271 State Highway 49 Paris Mount Pleasant
U.S. Highway 271 State Highway 65 Mount Pleasant Gladewater
U.S. Highway 271 State Highway 31 Gladewater Tyler
U.S. Highway 277 State Highway 30 Oklahoma Mexico
U.S. Highway 281 State Highway 66 Wichita Falls Hidalgo 66 continued northeast from Wichita Falls with 79
U.S. Highway 281 State Highway 48 Hidalgo Brownsville
U.S. Highway 283 State Highway 23 Oklahoma Brady
U.S. Highway 285 State Highway 27 New Mexico Fort Stockton
U.S. Highway 285 State Highway 82 Fort Stockton Sanderson
U.S. Highway 287 State Highway 9 Oklahoma Dumas
U.S. Highway 287 State Highway 5 Amarillo Henrietta This was part of US 370 before the renumbering.
U.S. Highway 287 State Highway 50 Henrietta Bowie This was part of US 370 before the renumbering.
U.S. Highway 287 State Highway 34 Fort Worth Ennis
U.S. Highway 287 State Highway 22 Corsicana Palestine
U.S. Highway 287 State Highway 19 Palestine Crockett
U.S. Highway 287 State Highway 106 Crockett Woodville
U.S. Highway 290 State Highway 6 Houston Hempstead
U.S. Highway 290 State Highway 20 Hempstead Paige
U.S. Highway 290 State Highway OSR Paige Bastrop
U.S. Highway 290 State Highway 71 Bastrop Austin
U.S. Highway 290 State Highway 20 Austin Southeast of Junction
U.S. Highway 290 State Highway 27 Southeast of Junction Fort Stockton
U.S. Highway 290 State Highway 196 Fort Stockton East of Kent
U.S. Highway 377 State Highway 10 Denton Stephenville
U.S. Highway 380 State Highway 15 West of Albany Lueders
U.S. Highway 380 State Highway 18 Lueders Jayton
U.S. Highway 380 State Highway 84 Southwest of Jayton New Mexico
State Highway 1 State Highway 1 Cockrell Hill Dallas
State Highway 3 State Highway 3 Waelder Seguin
State Highway 4 State Highway 4 Brownsville Boca Chica
State Highway 5 State Highway 5 South of Dumas Hartley
State Highway 6 State Highway 6 Waco Hempstead
State Highway 6 State Highway 242 Hockley Sugar Land
State Highway 6 State Highway 38 Sugar Land Northwest of Galveston
State Highway 7 State Highway 7 Joaquin Nacogdoches
State Highway 7 State Highway 266 Nacogdoches Ratcliff originally planned as part of 103; eventually built farther southeast
State Highway 7 State Highway 103 Ratcliff Crockett originally planned to stay 103
State Highway 8 State Highway 8 Arkansas West of Maud
State Highway 9 State Highway 9 Three Rivers Corpus Christi
State Highway 10 State Highway 10 Whitesboro Denton
State Highway 11 State Highway 11 Ladonia Daingerfield (SH 11 began to overlap with SH 49 from Daingerfield to Hughes Springs)
State Highway 11 State Highway 47 Hughes Springs Texarkana
State Highway 14 State Highway 14 Richland Bremond
State Highway 15 State Highway 15 Lueders New Mexico Was proposed to be replaced by a new US highway in December 1938, but this was not approved until August 4, 1943.
State Highway 16 State Highway 120 Graham South of Strawn This was originally planned to become part of 81.
State Highway 16 State Highway 81 South of Strawn Fredericksburg This was originally planned to stay 81.
State Highway 16 State Highway 16 Fredericksburg San Antonio This was originally planned to become part of 81, but was changed because it would have crossed US 81.
State Highway 16 State Highway 9 San Antonio South of San Antonio This was originally planned to become 287.
State Highway 17 State Highway 17 Pecos Marfa
State Highway 18 State Highway 18 Matador Pampa
State Highway 19 State Highway 19 Fruitvale Palestine
State Highway 20 State Highway 20 Austin Paige
State Highway 21 State Highway 21 Paige Louisiana
State Highway 22 State Highway 22 Corsicana Hamilton
State Highway 24 State Highway 24 Paris Newcastle
State Highway 24 State Highway 120 Newcastle East of Aspermont
State Highway 26 State Highway 11 Oklahoma Daingerfield
State Highway 26 State Highway 149 Daingerfield Longview
State Highway 26 State Highway 26 Longview Nacogdoches
State Highway 27 State Highway 27 Southeast of Junction Comfort
State Highway 31 State Highway 31 Waco Tyler
State Highway 31 State Highway 176 Tyler Kilgore
State Highway 34 State Highway 34 Honey Grove Ennis
State Highway 34 State Highway 306 Ennis Italy
State Highway 35 State Highway 35 Gregory Houston
State Highway 37 State Highway 37 Oklahoma Mineola
State Highway 43 State Highway 43 Caddo Lake State Park Henderson
State Highway 44 State Highway 16 Corpus Christi Robstown
State Highway 44 State Highway 44 Robstown Alice
State Highway 45 State Highway 45 Northeast of Anderson Huntsville
State Highway 45 State Highway 19 Huntsville Crockett
State Highway 48 State Highway 48 Brownsville East of Brownsville
State Highway 49 State Highway 49 Mount Pleasant Louisiana
State Highway 53 State Highway 53 Rosebud Temple
State Highway 59 State Highway 175 Saint Jo Montague swapped with 59
State Highway 59 State Highway 59 Montague Bowie
State Highway 63 State Highway 63 Zavalla Jasper originally planned as part of US 287 Alternate
State Highway 63 State Highway 45 Jasper Louisiana originally planned as 296
State Highway 64 State Highway 64 Henderson Wills Point
State Highway 68 State Highway 68 Stephenville Gorman
State Highway 70 State Highway 70 San Angelo Jayton
State Highway 70 State Highway 18 Jayton Dickens
State Highway 71 State Highway 71 Bastrop Midfield
State Highway 72 State Highway 72 Cuero Three Rivers
State Highway 72 State Highway 202 Three Rivers Cotulla
State Highway 73 State Highway 73 Alleyton Houston
State Highway 73 State Highway 228 Houston Anahuac
State Highway 73 State Highway 125 Anahuac Stowell temporary 73; became 65 in 1961
State Highway 73 State Highway 228 Stowell Port Arthur
State Highway 74 State Highway 74 Liberty Hill Lampasas
State Highway 77 State Highway 260 Commerce Naples
State Highway 77 State Highway 77 Naples Louisiana
State Highway 80 State Highway 80 Wimberley Karnes City
State Highway 80 State Highway 312 Karnes City Atascosa/Karnes County Line
State Highway 81 State Highway No. "F" (feeder road) Llano Brady This was originally planned to become 283 instead.
State Highway 82 State Highway 82 New Mexico Fort Stockton
State Highway 95 State Highway 95 Temple Bastrop
State Highway 96 State Highway 44 Sinton Robstown
State Highway 96 State Highway 16 Robstown Riviera
State Highway 96 State Highway 96 Riviera Harlingen
State Highway 107 State Highway 107 Combes Edinburg
State Highway 107 State Highway 250 Edinburg Mission
State Highway 107 State Highway 48 Mission Hidalgo appears in 1937
State Highway 111 State Highway 95 Hochheim Yoakum
State Highway 111 State Highway 111 Yoakum Midfield
State Highway 118 State Highway 118 Big Bend National Park Fort Davis (SH 118 began to overlap with SH 17 and SH 166 from Fort Davis to northwest of Fort Davis)
State Highway 118 State Highway 233 northwest of Fort Davis Kent
State Highway 124 State Highway 125 Beaumont Stowell
State Highway 124 State Highway 124 Stowell High Island
State Highway 137 State Highway 137 Brownfield Lamesa
State Highway 137 State Highway 303 Lamesa South of Lamesa
State Highway 137 State Highway 271 South of Lamesa Sheffield
State Highway 149 State Highway 149 Longview Carthage
State Highway 152 State Highway 152 Dumas Oklahoma
State Highway 154 State Highway 155 Marshall Gilmer
State Highway 154 State Highway 154 Gilmer Northeast of Cooper
State Highway 155 State Highway 155 Gilmer Northeast of Tyler
State Highway 159 State Highway 159 Oldenburg Southwest of Oldenburg
State Highway 160 State Highway 160 Whitewright North of Blue Ridge
State Highway 171 State Highway 171 Mexia Covington actually began at Coolidge (Mexia to Coolidge was US 84; US 84 went on what is now FM 73)
State Highway 171 State Highway 2A Covington Cleburne
State Highway 171 State Highway 122 Cleburne Weatherford
State Highway 173 State Highway 173 Hondo Jourdanton
State Highway 173 State Highway 241 Jourdanton Hebbronville
State Highway 174 State Highway 174 Iredell Cleburne
State Highway 174 State Highway 2A Cleburne Burleson
State Highway 175 State Highway 59 Montague Nocona swapped with pre-1939 175
State Highway 183 State Highway 183 East of Mesquite Dallas
State Highway 183 State Highway 15 Dallas Fort Worth originally planned as part of US 287 Alternate
State Highway 185 State Highway 185 Northeast of Tivoli Seadrift
State Highway 185 State Highway 27 Seadrift Port O'Connor
State Highway 194 State Highway 194 Dimmitt Plainview
State Highway 194 State Highway 280 Plainview Tahoka
State Highway 199 State Highway 199 Northwest of Jacksboro Olney
State Highway 199 State Highway 24 Olney Seymour
State Highway 200 State Highway 200 Wharton Gonzales
State Highway 200 State Highway 112 Gonzales Nixon
State Highway 222 State Highway 222 Knox City Munday
State Highway 222 State Highway 252 Munday East of Benjamin
State Highway 237 State Highway 237 South of Carmine Southwest of Oldenburg
State Highway 237 State Highway 159 Southwest of Oldenburg La Grange
State Highway 238 State Highway 238 Inez Port Lavaca
State Highway 238 State Highway 27 Port Lavaca Seadrift
State Highway 251 State Highway 24 Olney Newcastle
State Highway 251 State Highway 251 Newcastle Fort Belknap
State Highway 257 State Highway 257 Laredo George West became 202 a month later
State Highway 257 State Highway 202 George West Refugio returned to being 202 a month later
State Highway 282 State Highway 18 Spearman Oklahoma
State Highway 283 State Highway 16 Sagerton Oklahoma This was originally planned to stay 16
State Highway 284 State Highway 74A Lometa Goldthwaite
State Highway 285 State Highway 16 Riviera Falfurrias
State Highway 285 State Highway 285 Falfurrias Hebbronville added by hand on 1939 map
State Highway 286 State Highway 96 Corpus Christi Chapman Ranch 96 formerly continued west from Chapman Ranch to Bishop but this section was deleted on July 15, 1935
State Highway 288 State Highway 19 Houston Freeport
State Highway 289 State Highway 14 West of Sherman Dallas
State Highway 290 State Highway 24 Lubbock New Mexico
State Highway 291 State Highway 2A North of Itasca Covington
State Highway 292 SH 68 Spur Keene Keene
State Highway 293 State Highway 103 Ratcliff Milam returned to being 103 a month later
State Highway 294 State Highway 7 Northeast of Oakwood Alto
State Highway 295 State Highway 44 Hallettsville Victoria
State Highway 297 State Highway 95 Flatonia Yoakum returned to being 95 two months later
State Highway 319 State Highway 34 Jacksboro Fort Worth proposed to be 281 but changed as it crossed US 281; became part of 199 a month later

Routes not in the above table; if nothing is stated no changes were made

Park Roads:

Loops and Spurs:

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