Texas State Highway 5
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| State Highway 5 |
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| Length: | 30.6[1] mi (49.2 km) | ||||||||
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| Formed: | 1959[1] | ||||||||
| South end: | Exchange Pkwy in Allen | ||||||||
| Major junctions: |
 US 380 in McKinney |
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| North end: |  US 75 in Howe |
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State Highway 5, or SH 5, runs along the old route of U.S. Route 75 at Howe into the city of Allen. SH 5 parallels US 75 along its length and runs alongside the former Southern Pacific rail lines. SH 5 was created in 1959 when the new route of US 75 was established to the west. Historically, SH 5 extended into and through Plano and Richardson.
[edit] Previous routes
SH 5 was one of the original twenty-six state highways proposed in 1917, overlaid on top of the North Texas Highway. From 1919 the routing mostly followed present day United States Highway 87 from New Mexico to Amarillo. It continued on, routed along present day U.S. Route 287 to Wichita Falls. It continued on, following present day U.S. Route 82 terminating in Texarkana.
In 1926, U.S. Route 385 was routed over SH 5 from New Mexico to Amarillo, and U.S. Route 370 to Henrietta. While the routes were marked concurrently, the remainder of SH 5 kept its numbering until 1939, when SH 5 was truncated to a route running from Amarillo to near Dalhart. SH 5 was finally cancelled in 1944, only to be reassigned in its new location in 1955.
SH 5A was a branch off of SH 5 running from Estelline to Texico. It was listed as such from 1919 through the late 1920s, when it was renumbered as SH 86 and shortened to end at Bovina.
[edit] Related routes
South of Dallas, US 75 was supplanted by Interstate 45, though US 75 retained its designation until 1987. When US 75 was decommissioned south of downtown Dallas, the segment from south of Corsicana to north of Houston was redesignated as Texas State Highway 75.
