Texas State Highway 8

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State Highway 8
Length: 41.4 mi[1] (66.6 km)
Formed: 1917
South end: SH 155 in Linden
Major
junctions:
US 67 in Corley

US 82 in New Boston
I-30 in New Boston

North end: Hwy. 41
Highways in Texas
< SH 7 SH 9 >

State Highway 8 or SH 8 is a north-south state highway that runs from the Red River, the Texas-Arkansas boundary, north of New Boston to SH 155 at Linden.

[edit] History

Historic SH 8

SH 8 was one of the original twenty six state highways proposed in 1917, proposed as an 'East Texas Highway.' In 1919 the routing follows the present day SH 8 from the Arkansas State Line to its terminus in Linden, then continued south on present day U.S. Highway 59 through Marshall, to Carthage. On U.S. Highway 96, SH 8 traveled through San Augustine, Jasper to its junction with SH 62, where it turned towards its terminus in Orange.

In 1922 SH 8 was rerouted from Buna to Beaumont and into Port Arthur via present day US 96. The Buna-Orange section became State Highway 62 by 1932.

In 1926, US 59 and 96 were overlaid over pieces of SH 8. While the entirety of the SH 8 maintained its number, by 1939 most of SH 8 was cancelled, leaving only the Arkansas-Corley segment to the old highway. In 1947 a small segment was reassigned back to SH 8 from US 59 from Corley to Linden when US 59 was rerouted further east.

SH 8 was rerouted around the western side of Linden in 1964, with the old route becoming FM 125.

Historic SH 8A

SH 8A was an alternate routing added just east of SH 8 from Center to Orange in 1919. By 1933, it had been renumbered as SH 21 and SH 87.


[edit] Junction list

County Location Mile[2] Junction Notes
Cass Linden SH 155
SH 11 (Houston Street)
FM 1399
FM 125
FM 995
Douglassville SH 77
Bowie Maud US 67 (Broadway Street) South end of US 67 concurrency
US 67 North end of US 67 concurrency
FM 2149
New Boston FM 1840 (Walters Boulevard)
US 82 (Front Street)
I-30
Hwy. 41 – north of New Boston

[edit] References