U.S. Route 75 in Texas

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U.S. Route 75

Length:

76.158 mi^[1] (122.564 km)

Formed:

1927

South end:

I-345 in Dallas

Major
junctions:

I-635
President George Bush Turnpike

North end:

US-75 near Denison

Highways in Texas
< SH 74		SH 75 >
United States Numbered Highways
List - Bannered - Divided - Replaced

In the U.S. state of Texas, U.S. Highway 75 is a U.S. Highway that begins in Dallas and heads north to the Oklahoma border.

1 History
2 Route description
3 Exit list
4 References

[edit] History

In the initial assignment of state highways in 1917, Dallas-Fort Worth and Houston were connected by a branch of State Highway 2 (the Meridian Highway), which ran via Waco and Bryan and continued on to Galveston. The more direct route followed by US 75 was not initially part of the system between Richland (connected to Dallas by SH 14) and Huntsville (connected to Houston by SH 19).^[2]^[3] This Richland-Huntsville cutoff was added by 1919 as State Highway 32,^[4] and US 75 was assigned to the alignment, as well as SH 6 north of Dallas, in 1926.^[5] The branch of SH 2, which US 75 followed between Houston and Galveston, eventually became part of SH 6,^[6] and these numbers were dropped in the 1939 renumbering.

Prior to the coming of the Interstate Highway System in the late 1950s, the only improvements to US 75 in Texas beyond building a two-lane paved roadway were in the Houston and Dallas areas.^[7] However, the highways in and near these cities included some of the first freeways in the state: the Gulf Freeway (Houston) and the Central Expressway (Dallas). When Interstate 45 was built in the 1960s, its alignment bypassed many of the towns and built-up areas between downtown Dallas and Houston. The bypassed routes retained the US 75 designation until the designation was truncated to downtown Dallas in 1987. Many of the original alignments continue to exist under other designations.

In Dallas, the route followed what is now the Good Latimer Expressway (formerly Spur 559)^[8] southeast, out of downtown, along US 175 and south along State Highway 310.^[9]

Near Ferris, Trumbull, Palmer, Ennis, and Corsicana Interstate 45 veers east to avoid the more populated areas. The old US 75 alignments through these towns, decommissioned in 1987, now carry the following designations:

Business Interstate Highway 45 (originally Loop 560) through Ferris ^[10]
Loop 561 through Trumbull^[11]
Business Interstate Highway 45 through Palmer (originally Loop 562)^[12]
Spur 469, Business Interstate Highway 45 (originally U.S. Highway 287 and Spur 563) through Ennis^[13]
Business Interstate Highway 45 (originally Loop 564) through Corsicana^[14]

Through Streetman, Fairfield, Buffalo, Centerville, Madisonville, Huntsville, New Waverly, Willis, and Conroe, US 75 followed what is now State Highway 75.^[15]

In Galveston, the alignment of State Highway 87 from 20th Street to the southern terminus Interstate 45 was also part of US 75 until its 1987 truncation.^[16]

In other cases alignments were bypassed while US 75 remained in existence; they now carry the following designations:

State Highway 3 through La Marque, Dickinson, League City, South Houston and Houston, bypassed 1952^[17]
State Highway 5 from north of Dallas via Plano, McKinney, Anna and Van Alstyne to Howe, bypassed 1959-1967^[18]
State Highway 91 from Sherman to Denison, bypassed 1984^[19]
Spur 503 and U.S. Highway 69 around downtown Denison to near Oklahoma
- State Highway 91 through downtown Denison, bypassed 1957^[20]

[edit] Route description

The first freeway in Texas was a several-mile stretch of US 75 (now I-45)--The Gulf Freeway, opened to Houston traffic on October 1, 1948. The stretch of US 75 between Interstate 30 and the Oklahoma state line has exits numbered consecutively from 1 to 73 (with occasional A and B designations), excluding 9-19. All other Texas freeways that have exit numbers are coordinated with mile markers.

From Denison north to the Oklahoma border, US 75 is concurrent to U.S. Highway 69.

[edit] Exit list

#		Destinations	Notes
Old		Destinations	Notes
		Bryan Street; Good-Latimer Expressway	southbound exit and northbound entrance
		Interstate Highway 45 south - Houston (Interstate Highway 345 south)	southbound exit and northbound entrance
	285	Ross Avenue	southbound exit only
	1A	to Interstate Highway 35E - Denton; Waco (Spur 366 west)	southbound exit and northbound entrance
1		(Hall Street)
2		(Lemmon Avenue)
3	1B	Haskell Avenue; Blackburn Street; Fitzhugh Avenue; Lemmon Avenue
4		(Fitzhugh Avenue)
5	2	Knox Street; Henderson Avenue; Monticello Avenue; Fitzhugh Avenue
6		(Monticello Avenue)
7		(McCommas Boulevard)
8	3	Mockingbird Lane; University Boulevard; Monticello Avenue
9		(Yale Boulevard)
10		(University Boulevard)
11	4A	Lovers Lane; Southwestern Boulevard; University Boulevard	exit 4 southbound
12		(Southwestern Boulevard)
13	4B	Caruth Haven Lane	southbound exit is combined with 5A
14-15	5A	Loop 12 - Caruth Haven Lane
16	5B	Northpark Boulevard; Park Lane
17	6	Walnut Hill Lane; Meadow Road
18		(Meadow Road)
19	7	Royal Lane; Meadow Road
20A	8A	Forest Lane	exit 20-20A southbound
20B	8B	Coit Road	northbound exit and southbound entrance
	20B	Frontage Road	northbound exit only
	21	Interstate Highway 635
	20A	Frontage Road	southbound exit and northbound entrance
	22	Midpark Road
	23	Spring Valley Road
	24	Belt Line Road; Main Street
	25	Arapaho Road
	26	Campbell Road	northbound exit and southbound entrance
	27A	Galatyn Parkway; Renner Road; Campbell Road	exit 26 southbound
	27	Renner Road	southbound exit and northbound entrance
	28A	Plano Parkway
	28B	President George Bush Turnpike
	29	15th Street (former Farm to Market Road 544)	northbound exit and southbound entrance
	29A	Park Boulevard; 15th Street
	30	Parker Road
	30A	Frontage Road	southbound exit only
	31	Spring Creek Parkway
	32	Legacy Drive
	32A	Frontage Road	northbound exit and southbound exit
	33	Bethany Drive
	34	McDermott Drive (former Farm to Market Road 2170)
	35	Allen Drive	northbound exit and southbound entrance
	36	Exchange Parkway
	37	Farm to Market Road 2786 - Stacy Road
	38	Ridgeview Drive
	38A	State Highway 121 south; to State Highway 5 - Fort Worth (Spur 399; former Farm to Market Road 720)	SH 121 joins northbound and leaves southbound
	39	Eldorado Parkway
	40A	Farm to Market Road 3038; Spur 359 - Louisiana Street; Virginia Parkway
	40B	White Avenue	northbound exit and southbound entrance
	41	U.S. Highway 380 - Greenville; Denton
	42	Wilmeth Road
	43	Farm to Market Road 543 - Weston Road
	44	Telephone Road; Davis Road
	45	State Highway 121 north - Bonham	SH 121 joins southbound and leaves northbound
	46	Melissa Road
	47	Throckmorton Road; Foster Crossing Road
	48	Farm to Market Road 455 - Anna-Weston Road
	49	Mantua Road
	50	County Line Road
	51	Farm to Market Road 121 - Van Alstyne	due to confusion between this exit and State Highway 121 (a few miles to the south, which leads to DFW Airport), southbound highway signs are marked "DFW TRAFFIC DO NOT EXIT"
	52	Farmington Road
	53	Spur 381 - Howe
	54	Farm to Market Road 902; State Highway 5
	55A	Frontage Road	southbound exit and entrance
	55	Frontage Road
	56	Farm to Market Road 1417
	56A	South Travis Street	northbound exit and southbound entrance
	56B	Frontage Road	northbound exit only
	57	Park Street; Center Street
	58	State Highway 56 - Lamar Street; Houston Street	Lamar Street is one way eastbound; Houston Street is one way westbound
	59	Washington Street	no southbound entrance
	60	Farm to Market Road 131 - Travis Street; Taylor Street
	61	State Highway 91 north - Texoma Parkway	no southbound exit
	62	Lamberth Road	northbound exit and southbound entrance
	63	U.S. Highway 82 - Bonham; Gainesville
	64	Loy Lake Road; Fallon Drive
	65	Farm to Market Road 691 - Grayson County Airport; Grayson County Junior College
	66	Spur 503 - Denison
	67	Loy Lake Road
	68	Crawford Street Road
	69	Farm to Market Road 120 - Pottsboro; Lake Texoma
	70	Farm to Market Road 84
	71	Randell Lake Road
	72	State Highway 91
	73	U.S. Highway 69 south - Greenville; Denison	US 69 joins northbound and leaves southbound
	74	Texas Travel Info Center