Texas State Highway 47

State Highway 47
Route information
Maintained by TxDOT
Length: 7.1 mi[1] (11.4 km)
Existed: 1987 – present
Major junctions
West end: SH 21 near Bryan
  FM 1688 in Bryan
FM 1179 in Bryan
East end: FM 60 at College Station
Location
Counties: Brazos
Highway system

Highways in Texas
Interstate • U.S. • TX (LoopsSpursRecFM)

SH 46 SH 48

State Highway 47, or SH 47, runs from SH 21 at Texas A&M University-Riverside near Bryan southeastward to FM 60 near Easterwood Airport and Texas A&M University Research Park in College Station. This highway was designated in 1987.

Contents

Future

The SH 47 corridor is expected to be an area of major growth in the 2010s due to its proximity to the growth of the Texas A&M Health Science Center College of Medicine.[2]

Previous routes

SH 47 was originally planned by 1926 along a previous section of SH 1A and SH 1C from near the intersection of the Texas, Arkansas, and Louisiana state borders, northwest through Atlanta, then northeast through Texarkana to the Arkansas border north of Texarkana. By 1930, the highway was rerouted west from Atlanta to Daingerfield, replacing SH 48. In 1939, this classification was cancelled when the route was transferred to SH 11.

Junction List

The entire route is in Brazos County.

Location Mile Destinations Notes
    SH 21 – Caldwell, Bryan Interchange
Bryan   FM 1688 east (Leonard Rd)  
  FM 1179 east (Villa Maria Rd) / Jones Rd Interchange
College Station   FM 60 (Raymond Stotzer Pkwy) Interchange
1.000 mi = 1.609 km; 1.000 km = 0.621 mi

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