TEXAS STATE HIGHWAY 15

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'State Highway 15', or 'SH 15', runs from the Texas-Oklahoma boundary 6 miles (9.7 km) east of Follett to the intersection of US 54 and US 287 in Stratford.
In 1955, SH 117 was redesignated as 'SH 15' for its entire route from the Texas/Oklahoma state line in Lipscomb County through the northeast Panhandle to an intersection with U.S. Route 287 at Claude. In 1967 the section from Spearman southward was redesignated as SH 20, while SH 15 was rerouted westward to Stratford over cancelled routes SH 282 and FM 289.

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Previous routes

Counties and Junctions

References

Previous routes

'SH 15' was one of the original twenty six state highways proposed in 1917, overlaid on top of the Dallas-Louisiana Highway. From 1919 the routing mostly followed present day U.S. Route 80 from Dallas to Wills Point. It continued on, routed along present day SH 64 from Wills Point into Tyler and up U.S. Route 271 into Longview.
By 1919, like many other highways at the time, a second routing, 'SH 15A' was assigned, from Wills Point, through Mineola to Longview, via US 80.
In 1926, U.S. Route 80 was routed over 'SH 15' and its northern routing. While the routes were marked concurrently, 'SH 15A' into Tyler was given over to the newly created SH 64. By 1939, 'SH 15' was deleted, and moved to a new location that ran from US 380 west of Albany via Seminole to the Texas-New Mexico boundary. This highway was redesignated as US 180 in 1943.

Counties and Junctions

County	Junction	Notes
Sherman	US 287 – Stratford
Hansford	SH 136 – Gruver
	SH 207 – Spearman
Ochiltree	US 83 – Perrryton
Lipscomb	SH 23 – Booker
	SH 305 – east of Darrouzett
	SH 15

References

1. Texas Department of Transportation, [1]