1939 general re-description of highway system (Texas)

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Alabama 1928, 1957
Arkansas 1926
California 1964
Colorado 1953, 1968
Connecticut 1932, 1963
Florida 1945
Indiana 1926
Iowa 1926, 1969
Louisiana 1955
Maine 1933
Massachusetts 1933
Minnesota 1934
Missouri 1926
Montana 1932
Nebraska 1926
Nevada 1976
New Jersey 1927, 1953
New Mexico 1988
New York 1927, 1930
North Carolina 1934, 1937, 1940, 1961
Ohio 1923, 1927, 1962
Pennsylvania 1928, 1961
Puerto Rico 1953
South Carolina 1928, 1937
South Dakota 1927, 1975
Tennessee 1983
Texas 1939
Utah 1962, 1977
Virginia 1923, 1928, 1933, 1940, 1958
Washington 1964
Wisconsin 1926
Wyoming 1927

In 1939, the Texas Highway Department renumbered all highways that ran concurrently with U.S. Highways. Sections of state highways that were separated by a concurrency with a US Highway were renumbered, and all suffixed routes (that did not become part of other highways or other state highways) were renumbered.

NewOldFromToNotes
Oklahoma New Mexico
New Mexico El Paso
Maud Tenaha
Timpson Houston
Rosenberg Laredo
Oklahoma New Mexico
Oklahoma North of Childress
Matador Dickens
Lubbock Brownfield
New Mexico El Paso
Oklahoma Amarillo
Amarillo New Mexico
Texarkana Dallas
Dallas Stephenville
Stephenville Alpine
Marfa Presidio
Denison Whitewright
Whitewright Mineola
Mineola Jacksonville
Jacksonville Lumberton
Vernon Muleshoe
Arkansas Texarkana
Oklahoma Dallas
Dallas Richland
Richland Huntsville
Huntsville Houston
Houston Galveston
Oklahoma Dallas
Dallas Waco
Waco Hallettsville
Hallettsville Cuero
Victoria Sinton
Louisiana Henderson
Henderson Round Rock
Louisiana Dallas
Dallas Cockrell Hill
Cockrell Hill New Mexico (US 80/SH 1 went via what is now US 180 and SH 16 until 1938)
Weatherford West of Albany
West of Albany Abilene
El Paso South of Canutillo
Oklahoma Laredo
South of Fort Worth Fort Worth
Texarkana Wichita Falls
Seymour Lubbock
Oklahoma Brownsville
Louisiana Timpson
Timpson Palestine
Northeast of Oakwood New Mexico
New Mexico Hartley
Hartley Dumas
Dumas San Antonio
San Antonio Port Lavaca
Louisiana Waelder
Waelder Seguin
Seguin Van Horn
Van Horn South of El Capitan US 90 was proposed to overlap with US 62 to El Paso. Changed back to 54 5 months later.
Tenaha Port Arthur
Dallas Jacksonville Originally planned as part of US 287 Alternate
San Antonio Corpus Christi
Oklahoma Vernon
Albany Coleman
Santa Anna Brady
Louisiana Jasper
Jasper Huntsville
Hearne Cameron
Belton Lampasas
Lampasas Brady
Oklahoma Paris
Paris Mount Pleasant
Mount Pleasant Gladewater
Gladewater Tyler
Oklahoma Mexico
Wichita Falls Hidalgo 66 continued northeast from Wichita Falls with 79
Hidalgo Brownsville
Oklahoma Brady
New Mexico Fort Stockton
Fort Stockton Sanderson
Oklahoma Dumas
Amarillo Henrietta This was part of US 370 before the renumbering.
Henrietta Bowie This was part of US 370 before the renumbering.
Fort Worth Ennis
Corsicana Palestine
Palestine Crockett
Crockett Woodville
Houston Hempstead
Hempstead Paige
Paige Bastrop
Bastrop Austin
Austin Southeast of Junction
Southeast of Junction Fort Stockton
Fort Stockton East of Kent
Denton Stephenville
West of Albany Lueders
Lueders Jayton
Southwest of Jayton New Mexico
Cockrell Hill Dallas
Waelder Seguin
Brownsville Boca Chica
South of Dumas Hartley
Waco Hempstead
Hockley Sugar Land
Sugar Land Northwest of Galveston
Joaquin Nacogdoches
Nacogdoches Ratcliff originally planned as part of 103; eventually built farther southeast
Ratcliff Crockett originally planned to stay 103
Arkansas West of Maud
Three Rivers Corpus Christi
Whitesboro Denton
Ladonia Daingerfield (SH 11 began to overlap with SH 49 from Daingerfield to Hughes Springs)
Hughes Springs Texarkana
Richland Bremond
Lueders New Mexico Was proposed to be replaced by a new US highway in December 1938, but this was not approved until August 4, 1943.
Graham South of Strawn This was originally planned to become part of 81.
South of Strawn Fredericksburg This was originally planned to stay 81.
Fredericksburg San Antonio This was originally planned to become part of 81, but was changed because it would have crossed US 81.
San Antonio South of San Antonio This was originally planned to become 287.
Pecos Marfa
Matador Pampa
Fruitvale Palestine
Austin Paige
Paige Louisiana
Corsicana Hamilton
Paris Newcastle
Newcastle East of Aspermont
Oklahoma Daingerfield
Daingerfield Longview
Longview Nacogdoches
Southeast of Junction Comfort
Waco Tyler
Tyler Kilgore
Honey Grove Ennis
Ennis Italy
Gregory Houston
Oklahoma Mineola
Caddo Lake State Park Henderson
Corpus Christi Robstown
Robstown Alice
Northeast of Anderson Huntsville
Huntsville Crockett
Brownsville East of Brownsville
Mount Pleasant Louisiana
Rosebud Temple
Saint Jo Montague swapped with 59
Montague Bowie
Zavalla Jasper originally planned as part of US 287 Alternate
Jasper Louisiana originally planned as 296
Henderson Wills Point
Stephenville Gorman
San Angelo Jayton
Jayton Dickens
Bastrop Midfield
Cuero Three Rivers
Three Rivers Cotulla
Alleyton Houston
Houston Anahuac
Anahuac Stowell temporary 73; became 65 in 1961
Stowell Port Arthur
Liberty Hill
Commerce Naples
Naples Louisiana Lampasas
Wimberley Karnes City
Karnes City Atascosa/Karnes County Line
State Highway No. "F" (feeder road) Llano Brady This was originally planned to become 283 instead.
New Mexico Fort Stockton
Temple Bastrop
Sinton Robstown
Robstown Riviera
Riviera Harlingen
Combes Edinburg
Edinburg Mission
Mission Hidalgo appears in 1937
Hochheim Yoakum
Yoakum Midfield
Big Bend National Park Fort Davis (SH 118 began to overlap with SH 17 and SH 166 from Fort Davis to northwest of Fort Davis)
northwest of Fort Davis Kent
Beaumont Stowell
Stowell High Island
Brownfield Lamesa
Lamesa South of Lamesa
South of Lamesa Sheffield
Longview Carthage
Dumas Oklahoma
Marshall Gilmer
Gilmer Northeast of Cooper
Gilmer Northeast of Tyler
Oldenburg Southwest of Oldenburg
Whitewright North of Blue Ridge
Mexia Covington actually began at Coolidge (Mexia to Coolidge was US 84; US 84 went on what is now FM 73)
Covington Cleburne
Cleburne Weatherford
Hondo Jourdanton
Jourdanton Hebbronville
Iredell Cleburne
Cleburne Burleson
Montague Nocona swapped with pre-1939 175
East of Mesquite Dallas
Dallas Fort Worth originally planned as part of US 287 Alternate
Northeast of Tivoli Seadrift
Seadrift Port O'Connor
Dimmitt Plainview
Plainview Tahoka
Northwest of Jacksboro Olney
Olney Seymour
Wharton Gonzales
Gonzales Nixon
Knox City Munday
Munday East of Benjamin
South of Carmine Southwest of Oldenburg
Southwest of Oldenburg La Grange
Inez Port Lavaca
Port Lavaca Seadrift
Olney Newcastle
Newcastle Fort Belknap
Laredo George West became 202 a month later
George West Refugio returned to being 202 a month later
Spearman Oklahoma
Sagerton Oklahoma This was originally planned to stay 16
Lometa Goldthwaite
Riviera Falfurrias
Falfurrias Hebbronville added by hand on 1939 map
Corpus Christi Chapman Ranch 96 formerly continued west from Chapman Ranch to Bishop but this section was deleted on July 15, 1935
Houston Freeport
West of Sherman Dallas
Lubbock New Mexico
North of Itasca Covington
SH 68 Spur Keene Keene
Ratcliff Milam returned to being 103 a month later
Northeast of Oakwood Alto
Hallettsville Victoria
Flatonia Yoakum returned to being 95 two months later
Jacksboro Fort Worth proposed to be 281 but changed as it crossed US 281; became part of 199 a month later

Routes not in the above table; if nothing is stated no changes were made

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