Texas State Highway Spur 148

State Highway Spur 148
	Spur 148 highlighted in red
Route information
	Maintained by TxDOT
Length	1.440 mi [1] (2.317 km)
Existed	1944–present
Major junctions
West end	SH 20 near Fort Hancock
East end	I-10
Location
Counties	Hudspeth
Highway system

Last updated November 12, 2019

State Highway Spur 148 (Spur 148) is a state highway spur route near Fort Hancock in Hudspeth County, Texas.^[1]

A state highway, state road, or state route is usually a road that is either numbered or maintained by a sub-national state or province. A road numbered by a state or province falls below numbered national highways in the hierarchy. Roads maintained by a state or province include both nationally numbered highways and un-numbered state highways. Depending on the state, "state highway" may be used for one meaning and "state road" or "state route" for the other.

A spur route is a short road forming a branch from a longer, more important road such as a freeway, Interstate Highway, or motorway. A bypass or beltway should not be considered a true spur route as it typically reconnects with another or the same major road.

Fort Hancock, Texas Census-designated place in Texas, United States

Fort Hancock is an unincorporated community and census-designated place (CDP) in Hudspeth County, Texas, United States. The population was 1,750 at the 2010 census.

Route description

Spur 148 begins at SH 20 , travels northeastward through Fort Hancock as Knox Ave., and ends at exit 72 of I-10 .^[2]

State Highway 20 or SH 20 is a 78.1-mile (125.7 km) highway maintained by the Texas Department of Transportation (TxDOT) that runs from New Mexico State Road 460 at the state line between Texas and New Mexico at Anthony in El Paso County to Interstate 10 at McNary in Hudspeth County. It largely follows a former alignment of U.S. Route 80. The route passes through the city of El Paso as well as suburban and rural farming communities along the Rio Grande. With the exception of a stretch north of central El Paso where the route crosses north of I-10, the route generally runs in a narrow belt between I-10 and the Rio Grande. The route has connections to every international border crossing with Mexico in the El Paso area and has important intersections with US 54, US 62, US 85, and US 180.

Interstate 10 (I-10) is the major east–west Interstate Highway in the Southern United States. In the U.S. state of Texas, it runs east from Anthony, at the border with New Mexico, through El Paso, San Antonio and Houston to the border with Louisiana in Orange, Texas. At just under 880 miles (1,420 km), the Texas segment of I-10, maintained by the Texas Department of Transportation, is the longest continuous untolled freeway in North America that is operated by a single authority. It is also the longest stretch of highway with a single designation within a single state. Mile marker 880 and its corresponding exit number in Orange, Texas, are the highest numbered mile marker and exit on any freeway in North America. After widening was completed in 2008, a portion of the highway west of Houston is now also believed to be the widest in the world, at 26 lanes. There is a wider section in China on the G4 Beijing–Hong Kong–Macau Expressway; however, that section is a toll plaza approach.

History

Spur 148 was assigned on February 11, 1944 to the "Fort Hancock Spur," running northward from US 80 (present-day SH 20) to Fort Hancock. On September 26, 1963, Spur 148 was extended northward by 0.4 miles to I-10.^[1]

U.S. Route 80 is a U.S. highway that begins in the state of Texas in Dallas at an interchange with I-30. US 80 runs in an east-west direction for most of its length from Dallas to Louisiana. Before the advent of the Interstate Highway System, US 80 through Texas was once a vital link in a major transcontinental highway with the national western terminus being in San Diego, California rather than Dallas. Since 1991, most of US 80 in Texas has been decommissioned in favor of I-10, I-20 and I-30 between the New Mexico state line and its current western terminus.

Major intersections

The entire route is in Hudspeth County.

Location	mi^[1]	km	Destinations	Notes
Fort Hancock	0.000	0.000	SH 20 – Tornillo, Sierra Blanca
	1.440	2.317	I-10 – El Paso, Sierra Blanca	Exit 72 (I-10)
1.000 mi = 1.609 km; 1.000 km = 0.621 mi

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References

1 2 3 4 Transportation Planning and Programming Division (n.d.). "State Highway Spur No. 148". Highway Designation Files. Texas Department of Transportation . Retrieved 2011-09-22.
↑ Transportation Planning and Programming Division (2012). Texas County Mapbook (PDF) (Map) (2012 ed.). 1:120,000. Texas Department of Transportation. p. 76. OCLC 867856197 . Retrieved 2011-09-22.^{[ dead link ]}

External links

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[Spur_148-1] 1 2 3 4 Transportation Planning and Programming Division (n.d.). "State Highway Spur No. 148". Highway Designation Files. Texas Department of Transportation . Retrieved 2011-09-22.

[Mapbook_76-2] Transportation Planning and Programming Division (2012). Texas County Mapbook (PDF) (Map) (2012 ed.). 1:120,000. Texas Department of Transportation. p. 76. OCLC 867856197 . Retrieved 2011-09-22.^{[ dead link ]}