Texas State Highway 152

State Highway 152 marker

State Highway 152
Route information
Maintained by TxDOT
Length: 108.60 mi[1] (174.77 km)
Existed: by 1931 – present
Major junctions
West end: US 87/US 287 in Dumas
 

US 60

US 83
East end: OK 152
Highway system
SH 151SH 153
SH 208SH 209SH 210

State Highway 152 or SH 152 is a Texas state highway that runs from Dumas east to the Oklahoma border. The route was originally designated c. 1931 between Pampa and Wheeler, but was extended both west (replacing State Highway 209 from Pampa to Borger) and east to its current termini in 1938.

Route description

SH 152 begins at an intersection with an intersection with US 87 and US 287 in Dumas, and travels east through farmland along the outside northern edge of the Canadian River valley. It reaches large oil reserves before reaching Stinnett and an intersection with Texas State Highway 136 and Texas State Highway 207. All three routes travel south out of Stinnett 10 miles to Borger. The route continues southeast through oil country before returning to fertile farmlands just west of Pampa, where it joins up with U.S. Route 60. The two routes continue east out of Pampa for about 10 miles before SH 152 splits off and continues due east. The route continues east, reaching an intersection with US Route 83 in Wheeler, before crossing into Oklahoma onto State Highway 152 near Sweetwater, Oklahoma.

Route history

SH 152 was first designated in 1933 as the route between Pampa and Wheeler through northern Gray and Wheeler Counties. It was a renumbering of SH 33A as the state began removing spur designations from state routes. In 1938 the route was extended east from Wheeler to the Oklahoma state line, and was extended west to Borger, as a renumbering of State Highway 209. The route was also designated north concurrent with then-State Highway 117 until they reached Stinnett, where the route would be extended west to Dumas. The road to Dumas already existed, but was not fully improved until the late 1940s.

Junction list

CountyLocationmikmDestinationsNotes
MooreDumas US 87 / US 287
  FM 1284
  FM 1060
  FM 1913
Hutchinson  FM 1923
  RM 687
Stinnett SH 136 / SH 207Begin concurrency with SH 136 and SH 207
  RM 2277
  FM 1559
Borger Spur 140 / Spur 245
Spur 119
SH 136 / SH 207End concurrency with SH 136 and SH 207
Spur 246
  FM 2171
  FM 280
Carson  FM 1059
GraySkellytown FM 294
  FM 2386
Pampa FM 282
SH 70Begin concurrency with SH 70
US 60 / SH 70End concurrency with SH 70, begin concurrency with US 60
SH 273
Loop 171
  US 60End concurrency with US 60
  RM 1474
  FM 748
  RM 2857
WheelerMobeetie FM 48
  FM 3104
  FM 3182
Wheeler US 83
  FM 592
  SH-152Oklahoma state line
1.000 mi = 1.609 km; 1.000 km = 0.621 mi

References

  1. Transportation Planning and Programming Division (n.d.). "State Highway No. 152". Highway Designation Files. Texas Department of Transportation. Retrieved 2010-06-15.
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