Texas State Highway 6

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State Highway 6

Length:

476.4^[1] mi (766.7 km)

Formed:

1939^[2]

North end:

OK 6 north of Quanah

Major
junctions:

I-20 – Eastland

I-35 – Waco
I-10 – Houston
I-45 – Texas City

South end:

SH 146 – La Marque

Highways in Texas
< SH 5		SH 7 >
< SH 156	SH 157		SH 158 >

State Highway 6. or SH 6, runs from the Red River, the Texas-Oklahoma boundary, to northwest of Galveston. In the Houston area, it runs north to FM 1960/Spring and south to Westheimer and Addicks and is known as Addicks Satsuma Road. In the Bryan/College Station area it is known as the Earl Rudder Freeway. In Hearne, it is known as Market Street.

In 1997, the Texas Legislature designated SH 6 as the Texas Korean War Veterans Memorial Highway.^[3]

1 History
- 1.1 Historic Routes
2 Business routes
3 Counties transversed
4 References

[edit] History

[edit] Historic Routes

State Highway 6 was one of the original twenty six state highways proposed in 1917, overlayed on top of the King of Trails Highway. From 1919 the routing mostly followed present day U.S. Route 75 from Oklahoma to Dallas, the U.S. Route 77 to Waco.

In 1926, SH 6 was extended along the eastern Gulf Division branch of State Highway 2 in order to keep SH 2 from having two separate highways with the same number. US 75 and US 77 were overlaid on northern SH 6. While the routes were marked concurrently, the multiplexed SH 6 kept its numbering until 1939, when SH 6 was truncated to the Gulf Division routing. In 1945 the roadway was extended northwest to Cisco over SH 67 and SH 157, which was decommissioned, and with some small reroutings and adjustments, was in its current routing by 1975.^[4]

[edit] Business routes

SH 6 has three business routes.

Business State Highway 6-N (formerly Loop 23) is a Business Loop that runs from SH 6 near Marlin in central Texas. The road was bypassed in 1978 by SH 6 and designated SL 23. The road was redesignated at Business SH 6-N in 1991.^[5]^[6]

6-R:
- In Bryan from U.S. Highway 190/State Highway 6 southeastward to State Highway 6 in College Station.
- Distance: 12.5 miles
- County: Brazos County

6-S:
- From State Highway 6 southeastward via Navasota to State Highway 6.
- Distance: 6.3 miles
- County: Grimes County

[edit] Counties transversed

Major cities
Waco Bryan College Station Houston Sugar Land Alvin La Marque

County	Junction	Notes
Hardeman	OK 6 - north of Quanah
Hardeman	US 287 – Quanah
Foard	US 70 – Crowell
Knox	US 82 – Benjamin
Knox	SH 222 – near Knox City
Haskell	US 380 – Rule
Jones	US 277 – Stamford
Shackelford	US 180 – near Lueders
	SH 351 – near Albany
	US 180 – Albany
	US 283 – Albany
Callahan	No junctions
Eastland	US 183 – Cisco
	SH 206 – near Cisco
	SH 112 – Eastland
	I-20 – Eastland
Comanche	SH 16 –De Leon
Erath	US 377 – Dublin
Erath	US 281 – Clairette
Hamilton	US 281 – Hico
Hamilton	SH 220 – Hico
Bosque	SH 22 – Meridian
Bosque	SH 317 –Valley Mills
McLennan	US 84 – Waco
	I-35 – Waco
	US 77 – Robinson
	SH 164 – Hallsburg
Falls	SH 7 – Marlin
Robertson	SH 14 – south of Bremond
	US 79 – Hearne
	US 190 – Hearne
Brazos	SH OSR – Benchley
	US 190 – Bryan
	SH 21 – Bryan
	SH 30 – College Station
Grimes	SH 90 – Navasota
Grimes	SH 105 – Navasota
Waller	US 290 – Hempstead
Harris	US 290 – near Jersey Village
	FM 1960 – near Jersey Village
	I-10 – Houston
	US 90 – Houston
	FM 1093 – Houston
Fort Bend	US 90 Alt. – Sugar Land
Fort Bend	US 59 – Sugar Land
Brazoria	SH 288 – near Pearland
Brazoria	SH 35 – Alvin
Galveston	I-45 – Texas City
Galveston	SH 146 – La Marque