Texas State Highway 15

State Highway 15
Route information
Maintained by TxDOT
Length:	125.2 mi[1] (201.5 km)
Existed:	1959[1] – present
Major junctions
West end:	US 54 at Stratford
	US 83 in Perryton
East end:	SH-15 east of Follett
Highway system
Highways in Texas Interstate US State Toll Loops Spurs FM/RM Park Rec ← SH 14 SH 16 →

State Highway 15, or SH 15, runs from the Texas-Oklahoma boundary 6 miles (9.7 km) east of Follett to US 54 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. Highway 287 at Claude. The route was renumbered to correspond to the connecting Oklahoma State Highway 15. In 1967 the section from Spearman southward was redesignated as SH 207, while SH 15 was rerouted westward to Stratford over cancelled routes SH 282 and FM 289.

Route description

SH 15 begins at an intersection with US 54 in Stratford. It travels eastward through the far northern reaches of the Texas Panhandle, mainly through farmlands. The route passes through the towns of Spearman and Perryton, before exiting eastward into Northwest Oklahoma, where the road transitions to Oklahoma State Highway 15.

Previous route

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. Highway 80 from Dallas to Wills Point. It continued on, routed along present day SH 64 from Wills Point into Tyler and up U.S. Highway 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. By 1922, H 15 and SH 15A swapped places.

In 1926, U.S. Highway 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. SH 15 was extended east to the Louisiana border. replacing a section of SH 11. By 1936, SH 15 was extended west via Albany via Seminole to the Texas-New Mexico boundary, replacing SH 83 and part of SH 1A. By 1939, the section of SH 15 east of Albany was deleted. This highway was redesignated as US 180 in 1943.

Major intersections

County	Location	mi	km	Destinations	Notes
Sherman	Stratford			US 54 (Texas Street) – Dalhart, Texhoma
	​			FM 2232 south
	​			FM 119 – Texhoma, Sunray
	​			FM 1290 north – Texhoma
Hansford	​			FM 1573 west – Sunray
	​			FM 1262 north – Guymon
	Gruver			SH 136 north – Guymon	west end of SH 136 overlap
				SH 136 south (Main Avenue) / FM 278 east – Stinnett	east end of SH 136 overlap
				Loop 84 west – Gruver
	​			SH 207 north – Guymon	west end of SH 207 overlap
	​			FM 2018 west – Sunray
	​			FM 2387 north – Hardesty
	Spearman			FM 760 north – Lake Palo Duro, Airport	west end of FM 760 overlap
				SH 207 south – Stinnett	east end of SH 207 overlap
				FM 759 east / FM 760 south (West Kenneth Avenue)	east end of FM 760 overlap
Ochiltree	​			FM 1267 east
	Farnsworth			FM 376 south
	​			Spur 192 east – Frank Phillips College Allen Campus
	Perryton			Loop 143
				US 83 (Main Street) – Liberal, Canadian
				Loop 143
Lipscomb	Booker			SH 23 – Beaver, Canadian
	Darrouzett			FM 2172 south
	​			RM 2248 north
	​			SH 305 south – Lipscomb
	​			FM 1455
	Follett			FM 2741 north	west end of FM 2741 overlap
				FM 2741 south (South Main Street)	east end of FM 2741 overlap
				FM 1454 south – Higgins	west end of FM 1454 overlap
	​			FM 1454 north	east end of FM 1454 overlap
	​			SH-15 east – Shattuck	Oklahoma state line
1.000 mi = 1.609 km; 1.000 km = 0.621 mi

References

1. 1 2 Texas Department of Transportation,