Texas State Highway 8
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| State Highway 8 |
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| Length: | 41.4 mi[1] (66.6 km) | ||||||||
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| Formed: | 1917 | ||||||||
| South end: |  SH 155 in Linden |
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| Major junctions: |
 US 67 in Corley
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| North end: |  Hwy. 41 |
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State Highway 8 or SH 8 is a north-south state highway that runs from the Red River, the Texas-Arkansas boundary, north of New Boston to SH 155 at Linden.
[edit] History
SH 8 was one of the original twenty six state highways proposed in 1917, proposed as an 'East Texas Highway.' In 1919 the routing follows the present day SH 8 from the Arkansas State Line to its terminus in Linden, then continued south on present day U.S. Highway 59 through Marshall, to Carthage. On U.S. Highway 96, SH 8 traveled through San Augustine, Jasper to its junction with SH 62, where it turned towards its terminus in Orange.
In 1922 SH 8 was rerouted from Buna to Beaumont and into Port Arthur via present day US 96. The Buna-Orange section became State Highway 62 by 1932.
In 1926, US 59 and 96 were overlaid over pieces of SH 8. While the entirety of the SH 8 maintained its number, by 1939 most of SH 8 was cancelled, leaving only the Arkansas-Corley segment to the old highway. In 1947 a small segment was reassigned back to SH 8 from US 59 from Corley to Linden when US 59 was rerouted further east.
SH 8 was rerouted around the western side of Linden in 1964, with the old route becoming FM 125.
SH 8A was an alternate routing added just east of SH 8 from Center to Orange in 1919. By 1933, it had been renumbered as SH 21 and SH 87.
[edit] Junction list
| County | Location | Mile[2] | Junction | Notes |
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| Cass | Linden | SH 155 |
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 SH 11 (Houston Street) |
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 FM 1399 |
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 FM 125 |
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 FM 995 |
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| Douglassville |  SH 77 |
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| Bowie | Maud | US 67 (Broadway Street) |
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| US 67 |
North end of US 67 concurrency | |||
 FM 2149 |
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| New Boston |  FM 1840 (Walters Boulevard) |
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 US 82 (Front Street) |
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 I-30 |
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| Hwy. 41 – north of New Boston |
