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Welcome to the Texas State Highways WikiProject!
Hello and welcome to the WikiProject Texas State Highways page! If you would like to help, please jump in and start adding or editing. If you would like to join the group, please sign up below.
This month's featured article from Portal U.S. Roads:
A section of the 1932 Michigan State Dept. of Highways road map showing M-35 in northern Marquette and Baraga counties
A section of the 1932 Michigan State Dept. of Highways road map showing M-35 in northern Marquette and Baraga counties

M-35 is a state trunkline highway in the Upper Peninsula (UP) of the U.S. state of Michigan. Running for 127.99 miles (205.98 km) in a general north–south direction, it connects the cities of Menominee, Escanaba and Negaunee. The southern section of M-35 in Menominee and Delta counties carries two additional designations. M-35 forms a segment of the Lake Michigan Circle Tour, and it is the UP Hidden Coast Recreational Heritage Trail, which is a part of the Michigan Heritage Routes system. Along the southern section, the highway is the closest trunkline to the Bay of Green Bay, a section of Lake Michigan, and is also the shortest route between Menominee and Escanaba. The northern section of the highway turns inland through wooded terrain, connecting rural portions of Delta and Marquette counties.

M-35 is an original state trunkline that was first designated on 1 July 1919, originally intended to run from Menominee in the south to near Big Bay in the north, before turning toward L'Anse to end at Ontonagon. However, the section through the Huron Mountains in northern Marquette and Baraga counties was never built. Automobile pioneer Henry Ford helped halt this construction to gain favor with and membership in the exclusive Huron Mountain Club. Some discontinuous sections were later ceded to local control. The northern segment of the route between Ontonagon and Baraga was retained as a discontinuous segment of the highway; this northern segment was redesignated as another state trunkline. The northern end was rerouted out of the City of Negaunee into Negaunee Township to avoid mining activity near Palmer.

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[edit] Scope

The scope of the Texas State Highways project will include all of the highways in Texas that are built and maintained by the Texas Department of Transportation (TXDOT), to include the highways part of the United States Numbered Highways or the Interstate Highway System. The scope of the project will also include all toll roads not operated by TXDOT as well other notable roads in Texas that do not fall under the above criteria. For US highways and Interstate highways, a Texas specific version should exist for those that transverse more than the state of Texas, i.e. Interstate 10 in Texas. For the intrastate highways such as I-27, a separate article for Texas is not necessary.

[edit] Resources

[edit] Relationships

[edit] Parent WikiProjects

U.S. Roads | WikiProject Texas

[edit] Sibling WikiProjects

Interstate Highways | U.S. Highways | auto trails | List of state-level WikiProjects
Alabama | California (County Routes) | Connecticut | Florida (County Roads) | Georgia | Illinois | Indiana | Iowa | Kansas | Kentucky | Louisiana | Maryland | Massachusetts | Michigan (County Designated Highways) | Minnesota | Missouri | Nebraska | Nevada | New Hampshire | New Jersey | New York | North Carolina | Ohio | Oklahoma | Oregon | Pennsylvania (Susquehanna Valley) | Rhode Island | South Carolina | Tennessee | Texas | Utah | Vermont | Virginia | Washington | West Virginia | Wisconsin

[edit] Participants

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[edit] Naming Conventions

Road Type Article Location Example
2 digit interstate only located in TX Interstate X Interstate 37
TX specific 2 digit interstate located in multiple states Interstate X in Texas Interstate 10 in Texas
3 digit interstate with only occurance in TX Interstate X Interstate 820
3 digit interstate with occurances in other states Interstate X (Texas) Interstate 110 (Texas)
U.S. route only located in TX U.S. Route X U.S. Route 96
TX specific U.S. route located in multiple states U.S. Route X in Texas U.S. Route 90 in Texas
State highways Texas State Highway X Texas State Highway 6
State highways loops Texas State Highway Loop X Texas State Highway Loop 1
State Highways spurs Texas State Highway Spur X Texas State Highway Spur 364
Farm to market roads Farm to Market Road X Farm to Market Road 1
Ranch to market roads Ranch to Market Road X Ranch to Market Road 1221
Urban roads At common name, Farm to Market Road X or Ranch to Market Road X Farm to Market Road 270
Principle Arterial Street System roads At common name, i.e. Huebner Road (San Antonio, Texas) or Mykawa Road (Houston, Texas)

[edit] Structure

All articles are to begin with a brief description of the route in general: mileage, etc.

[edit] History

A history of the history. This can be as brief as a few sentences or as elaborate as a few paragraphs. Some things to consider for inclusion are details of the construction to include dates, cost, controversies involved, etc...

[edit] Route description

These are subsections. For highways that transverse a large part of the state, the description should be broken up using third level headings (===Houston===, for example). For highways that transverse a large part of the state use region subsections (i.e. West Texas, South Texas). Shorter routes that only transverse a few counties can use county subsections. All highways that transverse one of Texas' metropolitan areas, should have that metro area as a subsection. Simply write a general paragraph of the route's routing through the region/cities/counties.

Alternate, business, and spur routes should be listed in this section as part of the text.

Route descriptions should be listed from south to north and west to east.

[edit] Major cities

Place the list of cities in an infobox located at the top of the "Route description" section. Include all cities with a population of 2,000 or greater. Use the following coding to generate the box:

{| {{Texas cities}}
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*
|}

For Interstates use:

{| {{Texas cities}}
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{{control cities}}<ref>http://users.adelphia.net/~pwolf/controlcities.html [[American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials]] [[control cities]].</ref>
|}

The cities should be listed from south to north and west to east. Control cities should be bolded.

[edit] Exit/Junction List

A table list of intersections with other Interstates, U.S. highways, state highways, and farm/ranch to market roads. See /Exit list guide for guidance.

[edit] Notes

Put all oddities, trivia, etc. here.

[edit] See also

Articles relating to the history.

[edit] References

Should only have the template {{reflist}} here. Use inline citations using <ref> tags and {{cite web}} throughout the article and a reference list will automatically be generated.

[edit] External links

Links having to do with entire highway go here.

[edit] Articles

[edit] Featured lists

For the latest list of Featured Lists, see Category:FL-Class Texas road transport articles

[edit] Good Articles and better

The following articles are rated as Good Articles or better.

[edit] Did You Know?

Several articles have been featured on the Main Page in the Did You Know section. To qualify for this feature - articles must be less than 5 days old. (articles can be developed in user space before publishing in mainspace.)

For a list of the articles that have made DYK, click here.

[edit] Goals

Document all of the State highways built and maintained by TxDOT, past and present.

[edit] Tasks

To-do list for Wikipedia:WikiProject Texas State Highways: edit · history · watch · refresh

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[edit] Templates

{{U.S. Roads WikiProject|state=TX}}

 This article is within the scope of the U.S. Roads WikiProject, an attempt to build a comprehensive and detailed guide to roads in the United States. If you would like to participate, you can edit the article attached to this page, or visit the project page, where you can join the project and/or contribute to the discussion.
Topics Texas State Highways
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[edit] Infoboxes

What to type What it makes Notes
{{Infobox TX State Highway}}
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State Highway 151
Length: 10.7 mi[1] (17 km)
Formed: 1984[1]
West end: Loop 1604 in San Antonio
Major
junctions:		 Interstate 410
East end: US 90 in San Antonio
Highways in Texas
< SH 150 SH 152 >
Parameters:
  • type: state, loop, beltway, spur, farm, ranch, historic
  • route: The article route number.
  • length_mi: The length of the route, in miles.
  • length_ref: Reference for highway length.
  • length_notes: Any notes about the length.
  • formed: When the route was formed.
  • decommissioned: When the route was cancelled, deleted, decommissioned, ect..
  • dir1: Normally south or west.
  • dir2: Normally north or east.
  • from: dir1 end.
  • junction: Major junctions.
  • to: dir2 end.
  • previous_route: The route that numerically comes before the article route. (e.g. SH 81 precedes SH 82)
  • previous_type: type of the previous_route.
  • next_route: The route that numerically comes after the article route. (e.g. SH 83 follows SH 82)
  • next_type: type of the previous_route.
  • browse: An additional browse box, like on State Highway 112.

[edit] Stub templates

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[edit] User templates

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{{User WikiProject Texas State Highways}}

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Interstate Highways A list of interstate highways within Texas.
U.S. Highways A list of U.S. highways within Texas.
State Highways A list of all state highways within Texas.
State Highway Loops A list of all state highway loops within Texas.
State Highway Spurs A list of all state highway spurs within Texas.
Farm to Market Roads A list of all Farm to Market roads within Texas.

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