Highway Designation File
Transportation Planning and Programming Division
Current Description-Effective Date-Authority
| 660.115 | 2010 |
U. S. HIGHWAY NO. 87
Original Description per Administrative Circular 16-1944
03/01/1935 - Texline 35, Dalhart 87, Amarillo 20, Canyon 65, Plainview 50, Lubbock 119, Big Springs 94, San Angelo 74, Brady 98, Mason 44, Fredericksburg 73, Boerne 32, San Antonio 90, Cuero 28, Victoria 28, Port Lavaca.
01/01/1939 - Texline 35, Dalhart 87, Amarillo 20, Canyon 65, Plainview 50, Lubbock 119, Big Springs 94, San Angelo 74, Brady 98, Mason 44, Fredericksburg 33, Bourne 32, San Antonio 90, Cuero 28, Victoria 28, Port Lavaca.
05/01/1942 - Texline 36, Dalhart 87, Amarillo 17, Canyon 57, Plainview 46, Lubbock 61, Lamesa 44 Big Spring 87, San Angelo 76, Brady 80, Meson 43, Fredericksburg 39, Boerne 30, San Antonio 88, Cuero 28, Victoria 27, Port Lavaca.
Minute Order 016701, 09/26/1939
From the Texas/New Mexico State Line at Texline via Dalhart, Dumas, Amarillo, Canyon, Tulia, Plainview, Lubbock, Tahoka, Lamesa, Big Spring, Sterling City, San Angelo, Eden, Brady, Mason, Fredericksburg, Boerne, San Antonio, Stockdale, Cuero, and Victoria to Port Lavaca. (Dallam, Hartley, Moore, Potter, Randall, Swisher, Hale, Lubbock, Lynn, Dawson, Martin, Howard, Glasscock, Sterling, Tom Green, Concho, McCulloch, Mason, Gillespie, Kendall, Bexar, Wilson, Gonzales, DeWitt, Victoria, and Calhoun Counties) General redescription of Highway System.
[The Bishop Ernest T. Dixon, Jr., Memorial Highway--US 87 from its intersection with IH 410 in Bexar County to its intersection with SL 1604. Acts 1997, 75th Leg., ch. 57, § 1, eff. Sept. 1, 1997]
[George Sealy Memorial Drive--SH 87 in Galveston County from Boulevard to ferry approx. 1.7 miles long. Designated by M/O 21322, 08/04/45]
Minute Order 113788, dated 11/21/2013; DesLtr 4-2013, dated 05/20/2014
From the Texas/New Mexico State Line at Texline via Dalhart, Dumas, Amarillo, Canyon, Tulia, Plainview, Lubbock, Tahoka, Lamesa, Big Spring, Sterling City, San Angelo, Eden, Brady, Mason, Fredericksburg, Boerne, San Antonio, Stockdale, Cuero, and Victoria to Port Lavaca. (Dallam, Hartley, Moore, Potter, Randall, Swisher, Hale, Lubbock, Lynn, Dawson, Martin, Howard, Glasscock, Sterling, Tom Green, Concho, McCulloch, Mason, Gillespie, Kendall, Bexar, Wilson, Gonzales, DeWitt, Victoria, and Calhoun Counties). A segment of US 87 was designated concurrently with IH 20 from the existing intersection of US 87 and IH 20 north of Big Spring westward to the intersection of US 87's new location west of Big Spring, a distance of approximately 4.3 miles.
Minute Order 114708, dated 08/25/2016
In and near the city of Big Spring, a segment of US 87 was designated on the state highway system along a new location from I-20 northward and eastward to existing US 87 approximately 0.5 mile north of FM 700, a total distance of approximately 6.8 milesa. Additionally, a segment of US 87 was redesignated on the state highway system as BU 87-M from I-20 northward to approximately 0.5 mile north of FM 700, a total distance of approximately 2.5 milesb. Additionally, a segment of US 87 was removed from the state highway system along a concurrency with I-20 from the intersection of existing US 87 and I-20, westward and southwestward to the intersection of new US 87 and I-20, a distance of approximately 4.3 milesc. (Howard County)
- a - Rerouting (Partial Route): On New Location
- b - Redesignation (Partial Route)
- c - Removal of Designation (Partial Route): Concurrent Route Remains
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