Texas State Highway 8

State Highway 8
Route information
Maintained by TxDOT
Length:	41.4 mi[1] (66.6 km)
Existed:	1917 – present
Major junctions
South end:	SH 155 in Linden
	US 67 in Corley US 82 in New Boston I-30 in New Boston
North end:	AR 41
Highway system
Highways in Texas Interstate US State Toll Loops Spurs FM/RM Park Rec ← SH 7 SH 9 →

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.

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 SH 62 by 1926.

In 1926, US 59 and 96 were co-located over pieces of SH 8. While the entirety of the route maintained its number, by 1939 the co-designations were dropped, 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 1926, it had been renumbered as SH 87. SH 8A was reassigned as a spur from SH 8 to Gary. By 1933, this was renumbered as SH 181 (now FM 999).

SH 8B was a spur route going from St. Augustine south to Zavalla as a replacement for SH 40A. By 1931, this route was renumbered as SH 147.

Route description

SH 8 begins on the south side of the city on Linden at an intersection with SH 155, less than a quarter of a mile west of its intersection with US Route 59 (Future Interstate 369). The highway travels north through northern Cass County, crossing over Wright Patman Lake into Bowie County. The highway briefly turns west with US Route 67 when they intersect in Maud. The route then turns back north, running along the western edge of the Red River Army Depot. It then passes through the city of New Boston and intersects Interstate 30. The route then continues north, crossing the Red River, and the Arkansas State Line, where it becomes Arkansas Highway 41.

Major intersections

County	Location	mi	km	Destinations	Notes
Cass	Linden			SH 155 to US 59 – Jefferson, Gilmer
				SH 11 – Hughes Springs, Daingerfield
				FM 1399 north
	​			FM 125 east
	Red Hill			FM 995 – Carterville, Atlanta
	Douglassville			SH 77 – Naples, Atlanta
Bowie	Maud			FM 2624 east
				US 67 north	south end of US 67 overlap
	Corley			US 67 south – Mount Pleasant	north end of US 67 overlap
	Old Boston			FM 2149 east – Rock Creek	south end of FM 2149 overlap
	​			FM 2149 west – Moss Springs	north end of FM 2149 overlap
	New Boston			FM 1840 west (Walters Boulevard)
				US 82 – New Boston, Texarkana	interchange
				I-30 – Dallas, Texarkana	I-30 exit 201
	​			AR 41 north – Foreman	Arkansas state line (Red River bridge)
1.000 mi = 1.609 km; 1.000 km = 0.621 mi

References

1. Transportation Planning and Programming Division (n.d.). "State Highway No. 8". Highway Designation Files. Texas Department of Transportation. Retrieved 2008-03-15.