Texas State Highway 16
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| State Highway 16 | |||||||||||||||||
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| Length: | 541.8[1] mi (871.9 km) | ||||||||||||||||
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| Formed: | before 1939 | ||||||||||||||||
| North end: |  US 281 S of Wichita Falls |
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| Major junctions: |
 US 380
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| South end: |  US 83 in Zapata |
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>State Highway 16, or SH 16, is a north–south state highway that runs from U.S. Highway 281 24 miles (38.6 km) south of Wichita Falls to Zapata on the Texas-Mexico boundary.
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[edit] Route description
SH 16 begins at an intersection with US 281 between Windthorst and Antelope in North Texas, and begins it journey to the south. It reaches an intersection with US 380 in the town of Graham. It continues to the southeast, wrapping around the northern and eastern sides of Possum Kingdom Lake. Its next intersection is with I-20 south of the town of Strawn. It continues south through farm and ranchland in Central Texas, passing through the cities of Comanche and Llano. The route veers to the southeast as it reaches the Texas Hill Country, passing through Fredericksburg, Kerrville, and Bandera. The routes enters San Antonio from the northwest, and goes around the western side of the city concurrent with Interstate 410. The route continues to the south through southern Texas ranchlands, finally reaching its final terminus at US 83 in Zapata, almost 542 miles from its starting point.
[edit] Previous routes
SH 16 was one of the original twenty six state highways proposed in 1917, overlayed on top of the Fort Worth-Oklahoma Highway. From 1917 the routing mostly followed present day Interstate 35W from Fort Worth to Denton. It continued on, routed along present day Interstate 35 from Fort Worth through to Oklahoma. By 1919, the route was cancelled, and was reassigned in 1922 to a new section between Santa Anna and Brady over previous SH 23. This section was promptly reassigned to U.S. Highway 183. It was then reassigned to the future route of U.S. Highway 181 (which was routed over it in 1926) from San Antonio to Corpus, when it was cancelled yet again. By 1933, it was rerouted over SH 28 from Crowell to Sagerton, and was being extended northward to the Oklahoma State line via Quanah.
By 1939 SH 16 was also assigned on its current route from north of Graham to San Antonio, terminating near Buena Vista south of San Antonio. In 1965 the road was significantly extended via its current routing to Zapata, replacing State Highway 346 from San Antonio to Jourdanton, and was rerouted over Interstate 410 in San Antonio.
[edit] Junction list
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| Archer | US 281 – S of Wichita Falls |
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| Young |  SH 114 |
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| US 380 – Graham |
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 SH 67 – Graham |
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| Palo Pinto |  SH 337 |
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 SH 254 |
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 US 180 – Brad to Metcalf Gap |
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 SH 108 – Strawn |
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| Eastland |  I-20 |
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| Comanche |  SH 6 – De Leon |
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   US 67/US 377/SH 36 – Comanche |
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| Mills |   US 84/US 183 – Goldthwaite |
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| San Saba |  US 190 – San Saba |
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| Llano |   SH 29/SH 71 – Llano |
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| Gillespie |   US 87/US 290 – Fredericksburg |
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| Kerr |  I-10 – Kerrville |
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 SH 27 – Kerrville |
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 SH 173 – Kerrville |
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| Bandera |  RM 337 – Medina |
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| SH 173 – Bandera |
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 SH 46 |
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| Bexar |  SH 211 |
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 Loop 1604 – San Antonio |
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 I-410 – San Antonio |
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 SH 151 – San Antonio |
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 US 90 – San Antonio |
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 I-35 – San Antonio |
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| Atascosa | SH 173 – Jourdanton |
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 SH 97 – Jourdanton |
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| McMullen |  SH 72 – Tilden |
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| Duval |   US 59/SH 44 – Freer |
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 SH 339 – near Freer |
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| Jim Hogg |  SH 359 – Hebbronville |
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 SH 285 – Hebbronville |
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| Zapata | US 83 – Zapata |
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