End of US highway 380 |
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1932-1953
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1953-1971
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1971-present
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Summa
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Mileage: in 1989 AASHTO listed a figure of 673 miles for US 380. That almost exactly matches our own 2020 measurement, which yielded 672.9 miles.
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The west end of US 380 has always been in San Antonio NM. Originally the route ran eastward from there to Albany. The highway essentially followed its current route to Old Glory TX (between Aspermont and Haskell), but then angled southeast along today's TX hwy. 6 and east along modern US 180, ending at US 283 in Albany:
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c. 1940, TXDoT
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This shot was looking north on Main Street at South 2nd Street:
Sanderson, Aug. 2013
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Northbound US 283 came in from the right and continued ahead. US 380 was concurrent with US 80A and US 183. Both of those routes continued ahead, but US 380 ended there. Below we are looking the opposite direction:
Taylor, June 2004
Historically, southbound US 283 continued to the left from there, and straight ahead was the east beginning of US 380.
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In 1953 the east end of US 380 was extended southeast from Albany (along modern TX 6) to Cisco, ending at its junction with US 80 and US 183:
c. 1961, TXDoT
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This photo was looking south on Conrad Hilton Boulevard (renamed from Avenue "D"), which carries US 183 and TX 6. The crossroad is 8th Street, which historically carried US 80. The US 380 designation came down from Albany to this point and ended:
Sanderson, Aug. 2013
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In Oct. 1969, TXDoT requested that AASHO truncate US 380 at Old Glory and extend it essentially due east along what had been TX 24 from Old Glory to Greenville. That request was denied (possibly due to an issue with a railroad crossing), but then at their Nov. 1970 meeting, AASHO approved the same proposal, leaving TX 6 to serve the corridor between Old Glory and Cisco:
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By then today's US 69 bypass had been built around Greenville, but at the time it was designated Loop 315 (US 69 still followed today's Business 69 through the downtown area). So the US 380 designation followed the bypass down to its current terminus at the I-30 interchange. This map (created the year after US 380 was extended to Greenville) explicitly shows that the short stub from I-30 to US 69 was not a part of US 380:
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c. 1972, TXDoT
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(In 1979 the US 69 and Loop 315 designations were swapped, and then in 1990 Loop 315 was replaced with Business 69, but neither of those changes impacted US 380's terminus.) Here are photos from I-30 (both eastbound and westbound, respectively):
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Nelson, Apr. 2006
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Nelson, Apr. 2006
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That area has since been reconfigured, and the exit is simply "94" now. Travelers who take that exit are directed to the east beginning of US 380 thus:
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Cozart, Apr. 2003
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In this photo, the assembly at left is for traffic exiting eastbound I-30 (which is co-signed with US 67 through these parts); US 380 begins to the left with northbound US 69:
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Cozart, Apr. 2003
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The first westbound US 380 sign is shown here, although this is actually on the south side of I-30, which runs under the overpass in the distance. The 380 designation technically begins here, because this is where traffic exiting from eastbound I-30 picks it up:
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Backlin, Nov. 2015
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The last US 380 sign on its mainline was formerly at the junction with TX 34...
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Cozart, Apr. 2003
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...but since then another one has been added just north of the I-30 overpass. Access to eastbound I-30 is on the far side:
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Backlin, Nov. 2015
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Research and/or photo credits: David Backlin; Justin Cozart; Steven Nelson; Dale Sanderson; Michael Summa; Stephen Taylor
Page originally created 2000;
last updated Nov. 28, 2021.
last updated Nov. 28, 2021.
