100 years of US routes: 1926-2026

Endpoints of
US Route 380

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. Want historic mileages? Our handy reference book includes the mileages that were published in all 13 of AASHO/AASHTO's historic route logs (spanning the years 1927 to 1989).

1931-1953

East: Albany, TX
West: San Antonio, NM

1953-1970

East: Cisco, TX
West: San Antonio, NM

1970-present

East: Greenville, TX
West: San Antonio, NM

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Albany

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:

c. 1940, TXDoT

This shot was looking north on Main Street at South 2nd Street. 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 here:

Sanderson, Aug. 2013

Here, we are looking the opposite direction. Historically, southbound US 283 continued to the left from here, and straight ahead was the east beginning of US 380:

Taylor, Jun. 2004

Cisco

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

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

Greenville

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:

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:

c. 1972, TXDoT

(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):

Nelson, Apr. 2006

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:

Cozart, Apr. 2003

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:

Cozart, Apr. 2003

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: