State Highway 6 (Texas)

State Highway 6

Route information

Maintained by TxDOT

Length:

476.4 mi (766.7 km)

Existed:

1939 – present

Major junctions

South end:

I-45 / SH 146 in La Marque

I-69 / US 59 in Sugar Land

I-10 / US 90 in Houston

I-35 in Waco

I-20 in Eastland

North end:

SH-6 north of Quanah

Highway system

Highways in Texas

← RE 5		Spur 6 →
← SH 156	SH 157	SH 158 →

State Highway 6 (SH 6) runs from the Red River, the Texas–Oklahoma boundary, to northwest of Galveston, where it is known as the Old Galveston Highway. In Sugar Land and Missouri City, it is known as Alvin-Sugarland Road and runs perpendicular to I-69/US 59. In the Houston area, it runs north to FM 1960, then northwest along US Highway 290 to Hempstead, and south to Westheimer Road and Addicks, and is known as Addicks Satsuma Road. In the Bryan–College Station area, it is known as the Earl Rudder Freeway. In Hearne, it is known as Market Street. In Calvert, it is known as Main Street. For most of its length, SH 6 is not a limited-access road.

In 1997, the Texas Legislature designated SH 6 as the Texas Korean War Veterans Memorial Highway.

State Highway 6 was one of the original 26 state highways proposed in 1917, overlying the King of Trails Highway. From 1919, the routing mostly followed present-day U.S. Highway 75 from Oklahoma to Dallas, then U.S. Highway 77 to Waco.

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