State Highway 95 (SH 95) is a
state highway
A state highway, state road, or state route (and the equivalent provincial highway, provincial road, or provincial route) is usually a road that is either ''numbered'' or ''maintained'' by a sub-national state or province. A road numbered by a ...
which connects the cities of
Yoakum and
Temple
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in the U.S. state of
Texas
Texas (, ; Spanish language, Spanish: ''Texas'', ''Tejas'') is a state in the South Central United States, South Central region of the United States. At 268,596 square miles (695,662 km2), and with more than 29.1 million residents in 2 ...
.
Route description
SH 95 runs northward from
Alt. US 77 at the northern edge of
Yoakum. It travels through
Shiner (crossing
Alt. US 90),
Moulton
Moulton may refer to:
Places in the United Kingdom
;In England
*Moulton, Cheshire
*Moulton, Lincolnshire
**Moulton Windmill
* Moulton St Mary, Norfolk
*Moulton, Northamptonshire
**Moulton College, agricultural college
**Moulton Park, industria ...
,
Flatonia (intersecting
US 90 and
Interstate 10
Interstate 10 (I-10) is the southernmost cross-country highway in the American Interstate Highway System. I-10 is the fourth-longest Interstate in the United States at , following I-90, I-80, and I-40. This freeway is part of the originally pl ...
),
Smithville,
Bastrop,
Elgin (meeting
US 290), and
Taylor
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People
* Taylor (surname)
**List of people with surname Taylor
* Taylor (given name), including Tayla and Taylah
* Taylor sept, a branch of Scottish clan Cameron
* Justice Taylor (disambiguation)
Plac ...
(crossing
US 79) before ending at
US 190 in
Temple
A temple (from the Latin ) is a building reserved for spiritual rituals and activities such as prayer and sacrifice. Religions which erect temples include Christianity (whose temples are typically called churches), Hinduism (whose temples ...
.
The portion of SH 95 from
SH 71 to
US 290 has been designated part of the
10th Mountain Division
The 10th Mountain Division (Light Infantry) is a light infantry division in the United States Army based at Fort Drum, New York. Formerly designated as a mountain warfare unit, the division was the only one of its size in the US military to re ...
Highway.
History
The route was designated on April 21, 1924 along a route from Taylor to Elgin. On April 6, 1932, it extended south to
Hochheim, replacing
SH 109, and extended north to
Temple
A temple (from the Latin ) is a building reserved for spiritual rituals and activities such as prayer and sacrifice. Religions which erect temples include Christianity (whose temples are typically called churches), Hinduism (whose temples ...
, replacing part of
SH 2B. On July 15, 1935, the section from Elgin to Flatonia was cancelled, creating a gap. On February 21, 1937, the section from Elgin to Bastrop was restored, partially closing the gap. On February 9, 1939, the road had already been improved from Elgin to Sayersville and this completed the connection to Bastrop. The
Works Progress Administration
The Works Progress Administration (WPA; renamed in 1939 as the Work Projects Administration) was an American New Deal agency that employed millions of jobseekers (mostly men who were not formally educated) to carry out public works projects, i ...
funded the $109,000 relief project.
[Bastrop Advertiser (Bastrop, TX), Vol. 85, No. 47, Ed. 1, Thursday February 9, 1939.]
On September 26, 1939, the section from Yoakum to Hochheim was transferred to
SH 111, and the section from Flatonia to Yoakum was renumbered to
SH 297, eliminating the gap. On November 20, 1939, before signage was changed, SH 297 was changed back to SH 95, creating a gap between Flatonia and Bastrop. On May 29, 1941, the section of SH 95 from Flatonia north to Smithville was restored as a temporary route and SH 95 was concurrent with SH 71 between Bastrop and Smithville, closing the gap. The temporary route later became the permanent route because TxDOT could not construct a more direct route for SH 95 from Bastrop to Flatonia. On November 24, 1978, the section from
SH 53 to
SH 36
The following highways are numbered 36:
International
* European route E36
Australia
* City Road, Sydney
* Domain Highway, Tasmania
* Arnhem Highway
Canada
*Alberta Highway 36
* Ontario Highway 36
* Saskatchewan Highway 36
China
* G36 Expr ...
in Temple was cancelled and transferred to
Loop 363.
Major intersections
References
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* 95 (number)
* one of the years 95 BC, AD 95, 1995, 2095, etc.
* 95th Division (disambiguation)
* 95th Regiment
** 95th Regiment of Foot (disambiguation)
* 95th Squadron (disambiguation)
* Atomic number 95: americium
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