Spur 203 is a
state highway
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spur
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near
Presidio
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in
Presidio County
Presidio County is a county located in the U.S. state of Texas. As of the 2020 census, its population was 6,131. Its county seat is Marfa. The county was created in 1850 and later organized in 1875. Presidio County (K-5 in Texas topological ind ...
,
Texas
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.
Route description
Spur 203 begins at Erma Avenue, signed as
Bus. US 67-A /
FM 170, in Presidio. The highway travels north for 0.77 miles before ending.
History
Spur 203 was originally assigned on January 27, 1948 to a business loop of in
McKinney
McKinney is a city in and the county seat of Collin County, Texas. It is Collin County's third-largest city, after Plano, Texas, Plano and Frisco, Texas, Frisco. A suburb of the Dallas–Fort Worth metroplex, McKinney is about north of Dallas.
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in
Collin County
Collin County is located in the U.S. state of Texas. It is part of the Dallas- Fort Worth- Arlington metropolitan statistical area, and a small portion of the city of Dallas is in the county. At the 2020 United States census, the county's popula ...
from US 75 (now SH 5) via Tennessee street to US 75. On May 25, 1954, the route began to be also signed as business US 75. This routing was decommissioned and removed from the state highway system on October 28, 1961.
Spur 203 was reassigned on October 21, 1977 to a business loop of in
Weinert in
Haskell County. This was signed as a business route of US 277. This route was transferred to on June 21, 1990.
Spur 203 was designated along its current route on June 18, 1996 as a replacement for the former routing of US route 67 north of Presidio.
Spur 203 was designated, along with former State Spur 310, when the old bridge between these routes over Cibolo Creek was removed in 1996. On January 27, 2003, Spur 310 was cancelled.
Major intersections
See also
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References
External links
{{osmrelation, 388983, Texas State Highway Spur 203
203
Transportation in Presidio County, Texas
U.S. Route 67