State Highway 63 (SH 63) is a long

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in northeastern

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. SH 63's southern terminus is at

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(US 36) in

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, and the northern terminus is at

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in Atwood.

Route description

SH 63 begins in the south at a junction with

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and proceeds north through remote, sparsely populated land for roughly before reaching a junction with

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. From there, the route continues north for a further to cross

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at that highway's exit 115 and after roughly four more miles arrives at its northern terminus at

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in Atwood.

History

SH 63 was defined in the 1920s by the

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, when it connected State Highway 96 in Haswell to Atwood at

. A gap appeared near Haswell in 1946. The section was later deleted by 1954, leaving its current routing from

to Atwood. This section was paved by 1961.

Major intersections

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