Texas State Highway 19

State Highway 19
Route information
Maintained by TxDOT
Length:	188.4 mi[1] (303.2 km)
Existed:	1917 – present
Major junctions
South end:	I-45 in Huntsville
	I-20 in Canton I-30 / US 67 in Sulphur Springs
North end:	US 82 / US 271 in Paris
Highway system
Highways in Texas Interstate US State Toll Loops Spurs FM/RM Park Rec ← SH 18 I-20 →

State Highway 19, or SH 19, runs from Huntsville to Paris in east Texas.

Route description

SH 19 begins at an interchange with Interstate 45 in southeast Huntsville. The highway runs through the eastern edge of the town as an expressway running close to the Sam Houston National Forest. The expressway ends at an intersection with State Highway 30 and runs through rural areas before reaching the town of Trinity. SH 19 runs north towards Crockett where the highway begins a concurrency with US 287. The two highways leave each other just northwest of Palestine. SH 19 runs northwest to Athens, running around the town with US 175/State Highway 31. The highway next runs through Canton, where it intersects Interstate 20. SH 19 runs through more rural areas of East Texas until the highway comes to Emory. The highway turns more northeast before running through the western part of Sulphur Springs. State Highway 154 joins SH 19, before leaving just east of Cooper. State Highway 24 joins the highway, where the two highways run together before ending in Paris.

History

SH 19 was one of the original 26 Texas state highways proposed in 1917. The original proposal was for it to run from the Texas/Oklahoma border north of Paris to Houston. By 1922 it had been extended south, with a terminus in Freeport. By 1933, SH 19 was pared back significantly, with the section north of Alba transferred to SH 24 and SH 154. By 1939, the section south of Palestine had been removed, but was extended north back over SH 154 to Sulphur Springs. In 1945, SH 19 was routed over FM 647 from 1 mile south of the Hopkins County Line through Emory to Dunbar. In 1960, it was extended northward to its original starting point of Paris and again to the south to Huntsville, replacing SH 45.

SH 19A was a spur route of SH 19 that was originally planned in 1919, splitting off at Angleton and traveling to Palacios. By 1933, the route had been renumbered as SH 58.

Junction list

County	Location	mi	km	Destinations	Notes
Walker	Huntsville			I-45 – Dallas, Houston	I-45 exit 113.
				SH 75 – Madisonville, Conroe
				US 190 / Bear Cat Boulevard – Huntsville, Livingston, Sam Houston State University
				SH 30 – Huntsville, College Station
				FM 2821 – Sam Houston National Forest	North end of expressway
				SH 30 west
	Riverside			FM 405 south – Dodge
				FM 980 – Point Blank
Trinity	​			FM 3453 east – Lake Livingston
	Trinity			FM 1617 north
				FM 1617 south
				FM 230 north – Lovelady
				SH 94 east – Groveton
	​			FM 1893 north
Houston	Lovelady			FM 230 south – Trinity
				FM 1280 – Groveton
	​			FM 231 south
	Crockett			Loop 304
				FM 2110 south
				SH 7 / SH 21 west – Centerville, Nacogdoches, Madisonville	South end of SH 21 overlap
				US 287 south / SH 21 east – Groveton, Alto	North end of SH 21 overlap; south end of US 287 overlap
				FM 229 north
				Loop 304
	Latexo			FM 2160 west
				FM 2663 east
	​			Bus. US 287 north – Grapeland
	​			FM 2423 – Grapeland
	Grapeland			FM 227 – Grapeland, Augusta
				FM 228 – Grapeland
	​			Bus. US 287 south – Grapeland
Anderson	​			SH 294 east – Alto	South end of SH 294 overlap
	Elkhart			SH 294 west – Oakwood, Fairfield	North end of SH 294 overlap
				FM 1817 north
	​			FM 2419 south
	Palestine			Loop 256
				US 84 east – Rusk	South end of US 84 overlap
				US 84 west / US 287 north – Fairfield	North end of US 84/287 overlap
				Spur 127 south	South end of Spur 127 overlap
				Spur 127 north	North end of Spur 127 overlap
				US 79 north – Jacksonville	South end of US 79 overlap
				US 79 south / US 287 south – Oakwood	North end of US 79 overlap; south end of US 287 overlap
				Loop 256
	​			US 287 north – Corsicana	North end of US 287 overlap
	Montalba			FM 321 – Tennessee Colony, Neches
	​			FM 2330 west
	Bois d'Arc			FM 860 west
	​			FM 837 – Frankston
Henderson	​			FM 1615 south
	​			FM 753 west – Malakoff
	Athens			Loop 7 west / Bus. SH 19 north – Corsicana, Athens	Interchange; south end of Loop 7 overlap
				US 175 east / Bus. US 175 west – Jacksonville, Athens	Interchange; south end of US 175 overlap
				FM 2495 – Athens	Interchange
				SH 31 east / Bus. SH 31 west – Tyler, Athens	Interchange; south end of SH 31 overlap
				FM 1616 – Murchison
				US 175 west / SH 31 west / Bus. SH 19 south / Loop 7 west – Dallas, Corsicana, Athens	Interchange; north end of US 175/SH 31/Loop 7 overlap
	​			FM 2752 east
	​			FM 2709 west – Eustace
Van Zandt	​			FM 1861 – Martins Mill
	​			FM 1256 west
	​			FM 858 east – Martins Mill, Ben Wheeler
	​			FM 1651 west
	Canton			RM 2909 south – Martins Mill
				SH 243 – Kaufman, Ben Wheeler
				SH 64 – Wills Point, Ben Wheeler
				I-20 – Dallas, Shreveport
	​			US 80 – Wills Point, Grand Saline
	​			FM 859 south – Wills Point
Rains	​			FM 2324 west – Lake Tawakoni
	Emory			FM 3274 south
				US 69 – Greenville, Mineola
				FM 2795
				FM 275 north – Cumby
	​			FM 514 west – Point	South end of FM 514 overlap
	​			FM 514 east – Lake Fork Reservoir	North end of FM 514 overlap
Hopkins	​			FM 1567 west – Lone Oak	South end of FM 1567 overlap
	​			FM 1567 east – Como	North end of FM 1567 overlap
	​			SH 11 south – Winnsboro	South end of SH 11 overlap
	Sulphur Springs			I-30 / US 67 – Greenville, Mount Pleasant	Interchange
				Bus. US 67 (Main Street) – Sulphur Springs
				SH 11 north – Commerce	North end of SH 11 overlap
				FM 2285
				SH 154 east / Loop 301 east – Sulphur Springs	South end of SH 154 overlap
	​			FM 1537 east
	​			FM 71
	Oak Grove			FM 1536 east – Oak Grove
Delta	​			SH 154 west – Cooper	North end of SH 154 overlap
	​			FM 1529 west – Cooper
	​			FM 895 east
	​			SH 24 west – Commerce	South end of SH 24 overlap
	​			FM 198
	​			FM 1335 south
Lamar	​			FM 1184 – Roxton
	​			FM 2036 west
	Paris			Loop 256
				FM 1497 south
				FM 1507 east (Evergreen Street)
				Bus. US 82 / Bus. US 271 – Bonham, Clarksville, Bogata, Hugo
1.000 mi = 1.609 km; 1.000 km = 0.621 mi       Concurrency terminus

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