Texas State Highway 47

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State Highway 47 (SH 47) runs from FM 60 near Easterwood Airport and the West Campus of Texas A&M University in College Station to SH 21 at Texas A&M University-Riverside near Bryan. This highway was designated on January 28, 1987.<ref name="State Highway 47"/> SH 47 was completed in August 1996 and was designed primarily to provide a shorter route between the Texas A&M main campus in College Station and SH 21 west of Bryan.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

Previous routes

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SH 47 was originally planned on August 21, 1923, along a previous section of SH 1A and SH 1C from near the Texas–Arkansas–Louisiana tripoint, northwest through Atlanta, then northeast through Texarkana to the Arkansas state line north of Texarkana.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> On June 24, 1931, the highway was rerouted west from Atlanta to Daingerfield, replacing SH 48, while the old route southeast of Atlanta became part of SH 77<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> On April 19, 1938, SH 47 Bypass was designated from SH 47 to SH 1.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> SH 47 Bypass extended north to SH 5 on October 24, 1938.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> On September 26, 1939, this classification was canceled when the route was transferred to SH 11. SH 47 Bypass became Loop 14.

Junction list

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