Texas State Highway 11

State Highway 11
Route information
Maintained by TxDOT
Length:	153.2 mi[1] (246.6 km)
Existed:	1917 – present
Major junctions
West end:	SH 56 in Sherman
	US 69 I-30 US 271 US 259
East end:	I-369 / US 59 in Linden
Location
Counties:	Grayson, Fannin, Hunt, Hopkins, Franklin, Wood, Camp, Titus, Morris, Cass
Highway system
Highways in Texas Interstate US State Toll Loops Spurs FM/RM Park Rec ← SH 10 SH 12 → ← SH 313 SH 314 SH 315 →

State Highway 11, or SH 11, is a highway that runs from US 59 (Future I-369) in Linden to SH 56 in Sherman in northeast Texas.

Route description

SH 11 begins at an intersection with State Highway 56 on the easternedge of Sherman, just north of the Sherman Regional Airport. The route then travels to the southeast through Northeast Texas. In 2009, it was rerouted around the city of Commerce, concurrent with State Highway 24 and State Loop 178, with the old routing through Commerce transferred to a business route. It continues southeast toward Sulphur Springs, where it shares a concurrency with State Highway 154 and the old routing of US 67, and intersects I-30 on the south side of town. After Sulphur Springs, the route takes a more easterly direction through Northeast Texas, before reaching its eastern terminus at US 59 (Future I-369) on the eastern edge of Linden.

History

State Highway 11 was one of the original twenty-six state highways proposed in 1917, overlaid on top of the 'Jefferson Highway.' In 1917 the routing was proposed from the Oklahoma border at Denison, south on present day U.S. Highway 69 through Whitewright into Greenville. From Greenville, it went east on U.S. Highway 67 to Mount Pleasant, and south on U.S. Highway 271 to Gilmer and along State Highway 300 to Longview, and finally, U.S. Highway 80 through Marshall to the Louisiana border.

In 1919 the segment from Gilmer to Longview had yet to be built, so the road was rerouted over the current US 271 and US 80 routes through Gladewater, Texas.

In 1926 US 67, 271 and 80 were overlaid onto segments of SH 11. While the routes were marked concurrently, by 1926, SH 11 had lost most of its original assignment and had been reassigned to nearby towns the U.S. highways had not reached. The road now began in Greenville where it followed the current SH 11 from to Daingerfield, then north on U.S. Highway 259 through Omaha and terminating in De Kalb. In 1929, SH 11 was rerouted to begin in Ladonia and via the present day State Highway 50 to Commerce and follow the current SH 11 to Sulphur Springs. The section from Greenville to Sulphur Springs became a rerouting of SH 1.

By 1939 the US 259 segment of SH 11 was cancelled, and SH 11 was extended from Daingerfield to Linden via its current alignment, replacing SH 47, and up US 59 to a terminus in Texarkana. The US 59 alignment of SH 11 was removed in 1947, The Ladonia-Commerce segment was removed and replaced with its current assignment in 1971 over FM 1281 and part of FM 697. Part of this was previously designated as Texas State Highway 314.

Major intersections

County	Location	mi	km	Destinations	Notes
Grayson	Sherman			SH 56 (East Lamar Street)
				FM 697 east – Ida
	​			FM 1417 north
	Tom Bean			FM 902 west / FM 2729 south (South Britton Street) – Cannon, Howe	west end of FM 2729 overlap
				FM 2729 north (North Lyon Street) – White Rock	east end of FM 2729 overlap
	Whitewright			US 69 north / SH 160 south – Bells, Denison	Western end of US 69 concurrency
				FM 898 east – Downtown Whitewright
	​			US 69 south – Greenville	East end of US 69 overlap
Fannin	​			FM 151 – Whitewright, Orangeville
	​			FM 3297 north
	​			SH 121 – Bonham, Trenton	interchange
	Randolph			Bus. SH 121 south	Western end of Bus. SH 121 concurrency
				Bus. SH 121 north	Eastern end of Bus. SH 121 concurrency
	​			FM 2815 north
	​			FM 1553
	Bailey			SH 78 – Bonham, Leonard
Hunt	Wolfe City			SH 34 – Honey Grove, Greenville
				FM 1563 west	west end of FM 1563 overlap
				FM 1563 east	west end of FM 1563 overlap
	​			To FM 1563 / County Road 4700
	Fairlie			FM 2655 to FM 1563 east
	Commerce			SH 24 north / Bus. SH 11 east – Commerce, Sulphur Springs, Cooper, Paris	interchange; west end of SH 24 overlap
				SH 224
				Bus. SH 224 (Live Oak Street) – Commerce
				SH 24 south / Loop 178 west – Campbell, Northeast Texas Children's Museum	east end of SH 24 overlap; west end of Loop 178 overlap
				FM 3218 south
				Bus. SH 11 west – Commerce	east end of Loop 178 overlap
Hopkins	​			FM 275 south – Cumby
	​			FM 3134 north – Emblem
	Ridgeway			FM 2653 south – Brashear	west end of FM 2653 overlap
				FM 2653 north – Cooper Lake State Park South Sulphur Unit	east end of FM 2653 overlap
	Sulphur Springs			SH 19 north / Houston Street – Sulphur Springs, Paris, Southwest Dairy Museum	west end of SH 19 overlap
				Bus. US 67 – Sulphur Springs
				I-30 (US 67) – Texarkana, Dallas	I-30 exit 122
	Rockdale			SH 19 south – Emory, Canton	east end of SH 19 overlap
	Sulphur Springs			FM 2297 – Arbala
				SH 154 – Quitman, Commerce, Cooper
	Martin Springs			FM 2560 south – Reilly Springs
	​			FM 1870 north – Thermo
	​			FM 1567 west – Reilly Springs
	Como			FM 69 north – Dike	west end of FM 69 overlap
				FM 69 south – Coke	east end of FM 69 overlap
	Pickton			FM 269 south	west end of FM 269 overlap
				FM 269 north – Pine Forest, Weaver	east end of FM 269 overlap
	​			FM 3019 north – Greenwood
Franklin	No major junctions
Wood	Winnsboro			FM 852 west	west end of FM 852 overlap
				SH 37 – Mount Vernon, Quitman
				FM 312 south / FM 852 east (South Walnut Street)	east end of FM 852 overlap
				FM 1448 east
	​			FM 515 west – Coke
	​			FM 115 north – Scroggins
	​			FM 1647 south – Perryville
Camp	Leesburg			FM 1519 west	west end of FM 1519 overlap
				FM 1519 east	east end of FM 1519 overlap
	​			FM 21 north – Mount Vernon, Bob Sandlin State Park
	​			FM 1521 north – Rocky Mound
	​			Loop 179 east (David H. Abernathy Boulevard) – truck route to US 271
	Pittsburg			FM 1520 north
				Loop 238 (Mount Pleasant Street / Rusk Street)
				FM 993 south (Lafayette Street)
				FM 557 east (Jefferson Street)
				US 271 (Greer Boulevard / truck route) – Mount Pleasant, Gilmer
Titus	​			FM 2348 north – Union Hill
	​			FM 1735 north – Northeast Texas Community College
Morris	Cason			FM 144 south – Lone Star	west end of FM 144 overlap
				FM 144 north – Omaha	east end of FM 144 overlap
	Daingerfield			US 259 north / SH 49 west (Broadnax Street) – Business District, Omaha, Mount Pleasant	west end of US 259 / SH 49 overlap
				US 259 south (Linda Drive) – Lone Star, Longview	Eastern end of US 259 concurrency
	​			PR 17 – Daingerfield State Park
Cass	Hughes Springs			FM 161 / FM 250 south (Taylor Street / Hanes Boulevard) – Naples, Lone Star	west end of FM 250 overlap
				FM 250 north (Keasler)	east end of FM 250 overlap
				SH 49 east / FM 2612 west – Jefferson, Lone Star	Eastern end of SH 49 concurrency
	​			FM 130 west – Carterville
	Linden			SH 8 – New Boston
				FM 125 (Main Street)
				US 59 – Atlanta, Jefferson
1.000 mi = 1.609 km; 1.000 km = 0.621 mi       Concurrency terminus

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