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U.S. Route 287 in Texas
Highway in Texas / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
U.S. Highway 287 (US 287) in the U.S. state of Texas is a major U.S. Highway that begins on the Gulf Coast in Port Arthur and heads north through Fort Worth, northwest to Childress, Clarendon, Wichita Falls, and Amarillo in the Texas Panhandle and into Oklahoma near Kerrick.
This article is about the section of U.S. Route 287 in Texas. For the entire route, see U.S. Route 287.
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Auxiliary route of US 87 | |||||||
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Length | 659.1 mi[1][note 1] (1,060.7 km) | ||||||
Existed | 1942[1]–present | ||||||
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Country | United States | ||||||
State | Texas | ||||||
Counties | Jefferson, Hardin, Tyler, Polk, Trinity, Houston, Anderson, Freestone, Navarro, Ellis, Johnson, Tarrant, Wise, Montague, Clay, Wichita, Wilbarger, Hardeman, Childress, Hall, Donley, Armstrong, Carson, Potter, Moore, Sherman, Dallam | ||||||
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