State Highway 33 is a route that runs from U.S. Highways 60 and 83 south of Canadian

Canadian, Texas

Canadian is the county seat of Hemphill County, Texas, United States. The population was 2,233 at the 2000 census. It is named for the Canadian River, a tributary of the nearby Arkansas River. Canadian is sometimes called "the oasis of the Texas Panhandle."-History:The trails along the river are...

 and travels east to the Oklahoma

Oklahoma

Oklahoma is a state located in the South Central region of the United States of America. With an estimated 3,751,351 residents as of the 2010 census and a land area of 68,667 square miles , Oklahoma is the 28th most populous and 20th-largest state...

 border, where it becomes State Highway 33

State Highway 33 (Oklahoma)

Oklahoma's State Highway 33 is a major highway that traverses most of the state, and at one time traversed the entire state. Its general orientation is west to east. All mileages listed herein are from the western terminus of the highway at the Texas state line.-Roger Mills County:SH-33 begins...

. The route was originally SH 170, but was renumbered in 1955.

Previous routes

SH 33 was originally proposed as one of the original 26 state highways in 1917 as SH 13

State Highway 13 (Texas)

State Highway 13 was a state highway in the U.S. state of Texas that ran from Amarillo due west to the New Mexico border near Glenrio, Texas....

. It was to follow a route from Amarillo

Amarillo, Texas

Amarillo is the 14th-largest city, by population, in the state of Texas, the largest in the Texas Panhandle, and the seat of Potter County. A portion of the city extends into Randall County. The population was 190,695 at the 2010 census...

 northeast through Panhandle

Panhandle, Texas

Panhandle is a town in Carson County, Texas, United States. The population was 2,589 at the 2000 census. It is the county seat of Carson County. Panhandle is part of the Amarillo, Texas Metropolitan Statistical Area...

 then east through Wheeler

Wheeler, Texas

Wheeler is a city in Wheeler County, Texas, United States, situated on the eastern edge of the Texas Panhandle. Both the city and the county are named for Royal Tyler Wheeler, a chief justice of the Texas Supreme Court. The population was 1,378 at the 2000 census. It is the county seat of Wheeler...

 and into Oklahoma. By 1919, it had been renumbered SH 33 when SH 13 was rerouted. By 1926, SH 33 was rerouted over SH 33A, which was cosigned with U.S. Highway 60. By 1933, it was still under construction. By 1938, SH 33 had been cancelled.


SH 33A was originally a spur route of SH 33, splitting off in Pampa, and travelling northeast next to the a rail route. By 1926, it had been renumbered as the main route and had been moved to a new route between Pampa and Wheeler. By 1933, it was renumbered as SH 152.


SH 33B was a proposed route from Clarendon north through Pampa, and continuing north into Oklahoma. By 1926, portions between Clarendon and Pampa, as well as north of Spearman, were just being built. By that time the route had been renumbered as SH 88.