State Highway 47, or SH 47, runs from SH 21 at Texas A&M University-Riverside near Bryan

Bryan, Texas

Bryan is a city in Brazos County, Texas, United States. As of the 2010 census, the city had a total population of 76,201. It is the county seat of Brazos County and is located in the heart of the Brazos Valley . It shares its border with the city of College Station, which lies to its south...

 southeastward to FM 60

Farm to Market Road 60

Farm to Market Road 60, or FM 60, is a Farm to Market Road in Texas, running from SH 21, southwest of Caldwell, southeastward to SH 36 at Lyons; and from another point on SH 36 at Lyons, northeastward to FM 158 at Bryan. In Brazos County, it is also known as Raymond Stotzer Pkwy west of FM 2154...

 near Easterwood Airport

Easterwood Airport

Easterwood Airport , also known as Easterwood Field, is the regional airport for Texas A&M University, Bryan-College Station and Brazos County, Texas, USA. The airport is owned by Texas A&M University...

 and Texas A&M University

Texas A&M University

Texas A&M University is a coeducational public research university located in College Station, Texas . It is the flagship institution of the Texas A&M University System. The sixth-largest university in the United States, A&M's enrollment for Fall 2011 was over 50,000 for the first time in school...

 Research Park in College Station

College Station, Texas

College Station is a city in Brazos County, Texas, situated in East Central Texas in the heart of the Brazos Valley. The city is located within the most populated region of Texas, near three of the 10 largest cities in the United States - Houston, Dallas, and San Antonio...

. This highway was designated in 1987.

Future

The SH 47 corridor is expected to be an area of major growth in the 2010s due to its proximity to the growth of the Texas A&M Health Science Center College of Medicine

Texas A&M Health Science Center College of Medicine

The Texas A&M Health Science Center College of Medicine was established in 1977 and joined the Health Science Center in 1999. Thomas "Sam" Shomaker, M.D., J.D., began as the sixth dean of the College of Medicine on August 1, 2010....

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Previous routes

SH 47 was originally planned by 1926 along a previous section of SH 1A

State Highway 1 (Texas)

State Highway 1 was a state highway in the U.S. state of Texas. There has been no State Highway 1 since 1952 ; the number "may only be assigned by the Executive Director of the Texas Department of Transportation or the Transportation Commission."-History:SH 1 was assigned in 1917 as one of the...

 and SH 1C from near the intersection of the Texas, Arkansas, and Louisiana state borders, northwest through Atlanta

Atlanta, Texas

Atlanta is a city in Cass County, Texas, United States. As of the 2000 census, the city had a total population of 5,745.-Geography:Atlanta is located at ....

, then northeast through Texarkana

Texarkana, Texas

Texarkana is a city in Bowie County, Texas, United States. It effectively functions as one half of a city which crosses a state line — the other half, the city of Texarkana, Arkansas, lies on the other side of State Line Avenue...

 to the Arkansas border north of Texarkana. By 1930, the highway was rerouted west from Atlanta to Daingerfield, replacing SH 48. In 1939, this classification was cancelled when the route was transferred to SH 11.

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