{{short description|State highway in Jefferson County, Texas, United States}} {{Use American English|date=April 2025}} {{Use mdy dates|date=July 2021}}

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'''State Highway 82''' ('''SH 82''') is a {{convert|13.009|mi|km|adj=on}} state highway in Jefferson County, Texas, United States, that connects Louisiana Highway 82 (LA 82) at the Louisiana state line (on the Causeway Bridge over the Sabine River) with Texas State Highway 73 (SH 73) in Port Arthur. A roadway existed from at least 1970, when the Gulfgate Bridge (later renamed Martin Luther King Bridge) was completed;<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.texasescapes.com/TexasBridges/Port-Arthur-Texas-Gulfgate-Bridge-Sabine-Neches-Ship-Canal.htm |title=The Gulfgate Bridge AKA Martin Luther King Bridge |website=texasescapes.com |date=May 31, 2003 |access-date=September 13, 2020}}</ref> the route was designated SH 82 in 1975. The designation had previously applied to a route in West Texas, from 1923 to 1958.

==History== ===Pecos, Ward, and Winkler counties=== left|50px

'''SH 82''' was originally designated on August 21, 1923, on a route from the West Texas town of Monahans south to Fort Stockton, with a planned extension south to Sanderson, replacing part of SH 17.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://publicdocs.txdot.gov/minord/MinuteOrderDocLib/003676878.pdf |title=Minutes of the Seventy-Third and First Adjourned Meeting of the State Highway Commission |date=August 21, 1923 |website=publicdocs.txdot.gov |access-date=October 26, 2017}}</ref> On October 16, 1928, SH 82 was extended north to Kermit.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://publicdocs.txdot.gov/minord/MinuteOrderDocLib/003673776.pdf |title=Minutes of the One Hundred and Twenty-seventh Meeting of the State Highway Commission |date=October 15, 1928 |website=publicdocs.txdot.gov |access-date=December 6, 2018}}</ref> On June 25, 1929, SH 82 was extended north to the New Mexico state line.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://publicdocs.txdot.gov/minord/MinuteOrderDocLib/003673784.pdf |title=Minutes of the One Hundred and Thirty-fifth Meeting of the State Highway Commission |date=June 25, 1929 |website=publicdocs.txdot.gov |access-date=January 25, 2018}}</ref> The planned extension to Sanderson was transferred to newly designated U.S. Highway 285 (cosigned since 1935) on September 26, 1939. On February 27, 1958, the remainder of the route was renumbered as SH 18, to coordinate with its intersection with New Mexico State Road 18.

===Jefferson County=== On January 29, 1975, SH 82 was designated over its current route in Jefferson County from SH 87 to Louisiana Highway 82. On January 7, 1987, the route was extended {{convert|2.1|mi|km|1}} to SH 73 incorporating the former Spur 214. The section west of Sabine Pass was previously proposed on September 19, 1956, as SH 362 (for access to the proposed levee; to be cancelled when construction was completed), but the designation was changed to FM 1900 on December 13, 1956 (still was to be cancelled when construction was completed), and FM 1900 was completed, and FM 1900 was cancelled on October 30, 1958, due to completion of construction. {{clear}}

==Major junctions== {{jcttop|county=Jefferson|state=TX|length_ref=}} {{TXint | location=none | lspan=2 | mile=0.000 | mspan=2 | road={{jct|state=LA|LA|82|dir1=east|city1=Cameron}} | notes=Continuation east into Louisiana from southern terminus}} {{TXint | mile=none | road=Sabine River | notes=Southern terminus}} {{TXint | location=Port Arthur | lspan=2 | mile= | road={{jct|state=TX|SH|87|dir1=north|name1=Dowling Road|city1=Orange}}<br>{{jct|state=TX|SH|87|dir1=south|name1=Dowling Road|city1=Sabine Pass|location2=Sea Rim State Park}} | notes=}} {{TXint |mile=13.009 |road={{jct|state=TX|SH|73|dir1=east|city1=Groves}}<br>{{jct|state=TX|SH|73|dir1=west|name1=H O Mills Highway|city1=Houston|city2=Galveston}} |notes=Northern terminus; trumpet interchange}} {{jctbtm}}

==See also== {{portal|U.S. Roads|Texas}} * List of state highways in Texas

==References== {{reflist|22em}}

==External links== {{commons category-inline|Texas State Highway 82}}

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