Loop 271 is a state highway loop in Alanreed

Alanreed, Texas

Alanreed is an unincorporated community in Gray County, Texas, United States. It is part of the Pampa, Texas Micropolitan Statistical Area.The McLean Independent School District serves area students.-External links:...

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Texas

Texas is the second largest U.S. state by both area and population, and the largest state by area in the contiguous United States.The name, based on the Caddo word "Tejas" meaning "friends" or "allies", was applied by the Spanish to the Caddo themselves and to the region of their settlement in...

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Route description

Loop 271 begins at the end of the exit ramp from Interstate 40

Interstate 40 in Texas

In the U.S. state of Texas, Interstate 40 runs east–west through the panhandle in the northwest part of the state. The only large city it passes through is Amarillo, where it meets the north end of Interstate 27.-History:...

 Exit #135; traffic may also turn on to the eastbound frontage road

Frontage road

A frontage road is a non-limited access road running parallel to a higher-speed road, usually a freeway, and feeding it at appropriate points of access...

. The route travels along 3rd Avenue, and intersects in the center of Alanreed. The highways share a brief concurrency before FM 291 turns to the south. Loop 271 ends at Interstate 40, where eastbound traffic can either enter the freeway eastbound or default onto the eastbound frontage road.

History

Loop 271 was designated in 1953. It is an older alignment of , which was rerouted north of the town that year. The route is signed with Historic US 66 route markers. When Interstate 40 supplanted US 66 around Alanreed and the endpoints were converted to incomplete interchanges, the route description was not changed; as a result, the certified length is thus longer than the actual current length.

Major intersections