Highway Designation File

Transportation Planning and Programming Division
Current Description-Effective Date-Authority


Certified Mileage (Open to Traffic)
42.01 2010

FARM TO MARKET ROAD NO. 16

Minute Order 019251, 03/26/1942

Van to Colfax.  Replace part of SH  243



Minute Order 021215, 06/11/1945 (date of Agreement)

From Colfax to Van; and from Garden Valley to Lindale.  Added section Garden Valley to Lindale.



Minute Order 021215, 06/11/1945 (date of Agreement)

From Lindale to Garden Valley; and from Van via Colfax to SH 64. Extended from Colfax to SH 64.



Minute Order 023071, 02/14/1947 (date of Agreement 02/17/1947)

From junction with SH 64 southwest of Colfax via Colfax to Van; and from Garden Valley via Lindale to Winona. (Van Zandt and Smith Counties) Add section from Lindale to Winona, 15.4 miles.



Minute Order 025625, 10/29/1948

From junction SH 64 southwest of Colfax via Colfax to Van; and from Garden valley via Lyndale to Winona and to a point 7.2 miles east of Winona, junction US 271. (Smith and Van Zandt Counties)  Extended east of Winona 7.2 miles.



Minute Order 039895, 03/301956; Adm. Circ. 21-56, 04/15/1956

From SH 64 west of Colfax, eastward via Colfax to SH 110 in Van; and from another point on SH 110 west of Garden Valley via Garden Valley and Lindale to SH 155 at Winona, and from another point on SH 155 at Winona, eastward to US 271, a distance of approx. 42.1 miles. (Van Zandt and Smith Counties)