Highway Designation File
Transportation Planning and Programming Division
Current Description-Effective Date-Authority
| 77.908 | 2010 |
FARM TO MARKET ROAD NO. 56
Minute Order 019403, dated 05/19/1942
From McGregor to Crawford, a distance of 6.1 miles. New Designation.
From McGregor via Crawford to Valley Mills. Extended Crawford to Valley Mills.
Minute Order 021215, dated 06/11/1945 ( date of agreement)
From McGregor via Crawford and Valley Mills to Cayote. Extended
from Valley Mills to Cayote.
Exec. Order, dated 10/29/1947
From Valley Mills to Cayote. (Boxque County) Portion of FM
56 assigned part of this highway.
Minute Order 026991, dated 07/14/1949
From junction SH 22 southwest via Cayote to Valley Mills. (Bosque County)
Extended from Cayote
to Junction SH 22, 9.2 miles
Minute Order 036945, dated 10/26/1954, Adm. Auth., dated 10/18/1954, Adm. Cir., dated 12/ 01/1954
From SH 174 northwest of Kopperl, southeastward via Kopperl to SH 22
west of Laguna Park; and from anther point on SH 22 at Laguna Park southwestward
to SH 6 in Valley Mills, a distance -of approximately 37.0 miles.
(Bosque County) Extended southeastward approximately 17.0 miles
from Kopperl to SH 174 southeastward to Kopperl transfer red to this road,
adding approximately 2.4 miles.
Minute Order 042910, Adm. Cir., 49-1957, dated 12/01/1957
From SH 6 in Valley Mills northeastward to SH 22 at Laguna Park; and
from another point on SH 22 west of Laguna Park northwestward via Kopper]
to SH 174; and from another point on SH 174 northwestward to FM 1992 at
Brazos Point, a total distance of approximately 45.8 miles. (Bosque County)
Extended from SH 174 to Brazos Point, adding approximately 9.0 miles
Adm.Cir., 15-1960, dated 01/15/1960, Adm. Auth., dated 12/23/1959, Adm. Auth., dated 12/31/1959
From SH 6 in Valley Mills northeastward to SH 22 at Laguna Park; and
from another point on SH 22 west of Laguna Park, northwestward via Kopperl
to SH 174; and from another point on SH 174 northwestward to Brazos Point
and southwestward and northwestward to SH 144 near Glen Rose, a total distance
of approximately 56.3 miles. (Bosque and Somervell Counties) FM
1992 canceled a combined, adding approximately 7.6 miles section of FM
202 from present junction with FM 1992 to SH 144 near Glen Rose transferred
to this FM, adding approximately 3.3 miles.
Adm. Auth., dated 12/20/1984; Adm. Ltr. 02-1985, dated 0 2/15/1985
From SH 6 in Valley Mills, northeastward to SH 22 at Laguna Park; and
from another point on SH 22 west of Laguna Park, northwestward via Kopperl
to SH 174; and from another point on SH 174, northwestward via Brazos Point
and southwestward and northwestward to SH 144 near Glen Rose; then from
FM 205 in Glen Rose, northwestward via Hill City to FM 51; and from another
point on FM 51, northwestward via Elm Grove to US 377 in Tolar; and from
another point on US 377 in Tolar, northwestward and westward to a county
road, approximately 2.0 miles west of Antioch, a total approximate distance
of 78.7 miles. (Bosque, Somervell, and Hood Counties) Approximately
22.2 miles of FM 201 from FM 205 in
Glen Rose northwest to a county road intersection west of Antioch
trans. to FM 56.
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