Highway Designation File

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


Certified Mileage (Open to Traffic)
61.227 2010

FARM TO MARKET ROAD NO. 70

Minute Order 019659, dated 09/22/1942

From Crews via Winters to Wingate.  New Designation.



Minute Order 020677, dated 06/22/1944

Canceled.  Canceled and made part of FM 53.



Minute Order 030319, dated 05/23/1951

From SH 44 at Agua Dulce southward and eastward via Bishop to end of SH 286 at Chapman Ranch, a distance of approximately 41.5 miles. (Nueces County)  New designation.



Minute Order 031270, dated 11/20/1951 Adm. Order, dated 01/14/1952

From US 59 at Sandia southward via Agua Dulce and eastward via Bishop to SH 286 at Chapman Ranch, a distance of
approximately 61.3 miles. (Nueces and Jim Wells Counties)  Extended approximately 19.8 miles northward to US 59, 4.8  miles of which transferred from canceled FM 739.



Des. Cir., 12-1952, dated 03/15/1952

From US 59 at Sandia southeastward to NuecesJim Wells County Line, 4.8 miles, and from another point at NuecesJim Wells County Line southward via Agua Dulce and eastward via Bishop to SH 286, a distance of approximately 66.1 miles. (Jim Wells County and Nueces County)  Revised to correct mileage and indicate a 2.7 miles gap in route along NuecesJim Wells County Line.



Minute Order 031444, dated 12/18/1951

From US 59 at Sandia southward via Agua Dulce and eastward via Bishop to SH  286 at Chapman Ranch, a distance of approximately 68.8 miles. (Jim Wells and Nueces Counties)  Extended approximately 2.7 miles to close gap in route.



Minute Order 033706, 033709 dated 01/23/1953

From US 59 at Sandia southward  via Agua  Dulce and eastward via Bishop to SH 286 at Chapman Ranch, a distance of approximately 62.5 miles. (Jim Wells and Nueces Counties)  Length of route decreased by approximately 0.4 mile.  Mileage of entire route corrected.



Minute Order 36579,  dated  08/24/1954; Adm. Ltr. 06-1978,  dated 06/15/1978

From SH 359 at Sandia, southward via Agua Dulce and eastward via Bishop approx. 61.5 miles to SH 286 at Chapman Ranch. (Jim Wells and Nueces Counties) Portion of US 59 redesignated SH 359.