Highway Designation File

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


Certified Mileage (Open to Traffic)
16.547 2010

FARM TO MARKET ROAD NO. 240

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

From SH 119, approximately 290 miles north of Yorktown northward 4 miles (De Witt County)  New Designation.



Minute Order 026497, dated 03/29/1949

From SH 119, approximately 2.0 miles north of Yorktown, northward to Kubla Store, a distance of approximately 4.8 miles. (De Witt County) Extended north to Kubla Store approximately 0.8 mile.



Minute Order 033230, dated 12/17/1952, Adm. Auth., dated 01/16/1953

From US 87 at Westhoff southward to approximately 2.0 miles north of Yorktown, a distance of approximately 15.6 miles. (De Witt County) Extended northward approximately 8.8 miles to FM 238. Ap-proximately 2.i miles transferred from FM 238.



Minute Order 035438, dated 12/18/1953

From US 87 at Westhoff, southward to SH 72 in Yorktown, a distance of approx. 17.3 miles. (De Witt County)  Section  of approximately 1.7 miles of old route of SH 119 added.