Highway Designation File

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


Certified Mileage
0.000 2006

FARM TO MARKET ROAD  NO. 495

Minute Order 021215, dated 06/26/1945 (Date of Agreement)

From Ware Rd, 1 mile north and 1 mile west of McAllen, eastward 11 miles to the Val Verde Rd, 1.5 miles north of US 83.  (Hidalgo County) New Designation.



Minute Order 026328, dated 02/25/1949

From Ware Rd, 1.0 mile north and 1.0 miles west of McAllen, eastward 11.0 miles to the Val Verde Rd; thence southward 1.8 miles to junction of US 83.  (Hidalgo County)  Extended southward to US 83, 1.8 miles  (Note:  Minute Order 25718 not acceptable to county).



Adm. Order, dated 09/07/1949

From Ware Rd, 1.0 mile north and 1.0 mile west of McAllen, eastward 11.0 miles to junction FM 1423.  (Hidalgo County)  Section from end FM 495 at Val Verde Rd, southward to US 83 combined with FM 1423.



Minute Order 033288, dated 12/17/1952

From SH 107 near north city limit of Mission, eastward to FM 1423, a distance of approximately 15.3 miles.  (Hidalgo County)  Extended approx. 4.2 miles to SH 107.



Minute Order 089196, dated 08/29/1989; Adm. Ltr. 011-1989, dated 11/29/1989

From US 33 northwest of Mission, northward and eastward approx. 18.0 miles to FM 1423.  (Hidalgo County)  New description; section of approx. 2.7 miles added, from US 83 northward and eastward to present beginning of FM 495.



Minute Order 105686, dated 06/27/1995; DesLtr 03-1995, dated 06/30/1995

Cancelled.  (Hidalgo County)  Mileage transferred to UR 495.