Highway Designation File

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


Certified Mileage (Open to Traffic)
48.023 2010

FARM TO MARKET ROAD NO. 503

Minute Order 021215, dated 07/14/1945 (date of agreement)

From US 87, 2.5 miles northwest of Melvin, Northward 7.4 miles to Salt Gap (McCulloch County).  New Designation. 



Minute Order 025746, dated 11/23/1948

From  Doole southward via Salt Gap to junction US 87, 2.5 miles northwest of Melvin, a distance of approximately 13.6 miles. (McCulloch County)  Extended from Salt Gap to Doole (6.2 miles).



Minute Order  041084, dated 11/21/1956, Adm. Cir., 001-1957, dated 01/01/1957

From US 87 approximately 2.5 miles northwest of Melvin, northward via Salt Gap and Doole to Stacy, a distance of approximately 18.2 miles. (McCulloch County)  Extended northward approximately 6.0 miles.



Minute Orders 048512, 048516, dated 09/27/1956, Adm. Auth., dated 10/14/1960, Adm. Cir. 163-1960

From US 87 approximately 2.5 miles northwest Melvin northward via Salt Gap, Doole, Stacy and Voss to US 67 at Valera, a distance of approximately 39.2 miles. (McCulloch and Coleman Counties)  Extended northward approximately 6.8 miles  to end of FM 566. FM 566 canceled and combined adding approximately 14.2 miles, a total increase of approximately 21.0 miles.



Minute Order 054573, dated 05/06/1964, Adm. Cir., 062-1964, dated 06/01/1964

From US 87, 2.5 miles northwest of Melvin northward via Salt Gap, Doole, Stacy, Voss and Valera to FM 53 a distance of approximately 46.2 miles. (McCulloch and Coleman Counties)  Extended northward approximately 7.1 miles from US 67 to FM 53.



Minute Order 068805, dated 05/07/1974; Adm. Cir., 049-1974, dated 06/20/1974

From near White Chapel, southward approx. 48.0 miles via Valera, Voss, Stacy, Doole, and Salt Gap to US 87, northwest of Melvin. (Coleman and McCulloch Counties)  Extended northward approximately 2.4 miles from FM 53.


 

[Ray C. Stoker, Jr., Highway--FM 503 from Valera to FM 1929 and FM 1929 from FM 503 to US 83.  Acts. 1997, 75th Leg., eff. Sept. 1, 1997]