Highway Designation File

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


Certified Mileage (Open to Traffic)
27.545 2010

FARM TO MARKET ROAD NO. 563

Minute Order 021215, dated 07/09/1945 (date of agreement)

Form Turtle Bayou to the Liberty/Wallisville Road, crossing, SH 73 near Eminence (Chambers County).  New Designation.



Minute Orders 023829 and 024617, dated 09/09/1947, Adm. Cir., 013-1948

From Liberty (in Libertv County) southward via the community of Eminence (in Chambers County) and thence to an intersection with SH 61 at or near Anahuac, a total distance of approximately 26.0 miles. (Liberty and Chambers Counties)  Extended northward from Liberty/Wallisville Road to Liberty and extended south from Turtle Bayou to Anahuac.



Minute Order 048484, dated 09/27/1960; Adm. Auth., dated 03/31/1965; Adm. Cir. 035-1965, dated 04/15/1965

From Liberty, southward via Eminence, a distance of approx. 27.6 miles. (Liberty and Chambers Counties)  Extended south from SH 61 approximately 4.0 miles.