Highway Designation File

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


Certified Mileage (Open to Traffic)
3.794 2010

FARM TO MARKET ROAD NO. 579

Minute Order 021215, dated 07/21/1945 (date of agreement)

From SH 67, 9.0 miles south of Breckenridge, eastward 4.5 miles to the Wayland/Necessity Road (Stephens County).  New Designation



Minute Order 023692, Adm. Cir. 019-1948, dated 08/01/1947

Canceled. (Stephens County)  Canceled and FM 701 substituted for this road. 



Minute Order 030211, dated 05/23/1951

From US 62, 3 miles south of Floydada westward to a road intersection, a distance of approximately 4.1 miles. (Floyd County)  New Designation



Minute Order 031197, dated 11/20/1951

From FM 784 east via Blanco School to US  62, 3.0 miles south of Floydada, a distance of approximately 8.8 miles. (Floyd County)  Extended approximately 4.7 miles to FM 784.



Adm. Auth., dated 12/21/1959, Adm. Cir. 015-1960, dated 01/15/1960

From FM 789 approximately 4 miles north of Petersburg eastward to FM 378, and from another point on FM  78 eastward to US 62 approximately 3 miles south of Floydada, a total distance of approximately 13.0 miles.  (Hale and Floyd Counties)  Section of FM 784 from FM 789 eastward to FM 378 transferred to this FM, adding approximately 4.5 miles.



Minute Order 0 61145, dated 07/11/1968, Adm. Cir. 064-1968, dated 08/15/1968

From FM 400, 5 miles north of FM 54, eastward to FM 789, and from another point on FM 789, eastward to FM 378, and from another point on FM 378, eastward to US 62, 3 miles south of Floydada, a total distance of approximately 18.9 miles. (Hale and Floyd Counties)  Section from FM 400 eastward  approximately 6.0 miles to FM 789 added.



Adm, Auth., Adm. Cir. 053-1966, dated 09/19/1966

Canceled. (Hale and Floyd Counties)  Combined with FM 37.



Minute Order 076308, dated 09/26/1979, Adm. Ltr. 11-1979, dated 11/15/1979

From FM 1119, approximately 2.5 miles southeast of FM 977 (Spillers Community), southward to Madison County Line, a distance of approximately 2.9 miles. (Leon County)  New Designation



Minute Order 078948, dated 10/21/1981, Adm. Ltr. 01-1982, dated 01/18/1982

From FM 1119, approx. 2.5 miles southeast of FM 977, southward to Old San Antonio Road (OSR), a distance of approximately 3.6 miles. (Madison County)   Route extended from Leon County Line southward  to OSR.