Highway Designation File

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


Certified Mileage (Open to Traffic)
36.187 2010

FARM TO MARKET ROAD NO. 709

Minute Order 021746, dated 02/20/1947 (date of agreement 04/01/1947)

From SH 31 at Dawson via Pickett to junction SH 31 at Corsicana. (Navarro County)  New Designation. (Relocation of SH 31 requires this section of old SH 31 be retained on State System)



Adm.Order, dated 11/10/1947

From a point on SH 31 near the north city limits of Dawson at Fullerton Avenue, thence southward to intersect old SH 31 at Corsicana Avenue in Dawson, thence along old SH 31 to junction SH 31 in Corsicana. (Navarro County)  SS 138 added to FM 709.



Adm. Auth., dated 10/29/1962, Adm. Cir., 173-1962

From SH 31 in Corsicana southwestward and northward to SH 31 at Dawson; and from another point on SH 31 at Dawson, northward a total distance of approximately 29.1 miles. (Navarro County)  Section of FM 639 from SH 31 at Dawson northward approximately 3.7 miles transferred to this FM.



Minute Order 056188, dated 06/01/1965; Adm. Cir., 061-1965, dated 07/01/1965

From SH 31 in Corsicana, southwestward and northward to SH 31 at Dawson; and from another point on SH 31 at Dawson, northward, westward, and southward to SH 31, a total distance of approx. 36.9 miles. (Navarro County) Extended westward and southward approximately 7.8 miles.