Highway Designation File

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


Certified Mileage (Open to Traffic)
41.282 2010

FARM TO MARKET ROAD NO. 789

Minute Order 024795, dated 05/07/1948

Minute Order 024795 canceled and replaced by Minute Order 024975.


From US 70, 4.5 miles east of Plainview, southward and eastward to road intersection south of Bellview School, a distance of approximately 6.8 miles. (Hale County)  New Designation



Minute Order 035358, dated 12/02/1955, Adm. Auth., dated 02/30/1953

From US 70, 4.5 miles east of Plainview, southward to FM 54, and from another point on FM 54 southward through Petersburg and eastward to 1.0 mile west of Estacado, a distance of approximately 31.8 miles. (Hale and Lubbock Counties)  Extended approximately 25.2 miles southward to west of Estacado, 17.5 miles of which transferred from canceled FM 1314.



Minute Order 042879, dated 10/31/1957, Adm. Cir.  049-1957, dated 12/01/1957

From US 70 approximately 4.5 miles east of Plainview, southward to FM 54, and from another point on FM 54 southward via Petersburg to US 62 east of Idalou, a distance of approximately 37.2 miles. (Hale and Lubbock Counties) Extended southward approximately 5.5 miles to US 62.



Minute Order 046331, dated 07/28/1955, Adm. Cir. 153-1959, dated 09/01/1959

 From US 76 approximately 4.5 miles east of Plainview southward to FM 54, and from another point on FM 54 southward via Petersburg to US 62 east of Idalou, a distance of approximately 36.3 miles. (Hale and Lubbock Counties)  Section from present junction with FM 1527 westward approximately 1.0 mile transferred to FM 1527.  Section from present junction with FM 1527 southward approximately 5.5 miles to US 62 canceled. Extended southward approximately 5.6 miles from new junction with FM 1527 to US 62, a decrease of approximately 0.9 mile.



Minute Order 057538, dated 05/05/1966, Adm. Cir. 057-1966, dated 06/01/1966

From US 70, 4.5 miles east of Plainview, southward to FM 54, and from another point on FM 54, southward via Petersburg to US 62 east of Idalou, and from another point on US 62, southward to FM 40, a total distance of approximately 41.3 miles. (Hale and Lubbock Counties)  Section from US 62 southward approximately 5.0 miles to FM 40 added.