Highway Designation File

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


Certified Mileage (Open to Traffic)
13.685 2010

FARM TO MARKET ROAD NO. 972

Minute Order 025821, dated 11/23/1948

From US 81 north of Georgetown through Walburg to a road intersection east of Walburg, a distance of approximately 5.3 miles. (Williamson County) New Designation



Minute Order 044971, dated 10/31/1958, Adm. Auth., dated 11/26/1950, Adm. Cir. 008-1959, dated 01/01/1959

From US 81 north of Georgetown, eastward via Walburg and Granger to Friendship, a distance of approximately 22.3 miles. (Williamson County) Extended eastward approximately 10.3 mile to SH 95 in Granger.  FM 971 canceled and combined, adding approximately 7.2 miles. 



Minute Order 046341, dated 07/28/1959, Adm. Auth., dated 08/18/1959, Adm. Cir. 153-1959, dated 05/01/1959

From US 81 north of Georgetown eastward via Walburg to a road intersection, a distance of approximately 5.0 miles. (Williamson County)  Section from a point approximately 5.0 miles east of US 81 eastward  approximately 10.3 miles to SH 55 in Granger canceled, section from SH 55 in Granger eastward approximately 7.0 mile, to Friendship transferred to FM 971, a total decrease of approximately 17.3 miles.



Minute Order 046741, dated 11/24/1959, Adm. Cir. 221-1959, dated 12/15/1959

From US 81 north of Georgetown, eastward via Walburg to SH 95 approximately 2.1 miles north of Granger, a distance of approximately 14.2 miles. (Williamson County)   Extended eastward approximately 9.2 miles to SH 95.