Highway Designation File
Transportation Planning and Programming Division
Current Description-Effective Date-Authority
43.318 | 2010 |
FARM TO MARKET ROAD NO. 979
Minute Order 025777, date 11/23/1948
From junction SH 6 at Calvert to junction FM 392 near Owensville, a total distance of approximately 10.9 miles. (Robertson County) New Designation
From Brazos River Bridge eastward to SH 6 in Calvert, thence northeastward to FM 392, a distance of approximately 15.7 miles. (Robertson County) Extended approximately 5.0 miles to Brazos River Bridge.
From Brazos River Bridge eastward to SH 6 in Calvert, thence northeastward to FM 46, and from another point on FM 46 near Owensville Church northeastward via Bald Prairie to SH 7, a total distance of approximately 32.2 miles. (Robertson County) Section of FM 2293 from FM 46 northeastward approximately 5.2 miles to present FM 2514 transferred to this FM. FM 2514 canceled and combined adding approximately 12.5 miles.
From SH 7, southwestward via Bald Prairie to FM 46, and from another point on FM 46, southwestward via Calvert and Jones Prairie to US 190, 2 miles west of Maysfield, a total distance of approximately 43.3 miles. (Robertson and Milam Counties) Extended southwestward approximately 2.2 miles to end of FM 2347. FM 2347 combined adding approximately 9.6 miles.
From SH 7 southwestward via Bald Prairie to FM 46, and from another point on FM 46, southwestward via Calvert and Jones Prairie to FM 485 west of Maysfield, a total distance of approximately 43.3 miles. (Robertson and Milam Counties) Old location US 190 redesignated FM 485. Effective 01/01/1976.