Highway Designation File

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


Certified Mileage (Open to Traffic)
10.707 2010

FARM TO MARKET ROAD NO. 1279

Minute Order 027014, dated 07/14/1949

From SH 87 near Patroon to a road Junction near Hawthorne, a distance of approximately 3.7 miles. (Shelby County)  New Designation.



Minute Order 031606, dated 01/18/1952

From old route of US 96 north of San Augustine eastward via Hawthorne to SH 87 near Patroon, a distance of approximately 7.2 miles. (San Augustine and Shelby Counties)  Extended approximately 3.7 miles to old route of US 96.



Minute Order 046872, dated 11/24/1959; Adm. Cir., 024-1960, dated 02/01/1960

From US 96 approximately 4.0 miles north of San Augustine, eastward to SH 147 approximately 4.0 miles north of San Augustine; and from another point on SH 147 approximately 5 miles north of San Augustine, eastward via Hawthorne to SH 87 near Patroon, a total distance of approximately 10.9 miles. (San Augustine and Shelby Counties)  Extended westward approximately 3.7 miles from SH 147 to US 96.