Highway Designation File

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


Certified Mileage (Open to Traffic)
1.415 2010

FARM TO MARKET ROAD NO. 1543

Minute Order 027562, dated 09/28/1949

From US 80 southeastward to Dennis, a distance of  approximately  7.8 miles. (Parker County)  New Designation.



Minute Order 046769, dated 11/24/1959, Adm. Auth., dated 12/15/1959 Adm. Cir., 015-1960, dated 01/15/1960

From US 80 southwest of Weatherford, southward via Brock to FM 4 approximately 4.0 miles east of Lipan, with a spur connection of approximately 0.5 mile to Dennis, a total distance of approximately 18.2 miles.  (Parker and Hood Counties)  Extended southward approximately 1.1 miles a point approximately 0.5 mile northeast of Dennis to the end of FM 2477; FM 2477 canceled and combined adding approximately 9.7 miles.



Adm. Auth., dated 12/20/1984; Adm. Ltr., 002-1985, dated 02/15/1985

From FM 1189 southward approximately 1.4 miles to FM 4. (Hood County) Approximately 15.7 miles of FM 1543 from junction FM 1189 northward to IH 20 transferred to FM 1189, with a spur connection at Dennis.