Highway Designation File

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


Certified Mileage (Open to Traffic)
4.279 2010

FARM TO MARKET ROAD NO. 1561

Minute Order 027732, dated 11/30/1949

From FM 681 at McCook westward to the Starr County Line, a distance of approximately 4.8 miles. (Hidalgo County)  New Designation



Minute Order 031293, dated 11/20/1951

From FM 755, 13.0 miles northeast of Rio Grande City eastward to FM 661 at McCook, a distance of approximately 19.3 miles. (Starr and Hidalgo Counties)  Extended approximately 14.5 miles westward to FM 755.



Adm. Auth., dated 02/07/1958, Adm. Cir. 009-1958, dated 02/15/1958

Canceled. (Starr and Hidalgo Counties)  Mileage transferred to FM 490, a decrease of approximately 19.3 miles.



Minute Order 044944, dated 10/31/1958, Adm. Cir. 028-1959, dated 02/15/1959

From FM 523 at Stratton Ridge northeastward a distance of approximately 5.8 miles. (Brazoria County)  New Designation


dated 01/01/1960

From FM 523 at Stratton Ridge northeastward to Danbury Road, a distance of approximately 8.6 miles. (Brazoria County)  Extended northeastward approximately 2.8 miles.



Minute Order 049606, dated 05/30/1961, Adm. Auth., dated 12/05/1961, Adm. Cir. 181-1961, dated 12/11/1961

From SH 288, 6.0 miles south of Angleton, northeastward across Bastrop Bayou and FM 523 and eastward along a location south of the Monsanto Plant Site and northeastward to SH 6 at Alta Loma, a distance of approximately 30.7 miles. (Brazoria and Galveston Counties)  Existing designation from FM 523 at Stratton Ridge northeastward approximately 8.6 miles canceled. New designation from SH 288 eastward approximately 23.8 miles to end of FM 646 at Galveston County Line section of FM 646 from Galveston County Line northeastward approximately 6.9 miles to SH 6 transferred to this FM.



Adm. Auth., dated 10/08/1964, Adm. Cir. 111-1964, dated 10/15/1964

Canceled. (Brazoria and Galveston Counties)  Section from SH 6 at Alta Loma southward approximately 3.8 miles transferred to FM 646.  Section from a point approximately 3.8 miles south of SH 6, southwestward approximately 26.9 miles to SH 288 transferred to FM 2004.



Minute Order 056209, dated 06/01/1965, Adm. Cir. 089-1965, dated 09/01/1965

From SH 345, 3.0 miles south of FM 106, eastward approximately 4.4 miles to FM 803. (Cameron County)  New Designation