Highway Designation File

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


Certified Mileage (Open to Traffic)
81.93 2010

RANCH TO MARKET ROAD NO. 187

Minute Order 021215, dated 06/11/1945 (date of Agreement)

From Sabinal to Utopia and thence to the Bandera County Line. New Designation.



Minute Order 0212115, dated 06/25/1945 (Date of Agreement)

From Sabinal via Utopia to Vanderpool (Uvalde Banders. Counties). Extended from the Bandera County Line north to Vanderpool.



Minute Order 024750, dated 04/01/1948, Adm. Cir., 019-1948

From Sabinal via Utopia to Vanderpool; and from Garner Field to junction US 90 near Uvalde. (Banders, and Uvalde Counties)  Section from Uvalde to Garner Field 1.8 miles added. 



Minute Orders 025801, 025802 dated 11/23/1948, Adm. Order dated 12/20/1948

From Vanderpool via Utopia to junction SH 127 in Sabinal and from another Point on SH 127 and US 90 at Sabinal south a distance of approximately 4.3 miles. (Bandera and Uvalde Counties)  Extended south of Sabinal 4.3 miles. Section from Garner Field to Uvalde canceled and reassigned FM 1023.



Minute Order 027133, dated 07/15/1949

From Vanderpool via Utopia to junction SH 127 in Sabinal, and from another point on SH  127 and US 90 at Sabinal south a distance of approximately 11.0 miles. (Bandera and Uvalde Counties)  Extended 6.7 miles south.



Minute Order 035836, dated 03/24/1954, Adm. Cir., 026-1954, dated 06/01/1954

From Vanderpool via Utopia to junction SH  127 in Sabinal and from another point, the junction SH 127 and US 90 in Sabinal, southward to a junction with FM 140 , a distance of approximately 48.0 miles. (Bandera, Uvalde, and Zavala Counties)  Extended approximately 6.0 miles southward from 10.7 miles smith of Sabinal to junction FM 140.



Minute Order 051224, dated 05/02/1962, Adm. Cir., 081-1962, dated 06/01/1962

From a point north of Vanderpool, southward via Vanderpool and Utopia to SH 127 in Sabinal; and from another point at SH 127 and US 90 in Sabinal, southward to FM 140, a total distance of approximately 54.8 miles. (Bandera, Uvalde and Zavala Counties)  Extended northward approximately 4.5 miles.



Minute Orders 053103,053107 dated 06/28/1963, Adm. Cir., 119-1963, dated 08/01/1963

From SH 39 southward via Vanderpool and Utopia to SH 127 in Sabinal; and from another point at SH 127 and US 90 in Sabinal, southward to FM 140, a total distance of approximately 67.7 miles. (Kerr, Bandera, Uvalde and Zavala Counties)  Extended northward approximately 12.9 miles to SH 39.



Minute Order 059589, dated 06/02/1967, Adm. Auth., dated 06/21/1967, Adm. Cir., 065-1967, dated 07/01/1967

From SH 39 southward via Vanderpool and Utopia, to SH 127 in Sabinal; and from a point on SH 127 and US 90 in Sabinal, southward to FM 140; and from another point on FM 140, southwestward  to SH 76, 1 mile east of Batesville, a total distance of approximately 82.9 miles. (Kerr, Bandera, Uvalde and Zavala Counties) (New Description)  New designation from FM 140 southwest approximately 8.5 miles to end of FM 2557; FM 2557 combined, adding approx. 5.0 miles. Effective upon completion of construction authorized by Minute Order 059589, dated (06/02/1967).



Minute Order 059589, dated 06/02/1967, Adm. Auth., dated 06/21/1967, Adm,. Cir., dated 07/01/1967

No description.  Adm. Cir. 065-1967, dated July 01/01/1967, should have shown the southern terminus as SH 57 instead of SH 76.



Minute Order 064166, 08/31/1970; Adm. Ltr. 006-1978, dated 06/15/1978

From SH 39 southward via Vanderpool and Utopia to SH 127 in Sabinal; and from SH 127 and US 90 in Sabinal, southward to FM 140; and from another point on FM 140, southwestward to US 57, 1.0 mile east of Batesville, a total distance of approx. 81.9 miles. (Kerr, Bandera, Uvalde, and Zavala Counties)  Southern terminus redescribed as US 57.