Highway Designation File

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


Certified Mileage (Open to Traffic)
111.733 2010

STATE HIGHWAY NO. 72

Minute Order 016701, dated 09/26/1939

From Cuero via Yorktown, Runge, Kenedy, Three Rivers, Tilden, and Fowlerton to Cotulla.   General redescription of Highway System.



Minute Order 019485, dated 06/23/1942

From Cuero via Yorktown, Runge and Kenedy to Three Rivers; and from Fowlerton to Cotulla.  Cancel section from Three Rivers via Tilden to Fowlerton.



Minute Order 019541, dated 07/31/1942

From Cuero via Yorktown, Runge, and Kenedy to Three Rivers.  Cancel section from Fowlerton to Cotulla; made part of SH 97.



Minute Order 048815, dated 12/15/1960; Adm. Cir. 005-1961, dated 01/03/1961

From Cuero via Yorktown, Runge, Kenedy, Three Rivers, Calliham and Tilden to SH 97 near Fowlerton.  FM 63 cancelled and combined, a system transfer of approx. 38.2 miles.



Minute Order 103550, dated 03/31/1994 ; dated DesLtr 03-1994, dated 06/03/1994

From the intersection of US 87 (Esplanade St) and Heaton St in Cuero, westward and southwestward via Yorktown, Runge, Kenedy, Three Rivers, Calliham, and Tilden, to SH 97 near Fowlerton.  (DeWitt, Karnes, Bee, Live Oak, McMullen, and LaSalle Counties)  New description; as requested by District, SH 72 re-routed to west of Cuero; FM 3402 cancelled and combined, a system transfer of approx. 3.8 miles.  Concurrent routing of SH 72 and US 87, from their junction to US 87/US 183 in Cuero, cancelled.