Highway Designation File

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


Certified Mileage (Open to Traffic)
8.652 2010

STATE HIGHWAY LOOP NO. 197

Minute Order 020262, dated 10/06/1943; Adm. Cir. 006-1948

Independence Spur - From FM 50 in Independence, westward to Old Baylor University Ruins, a distance of 0.39 mile.  (Washington County) New designation; formerly portion of SH 211.



Adm. Auth., dated 03/13/1958; Adm. Cir. 017-1958, dated 04/01/1958

Cancelled.  (Washington County)  Mileage transferred to FM 390, a decrease of 0.39 mile (system transfer).



Minute Order 047178, dated 02/05/1960; Adm. Cir. 02/15/1960; Desig 005-1960

Texas City Loop - From SH 146 in northwest Texas City, eastward, southward, and southwestward to SH 146 near US 75.  (Galveston County) New designation; mileage transferred from old location of SH 146.



Minute Order 113299, dated 9/27/2012; DesLtr 3-2012, dated 10/15/2012

Canceled. The northern segment of route from SH 146 to 19th Avenue was removed and transferred to Texas City, a distance of approximately 3.45 miles; the remaining segment from 19th Avenue southward to SH 146 was redesignated as SS 197, a distance of approximately 5.2 miles.