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

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Certified Mileage (Open to Traffic)

150.45

2010

U. S. HIGHWAY NO. 283

0rginal Description per Administrative Circular No 16-1944

07/01/1932 - Elmer 25, Vernon 49, Seymour 32, Throckmorton 35, Albany 35, Cisco 20, Rising Star 31, Brownwood.

03/01/1935 - Elmer 25, Vernon 49, Seymour 32, Throckmorton 35, Albany 35, Cisco 20, Rising Star 31, Brownwood.

01/01/1939 - Elmer 25, Vernon 49, Seyrnour 32, Throckmorton 35, Albany 35, Cisco 20, Rising Star 31, Brownwood.

05/01/1942 - Vernon 44, Seymour 30, Throckmorton 34, Albany 35 Cisco 20, Rising Star 27, Brownwood 47, Brady 30, Mason 44, to a connection with US 83 at Junction.

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Minute Order 016701, dated 09/26/1939

From the Texas/Oklahoma State Line near Vernon via Vernon, Mabelle, Seymour, Throckmorton, Albany, Cisco, Rising Star, Brownwood, Brady, and Mason to a point on US 83 at Junction.  General redescription of Highway System.

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Minute Order 030402, 05/23/1951; AASHTO Approval 10/21/1951

From the Texas/Oklahoma S/L, 20.0 miles north of Vernon, southward via Vernon, Seymour, Albany, Baird, Coleman to Brady. (Wilbarger, Baylor, Throckmorton, Shackelford, Callahan, Coleman, and McCulloch Counties)  Section between Albany and Junction rerouted to between Albany and Brady.

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Minute Order #110672, dated 08/24/2006; DesLtr 4-2006, dated 12/15/2006; APPROVED BY AASHTO, the Special Committee on U.S. Route Numbering & the Standing Committee on Highways, dated 10/27/2006

No change to description. (Wilbarger, Baylor, Throckmorton, Shackelford, Callahan, Coleman, and McCulloch Counties) At district’s request, designated US 277 on the state highway system along a new location, from the new intersection of US 183, westward, and southward to 1.2 miles southwest of the existing intersection of US 183, a distance of approximately 1.5 miles; designated US 183 concurrent with US 277 and US 283 on the state highway system along a new location, from the intersection of US 277 eastward and northward to the intersection of US 82, a distance of approximately 4.5 miles; removed the former segment of US 277 from the state highway system and returned to Baylor County for control, jurisdiction, and maintenance, from 1.2 miles southwest of the existing intersection of US 183 northeastward to the intersection of US 183, a distance of approximately 1.2 miles; redesignated former location of US 183, US 277, and US 283 as BU 183-B, BU 277-C, BU 283-B, and SS 334; designated a new location on the state highway system as BU 183-B, BU 277-C and BU 283-B; BU 183-B concurrent with BU 277-C and BU 283-B from the northern intersection of US 183, southwestward and southward to the southern intersection of US 183, a distance of approximately 3.3 miles.

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