Highway Designation File

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


Certified Mileage (Open to Traffic)
4.358 2010

FARM TO MARKET ROAD NO. 1539

Minute Order 027545, dated 09/28/1949

From US 59, 2.0 miles north of junction with SH 44, eastward to a county road, a distance of approximately 3.5 miles. (Jim Wells County)  New Designation.



Minute Order 035107, dated 10/28/1953

From US 99 eastward and southward to SH 44, 1.0 mile west of Nueces County Line, a distance of approximately 6.1 miles. (Jim Wells County) Extended approximately 3.1 miles to SH 44.



Adm. Auth., dated 04/12/1957; Adm. Cir., 042-1957, dated 10/01/1957

From SH 359 northeast of Alice, eastward to FM 2044, a distance of approximately 4.4 miles. (Jim Wells County)  Western terminus redescribed as SH 355 due to relocation of US 59. Mileage from present FM 2044 southward to SH 44 transferred to FM 260, a decrease of approximately 1.8 miles.