Highway Designation File

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


Certified Mileage (Open to Traffic)
315.944 2010

STATE HIGHWAY NO. 70

Minute Order 016701, dated 09/26/1939

From a connection with US 67 east of San Angelo via Tennyson, Bronte, Sweetwater, Rotan, to a point on US 380 near Jayton, then follow US 380 to Jayton, and then from Jayton to Dickens.  General redescription of Highway System.



Adm. Order, dated 10/10/1947

From connection with US 67 east of San Angelo via Tennyson, Bronte, Sweetwater & Rotan to a point on US 380 near Jayton, then follow US 380 to Jayton and then from Jayton via Dickens, Matador, Turkey, Clarenden, and Jericho to a point on US 66, 1 mile north of Jericho, thence follow US 66, 4 miles westward, thence northward via Pampa to Perryton. Section from Dickens to Matador added; also all of SH 18 assigned SH 70.



Minute Order 024482, dated 02/12/1948

From Bronte via Sweetwater and Rotan to a point on US 380 near Jayton, then follow US 380 to Jayton, and then from Jayton via Dickens, Matador, Turkey, Clarendon, and Jericho to a point on US 66, 1 mile north of Jericho, thence follow US 66, 4 miles westward, thence northward via Pampa to Perryton. Section from junction US 67 east of San Angelo to Bronte transferred to US 277.



Adm. Order, dated 07/27/1948

From US 277, approximately 9 miles north of Bronte via Sweetwater and Rotan to a point on US 380 near Jayton, then follow US 380 to Jayton and then from Jayton via Dickens, Matador, Turkey, Clarendon, and Jericho to a point on US 66, 1 mile north of Jericho, thence follow US 66, 4 miles westward, thence northward via Pampa to Perryton.  Correction in description.



Minute Order 090522, dated 06/21/1990; Adm. Ltr. 001-1991, dated 01/14/1991

From US 277 approximately 9.0 miles north of Bronte northward to IH 20 in Sweetwater, and then from another point on IH 20 in Sweetwater via Roby and Rotan to a point on US 380, and then from another point on US 380 in Jayton northward via Dickens, Matador, Turkey, and Clarendon to a point on IH 40, and then from another point on IH 40 northward via Pampa to SH 15 in Perryton, a total distance of approximately 327.0 miles.  (Ochiltree, Roberts, Gray, Donley, Briscoe, Hall, Motley, Dickens, Kent, Fisher, Nolan, and Coke Counties)  New description; section of approximately 4.2 miles from IH 20 in Sweetwater northward to junction of BS 70-G and SH 70 transferred to BS 70-G.



Minute Order 090669, dated 08/29/1990; Adm. Ltr. 003-1990, dated 12/18/1990

From SH 15 in Perryton southward via Pampa, Clarendon, Turkey, Matador, Dickens, Jayton, Rotan, Roby to IH 20 east of Sweetwater; and from another point on IH 20 south of Sweetwater, southward via Blackwell to US 277, a total approximate distance of 342.0 miles.  (Ochiltree, Roberts, Gray, Donley, Hall, Briscoe, Motley, Dickens, Kent, Fisher, Nolan, and Coke Counties)  New description; section of approximately 4.2 miles, from a point on SH 70 south to IH 20 transferred to BS 70-G in Sweetwater.