Highway Designation File

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


Certified Mileage (Open to Traffic)
253.199 2010

STATE HIGHWAY NO. 71

Minute Order 016701, dated 09/26/1939

From Bastrop via Smithville, La Grange, Columbus, El Campo, and Midfield to a point on SH 35.  General redescription of Highway System.



Minute Order 030401, dated 05/23/1951 and Minute Order 049608, dated 05/30/1961

From Austin southeastward via Bastrop, Smithville, La Grange, Columbus, El Campo and Midfield to SH 35.  New description; extended from Bastrop to Austin.



Minute Order 056537, dated 08/31/1965 and Minute Order 056561, dated 09/01/1965; Adm. Cir. 089-1965, dated 09/01/1965

From Brady, southeastward via Llano, Austin, Bastrop, Smithville, LaGrange, Columbus, El Campo and Midfield to SH 35.  Extended from Austin to Brady.  RM 93 cancelled and combined.  R.M. 734 cancelled and combined effective 01/01/1966.



Adm. Auth., dated 02/05/1982; Adm. Ltr. 002-1982, dated 02/16/1982

From US 87, approximately 2.0 miles south of Brady, southeastward via Llano to US 290 southwest of Austin; thence along US 290 to IH 35 and US 290; thence southeastward via Bastrop, Smithville, and La Grange to IH 10, approximately 2.0 miles west of Columbus; and from another point on IH 10 south of Columbus via El Campo and Midfield to SH 35, approximately 1.5 miles east of Blessing.  (McCulloch, San Saba, Mason, Llano, Burnet, Blanco, Travis, Bastrop, Fayette, Colorado, Wharton, and Matagorda Counties) New description; redescribed to show relocation at Columbus.


 

[10th Mountain Division Highway--US 290 from IH 35 to SH 95; the part of SH 95 from US 290 to SH 71; the part of SH 71 from SH 95 to IH 35.  Acts 1995, 74th Leg., eff. Sept. 1, 1995]