Highway Designation File

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


Certified Mileage (Open to Traffic)
97.34 2010

STATE HIGHWAY NO. 173

Minute Order 016701, dated 09/26/1939

From Hondo, Devine, Jourdanton, Tilden, and Freer to Hebbronville. General redescription of Highway System.



Minute Order 018970, dated 01/29/1942

From Hondo, Devine, Jourdanton and Tilden to Freer.  Freer to Hebbronville cancelled.



Minute Order 056529, dated 08/31/1965; Adm. Cir. 089-1965, dated 09/01/1965

From Hondo southeastward, via Devine to SH 16 north of Jourdanton.  (Medina, Frio, and Atascosa Counties)  Section from present junction with SH 34 north of Jourdanton southward to Freer transferred to SH 16.



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

From SH 16 south of Kerrville, southward via Bandera, Hondo, Devine to SH 16 north of Jourdanton, a distance of approximately 103.0 miles.  (Kerr, Bandera, Medina, Frio, and Atascosa Counties)  New description; section of approximately 2.0 miles from SH 16 southward to SL 534 transferred from SL 534; and section of approximately 49.5 miles from SL 534 southward to US 90 transferred from FM 689.


 

[173d Airborne Brigade Memorial Highway--SH 173 between its intersection with SH 16 near Kerrville and its intersection with SH 16 near Jourdanton.  Acts 2003, 78th Leg., ch. 449, § 1, eff. June 20, 2003]