Highway Designation File

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


Certified Mileage (Open to Traffic)
4.049 2010

STATE HIGHWAY LOOP NO. 279

Minute Order 036147, dated 05/25/1954; Adm. Circ. 028-1954, dated 06/15/1954

Amarillo Loop - From US 66 near the west edge of Amarillo, eastward along Bushman Blvd and South Sixth Ave to US 87, a distance of approx. 4.0 miles. (Potter County)  New designation; for the convenience of the traveling public, SL 279 and that section of US 87 along Filmore, from S. 6th Ave northward to junction US 66, to be signed as business route of US 66.