Highway Designation File
Transportation Planning and Programming Division
Current Description-Effective Date-Authority
| 15.385 | 2010 |
FARM TO MARKET ROAD NO. 494
Minute Order 021215, dated 06/26/1945 (Date of Agreement)
From SH 107, approximately 6.5 miles west of Edinburg, southward 3.5 miles; and from SH 107, 5.0 miles north of Mission, eastward 2.5 miles. (Hidalgo County) New Designation.
Minute Order 021215, dated 06/26/1945 (Date of Agreement)
From SH 107,approximately 6.5 miles west of Edinburg, southward 3.5 miles. (Hidalgo County) Revision to clarify description (see FM 676).
Minute Order 035991, dated 04/20/1954; Adm. Cir. 026-1954, dated 06/01/1954
From SH 107, approximately 6.5 miles west of Edinburg, southward to US 83, 0.5 mile west of Sharyland, a distance of approximately 7.4 miles. (Hidalgo County) Extended approximately 4.0 miles southward to junction US 83.
Minute Order 041459, dated 12/14/1956; Adm. Cir. 020-1957, dated 03/15/1957
From SH 107 approximately 6.5 miles west of Edinburg, southward to FM 1016 southeast of Madero, a distance of approximately 11.5 miles. (Hidalgo County) Extended southward approx. 4.1 miles.
Minute Order 061269, dated 07/11/1968; Adm. Cir. 064-1968, dated 08/15/1968
From SH 107, 6.5 miles west of Edinburg, southward and northwestward approximately 15.0 miles via Granjeno to FM 1016, 1 mile southeast of Madero. (Hidalgo County) Extended southward and northwestward approx. 3.6 miles from FM 1016 and FM 494 to FM 1016.
Adm. Auth., dated 10/15/1985; Adm. Ltr. 004-1986, dated 01/18/1986
From SH 107, 6.5 miles west of Edinburg, southward and northwestward approximately 15.5 miles via Granjeno to FM 1016, 1.5 mile southeast of Madero. (Hidalgo County) New description; as requested by District section of approx. 0.4 mile transferred from old location FM 1016 to FM 494, southeast of Madero.
Minute Order 105686, dated 06/27/1995; DesLtr 03-1995, dated 06/30/1995
Minute Order 115371, dated 11/15/2018 (Rescinds Minute Order 105686)
Minute Order 105686: Cancelled. (Hidalgo County) Mileage transferred to UR 494. ["Transferred" mileage was described on the Highway Designation File page for UR 494 as "From SH 107 southward and northwestward to UR 1016 [FM 1016], a distance of approx. 15.407 miles."]
Minute Order 115371 general description: Minute Order 115371 rescinds Minute Order 105686. The result of this rescission is the elimination of the Urban Road (UR) system. The Farm to Market (FM) and Ranch to Market (RM) roadways which were intended to be redesignated as Urban Roads under the provisions of Minute Order 105686 revert back to their FM/RM designations. Minute Order 115371 declares that the provisions of Minute Order 105686 were never implemented, and although the UR designations were in effect during the interim between these two Minute Orders, the affected roadways continued to be referred to by their FM or RM designations. Only the Highway Designation Files made reference to the UR designations during this interim period. Upon the passing of Minute Order 115371, the affected Highway Designation Files have been updated retroactively to reflect the FM/RM designations.
Minute Order 115371 as it affects FM 494: Any mileage that was previously described as "transferred to UR 494" reverts back to FM 494.
This is retroactive to the date of passage of Minute Order 105686. The Highway Designation File page for UR 494 has been removed.
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