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

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Certified Mileage (Open to Traffic)

41.158

2010

FARM TO MARKET ROAD NO. 1488

Minute Order 027336, dated 07/22/1949

From US 290 near Hempstead northeastward to FM 1093 north of Prairie View College, a distance of approximately 5.8 miles.  (Waller County) New Designation

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Minute Order 033444, dated 12/17/1952, Adm. Auth., dated 01/16/1953

From US 290 east of Hempstead northeastward and eastward via Fields Store School to Montgomery County Line, a distance of approximately 20.0 miles. (Waller and Harris Counties)  Extended approximately 8.5 miles to Montgomery County Line. Section of approximately 6.0 miles transferred from FM  1098.

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Minute Order 033368, dated 12/17/1952

From US 290 east of Hempstead northeastward and eastward via Fields Store School and Magnolia to FM 149 and from another point on FM 149 eastward to US 75, 41.8 miles.  (Waller, Harris, and Montgomery Counties) Extended approximately 21.8 miles to US 75.

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Minute Order 061645, dated 11/01/1968, Adm. Cir. 096-1968, dated 12/02/1968

From US 290 east of Hempstead, northeastward and eastward via Magnolia approximately 42.6 miles to US 75. (Waller, Harris, and Montgomery Counties)  Section of approximately 0.8 mile of old location FM 149 transferred to this FM. 

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Minute Order 115502, dated 05/30/2019

In and around the city of Magnolia, FM 1488 was designated on a new location on the state highway system from approximately 1.8 miles west of Magnolia, northward and eastward to the intersection of proposed SH 249, a distance of approximately 4.2 miles^a. FM 1488 was also designated on the state highway system concurrently with proposed SH 249 from the intersection of proposed FM 1488 and proposed SH 249, southward to the intersection of existing FM 1488, a distance of approximately 0.9 miles^b. Existing FM 1488 was redesignated as Business FM 1488-P on the state highway system from approximately 1.8 miles west of Magnolia northeastward to the intersection of proposed SH 249, a distance of approximately 3.4 miles^c. (Montgomery County)

• a - Rerouting (Partial Route): On New Location
• b - Rerouting (Partial Route): Along Concurrency
• c - Redesignation (Partial Route)

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