Highway Designation File
Transportation Planning and Programming Division
Current Description-Effective Date-Authority
| 18.444 | 2010 |
FARM TO MARKET ROAD NO. 1730
Minute Order 030229, dated 05/23/1951
From US 62 at 34th St in Lubbock, southward to Slide, a distance of approximately 10.6 miles. (Lubbock County) New Designation.
Minute Orders 031595 and 031596, dated 01/18/1952
From US 62 at 34th St in western Lubbock, southward via Slide and New Rome to FM 1317, a distance of approximately 20.6 miles. (Lubbock and Lynn Counties) Extended approx. 10.0 miles southward to FM 1317, 3.0 miles of which transferred from FM 1317.
Minute Order 039173, dated 11/29/1955; Adm. Cir. 003-1956, dated 01/01/1956
From SL 289 on 50th St in Lubbock, southward via Slide and New Home to FM 1317, a distance of approximately 19.6 miles. (Lubbock and Lynn Counties) Revised to show northward terminus as SL 289, a decrease of approx. 1.0 mile.
Minute Order 042814, dated 10/30/1957; Adm. Cir. 049-1957, dated 12/01/1957
From SL 289 southwest of Lubbock, southward via Slide and New Home to FM 1317, a distance of approximately 18.6 miles. (Lubbock and Lynn Counties) Northern terminus adjusted to correlate with relocated SL 289, a decrease of approx. 1.2 miles.
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. From FM 1585 southward via Slide and New Home to FM 1317, a distance of approx. 14.485 miles. (Lubbock and Lynn Counties) Mileage from SL 289 southward to FM 1585 transferred to UR 1730. ["Transferred" mileage, as noted on the Highway Designation File page for UR 1730, is approximately 4.115 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 1730: Any mileage that was previously described as "transferred to UR 1730" reverts back to FM 1730.
This is retroactive to the date of passage of Minute Order 105686. The Highway Designation File page for UR 1730 has been removed.
Minute Order 115918, dated 12/10/2020
In the city of Lubbock, a segment of FM 1730 was removed from the state highway system from SL 289 southward to FM 1585, a distance of approximately 4.0 miles. Control, jurisdiction, and maintenance were transferred to the city of Lubbock. (Lubbock County) Removal of Designation (Partial Route)
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