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

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Certified Mileage (Open to Traffic)

28.024

2010

RANCH TO MARKET ROAD NO. 853

Minute Order 025630, dated 10/29/1948;  DesLtr 03-1995, dated 06/30/1995

(FM)  From US 67, southwest of San Angelo, to Irion County Line, a distance of approximately 13.1 miles.  (Tom Green County) New Description.

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Minute Order 026970, dated 07/14/1949

From US 67, approximately 3.5 miles northeast of Mertzon, northward, thence eastward, via Tom Green County Line, to junction US 67 southwest of San Angelo, a distance of approximately 29.0 miles.  (Irion and Tom Green Counties)  Section from Tom Green County Line to end FM 862 added; FM 862 cancelled and combined with FM 853.

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Adm. Auth., dated 11/13/1959; Adm. Cir. 221-1959, dated 12/15/1959

(RM)  No change in description.  (Irion and Tom Green Counties) Designation changed from FM to RM.

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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 US 67, approx. 3.5 miles northeast of Mertzon, northward and eastward to UR 2288 [FM 2288], a distance of approx. 26.636 miles.  (Irion and Tom Green Counties) New description; mileage from UR 2288 [FM 2288] eastward to SL 545 transferred to UR 853.["Transferred" mileage, as noted on the Highway Designation File page for UR 853, is approximately 2.364 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 RM 853: Any mileage that was previously described as "transferred to UR 853" reverts back to RM 853. This is retroactive to the date of passage of Minute Order 105686. The Highway Designation File page for UR 853 has been removed.

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