Highway Designation File
Transportation Planning and Programming Division
Current Description-Effective Date-Authority
| 403.744 | 2010 |
U. S. HIGHWAY NO. 62
Original Description per Administrative Circular No. 016-1944
07/01/1932 - Childress 31, Paducah 33, Matador 27, Dickens 58, Lubbock 40, Brownfield 53, Bronco 18 (thru New Mexico), El Paso.
03/01/1935 - Childress 31, Paducah 33, Matador 27, Dickens 58, Lubbock 40, Brownfield 53, Bronco 18 (thru New Mexico), El Paso.
01/01/1939 - Childress 31, Paducah 33, Matador 27, Dickens 58, Lubbock 40, Brownfield 53, Bronco 18 (thru New Mexico), El Paso.
05/01/1942 - Childress 31, Paducah 32, Matador 28, Dickens 62, Lubbock 40, Brownfield 50, Bronco 18 (thru New Mexico), El Paso.
Minute Order 016701, dated 09/26/1939
From the Texas/Oklahoma State Line via a point on US 83 north of Childress, via Childress, Paducah, Matador; Dickens, Lubbock, Meadow, and Brownfield to the Texas/New Mexico State Line near Plains, and from the Texas/New Mexico State Line near Frijole to El Paso. General re-description of Highway System.
Minute Order 023629, dated 08/01/1947; AASHO letter dated 09/24/1947
From the Texas/Oklahoma State Line via a point on US 83 north of Childress via Childress, Paducah, Matador, Floydada, Ralls, Lubbock, Meadow, Brownfield, Seagraves, and Seminole to the Texas/-New Mexico State Line near Hobbs, New Mexico, and from the Texas/New Mexico State Line near Frijole to El Paso. (Childress, Cottle, Motley, Floyd, Crosby, Lubbock, Hockley, Terry, Gaines, Culberson, Hudspeth, and El Paso Counties) Rerouted between Matador and Ralls via Floydada.
Minute Order 068988, dated 06/26/1974
No change to description. Relocated in El Paso.
Minute Order 115254, dated 6/28/2018
In the city of El Paso, a segment of US 62 and its concurrent designation of US 85 were removed from the state highway system along El Paso Street, from Paisano Street south to 6th Avenue, a distance of approximately 0.2 mile. Control, jurisdiction, and maintenance were transferred to the city of El Paso. (El Paso County) Removal of Designation (Partial Route)
125 East 11th Street • Austin, Texas 78701