Farm to Market Road 769
Encyclopedia
Farm to Market Road 769, Farm Road 769, or FM 769, also known as State Line Rd., is a Farm to Market Road in the U.S. state
of Texas
maintained by the Texas Department of Transportation (TxDOT)
. The 42 miles (68 km) road runs along the New Mexico
state line in Yoakum and Cochran counties from near Denver City
to near Bledsoe
and passes through the small community of Bronco. The road has major intersections with , , and . FM 769 was formerly part of a much longer route that included the current SH 125 and was unofficially signed as SH 125 for several decades.
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The route was first unofficially signed as SH 125 while officially maintaining its Farm to Market designation in 1955 allowing the route to be numerically continuous with the connecting New Mexico route. The following year, the portion of the route from FM 301 to as the current SH 114 was designated between 1955 to 1978 was designated as an extension to with FM 769 ending where it intersected FM 1780. In 1962, the designation of was canceled and combined with FM 769 extending the route 11.5 miles (18.5 km) south along the state line to in Yoakum County. FM 1077 was renumbered as part of the following year. The route was extended 8.5 miles (13.7 km) farther south along the state line to west of Denver City in 1970.
The SH 125 state highway designation became official in 1990, and the FM 769 designation was eliminated. In 1990, SH 125 was reassigned along its current alignment from the state line to SH 114 in Whiteface, and FM 769 was recreated along the state line from US 83 to SH 125 the following year.
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of Texas
Texas
Texas is the second largest U.S. state by both area and population, and the largest state by area in the contiguous United States.The name, based on the Caddo word "Tejas" meaning "friends" or "allies", was applied by the Spanish to the Caddo themselves and to the region of their settlement in...
maintained by the Texas Department of Transportation (TxDOT)
Texas Department of Transportation
The Texas Department of Transportation is a governmental agency in the U.S. state of Texas. Its stated mission is to "work cooperatively to provide safe, effective and efficient movement of people and goods" throughout the state...
. The 42 miles (68 km) road runs along the New Mexico
New Mexico
New Mexico is a state located in the southwest and western regions of the United States. New Mexico is also usually considered one of the Mountain States. With a population density of 16 per square mile, New Mexico is the sixth-most sparsely inhabited U.S...
state line in Yoakum and Cochran counties from near Denver City
Denver City, Texas
Denver City is a town in Gaines and Yoakum counties in the U.S. state of Texas, just a short distance from the New Mexico boundary that is named for the petroleum company, Denver Productions. The population was 3,985 at the 2000 census. The town is located at the intersection of Texas State...
to near Bledsoe
Bledsoe, Texas
Bledsoe is an unincorporated community in western Cochran County, Texas, located near the New Mexico border. It is about 68 miles west of Lubbock, Texas. As of the 1990 US Census, the town had a population of 125.- History :...
and passes through the small community of Bronco. The road has major intersections with , , and . FM 769 was formerly part of a much longer route that included the current SH 125 and was unofficially signed as SH 125 for several decades.
Route description
FM 769 begins at SH 83 near the point where SH 83 crosses the New Mexico state line and meets west of Denver City in southwestern Yoakum County. FM 769 continues northward closely following the state line and crossing US 82 southwest of Plains. The road continues north along the state link intersecting US 380 at Bronco northwest of Plains before crossing into Cochran County. The road then intersects FM 1585 before the road ends at SH 125 near the point where SH 125 meets southwest of Bledsoe. FM 769 passes through mostly agricultural lands and oil and gas fields across the largely flat and featureless terrain of the Llano EstacadoLlano Estacado
Llano Estacado , commonly known as the Staked Plains, is a region in the Southwestern United States that encompasses parts of eastern New Mexico and northwestern Texas, including the South Plains and parts of the Texas Panhandle...
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History
The route was originally designated in Cochran County between SH 214 in Lehman and , now in 1947. That route was extended to the New Mexico state line the following year, while also being extended 10 miles (16 km) southward from Whiteface to an intersection with a road that two years later would become In 1952, FM 769 was extended southward 9.7 miles (15.6 km) along the New Mexico state line.The route was first unofficially signed as SH 125 while officially maintaining its Farm to Market designation in 1955 allowing the route to be numerically continuous with the connecting New Mexico route. The following year, the portion of the route from FM 301 to as the current SH 114 was designated between 1955 to 1978 was designated as an extension to with FM 769 ending where it intersected FM 1780. In 1962, the designation of was canceled and combined with FM 769 extending the route 11.5 miles (18.5 km) south along the state line to in Yoakum County. FM 1077 was renumbered as part of the following year. The route was extended 8.5 miles (13.7 km) farther south along the state line to west of Denver City in 1970.
The SH 125 state highway designation became official in 1990, and the FM 769 designation was eliminated. In 1990, SH 125 was reassigned along its current alignment from the state line to SH 114 in Whiteface, and FM 769 was recreated along the state line from US 83 to SH 125 the following year.