Farm to Market Road 989, locally known as Kings Highway, is a Farm to Market Road

Farm to Market Road

In the United States, a farm-to-market road or ranch-to-market road is a state road or county road which serves to connect rural or agricultural areas to market towns...

 in Bowie County

Bowie County, Texas

Bowie County is a county located in the U.S. state of Texas. It is part of the Texarkana, Texas - Texarkana, Arkansas, Metropolitan Statistical Area. As of 2000, the population was 89,306. Its legal county seat is Boston, though its courthouse is located in New Boston...

, 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...

, located to the west of Texarkana. It runs 11.843 miles (19.1 km) north to south, remaining 1–2 miles outside the Texarkana, Texas

Texarkana, Texas

Texarkana is a city in Bowie County, Texas, United States. It effectively functions as one half of a city which crosses a state line — the other half, the city of Texarkana, Arkansas, lies on the other side of State Line Avenue...

 city limits.

History

FM 989 was originally designated on November 23, 1948 with a northern terminus at U.S. Highway 82 in Nash and a southern terminus at U.S. Highway 59, half a mile south west of the Loop

Loop (Texarkana)

The Loop is a beltway around Texarkana, a twin city in the U.S. states of Arkansas and Texas, running about 16 miles . Consisting of Highway 245 - sometimes called Loop 245 - in Arkansas, and Loop 151 and a section of U.S. Highway 59 in Texas, it forms a three-quarter loop around the east, south...

, a total length of 4.2 miles (6.8 km). However, on October 28, 1953, it was extended to include a 5.4 miles (8.7 km) loop and connect with Farm to Market Road 559 northwest of Texarkana. On September 20, 1961, FM 989 was extended again, picking up an additional 3.1 miles (5 km) on the south end, to connect to Farm to Market Road 2516. In 1995, the entire route of FM 989 was transferred to Urban Road 989, but this is an internal designation used by TXDOT and the road is still signed as FM 989.

Junction list

From north to south:

• Farm to Market Road 559 (Richmond Road)
• Interstate 30
• U.S. Highway 82 (New Boston Road)
• Old Redwater Road
• U.S. Highway 67 (West 7th Street)
• U.S. Highway 59 (Lake Drive)
• Farm to Market Road 2516 (Buchanan Loop Road)