Ranch to Market Road 1623 (RM 1623) is a 23.386 miles (37.6 km) 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 Gillespie

Gillespie County, Texas

Gillespie County is a county located on the Edwards Plateau in the U.S. state of Texas. In 2010, its population was 24,837. It is located in the heart of the Texas Hill Country. Gillespie is named for Robert Addison Gillespie, who came to Texas in 1837. He was a Texas Ranger, an Indian fighter, a...

 and Blanco

Blanco County, Texas

Blanco County is a county located on the Edwards Plateau in the U.S. state of Texas. As of 2010, the population is 10,497. Its county seat is Johnson City. Blanco is named for the Blanco River which traverses the county. The State of Texas formed Blanco County in 1858 from portions of Burnet,...

 counties, 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...

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Route description

RM 1623 begins in eastern Gillespie County at an intersection with . It travels to the south into Stonewall

Stonewall, Texas

Stonewall is a census-designated place in Gillespie County, Texas, United States. The population was 469 at the 2000 census. It was named for Thomas J. Jackson, by Israel P. Nunez, who established a stage station near the site in 1870....

, where it crosses Ranch Road 1

Ranch Road 1

Ranch Road 1 is a highway in central Texas maintained by the Texas Department of Transportation . The route begins at U.S. Route 290 in Stonewall in Gillespie County and runs along the Pedernales River through Lyndon B. Johnson National Historical Park, the late President Lyndon Johnson's former...

, and has a one-block eastward concurrency with before continuing southward. It then turns to the southeast and crosses into Blanco County. The route intersects before turning to the east and running along the north bank of the Blanco River

Blanco River

The Blanco River is a river in the Hill Country of Texas in the United States.-Course:The primary source for the river is a series of springs in northern Kendall County. The river flows generally eastward for through Kendall County, Blanco County and Hays County...

 into Blanco

Blanco, Texas

Blanco is a city in Blanco County, Texas, United States. The population was 2,205 at the 2010 census. The region Devil's Backbone is located nearby in the colorful Texas Hill Country....

. The RM 1623 designation ends at in central Blanco; the roadway continues as .

History

FM 1623 was first designated in Blanco County in 1951, and ran from US 281 in Blanco to the west approximately 5 mi (8 km). Its length was doubled in 1953 and increased again in 1954; the designation ended at the Gillespie County line. The extension into Gillespie County and to US 290 would be approved in 1955. The route was redesignated in 1970 as an RM route, the same year the extension to RM 2721 was added.

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