Farm to Market Road 1765 (FM 1765) is a
farm to market road
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in the
U.S. state
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of
Texas
Texas (, ; Spanish: ''Texas'', ''Tejas'') is a state in the South Central region of the United States. At 268,596 square miles (695,662 km2), and with more than 29.1 million residents in 2020, it is the second-largest U.S. state by ...
. It begins at
FM 2004 in
La Marque and heads east to
Spur 197 in
Texas City
Texas City is a city in Galveston County in the U.S. state of Texas. Located on the southwest shoreline of Galveston Bay, Texas City is a busy deepwater port on Texas's Gulf Coast, as well as a petroleum-refining and petrochemical-manufacturing ...
. The portion of the route from
SH 3 (formerly
U.S. Highway 75
U.S. Route 75 is a major north–south U.S. Highway that extends in the central United States. The highway's northern terminus is in Noyes, Minnesota, at the Canadian border, where it once continued as Manitoba Highway 75 on the other sid ...
) to Spur 197 was designated as
SH 348 from June 10, 1943 until the two routes were combined on November 29, 1990.
Route description
FM 1765 begins at an intersection with
FM 2004 in
La Marque,
Galveston County
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east of the
University of Houston
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Research Center, heading east on two-lane undivided Texas Avenue. The road heads through a mix of housing developments, fields, and woods. The highway heads into commercial areas, turning southeast before a turn to the northeast as a four-lane road. FM 1765 comes to an interchange with
I-45
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and becomes a seven-lane road with a
center left-turn lane
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, curving east and becoming the border between
Texas City
Texas City is a city in Galveston County in the U.S. state of Texas. Located on the southwest shoreline of Galveston Bay, Texas City is a busy deepwater port on Texas's Gulf Coast, as well as a petroleum-refining and petrochemical-manufacturing ...
to the north and La Marque to the south. The road heads through residential areas with some businesses, coming to an intersection with
SH 3 and crossing a
Union Pacific
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railroad line. The highway becomes five lanes with a center left-turn lane and passes through more developed areas, crossing another Union Pacific line and reaching a junction with
SH 146. At this point, FM 1765 fully enters Texas City and passes near an oil refinery, turning northeast away from the oil refinery. The road becomes a four-lane undivided road and continues near residential neighborhoods. The highway turns east again and passes a mix of homes and businesses as a five-lane road with a center left-turn lane. The road passes more residential and commercial development to the north and the oil refinery to the south before passing several commercial establishments and crossing a Union Pacific railroad line. FM 1765 comes to its eastern terminus at an intersection with
Spur 197.
History
What is now FM 1765 east of SH 3 was designated as SH 348 on June 10, 1943, running from
US 75
U.S. Route 75 is a major north–south U.S. Highway that extends in the central United States. The highway's northern terminus is in Noyes, Minnesota, at the Canadian border, where it once continued as Manitoba Highway 75 on the other side ...
(now SH 3) east to SH 146 (later Loop 197, now Spur 197).
FM 1765 was first designated on May 23, 1951 to run from
SH 6 west of
Hitchcock
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east to the former US 75 (now SH 3). On December 17, 1952, the route west of its present terminus was replaced by FM 2004. FM 1765 was extended east over the length of SH 348 on November 29, 1990.
On June 27, 1995 the internal designation of the route was changed to Urban Road 1765 (UR 1765).
The designation reverted to FM 1765 with the elimination of the Urban Road system on November 15, 2018.
Major intersections
References
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1765
Transportation in Galveston County, Texas
Greater Houston
Galveston Bay Area