Farm to Market Road 331 (FM 331) is a
farm to market road
In the United States, a farm-to-market road or ranch-to-market road (sometimes farm road or ranch road for short) is a state highway or county road that connects rural or agricultural areas to market towns. These are better quality roads, usually ...
in eastern
Austin County
Austin County is a rural, agricultural dominated county in the U.S. state of Texas. As of the 2020 census, the population was 30,167. Its seat is Bellville. The county and region was settled primarily by German emigrants in the 1800s.
Austin ...
,
Texas
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.
Route description
FM 331 begins at an intersection with
SH 36 north of
Sealy.
The route travels to the north into the small community of Burleigh, where it has a brief concurrency with
FM 529. It continues northward, roughly paralleling the
Brazos River
The Brazos River ( , ), called the ''Río de los Brazos de Dios'' (translated as "The River of the Arms of God") by early Spanish explorers, is the 11th-longest river in the United States at from its headwater source at the head of Blackwater Dr ...
to its east, before state maintenance ends at Oil Field Road near the community of
Raccoon Bend. Oil Field Road continues into the town and provides access to
SH 159.
History
FM 331 was originally designated along a stretch from SH 159 in Bellville to Burleigh on June 16, 1945. On October 31, 1958, the highway was extended southward from Burleigh to SH 36 southeast of
Peters Peters may refer to:
People
* Peters (surname)
* Peters Band, a First Nations band in British Columbia, Canada
Places United States
* Peters, California, a census-designated place
* Peters, Florida, a town
* Peters Township, Kingman County, Kan ...
. The highway was rerouted on April 6, 1970, when the original section from Bellville to Burleigh was redesignated as part of
FM 529; the section north of Burleigh to Raccoon Bend, which was formerly
FM 2916, was also added to the route.
Major intersections
Gallery
File:Burleigh TX Sign.JPG, Sign for Burleigh on FM 331 north near FM 529
File:Burleigh TX FM 331 and 529.JPG, FM 331 at the south end of the FM 529 concurrency
Notes
References
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Transportation in Austin County, Texas