Farm to Market Road 400 (FM 400) 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 ...
located in
Lynn,
Lubbock
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is the 10th-most populous city in the U.S. state of Texas and the seat of government of Lubbock County. With a population of 260,993 in 2021, the city is also the 85th-most populous in the United States. The city is in the northw ...
,
Hale
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, and
Swisher counties in the
Llano Estacado of
Texas
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.
Route description
The southern terminus of FM 400 is at an interchange with
US 87 north of the
Tahoka city limits.
The route travels to the northeast through rural areas of Lynn County, passing to the west of
Tahoka Lake and through
Wilson along that city's 10th Street before entering Lubbock County.
In
Slaton, FM 400 turns to the north and crosses
US 84 near the southern city limits before entering that city's downtown, where it is concurrent with
Bus. US 84 along 9th Street for . The route leaves Slaton and continues north along Vetch Avenue, passing to the east of Slaton Airport, then descending into and climbing out of
Yellow House Canyon
Yellow House Canyon is about long, heading in Lubbock, Texas, at the junction of Blackwater Draw and Yellow House Draw, and trending generally southeastward to the edge of the Llano Estacado about east of Slaton, Texas; it forms one of three maj ...
, to the east of the community of
Ransom Canyon.
The next major intersection is just east of
Idalou, with
US 62 /
US 82 /
SH 114.
Continuing north, FM 400 crosses into Hale County, approximately east of
Abernathy.
It has a concurrency of about with FM 37 and passes through the farming community of
Happy Union before entering
Plainview, where it is known as Date Street.
The highway crosses
US 70 and then briefly turns to the east along 24th Street before resuming its northward journey.
FM 400 has a brief concurrency with FM 788 in northern Hale County; after the two routes separate, FM 400 enters Swisher County, and reaches its northern terminus at
FM 145 east of
Kress.
History
FM 400 was originally designated on June 25, 1945; its original routing was exclusively in
Lubbock County
Lubbock County is a County (United States), county located in the U.S. state of Texas. The 2020 United States Census, 2020 census placed the population at 310,639. Its county seat and largest city is Lubbock, Texas, Lubbock. The county was cre ...
, from
Idalou northward to the
Hale County line.
On July 9 of that same year saw an extension northward, into Hale County and to a junction with
FM 54 west of
Petersburg. The road was lengthened, this time to the south, on December 16, 1948, from Idalou to a county road just north of the
Slaton Airport ( south of Idalou). On March 19, 1949, a southern section of FM 400 was designated, replacing
FM 1074. This southern section was in
Lynn County, and ran southward from the Lubbock County line through Wilson to
US 87. This created a gap in the routing of FM 400 in and around Slaton; this gap would be closed on May 23, 1951, when the two sections of FM 400 were both extended to connect with
US 84 at two different points in Slaton. The route was extended northward to
Plainview on January 27, 1950. It was extended north to the
FM 145 on February 24, 1953, replacing the section of FM 788 from US 70 north to the junction of FM 788 and FM 400 and all of
FM 2078; this created the concurrency with
FM 788, which TxDOT officially considers a gap in that route's mileage.
On April 24, 1953, the section from FM 145 to the Swisher county line was cancelled, but would be reinstated on October 29, 1953. The route designation was amended in 1965 after the US 84 freeway bypass south of Slaton was constructed; the old location of US 84 was renumbered Loop 251, which would eventually be redesignated as Business US 84 in 1991.
Major intersections
See also
*
Becton, Texas
*
Farm to Market Road 669
A farm (also called an agricultural holding) is an area of land that is devoted primarily to agricultural processes with the primary objective of producing food and other crops; it is the basic facility in food production. The name is used fo ...
*
Heckville, Texas
*
Idalou, Texas
Idalou is a city in Lubbock County, Texas, United States. It is located northeast of Lubbock near the intersection of Farm to Market Road 400 and US 62/US 82/ SH 114. The population was 2,250 at the 2010 census. It is part of the Lubbock Metro ...
Notes
References
External links
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Transportation in Lynn County, Texas
Transportation in Lubbock County, Texas
Transportation in Hale County, Texas
Transportation in Swisher County, Texas