Farm to Market Road 3540
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| Length: | 2.10 mi[1] (3.38 km) | |||
| Existed: | 2005[1] – present | |||
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| West end: |
 SH 135 in Tecula | |||
| East end: | west shore of future Lake Columbia | |||
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| Counties: | Cherokee | |||
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Farm to Market Road 3540, or FM 3540, in eastern Texas (USA), is a road designation that will run about 2.1 miles (3.4 km) from an intersection with TX 135 in Tecula, east to the vicinity of a future lake, Lake Columbia.[2]
There are no local street names along the path of the future road. Rural for all its length, the landscape along the road includes rolling hills of alternating open pastures and trees. The entire road has two lanes and no shoulders. All of FM 3540 will be in north-northeast Cherokee County.
The Minute Order for this future road was commissioned in 2005, the path of which will follow the southern end of the current FM 2064. It is unclear as to when FM 2064 was completed. The road will serve no towns other than a small community, Tecula, at its western terminus. The road will connect the rural area to TX 135, which leads southwest to Jacksonville) and northeast to Troup; there will be only intersections with local county roads from FM 3540 otherwise.
Impact from future lake
Plans have been in the works for many years for Lake Columbia to be built along Mud Creek, which FM 2064 crosses. In advance of construction, a new Minute Order was commissioned in 2005, to reduce the mileage of FM 2064 to 5.6 miles (9.0 km). This change will affect the road by splitting it in two, and its intersection at the current southern terminus at TX 135 in Tecula, will not connect to the shortened FM 2064 afterward. Therefore, the future installation of the separate FM 3540. Construction on the lake has not yet commenced, so signage and length of FM 2064 has not yet changed to reflect the 2005 Order for FM 3540.[1][3]
Major intersections
The entire route is in Cherokee County.
| Location | mi | km | Destinations | Notes | |
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| 0.0 | 0.0 | SH 135 | Western terminus | ||
| 2.1 | 3.4 | West shore of future Lake Columbia | Eastern terminus | ||
| 1.000 mi = 1.609 km; 1.000 km = 0.621 mi | |||||
References
- 1 2 3 Texas Department of Transportation, Highway Designation File
- ↑ Lake Columbia water supply project, ANRA.org. Retrieved 2010-08-08.
- ↑ Texas Department of Transportation, Highway Designation Files, Farm to Market Road 2064. Retrieved 2010-08-08.