 Jackrabbit Road was named because of the plethora of jackrabbits that once lived around and often darted across the narrow, two-lane road.Jackrabbit Road once extended from the present site of the community of Addicks north toward Fairbanks; the road intersected with then-Hempstead Highway/now SH 290.In the late 1950s, much of the dirt-and-gravel Jackrabbit Road was widened and replaced with the new FM 1960.