Mississippi Highway 39

Mississippi Highway 39
Mississippi Highway 39
Route information
	Maintained by MDOT
Length	49.676 mi (79.946 km)
Major junctions
South end	I-20 / I-59 / US 11 / US 80 in Meridian
North end	US 45 in Shuqualak
Location
Country	United States
State	Mississippi
Counties	Lauderdale, Kemper, Noxubee
Highway system
	Mississippi State Highway System; Interstate; US; State;

Mississippi Highway 39 (MS 39) is a major south to north highway in the U.S. state of Mississippi. Spanning 49.8 miles (80.1 km), it connects Meridian, MS and NAS Meridian with DeKalb and Shuqualak, MS.

Route description

The highway is four-laned from its beginning until it passes nearby NAS Meridian. It is cosigned with Mississippi Highway 145 for less than a 1/4 mile in Meridian. The highway passes through Daleville, MS and De Kalb, MS. It also passes the Sam Dale Monument. The highway also passes near the alternate NAS Meridian airstrip at Shuqualak. It is cosigned with Mississippi Highway 21 as it enters the corporate limits of Shuqualak, MS. Highway 39 spans over Lauderdale, Kemper, and Noxubee counties. Mississippi Highway 39 began at US 45 when it routed through downtown Meridian (present-day Mississippi Highway 145) until US 45 was rerouted around Meridian. So its beginning and ending were at the same highway, and it made for an alternate route between Meridian and Shuqualak, as it still does today.

Major intersections

County	Location	Destinations	Notes
Lauderdale	Meridian	I-20 / I-59 / US 11 / US 80 (Frontage Road) to US 45 – Butler, Tuscaloosa, Jackson	Southern terminus; I-20/59 exit 154
		Russell Drive	interchange; former US 11 / US 80
		Front Street - Downtown Meridian	former US 45 south
		Old Highway 45 North (MS 884 north) - Marion	former US 45 north; southern terminus of unsigned MS 884
	Lizelia	MS 854 east (John C. Stennis Drive) – Meridian Naval Air Station, Stennis Center	Western terminus of MS 854
Kemper	De Kalb	MS 16 – Philadelphia, Scooba
Noxubee		MS 21 south – Philadelphia	South end of MS 21 overlap
	Shuqualak	MS 145	Northern terminus of MS 21
		US 45 – Macon, Scooba	Northern terminus
1.000 mi = 1.609 km; 1.000 km = 0.621 mi Concurrency terminus

References

^ "Mississippi Public Roads Selected Statistics" (PDF). Mississippi Department of Transportation. 2008. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2010-12-03. Retrieved 2010-06-03.

[MDOT-1] "Mississippi Public Roads Selected Statistics" (PDF). Mississippi Department of Transportation. 2008. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2010-12-03. Retrieved 2010-06-03.

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