Interstate 55 in Mississippi
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Route information | ||||
Maintained by MDOT | ||||
Length | 290.41 mi[1] (467.37 km) | |||
Existed | 1955 (proposed in 1939)–present | |||
NHS | Entire route | |||
Major junctions | ||||
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Location | ||||
Country | United States | |||
State | Mississippi | |||
Highway system | ||||
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Interstate 55 (I-55) is a major north–south Interstate Highway that serves the middle of the United States. It runs 963.5 miles (1,550.6 km) from Interstate 10 in Laplace, Louisiana - about 25 miles (40 km) west of New Orleans to U.S. 41 in Chicago, Illinois.
Route description
In Mississippi, I-55 runs 290.5 miles (467.5 km) from the Louisiana border near Osyka to Southaven on the Tennessee border, just south of Memphis. The highway parallels U.S. 51 during its trek roughly through the center of Magnolia State. North of Jackson, the Interstate runs east of the bluffs of the Mississippi Delta.
Number of lanes
- Louisiana to I-20: 4 lanes
- I-20 to Madison: 6-10 lanes
- Madison to Southaven: 4 lanes
- Southaven to Tennessee: 8-10 lanes
Overlap with Interstate 69
On January 18, 2008, the Federal Highway Administration authorized the states of Mississippi and Tennessee to extend I-69 from the I-40/TN 300 interchange in north Memphis to the I-55/I-69 interchange in Hernando; in late May 2008, Mississippi began posting signs reflecting the extension of the route.[2][3]
History
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Exit list
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County | Location | mi | km | Exit | Destinations | Notes |
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Pike | | 0.00 | 0.00 | – | ![]() ![]() | Continuation into Louisiana |
| 1 | ![]() | ||||
| 4 | Chatawa | ||||
| 8 | ![]() | ||||
| 10 | ![]() | ||||
| 13 | Fernwood, Industrial Park | ||||
McComb | 15 | ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() | South end of US 98 overlap; Formerly signed as exits 15A (US 98) and 15B (MS 24) | |||
17 | Delaware Avenue – Downtown McComb | |||||
18 | ![]() | |||||
Summit | 20 | ![]() ![]() | North end of US 98 overlap; Signed as exits 20A (Summit) and 20B (US 98) | |||
Lincoln | | 24 | Lake Dixie Springs, Johnstons Station | |||
| 30 | Bogue Chitto, Norfield | ||||
Bogue Chitto River | Bridge | |||||
| 38 | ![]() | ||||
Brookhaven | 40 | ![]() ![]() | ||||
| 42 | North Brookhaven | ||||
| 48 | Mount Zion Road | ||||
Copiah | | 51 | Wesson | |||
| 56 | Martinsville | ||||
| 59 | South Hazelhurst | ||||
| 61 | ![]() | ||||
| 65 | Gallman | ||||
| 68 | South Crystal Springs | ||||
| 72 | ![]() ![]() ![]() | South end of US 51 overlap | |||
Hinds | Terry | 78 | Terry | |||
| 81 | Wynndale Road | ||||
| 85 | Byram | ||||
Jackson | 88 | Elton Road | ||||
90A | Savanna Street | |||||
90B | Daniel Lake Boulevard | Southbound exit and northbound entrance | ||||
92A | McDowell Road | |||||
92C | ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() | South end of I-20 / US 49 overlap; Northbound exit and southbound entrance; I-20 east exit 46 | ||||
Bridge over the Pearl River | ||||||
45A | Gallatin Street | Northbound exit via exits 45 and 92B | ||||
45B | ![]() ![]() | North end of US 51 overlap; Signed as exits 45 and 92B northbound | ||||
Rankin | Flowood | 94 | ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() | North end of I-20 / US 49 overlap; Southbound exit and northbound entrance; I-20 west exit 46 | ||
Pearl River | Bridge | |||||
Hinds | Jackson | 96A | Pearl Street-Telcom Center, Convention Complex | |||
96B | High Street – State Capitol | |||||
96C | Fortification Street | |||||
98A | Woodrow Wilson Avenue | |||||
98B | ![]() ![]() | Formerly signed as exits 98B (east) and 98C (west) | ||||
99 | Meadowbrook Road | Southbound exit via exit 100 | ||||
100 | Northside Drive | |||||
102A | Briarwood Drive | Northbound exit and southbound entrance | ||||
102B | Beasley Road / Adkins Boulevard | Signed as exit 102 southbound | ||||
103 | County Line Road - Ridgeland | |||||
Madison | Ridgeland | 104 | ![]() ![]() | Northern terminus of I-220 | ||
105A | ![]() | |||||
105 B-C | Jackson Avenue / Old Agency Road - Ridgeland | Signed as exits 105B and 105C northbound | ||||
| 106 | Steed Road, Northlake Avenue | ||||
| 107 | Colony Park Boulevard / Madison Avenue | ||||
| 108 | ![]() | ||||
| 112 | Gluckstadt | ||||
| 114 | Sowell Road | Signed as 114A (east) and 114B (west) southbound | |||
| 118 | Nissan Parkway | Signed as exits 118A (east) and 118B (west) | |||
Canton | 119 | ![]() | ||||
| 124 | ![]() | ||||
Big Black River | Bridge | |||||
Yazoo | | 133 | Vaughan | |||
| 139 | ![]() | ||||
Holmes | | 144 | ![]() | |||
| 146 | ![]() | ||||
| 150 | Holmes County State Park | ||||
| 156 | ![]() | ||||
| 164 | West | ||||
Carroll | Vaiden | 174 | ![]() ![]() | |||
Montgomery | Winona | 185 | ![]() | |||
Carroll | | 195 | ![]() | |||
Grenada | | 199 | Nat G. Troutt Road – South Grenada | |||
| 206 | ![]() ![]() ![]() | South end of MS 7 overlap | |||
| 208 | Paper Mill Road – North Grenada | ||||
| 211 | ![]() ![]() ![]() | North end of MS 7 overlap | |||
Yalobusha | | 220 | ![]() | |||
| 227 | ![]() | ||||
| 233 | Enid | ||||
Panola | | 237 | Pope, Courtland | |||
Batesville | 243 | ![]() ![]() | formerly signed as exits 243A-B | |||
246 | ![]() ![]() | |||||
Sardis | 252 | ![]() | ||||
| 257 | ![]() | ||||
Tate | Senatobia | 263 | ![]() | |||
265 | ![]() | |||||
Coldwater | 271 | ![]() | ||||
DeSoto | Hernando | 280 | ![]() | |||
283 | ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() | South end of I-69 overlap; I-269 closed & under construction to the east. | ||||
284 | Nesbit Road, Pleasant Hill Road - North Hernando | |||||
Southaven | 287 | Church Road –Southaven, Horn Lake | ||||
289 | ![]() | |||||
291 | Main Street / Stateline Road – Southaven, Horn Lake | |||||
290.41 | 467.37 | – | ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() | Continuation into Tennessee | ||
1.000 mi = 1.609 km; 1.000 km = 0.621 mi
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References
- ^ "Route Log and Finder List - Interstate System: Table 1". FHWA. Retrieved 2007-10-05.
- ^ Capka, J. Richard (FHWA Administrator), Letter to Harry Lee James (MDOT) dated January 18, 2008, retrieved May 28, 2008.
- ^ Lawrence, Christopher N. Photograph taken May 27, 2008.
- Interstate Highways in Mississippi
- Interstate 55
- Transportation in Pike County, Mississippi
- Transportation in Lincoln County, Mississippi
- Transportation in Copiah County, Mississippi
- Transportation in Hinds County, Mississippi
- Transportation in Rankin County, Mississippi
- Transportation in Madison County, Mississippi
- Transportation in Yazoo County, Mississippi
- Transportation in Holmes County, Mississippi
- Transportation in Carroll County, Mississippi
- Transportation in Montgomery County, Mississippi
- Transportation in Grenada County, Mississippi
- Transportation in Yalobusha County, Mississippi
- Transportation in Panola County, Mississippi
- Transportation in Tate County, Mississippi
- Transportation in DeSoto County, Mississippi