Mississippi State Highway System
Mississippi Highway System | |
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System information | |
Length | 11,164.467 mi[1] (17,967.468 km) |
Highway names | |
Interstates | Interstate X (I-X) |
US Highways | U.S. Route X (US X) |
State | Mississippi Highway X (MS X) |
System links | |
The Mississippi State Highway System is a network of roads that are maintained by the
Highway systems
Interstate highways
There are nine interstate highways within the state of Mississippi. This includes six primary interstates and three auxiliary interstates. The longest interstate is I-55, and the shortest interstate is I-110.
U.S. routes
In the state of Mississippi, there are 14 U.S. highways. The longest is
Mississippi highways
State highways in Mississippi have different numbering schemes. The primary highways are numbered from 1-76, and most three-digit numbered routes are numbered by region (300s in the northernmost part of the state, 600 in the southernmost). Three-digit numbered routes from 700s to 900s are usually short connectors and spurs.
Other highways
Natchez Trace Parkway starts in Natchez and ends at Nashville, Tennessee. The parkway is maintained by the National Park Service.
History
In 1928, Mississippi Governor Theodore G. Bilbo appointed Horace Stansel head of a committee to investigate the state's highway needs. Stansel submitted an act to create a state highway system to the state legislature in 1930. Since then, Mississippi has gradually expanded its highway system.
Until 1987, there were but two major four-lane highways in Mississippi, not counting the Interstates, which were built during the 1960s and 1970s:
MDOT was not created until 1992; this organization consolidated several services that already existed.
See also
- Mississippi portal
- U.S. Roads portal
References
- ^ Mississippi Department of Transportation Planning Division (December 31, 2015). Mississippi Public Roads Selected Statistics Extent, Travel, and Designation (PDF) (Report). Mississippi Department of Transportation. Retrieved March 11, 2017.
- ^ Nash, Jere & Taggart, Andy (December 19, 2006). "The Passage of the 1987 Highway Program". Daily Journal. Retrieved December 29, 2006.