Mississippi Highway 7
Route information | ||||
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Maintained by MDOT | ||||
Length | 139.482 mi[1] (224.475 km) | |||
Major junctions | ||||
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North end |
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Counties | Humphreys, Leflore, Carroll, Grenada, Yalobusha, Lafayette, Marshall, Benton | |||
Highway system | ||||
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Mississippi Highway 7 runs generally north–south from the Tennessee state line in Benton County to Belzoni, Mississippi. It travels approximately 165 miles (266 km), serving Humphreys, Leflore, Carroll, Grenada, Yalobusha, Lafayette, Marshall, and Benton Counties. It runs nearly parallel to the rarely used Mississippi Central Railroad.
Points of interest
Locales on route
From north to south
- Michigan City near the Tennessee state line (above which the highway becomes State Route 18)
- Lamar
- Holly Springs
- Oxford
- Water Valley
- Grenada
- Greenwood
- Itta Bena
- Morgan City
- Belzoni
Major intersections
County | Location | mi | km | Destinations | Notes |
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Humphreys | Belzoni | Southern terminus | |||
Leflore | | south end of US 82 overlap | |||
Greenwood | south end of US 49E overlap | ||||
interchange; north end of US 49E overlap | |||||
No left turn northbound | |||||
north end of US 82 overlap | |||||
Grenada | Holcomb | south end of MS 8 / MS 35 overlap | |||
north end of MS 35 overlap | |||||
Grenada | north end of MS 8 overlap; south end of I-55 overlap; MS 7 south follows exit 206 | ||||
Papermill Road - North Grenada | I-55 exit 208 | ||||
| north end of I-55 overlap; south end of MS 333 Scenic overlap; MS 7 north follows exit 211 | ||||
| north end of MS 333 Scenic overlap | ||||
Yalobusha | Coffeeville | ||||
| south end of MS 315 overlap | ||||
Water Valley | north end of MS 315 overlap | ||||
Lafayette | | ||||
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Oxford | interchange; south end of freeway | ||||
interchange | |||||
Sisk Avenue | interchange | ||||
interchange; north end of freeway | |||||
Abbeville | |||||
Marshall | | ||||
| south end of MS 4 overlap | ||||
Holly Springs | I-22 exit 30 | ||||
north end of MS 4 overlap; former MS 178 east | |||||
former MS 178 west | |||||
Northern bypass of Holly Springs | |||||
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Benton | | Lamar ( | |||
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| Harris Chapel Road | proposed MS 5 south | |||
| Michigan City ( | ) | |||
| Northern terminus at the Tennessee state line | ||||
1.000 mi = 1.609 km; 1.000 km = 0.621 mi |
See also
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.
- ↑ "Generation of Ole Miss Students, Oxford Citizens Mourn Demise of Hwy. 7 Bridge Across Tallahatchie River". HottyToddy.com. February 25, 2015. Archived from the original on February 26, 2016. Retrieved February 26, 2016.
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