- Mississippi Highway 7
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MS Highway 7 Route information Maintained by MDOT Length: 139.482 mi[1] (224.475 km) Major junctions South end: US 49W in Belzoni
US 82 from Itta Bena to Greenwood
US 49E in Greenwood
I-55 in Grenada
US 51 from Grenada to Hardy
I-55 in Hardy
US 278 in Oxford
US 78 in Holly Springs
US 72 near Lamar
North end: SR-18 in Michigan City
Location Counties: Humphreys, Leflore, Carroll, Grenada, Yalobusha, Lafayette, Marshall, Benton Highway system Numbered highways in Mississippi
Interstates • U.S. Routes • State highways
Unsigned state highways← MS 6
MS 8 →
Highway 7 and rarely used Mississippi Central Railroad bridges over the Tallahatchie River at the Lafayette-Marshall county line. This sweeping bottomland, located approximately halfway between Holly Springs and Oxford, was the inspiration for fictional settings in several works by William Faulkner.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.
Contents
Points of interest
- Florewood River Plantation State Park
- University of Mississippi
- Wall Doxey State Park
Locales on route
From north to south
- Michigan City near the Tennessee state line (above which the highway becomes Tennessee State Route 18)
- Lamar
- Holly Springs
- Oxford
- Water Valley
- Grenada
- Greenwood
- Itta Bena
- Morgan City
- Belzoni
Junctions
From north to south
Tennessee Highway 18
U.S. Highway 72
Mississippi Highway 311
Mississippi Highway 178
Mississippi Highway 4 (
splits northbound, joins southbound)
U.S. Highway 78
(
splits southbound, joins northbound)
Mississippi Highway 310
Mississippi Highway 30
Mississippi Highway 6 / U.S. Highway 278
Mississippi Highway 328
Mississippi Highway 9W
Mississippi Highway 315 (
splits northbound, joins southbound)
Mississippi Highway 32 (
splits southbound, joins northbound)
Mississippi Highway 330
Mississippi Highway 333
Interstate 55 (
splits northbound, joins southbound)
Mississippi Highway 8 (
splits southbound, joins northbound /
splits northbound, joins southbound)
Mississippi Highway 35 (
splits northbound, joins southbound)
(
splits southbound, joins northbound)
(
splits northbound, joins southbound)
U.S. Highway 49 / Mississippi Highway 12
See also
- List of Mississippi state highways
References
Categories:- State highways in Mississippi
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