- U.S. Route 79
Infobox U.S. Route
article_route=79
length_mi=855Droz, Robert V. [http://www.us-highways.com/usbt.htm U.S. Highways : From US 1 to (US 830)] . URL accessed1 March 2006 .]
length_km=1,376
yrcom=1935
direction_a=South
direction_b=North
from=Jct|state=TX|I|35 in Round Rock, TX
junction=Jct|state=TX|I|45 in Buffalo, TX
Jct|state=LA|I|20 in Shreveport, LA
Jct|state=AR|I|55 in West Memphis, AR
Jct|state=TN|I|40 in Memphis, TN
Jct|state=TN|I|24 in Clarksville, TN
to=Jct|state=KY|US|68|KY|80 in Russellville, KYU.S. Route 79 is a north-south
United States highway . The route is actually a northeast-southwest diagonal, with both east-west segments and north-south segments equally mixed. The highway's northern terminus is inRussellville, Kentucky , at an intersection withU.S. Highway 68 and KY 80. Its southern terminus is inRound Rock, Texas , at an intersection withInterstate 35 , 10 miles (16 km) north of Austin. [http://www.geocities.com/Yosemite%2FFalls%2F3369/HwyEnds/End079/end079.htm Endpoints of US highways] ]US 79, US 68, and
Interstate 24 /US 62 are the primary east-west access points for theLand Between the Lakes recreation area straddling theKentucky /Tennessee border.Route description
Texas
Begins at Interstate 35 in Round Rock, Texas(Suburban Austin). Continues east through Rockdale joining US Hwy 190 from Milano to Hearne then breaking off toward Franklin and Buffalo before joining US Hwy 84 in Oakwood then breaking off in Palestine before going through Henderson and Carthage before crossing into Louisiana.
Louisiana
Arkansas
Tennessee
Wilma Rudolph Boulevard is the name given to the portion of U. S. Route 79 in
Clarksville, Tennessee between the Interstate 24 exit 4 in Clarksville to the Red River (Lynnwood-Tarpley) bridge near the Kraft Street intersection. This section of Highway 79 in Clarksville was previously called the Guthrie Highway, for nearbyGuthrie, Kentucky , but in 1994, the name was changed to honorWilma Rudolph , an olympic runner from Clarksville, who won three gold medals in the 1960 Rome Olympic Games, the Summer Olympics. [http://www.tnstate.edu/library/digital/Rudolph.pdf]Kentucky
While US 79 ends at the US 68 / KY 80 duplex in
Russellville, Kentucky , it currently does not touch KY 79, whose southern terminus is at Russellville. That highway extends northward to theOhio River , intoIndiana . It is unknown at present if KY 79 was meant to be a northern extension of US 79.History
Until
1944 , US 79's northern terminus was inWest Memphis, Arkansas . Even then, the route was diagonal enough that it could have been numbered odd or even. Until1991 , US 79's southern terminus was inAustin, Texas .ee also
Bannered and suffixed routes
*U.S. Route 79 Bypass in
Humboldt, Tennessee
*U.S. Route 79 Business inPine Bluff, Arkansas
*U.S. Route 79 Business inStuttgart, Arkansas
*U.S. Route 79 Business inAltheimer, Arkansas
*U.S. Route 79 Business inFordyce, Arkansas
*U.S. Route 79 Business inMagnolia, Arkansas
*U.S. Route 79 Business inCamden, Arkansas
*U.S. Route 79 Business inBearden, Arkansas
*U.S. Route 79 Business inCamden, Arkansas References
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