Oklahoma State Highway 39

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State Highway 39
Maintained by ODOT
Length: 68.4 mi (110 km)
Formed: 1936/7[1]
West end: US-62/US-277/SH-9 east of Chickasha
East end: US-377/SH-3E/SH-99
mainline becomes SH-56
Oklahoma State Highways
< SH-38 I-40 >

State Highway 39, abbreviated as SH-39 or OK-39, is a state highway in the U.S. state of Oklahoma. It is 68.4 miles[2] (110 km) in length. Built in 1923[3], it runs east-west through the central part of the state. It currently has no lettered spurs.

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[edit] Route summary

SH-39 shield on SH-24 near their intersection.
SH-39 shield on SH-24 near their intersection.

The highway begins at the concurrency of US-62/US-277/State Highway 9 near the unincorporated community of Tabler, east of Chickasha. The road begins traveling east from there, intersecting SH-76 ten miles later west of Dibble. From Dibble, it continues east, meeting the eastern terminus of SH-59 and intersecting SH-24 in the unincorporated town of Woody Chapel. It then continues east to Purcell.

In Purcell, SH-39 crosses under Interstate 35, but does not have a junction with it. The highway soon encounters US-77/SH-74 just east of the interstate. Here, it turns northward and begins an overlap with the two highways through Purcell. SH-74 splits off after a few blocks while SH-39 and US-77 turn eastward and cross over the Canadian River on the James C. Nance Memorial Bridge. After crossing the river, the highways arrive in the town of Lexington and US-77 splits off to the northeast.

SH-39 continues eastward, serving the Lexington prison and overlapping for less than a mile with SH-102. At the town of Asher, the highway intersects SH-3W and SH-59 again. 11 miles (18 km) later, the highway meets SH-9A in Konawa.

Four miles (6 km) later, the highway ends at US-377/SH-3E/SH-99. The mainline of the highway becomes SH-56.

[edit] History

The road that would become SH-39 was built in 1923[3], but it was not assigned a state route number until at least late 1936, first appearing on the 1937 state map.[1] Originally, the route's eastern terminus was at US-77 in Purcell.[1] By April 1939, it had been extended eastward to end at Asher.[4] The route first reached its current termini in 1941 (although at the time, SH-99 passed through Konawa).[5] A short gap existed west of Asher in the SH-39 designation between 1946 and 1947;[6] by 1948 this gap had been filled. The final change to SH-39 occurred in 1968 or 1969, when SH-99 was rerouted to bypass Konawa, and SH-39 was extended east of town to end at the present junction.[7] No changes have been made since.

[edit] Spurs

SH-39 once had one spur route, SH-39B. It ran along what is now May Avenue from SH-39's junction with SH-59 to SH-74B east of Cole, Oklahoma.[8]

[edit] Junction list

County Location Mile[2] Roads intersected Notes
Grady Tabler 0.0 US-62/277/SH-9 Western terminus
McClain Dibble 9.7 SH-76  
  15.1 SH-59 Western terminus of SH-59
Woody Chapel 19.0 SH-24  
Purcell 26.0[9] I-35  
26.4 US-77/SH-74  
27.5 SH-74  
Cleveland Lexington 28.8 US-77  
Pottawatomie   47.0 SH-102  
  47.2 SH-102  
Asher 53.1 US-177/SH-3W/59  
Seminole Konawa 63.4 SH-9A Southern terminus of SH-9A
  68.4 US-377/SH-3E/99 Eastern terminus; mainline continues as SH-56

[edit] References

  1. ^ a b c Oklahoma Department of Highways. Map Showing Condition of the State Highway System and Landing Fields [map], April 1937 edition.
  2. ^ a b Stuve, Eric. OK-39. OKHighways. Retrieved on 2005-03-27.
  3. ^ a b Burns, Hoyt. Early History of the Town of Washington, Oklahoma. Del City, Oklahoma, Del City Publishing Co., Inc.
  4. ^ Oklahoma Department of Highways. Map Showing Condition of the State Highway System [map], April 1939 edition.
  5. ^ Oklahoma Department of Highways. Map Showing Condition of the State Highway System [map], January 1942 edition.
  6. ^ Oklahoma Department of Highways. (Untitled 1947 state map) [map].
  7. ^ Oklahoma Department of Highways. Oklahoma [map], 1969 edition.
  8. ^ Map of McClain County. Date unknown. Washington High School library. Referenced 17:42, 13 February 2006 (UTC).
  9. ^ Google, Inc.. Google Maps [map]. Cartography by NAVTEQ. Retrieved on 2007-11-14.

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