U.S. Route 79

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U.S. Route 79
Length: 855[1] mi (1,376 km)
Formed: 1935[1]
South end: I-35 / FM 3406 in Round Rock, TX
Major
junctions:		 I-45 in Buffalo, TX
I-20 in Shreveport, LA
I-55 in West Memphis, AR
I-40 in Memphis, TN
I-24 in Clarksville, TN
North end: US 68 / KY 80 in Russellville, KY
United States Numbered Highways
List - Bannered - Divided - Replaced

U.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 in Russellville, Kentucky, at an intersection with U.S. Highway 68 and KY 80. Its southern terminus is in Round Rock, Texas, at an intersection with Interstate 35 and FM 3406, 10 miles (16 km) north of Austin.[2]

US 79, US 68, and Interstate 24/US 62 are the primary east-west access points for the Land Between the Lakes recreation area straddling the Kentucky/Tennessee border.

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[edit] Texas

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Begins at Interstate 35 in Round Rock, Texas. 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.

[edit] Louisiana

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[edit] Arkansas

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[edit] Tennessee

Directonal assembly for U.S. Highways 64, 70, and 79 in Memphis, Tennessee.
Directonal assembly for U.S. Highways 64, 70, and 79 in Memphis, Tennessee.
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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 nearby Guthrie, Kentucky, but in 1994, the name was changed to honor Wilma Rudolph, an olympic runner from Clarksville, who won three gold medals in the 1960 Rome Olympic Games, the Summer Olympics. [3]

[edit] Kentucky

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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 the Ohio River, into Indiana. It is unknown at present if KY 79 was meant to be a northern extension of US 79.

[edit] History

Until 1944, US 79's northern terminus was in West Memphis, Arkansas. Even then, the route was diagonal enough that it could have been numbered odd or even. Until 1991, US 79's southern terminus was in Austin, Texas.

[edit] See also

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[edit] References

  1. ^ a b Droz, Robert V. U.S. Highways : From US 1 to (US 830). URL accessed 1 March 2006.
  2. ^ Endpoints of US highways
  3. ^ http://www.tnstate.edu/library/digital/Rudolph.pdf


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