| State Highway 39 | ||||
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| Maintained by ODOT | ||||
| Length: | 68.4 mi (110.1 km) | |||
| Existed: | 1936/7[1] – present | |||
| Major junctions | ||||
| West end: | US-62/US-277/SH-9 east of Chickasha | |||
| East end: | US-377/SH-3E/SH-99 east of Konawa mainline becomes SH-56 |
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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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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 (16 km) 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.
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.
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]
| County | Location | Mile[2] | Destinations | Notes |
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| 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 | 26.4 | 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 | ||
| 1.000 mi = 1.609 km; 1.000 km = 0.621 mi | ||||