Oklahoma State Highway 39
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| State Highway 39 |
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| Length: | 68.4 mi (110 km) | ||||||||
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| Formed: | 1936/7[1] | ||||||||
| West end: |    US-62/US-277/SH-9 east of Chickasha |
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| East end: | US-377/SH-3E/SH-99 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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[edit] Route summary
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 |
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| Grady | Tabler | 0.0 | US-62/277/SH-9 |
Western terminus |
| McClain | Dibble | 9.7 |  SH-76 |
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| 15.1 |  SH-59 |
Western terminus of SH-59 | ||
| Woody Chapel | 19.0 |  SH-24 |
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| Purcell | 26.0[9] | .svg/20px-I-35_(OK).svg.png){kind=small} I-35 |
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| 26.4 |   US-77/SH-74 |
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| 27.5 | SH-74 |
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| Cleveland | Lexington | 28.8 | US-77 |
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| Pottawatomie | 47.0 |  SH-102 |
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| 47.2 | SH-102 |
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| Asher | 53.1 |   US-177/SH-3W/59 |
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| 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
- ^ a b c Oklahoma Department of Highways. Map Showing Condition of the State Highway System and Landing Fields [map], April 1937 edition.
- ^ a b Stuve, Eric. OK-39. OKHighways. Retrieved on 2005-03-27.
- ^ a b Burns, Hoyt. Early History of the Town of Washington, Oklahoma. Del City, Oklahoma, Del City Publishing Co., Inc.
- ^ Oklahoma Department of Highways. Map Showing Condition of the State Highway System [map], April 1939 edition.
- ^ Oklahoma Department of Highways. Map Showing Condition of the State Highway System [map], January 1942 edition.
- ^ Oklahoma Department of Highways. (Untitled 1947 state map) [map].
- ^ Oklahoma Department of Highways. Oklahoma [map], 1969 edition.
- ^ Map of McClain County. Date unknown. Washington High School library. Referenced 17:42, 13 February 2006 (UTC).
- ^ Google, Inc.. Google Maps [map]. Cartography by NAVTEQ. Retrieved on 2007-11-14.
