Mississippi Highway 30

Mississippi Highway 30
Mississippi Highway 30
	MS 30 in red, unsigned extensions near New Albany and Wheeler in blue
Route information
	Maintained by MDOT
Length	91.1 mi (146.6 km) (78.968 mi excluding concurrencies)
Existed	1932–present
Major junctions
West end	Lamar Blvd. / Molly Barr Rd. in Oxford
	MS 7 in Oxford; I-22 / US 78 in New Albany; US 45 from Wheeler to Booneville;
East end	Natchez Trace Parkway in Mingo
Location
Country	United States
State	Mississippi
Counties	Lafayette, Union, Prentiss, Tishomingo
Highway system
	Mississippi State Highway System; Interstate; US; State;

Mississippi Highway 30 (MS 30) is an American state highway that runs across the North Central Hills of the Appalachian Mountains in northeast Mississippi. It travels east–west for 91.1 miles (146.6 km) from MS 7 at Oxford, Mississippi to the Natchez Trace Parkway in Mingo near the Alabama state line.

Route description

MS 30 begins in Lafayette County in Oxford at an interchange with MS 7 in the northern part of town. It heads east briefly as a four-lane divided highway through a business district before narrowing to two-lanes and passing through neighborhoods for several blocks. The highway now leaves Oxford and passes through farmland for a couple miles before entering the Holly Springs National Forest, where it travels through remote woodlands (passing by Puskus Lake Recreation Area) as it crosses into Union County.

MS 30 exits the National Forest and travels eastward through farmland for several miles, where it passes through Etta (where it has an intersection with MS 355 and crosses the Tallahatchie River), before having an intersection with MS 349 and passing through the communities of Enterprise and Poolville. The highway enters the New Albany city limits and passes through an industrial area before some neighborhoods and business district at an interchange with I-22/US 78 (Exit 61), where MS 30 becomes concurrent (overlapped) with the Interstate. MS 30 heads east along four-lane I-22/US 78 east for a few miles to cross the Tallahatchie River for a second time immediately before Exit 63 (Carter Avenue/Central Avenue/Bratton Road; signed as Downtown New Albany). The freeway now reaches Exit 64, where MS 30 splits off and follows four-lane MS 15 north through the eastern side of town, where they have intersections with both MS 178 and MS 348, before MS 30 splits off and heads east through neighborhoods as a two-lane. MS 30 leaves New Albany and travels northeast through wooded and hilly terrain for the next several miles as it passes through Keownville, Pleasant Ridge (where it has an intersection with MS 370), and Graham (where it has an intersection with MS 9) before crossing into Prentiss County.

MS 30 passes through Geeville as it travels through farmland for a few miles to an interchange with US 45 in Wheeler, which MS 30 becomes concurrent with and they head north as a four-lane expressway for several miles to Booneville, where MS 30 splits off and heads east along a two-lane expressway on the southern outskirts of town, having an interchanges with MS 145 and MS 4, as well as having an intersection with MS 364 before leaving the Booneville area and winding its way through hilly woodlands for the next several miles, where it has an intersection with MS 365 in Burton before entering Tishomingo County.

Mississippi Highway 30 bridge passing over the Tennessee-Tombigbee Waterway in Paden

MS 30 travels through more hilly woodlands to cross the Tennessee Tombigbee Waterway and pass through Paden before having an intersection with MS 25 in the northern part of the town of Tishomingo. The highway passes through more hilly for a few more miles before coming to an end at an interchange with the Natchez Trace Parkway at the community of Mingo, with the road continuing south as County Road 85 (CR 85) towards Bloody Springs and the Alabama state line.^[2]

Major intersections

County	Location	mi	km	Destinations	Notes
Lafayette	Oxford	0.0	0.0	MS 7 to I-55 / MS 6 / US 278 – Holly Springs, Water Valley, Batesville Molly Barr Road – University-Oxford Airport	Interchange; Western terminus
Lafayette	Holly Springs National Forest	8.8	14.2	Road 2089 – Puskus Lake Recreation Area	Access road into park
Union		17.6	28.3	MS 355 south – Etta	Northern terminus of MS 355
		18.8	30.3	MS 349 north – Macedonia, Cornersville, Potts Camp	Southern terminus of MS 349
	New Albany	30.0	48.3	I-22 west / US 78 west – Memphis Highway 30 W to MS 178 – Museum	Western end of I-22 / US 78 overlap; MS 30 west follows exit 61
		31.2– 31.7	50.2– 51.0	Downtown New Albany	I-22 exit 63
		32.2	51.8	I-22 east / US 78 east – Tupelo MS 15 south – Pontotoc	Eastern end of I-22 / US 78 overlap; western end of MS 15 overlap; MS 30 east follows exit 64
		33.4	53.8	MS 178 (E Bankhead Street) – Myrtle, Downtown New Albany, Blue Springs, Sherman
		33.6	54.1	MS 348 east (Center Street) – Center, Ellistown	Western terminus of MS 348
		34.1	54.9	MS 15 north – Ripley, Union County Museum, Northeast Mississippi Community College	Eastern end of MS 15 overlap
	Pleasant Ridge	46.2	74.4	MS 370 west	Eastern terminus of MS 370
	Graham	49.0	78.9	MS 9 south to MS 370 – Sherman, Alpine	Northern terminus of MS 9
Prentiss	Wheeler	58.6– 58.8	94.3– 94.6	US 45 south – Tupelo Old Mississippi 30 to MS 145 – Wheeler	Interchange; western end of US 45 overlap
	Booneville	62.8	101.1	US 45 north – Corinth	Interchange; eastern end of US 45 overlap
	Booneville	63.7– 63.9	102.5– 102.8	MS 145 – Booneville	Interchange
		68.2– 68.4	109.8– 110.1	MS 4 – East Booneville	Interchange
		69.9	112.5	MS 364 east	Western terminus of MS 364
	Burton	79.8	128.4	MS 365 north – Cairo, Burnsville	Southern terminus of MS 365
Tishomingo	Paden	84.2	135.5	Mississippi Avenue (MS 793 north) – Paden Crows Neck Road – Crows Neck Paden Overlook (Paden Overlook Area)	Southern terminus of unsigned MS 793
	Tishomingo	86.2	138.7	MS 25 – Iuka, Tishomingo, Tishomingo State Park
	Mingo	91.1	146.6	Natchez Trace Parkway CR 85 – Bloody Springs	Interchange; eastern terminus
1.000 mi = 1.609 km; 1.000 km = 0.621 mi Concurrency terminus