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The U.S. Highways in Tennessee are the segments of the United States Numbered Highway System that are maintained by the Tennessee Department of Transportation (TDOT) in the state of Tennessee. All of these highways in Tennessee have a state highway designation routed concurrently along them, though the state highway is hidden and only signed ...
The triangle marker design was the only design until November 1983, when Tennessee divided its routes into primary routes and secondary or "arterial" routes with the adoption of a functional classification system, creating a primary marker and making the triangle marker the secondary marker; primary marker signs were posted in 1984.
The Tennessee Department of Highways and Public Works was established by the Tennessee General Assembly in 1915 and tasked with constructing, maintaining, and improving roads throughout the state. That year, the 538-mile (866 km) Memphis to Bristol Highway, later State Route 1 , was designated as the first state highway in Tennessee.
The longest interstate highway in Tennessee is Interstate 40, at a length of 454.81 miles (731.95 km). The segment of I-40 in Tennessee is also the longest segment of all of the states the route traverses. The shortest mainline interstate highway in Tennessee is I-55, at a length of 12.28 miles (19.
From the Mississippi state line, US 45 extends north as a four-lane divided highway, running concurrently with unsigned State Route 5 (SR 5), to an intersection with Old US Highway 45 S (a connector to Mississippi Highway 145 [MS 145]), where it narrows to an undivided four-lane and passes through the town of Guys.
In Tennessee, U.S. Route 412 (US 412) stretches for 181.93 miles (292.79 km) through the farmland of West Tennessee and the hills of Middle Tennessee, starting at the Missouri state line (on I-155 at the Mississippi River) near Dyersburg and running to an interchange between I-65 and SR 99 in Columbia.
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US 31A (Nashville Highway/SR 11) – Lewisburg, Chapel Hill SR 271 south (Belfast–Farmington Road) – Belfast: Western terminus; SR 64 begins as a primary route; northern terminus of SR 271: Bedford SR 130 west – Petersburg: Western end of SR 130 overlap: Shelbyville: US 231 (S Cannon Boulevard/SR 10 south) – Fayetteville