Mississippi Highway 16

MS Highway 16
Route information
Maintained by MDOT
Length:	166.472 mi[1] (267.911 km)
Major junctions
West end:	MS 1 in Grace
	US 61 in Rolling Fork US 49 in Yazoo City I-55 in Canton US 51 in Canton US 45 in Scooba
North end:	SR 17 near Giles
Location
Counties:	Issaquena, Sharkey, Yazoo, Humphreys, Madison, Leake, Neshoba, Kemper
Highway system
Mississippi State Highway System Interstate US State Unsigned ← MS 15 MS 17 →

Mississippi Highway 16 westbound in Neshoba County.

Mississippi Highway 16 (MS 16) is a state highway in Mississippi. It runs for 166.472 miles (267.911 km) and serves 8 counties: Issaquena, Sharkey, Yazoo, Humphreys, Madison, Leake, Neshoba, and Kemper.

Locales on Route

From West to East

• Grace
• Rolling Fork
• Canton
• Carthage
• Pearl River
• Philadelphia
• De Kalb
• Scooba

Major intersections

County	Location	mi	km	Destinations	Notes
Issaquena	Grace			Grace Road	to MS 1
Sharkey	Rolling Fork			Rosenwald Avenue	east end of state maintenance
		Gap in route
				US 61 / MS 14 – Vicksburg, Leland
Yazoo	Holly Bluff			Sartaria Road - Lake George Wildlife Management Area	to MS 433
	​			MS 149 north – Silver City	west end of MS 149 overlap
	Yazoo City			MS 3 to US 49E – Greenwood, Vicksburg, trucks to US 49 / US 49E	interchange
				US 49 north – Greenwood, trucks to MS 149 north	east end of MS 149 overlap; west end of US 49 overlap
	​			US 49 south – Jackson	east end of US 49 overlap
	​			MS 433 – Benton, Bentonia, Benton Academy
Madison	​			I-55 – Memphis, Jackson	I-55 exit 124
	Canton			US 51 north – Durant	west end of US 51 overlap
				MS 22 (Peace Street) – Carthage, Jackson
				US 51 south to I-55 / Nissan Parkway – Madison	east end of US 51 overlap
				MS 43 south – Sand Hill, Ross Barnett Reservoir	west end of MS 43 overlap
				MS 43 north / East Peace Street – Sharon, Downtown Canton	east end of MS 43 overlap
	​			MS 17 north – Camden, Pickens
Leake	​			Natchez Trace	interchange
	Wiggins			MS 25 – Louisville, Jackson	interchange
	Carthage			MS 35 – Kosciusko, Forest, Walnut Grove
	Edinburg			MS 427 south – Madden
Neshoba	Philadelphia			MS 15 south / MS 21 south – Williamsville, Forest, Newton	west end of MS 15 / MS 21 overlap
				Cooper Williams Drive - Williamsville
				MS 15 north / MS 19 north – Kosciusko, Louisville	east end of MS 15 overlap; west end of MS 19 overlap
				MS 21 north (Pecan Avenue)	east end of MS 21 overlap
				MS 19 south (Holland Avenue) – Meridian	east end of MS 19 overlap
				MS 486 east
				Williamson Avenue	proposed MS 894
	​			MS 482 east
	​			Road 547	proposed MS 853
	Crossroads			MS 491 north
Kemper	​			MS 495 north	west end of MS 495 overlap
	​			MS 495 south	east end of MS 495 overlap
	​			Joe W. Williams Field	proposed MS 493 north
	​			MS 493 south – Moscow, Meridian
	​			MS 397 north – Preston, Louisville, Lake Kemper County
	De Kalb			MS 39 – De Kalb, Meridian
	Scooba			US 45 – Macon, Meridian
	​			CR 30 east
1.000 mi = 1.609 km; 1.000 km = 0.621 mi

References

1. "Mississippi Public Roads Selected Statistics" (PDF). Mississippi Department of Transportation. 2008. Retrieved 2010-06-03.

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