Mississippi Highway 27

Mississippi Highway 27
Route information
	Maintained by MDOT
Length	119.897 mi (192.956 km)
Major junctions
South end	LA 25 at the Louisiana state line near Tylertown
	US 98 in Tylertown; US 84 in Monticello; US 51 in Crystal Springs; I-55 in Crystal Springs; US 80 in Vicksburg
North end	I-20 / US 61 in Vicksburg
Location
Counties	Walthall, Lawrence, Copiah, Hinds, Warren
Highway system

Mississippi Highway 27 (MS 27) is a state highway in Mississippi. It runs from south to north for 119.53 miles (192.36 km), serving 5 counties: Walthall, Lawrence, Copiah, Hinds, and Warren. The segment between Vicksburg and Crystal Springs is known vernacularly as the "Utica cutoff" because it facilitates a circumvention of Jackson for I-20 / I-55 traffic flowing between Vicksburg and Hammond.

Locales on route

From South to North

Tylertown
Monticello
Georgetown
Crystal Springs
Utica
Vicksburg

Major intersections

A sign for Mississippi Highway 27, located just north of the Louisiana state line.

County	Location	Destinations	Notes
Walthall		LA 25 south – Franklinton	Louisiana state line; southern terminus
	Tylertown	MS 48 / MS 198 – McComb, Columbia
		MS 583 north (Tyler Avenue)	Southern terminus of MS 583
		US 98 – McComb, Columbia
Lawrence		MS 44 west – Jayess	Eastern terminus of western segment of MS 44
	Monticello	MS 184 – Monticello, Brookhaven, Prentiss
	Monticello	US 84 – Brookhaven, Silver Creek, Prentiss	Interchange
	Rosella	N.A. Sandifer Highway – Ferguson
	Wanilla	Smith Ferry Road - Wanilla	proposed MS 904
Copiah	Rockport	MS 478 east	Western terminus of MS 478
	Rockport	MS 472 west	Eastern terminus of MS 472
	Georgetown	MS 28 – Hazlehurst, Pinola
	Crystal Springs	US 51 south / MS 801 north – Crystal Springs, Calling Panther Lake, Lake Chautauqua	South end of US 51 overlap; southern terminus of MS 801
	Crystal Springs	I-55 / US 51 north – Brookhaven, Jackson	North end of US 51 overlap; I-55 exit 72
Hinds	Utica	MS 18 west – Port Gibson, Downtown Utica	South end of MS 18 overlap
		MS 18 east – Jackson	North end of MS 18 overlap
		Natchez Trace Parkway	Interchange
Warren	Vicksburg	US 80 / MS 822 east to I-20 west / US 61 south – Edwards, Downtown Vicksburg	Western terminus of MS 822
Warren	Vicksburg	I-20 east / US 61 north – Rolling Fork, Jackson	I-20 exit 6; no access to I-20 westbound/US 61 southbound
1.000 mi = 1.609 km; 1.000 km = 0.621 mi Concurrency terminus

References

^ "Mississippi Public Roads Selected Statistics" (PDF). Mississippi Department of Transportation. 2008. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2010-12-03. Retrieved 2010-06-03.

[MDOT-1] "Mississippi Public Roads Selected Statistics" (PDF). Mississippi Department of Transportation. 2008. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2010-12-03. Retrieved 2010-06-03.

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