Mississippi Highway 42

Mississippi Highway 42 marker
Mississippi Highway 42
Map
Route information
Maintained by MDOT
Length116.0 mi[1] (186.7 km)
(106.220 mi excluding concurrencies)
Existed1932–present
Major junctions
West endRockport-New Hebron Road near New Hebron
Major intersections
East end SR 56 at the Alabama state line in State Line
Location
CountryUnited States
StateMississippi
CountiesLawrence, Jefferson Davis, Lamar, Forrest, Perry, Greene, Wayne
Highway system
MS 41 MS 43

Mississippi Highway 42 (MS 42) is a state highway in southern Mississippi. MS 42 runs in an east/west direction for 116.0 miles (186.7 km), serving seven Mississippi counties: Wayne, Greene, Perry, Forrest, Lamar, Jefferson Davis, and Lawrence. Portions of this highway run parallel to the Longleaf Trace. The length of highway between Interstate 59 and U.S. Highway 11 in Forrest County, just outside Petal is known as the Evelyn Gandy Parkway.

  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.