Mississippi Highway 27

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.

Mississippi Highway 27
Route information
Maintained by MDOT
Length	119.897 mi[1] (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 State Highway System Interstate U.S. State ← MS 26 → MS 28

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	mi	km	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
				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
				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
				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
				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

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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