Oklahoma State Highway 39
SH-39 was built in 1923 but not added to the state highway system until approximately 1936. Originally connecting Tabler to Purcell, SH-39 was extended to the east over the next five years, first to Asher and then to Konawa.
Route description
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The highway begins at the concurrency of U.S. Highway 62 (US-62)/US-277/State Highway 9 (SH-9) near the unincorporated community of Tabler, east of Chickasha. The road begins traveling east from there, intersecting SH-76 ten miles (16 km) later west of Dibble. From Dibble, it continues east, meeting the eastern terminus of SH-59 and intersecting SH-24 in the unincorporated town of Woody Chapel. It then continues east to Purcell.
In Purcell, SH-39 passes under Interstate 35, but does not have a junction with it. The highway soon encounters US-77/SH-74 just east of the interstate. Here, it turns northward and begins an overlap with the two highways through Purcell. SH-74 splits off after a few blocks while SH-39 and US-77 turn eastward and cross over the Canadian River on the James C. Nance Memorial Bridge. After crossing the river, the highways arrive in the town of Lexington and US-77 splits off to the northeast.
SH-39 continues eastward, serving the Lexington prison and overlapping for less than a mile with SH-102. In the town of Asher, the highway intersects SH-3W and SH-59 again. Eleven miles (18 km) later, the highway meets SH-9A in Konawa. The highway ends four miles (6.4 km) east of Konawa at US-377/SH-3E/SH-99. The mainline of the highway becomes SH-56.
History
The road that would become SH-39 was built in 1923, but it was not assigned a state route number until at least late 1936, first appearing on the 1937 state map. Originally, the route's eastern terminus was at US-77 in Purcell. By April 1939, it had been extended eastward to end at Asher. The route first reached its current termini in 1941 (although at the time, SH-99 passed through Konawa). A short gap existed west of Asher in the SH-39 designation between 1946 and 1947; by 1948 this gap had been filled. The final change to SH-39 occurred in 1968 or 1969, when SH-99 was rerouted to bypass Konawa, and SH-39 was extended east of town to end at the present junction. No changes have been made since.
Spurs
SH-39 once had one spur route, SH-39B. It ran along what is now May Avenue from SH-39's junction with SH-59 to SH-74B east of Cole, Oklahoma.
Junction list
County | Location | mi | km | Destinations | Notes |
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Grady | Tabler | 0.0 | 0.0 | ![]() ![]() ![]() | Western terminus |
McClain | Dibble | 9.6 | 15.4 | ![]() | |
| 14.9 | 24.0 | ![]() ![]() | Western terminus of SH-59 | |
Woody Chapel | 18.9 | 30.4 | ![]() | ||
Purcell | 26.3 | 42.3 | ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() | Western end of US-77/SH-74 concurrency | |
27.4 | 44.1 | ![]() ![]() | Eastern end of SH-74 concurrency | ||
Cleveland | Lexington | 28.7 | 46.2 | ![]() ![]() | Eastern end of US-77 concurrency |
Pottawatomie | | 46.9 | 75.5 | ![]() ![]() | Western end of SH-102 concurrency |
| 47.1 | 75.8 | ![]() ![]() | Eastern end of SH-102 concurrency | |
Asher | 53.0 | 85.3 | ![]() ![]() ![]() | ||
Seminole | Konawa | 63.4 | 102.0 | ![]() ![]() | Southern terminus of SH-9A |
| 68.4 | 110.1 | ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() | Eastern terminus; road continues as SH-56 | |
1.000 mi = 1.609 km; 1.000 km = 0.621 mi
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