Tennessee State Route 40
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| Existed: | 1926 – present | |||
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     I-55 / US 61 / US 64 / US 70 / US 79 at Arkansas state line in Memphis
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I-55 in Memphis I-240 in Memphis I-40 in Memphis I-269 in Arlington US 45 in Selmer I-65 near Pulaski US 231 in Fayetteville I-24 from Pelham to KimballI-24 in Chattanooga I-75 from Chattanooga to Ooltewah
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  US 64 / US 74 at North Carolina state line near Ducktown
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| Location: | Cleveland, Tennessee |
| Length: | 5.1 mi (8.2 km) |
| Existed: | 1968–present |
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| Length: | 39.63 mi (63.78 km) | |||
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| Counties: | Bradley, Polk | |||
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In Tennessee, U.S. Route 64 (US 64) stretches from the Mississippi River/Arkansas state line in Memphis to the North Carolina state line near Ducktown. The highway, along with U.S. 72, is a major route for travel between Memphis and Chattanooga.
US-64 enters Tennessee on the Memphis-Arkansas Bridge in Memphis. The route shares the bridge with Interstate 55 and U.S. Highways 61, 70, and 79. The route traverses several streets in Memphis before becoming a rural divided highway in eastern Shelby County. The highway runs directly to the east through the county seats of Tennessee's most southern counties including Oakland, Somerville, Whiteville, Bolivar, Selmer, Adamsville, Savannah, Waynesboro, and Lawrenceburg, the largest on the route between Memphis and Interstate 65. The route then interchanges with I-65, and runs through Fayetteville, Winchester, and comes to an interchange with Interstate 24 near Pelham. The route unofficially runs concurrent with I-24 across the Cumberland Plateau, often cited as one of the most hazardous stretches of highway in the United States and splits at exit 152 near Kimball where it then enters Jasper, becoming concurrent with US-41, of which it crosses Nickajack Lake, part of the Tennessee River to Chattanooga The route then becomes concurrent with US 11 and runs to Cleveland, where it splits and runs into Polk County to the North Carolina state line. The easternmost portion of the highway along the Ocoee River is the Ocoee Scenic Byway, a winding, two-lane road through the Ocoee River gorge. The steep terrain around the highway is subject to landslides, such as the 2009 Little Frog Mountain landslide.
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