State Route 240 (SR 240) is a 17.2-mile-long (27.7 km) north–south state highway in Lawrence County, Tennessee. Except for a short stretch in Summertown, the entire route of SR 240 is known simply as Turnpike.
 State Route 240 | ||||
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| Turnpike | ||||
 SR 240 highlighted in red | ||||
| Route information | ||||
| Maintained by TDOT | ||||
| Length | 17.2 mi (27.7 km) | |||
| Existed | July 1, 1983[1]–present | |||
| Major junctions | ||||
| South end |  US 64 near Deerfield | |||
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| North end |  US 43 in Summertown | |||
| Location | ||||
| Country | United States | |||
| State | Tennessee | |||
| Counties | Lawrence | |||
| Highway system | ||||
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Route description
editSR 240 begins as Turnpike just west of Deerfield at an intersection with US 64/SR 15. It goes northeast along the southern edge of Laurel Hill Wildlife Management Area to pass through farmland and have a short concurrency with SR 241 before passing through Henryville, where it has an intersection with SR 242. The highway then crosses the Buffalo River passes through a mix of farmland and wooded areas before entering Summertown, where it turns east to have a concurrency with SR 20 before turning south along Monument road and coming to an end at an intersection with US 43/SR 6. The entire route of SR 240 is a two-lane highway.[2][3]
Major intersections
editThe entire route is in Lawrence County.
y| Location | mi | km | Destinations | Notes | |
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| | 0.0 | 0.0 | US 64 (Waynesboro Highway/SR 15) – Waynesboro, Lawrenceburg | Southern terminus | |
| |   SR 241 north (Napier Road) | Southern end of wrong-way SR 241 concurrency | |||
| |  SR 241 south (Red Hill-Center Road) – Deerfield | Northern end of wrong-way SR 241 concurrency | |||
| Henryville |  SR 242 south (Henryville Road) – Lawrenceburg | Northern terminus of SR 242 | |||
| Bridge over the Buffalo River | |||||
| Summertown |   SR 20 west – Hohenwald | Southern end of SR 20 concurrency | |||
 SR 20 east | Northern end of SR 20 concurrency | ||||
| 17.2 | 27.7 | US 43 (Andrew Jackson Highway/SR 6) – Lawrenceburg, Ethridge, Mount Pleasant, Columbia | Northern terminus | ||
1.000 mi = 1.609 km; 1.000 km = 0.621 mi
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References
edit- ^ "The Road To 100 Years" (PDF). Tennessee Road Builder. Vol. 17, no. 5. September 2014. p. 22. Retrieved April 6, 2019.
- ^ "Lawrence County" (PDF). Tennessee Department of Transportation. Retrieved October 24, 2022.
- ^ "TN-240" (Map). Google Maps. Retrieved October 24, 2022.