US Highway 98
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Overall length: | 956 mi / 1,539 km | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Mississippi Alabama Florida |
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Starting point: |
US 61 / US 84 at Natchez , Mississippi
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End point: | FL A1A / FL 80 in Palm Beach , Florida | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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The US Highway 98 (also US Route 98 or US 98 ) is a Highway , the 1539 km on length of Natchez in Mississippi to Palm Beach in Florida runs. The main cities that the highway passes are Hattiesburg , Mobile , Pensacola , Lakeland and West Palm Beach .
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Mississippi
From Natchez to the Alabama border , east of Lucedale , the highway runs for 329 km. Between Natchez and Bude , the highway shares the route with US 84 . At McComb and Hattiesburg , US 98 runs on short sections on Interstates 55 and 59, respectively .
Alabama
The highway runs for 131 km from the Mississippi border northwest of Semmes to Perdido Bay on the Florida border. In Alabama, the highway is congruent with the (unsigned) Alabama State Route 42 .
Florida
The highway runs 1,079 km from the Alabama border at Perdido Bay to Palm Beach on the Atlantic Ocean .
In the Florida Panhandle , the highway runs in the immediate vicinity of the Gulf Coast , partly along several barrier islands . While US 98 runs in the panhandle in an easterly direction, it branches off to the southeast in Perry , at the transition to the Florida peninsula.
The highway in Florida intersects with the following roads:
- FL 30 / FL 30A : Alabama Border - Perry
- US 19 : Perry - Sugarmill Woods
- FL 50 : Brooksville - Ridge Manor
- US 301 / FL 35 : Lacoochee - Dade City
- US 17 : Bartow - Fort Meade
- FL 17 : south of Frostproof - Avon Park
- US 27 : west of Frostproof - Sebring
- US 441 : Okeechobee - Royal Palm Beach
- FL 80 : north of Belle Glade - Palm Beach