Montana Highway 55

State highway in Montana, United States

Montana Highway 55

MT 55 highlighted in red

Route information
Maintained by MDT
Length| 12.996 mi[1] (20.915 km)
Major junctions
South end|  MT 41 north of Silver Star
North end|  I-90 at Whitehall
Location
Country| United States
State| Montana
Counties| Madison, Silver Bow, Jefferson
Highway system

* Montana Highway System

* Interstate
* US
* State
* Secondary

| ←  MT 49| | →  MT 56

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Highway 55 (MT 55) in the U.S. State of Montana is a route running in a northerly direction from an intersection with MT 41 about 4 miles (6.4 km) north of the small town of Silver Star. The highway extends approximately 13 miles (21 km) to an interchange with Interstate 90 (I-90) at the north edge of the town of Whitehall. The route traverses largely agricultural land in the Jefferson River valley.

## Route description

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Highway 55 begins at MT 41, north of Silver Star. Concurrent with Montana Highway 287, it intersects Cut Across Road. An intersection with Waterloo Road is not far off as Highway 55 proceeds northward. From the west intersects Jack Rabbit Lane, before intersecting Fish Creek Road. It intersects Airport Lane before intersecting Cape Lane. After intersecting several small roads, Highway 55 ends at I-90 at Whitehall.[2]

## History

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Before receiving its current designation, Highway 55 was designated as part of Montana Highway 287. A small segment of Highway 55 in Whitehall was a former alignment of U.S. Route 10, before U.S. 10 was deleted across Montana.

## Major intersections

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County| Location| mi[1]| km| Destinations| Notes

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Madison| ​| 0.000| 0.000|  MT 41 – Twin Bridges, Butte|
Silver Bow
| No major junctions
Jefferson| ​| 12.032| 19.364|
MT 2 west – Butte| Western end of MT 2 overlap
Whitehall| 12.446| 20.030|
MT 69 east (MT 2) – Cardwell| Eastern end of MT 2 overlap
12.996| 20.915|  I-90 – Butte, Billings|
1.000 mi = 1.609 km; 1.000 km = 0.621 mi

* Concurrency terminus

## References

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KML file (edit • help)

Template:Attached KML/Montana Highway 55

KML is from Wikidata

1. ^ a b Montana Department of Transportation (January 19, 2022). "ALTIS Road Log Report" (PDF). Helena: Montana Department of Transportation. Retrieved April 7, 2017.
2. ^ "Montana Highway 55" (Map). Google Maps. Retrieved June 8, 2009.

* Official 2007-2008 Montana Highway Travel Map (PDF) (Map). Montana Department of Transportation. Retrieved December 8, 2007.

*[mi]: Miles
*[km]: Kilometers