State Route 221 (SR 221) is a east-west state highway in

Crockett County, Tennessee Crockett County is located in the U.S. state of Tennessee. As of the 2020 census, the population was 13,911. Its county seat is Alamo. Crockett County is included in the Jackson, TN Metropolitan Statistical Area. History Crockett County was fo ...

, connecting the towns of

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and Gadsden. For the majority of its length, SR 221 is known as Alamo Gadsden Road.

Route description

SR 221 begins in downtown

at an intersection with SR 54 and SR 88. It goes east through neighborhoods as E Church Street before leaving Alamo and passing through farmland and rural areas as Alamo Gadsden Road. It goes due east for several miles, where it crosses over a large creek, before turning southeast at a Y-Intersection with Emerson Road to enter Gadsden. The highway enters town along Quincy Street and passes by some homes before coming to an end at an intersection with US 70A/

US 79 U.S. Route 79 (US 79) is a United States highway in the Southern United States. The route is officially considered and labeled as a north-south highway, but its path is actually more of a diagonal northeast-southwest highway. The highway's nort ...

/ SR 76. The entire route of SR 221 is a two-lane highway.https://www.tn.gov/content/dam/tn/tdot/maps/county-maps-(us-shields)/a-g/Crockett%20County.pdf

Major intersections

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Transportation in Crockett County, Tennessee