.svg) Louisiana Highway 1065 | ||||
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| Route information | ||||
| Maintained byLouisiana DOTD | ||||
| Length | 11.1 mi (17.9 km) | |||
| Existed | 1955 renumbering–present | |||
| Major junctions | ||||
| South end |  US 190 inHammond | |||
| Major intersections |  LA 3234 inHammond LA 1064 inTickfaw LA 442 inTickfaw | |||
| North end |   US 51 /LA 1063 inIndependence | |||
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| Country | United States | |||
| State | Louisiana | |||
| Parishes | Tangiapahoa | |||
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Louisiana Highway 1065 (LA 1065) is a mostly rural highway inTangipahoa Parish,Louisiana betweenHammond andIndependence. In its more trafficked southern end it is known as North Cherry Street and outside Hammond, North Cherry Street Extension. LA 1065 is a two-lane highway for the entirety of its 11.1-mile-length (17.9 km).
From the south, LA 1065 begins atUS 190 in Hammond's Historic District. Proceeding due north, it bridgesPonchatoula Creek and forms aT-intersection withLA 3234 (University Avenue) on the west. It leaves Hammond and enters Tickfaw, crossing crossesLA 1064 (Natalbany Road) andLA 442. North of LA 442, LA 1065 enters Independence and has six sharp turns, the last cosigning it with Cypress Street near central Independence. At the intersection of Cypress Street and Tiger Avenue (so named because the tiger is the mascot of adjacentIndependence High School), LA 1065 turns west to follow Tiger Avenue in crossing theCanadian National Railway and immediately to end at the perpendicularUS 51 (West Railroad Avenue); directly across that intersection,LA 1063 (cosigned with Fifth Street) assumes the trajectory of LA 1065 and Tiger Avenue.
LA 1065 supports egress forSoutheastern Louisiana University viaLA 3234. Additionally, it serves significantly as afarm-to-market road and, together withLA 442, facilitates recreational access to theTangipahoa River.
LA 1065 is an old road, its original role in connecting Hammond and Independence having been assumed in the 1930s byUS 51, which was in turn sidelined in the 1960s byI-55.
LA 1065 has an anomaly at its southern terminus. US 190 at that point was originally a two-way route entirely on Thomas Street in Hammond. In the 1960s US 190 in Hammond was reconstructed as adivided highway, with westbound traffic on Thomas Street and eastbound traffic one block south on Morris Street. But in the change, accidentally, no provision was made for the one block of Cherry Street between Morris Street and Thomas Street to become state highway. As an afterthought, traffic eastbound on US 190 has a sign reading "TO" LA 1065 with a left arrow. Officially, traffic is not on LA 1065 until it is north of Thomas Street.
The entire highway is inTangipahoa Parish.
| Location | mi[1] | km | Destinations | Notes | |
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| Hammond | 0.00 | 0.00 | US 190 | Southern terminus | |
| 1.08 | 1.74 | LA 3234 (University Avenue) | |||
| Tickfaw | 3.13 | 5.04 | LA 1064 (Natalbany Road) | ||
| 5.56 | 8.95 | LA 442 | |||
| Independence | 10.22 | 16.45 | US 51 (West Railroad Avenue) /LA 1063 (Fifth Street) | Northern terminus | |
| 1.000 mi = 1.609 km; 1.000 km = 0.621 mi | |||||
