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North Carolina Highway 211 (NC 211) is a 162.5-mile-long (261.5 km) primary state highway in the U.S. state of North Carolina. It traverses mostly through the Sandhills and Coastal Plain regions of the state; connecting the cities of Candor , Aberdeen , Raeford , Lumberton , Bladenboro , and Southport .
When originally established in the 1920s, the state highway system was highly organized: two-digit routes ending in "0" were major cross-state routes, other two digit routes were numbered as spurs off of the main route (that is, Highway 54 would have been a spur off of Highway 50) and lesser important routes were given three digit numbers by appending an extra "ones" digit to the two digit ...
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North Carolina Highway 5 (NC 5) is a primary state highway in the U.S. state of North Carolina. It runs entirely in Moore County and connects the Sandhills municipalities of Aberdeen and Pinehurst. It also serves as an alternate route for NC 211. NC 5's route was designated in 1961 and it has not changed since then.
The western end of the route was truncated at US 15/US 501 in 1940 with much of the former route to the west becoming NC 211. In 1952, NC 2 replaced its former bannered route, NC 2A along Yadkin Road to US 1 in Manly. The route was extended west to NC 211 (present day NC 5) along its former routing through Pinehurst, in 1957. NC 2 was truncated ...
A vehicle upended in a washed out section of NC 211 in between Dosher Cut Off and River Mist subdivision in Brunswick County, N.C., Monday, Sept. 16, 2024.
An 80-year-old man died trying to drive through a flooded North Carolina road on Tuesday as the state dealt ... Brunswick County Sheriff’s Office vehicles and into high water on NC 211, the ...
The highway was extended south from Southport to Oak Island in 1960, running concurrently along NC 211 for 1 mile (1.6 km). [18] In 1961, NC 40 was renumbered as NC 133 with the establishment of I-40 in North Carolina. [2] [3] In 1969, the routing of NC 133 was adjusted to its modern route between the Brunswick River and Northeast Cape Fear River.