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According to the 2020 United States census, North Carolina is the 9th-most populous state with 10,439,388 inhabitants, but the 28th-largest by land area spanning 53,819 square miles (139,390 km 2) of land. [1] [2] North Carolina is divided into 100 counties and contains 551 municipalities consisting of cities, towns, or villages. [3]
There are 22 Interstate Highways—9 primary and 13 auxiliary—that exist entirely or partially in the U.S. state of North Carolina.As of January 2020, the state had a total of 1,410 miles (2,270 km) of Interstates and 70 miles (110 km) of Interstate business routes, all maintained by the North Carolina Department of Transportation (NCDOT).
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 ...
The North Carolina Highway System consists of a vast network of Interstate, United States, and state highways, managed by the North Carolina Department of Transportation. North Carolina has the second largest state maintained highway network in the United States because all roads in North Carolina are maintained by either municipalities or the ...
US 64/NC 12 in Nags Head: 1932: current US 170: 141.1 [5] 227.1 US 74/NC 20/NC 27 in Charlotte: US 170 at the VA state line 1926: 1932 Replaced by US 29. US 176: 19.3: 31.1 US 25 Bus./NC 225 in Hendersonville: US 176 at the SC state line 1926: current US 178: 6.4: 10.3 US 178 at the SC state line: US 64 near Rosman
North Carolina Highway 55 (NC 55) is a primary state highway in the U.S. state of North Carolina. It serves as a traffic artery connecting Durham with Cary and numerous small cities and towns in The Triangle on its way toward the Pamlico Sound. A portion of NC 55 extends through Research Triangle Park.
Established as an original U.S. Highway in 1926, US 25 was assigned along the Dixie Highway, which followed NC 29 from South Carolina, through Tuxedo, Flat Rock, Hendersonville, and Biltmore Forest, to Asheville. In the downtown area, US 25 links up with US 70/NC 20 on College Street; it then proceeds north along Merrimon Avenue out of the city.
North Carolina Highway 25 (NC 25) was an original state highway that traversed from NC 20, in Monroe, southwest to SC 26, immediately across the state line. [5] Around 1929, NC 25 was rerouted from Rehobeth Road to a more direct west route into South Carolina, towards Van Wyck. [6] In 1934, the highway was renumbered as NC 75. [7]