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North Carolina highway marker design utilized from 1949 to 1969. The original highway numbering system for North Carolina was established in the 1920s. Major routes were multiples of 10, with 10, 20, and 90 running east–west, 30, 40, 50, 70, and 80 running north–south, and 60 running as a diagonal route. [6]
The North Carolina Highway Historical Marker Program was created by the North Carolina General Assembly in 1935. Since that time over 1600 black and silver markers have been placed along numbered North Carolina highways throughout the state. [1]
The North Carolina Scenic Byways consists of roads in the state of North Carolina that travel through areas of scenic, historic, and cultural significance. Launched in March 1990, the scenic byway program has presently 59 designated byways, including three national scenic byways and one all American road, a total of 2,300 miles (3,700 km).
The purpose of this WikiProject is to create, standardize, and improve articles about the state highway system in North Carolina.This project will encompass all the North Carolina State Routes (on diamond-shaped shields), the U.S. Routes and Interstates that are predominantly North Carolinian (like US 158) and any other unusual routes in the state (like Charlotte 4); important named freeways ...
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 ...
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).
Longest numbered route in North Carolina. US 70: 488.0: 785.4 US 25/US 70/SR 9 at the TN state line: School Drive in Atlantic: 1926: current US 74: 451.8: 727.1 US 64/US 74/SR 40 at the TN state line: Turnaround in Wrightsville Beach: 1926: current US 76: 80.4: 129.4 US 76 at the SC state line: Water Street in Wrightsville Beach: 1934
The North Carolina Department of Transportation (NCDOT) has designated a 3.5-mile (5.6 km) stretch of I-440, from Walnut Street to Wade Avenue, to be redesigned and widened to six lanes. Completed in 1960, it is the oldest section of the beltline; it features the original four lanes with minimal shoulders, substandard interchanges, and a ...