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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 ...
Memorial Highway: Route information; Maintained by NCDOT: Length: 19.0 mi [1] (30.6 km) Existed: 1930–present: Major junctions; South end: US 64 near Calahaln: US 21 in Harmony I-77 near Union Grove: North end: NC 115 near New Hope: Location; Country: United States: State: North Carolina: Counties: Davie, Iredell: Highway system; North ...
US 158/NC 12 in Nags Head: 1932: current 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
Number Length (mi) [3] Length (km) Southern or western terminus Northern or eastern terminus Formed Removed Notes I-26: 53.67: 86.37 I-26/US 23 at the Tennessee state line: I-26 at the South Carolina state line 1966 [4] current Gap in Asheville, signed as Future I-26 I-40: 419.40: 674.96 I-40 at the Tennessee state line: US 117/NC 132 in Wilmington
If a new highway is established that would have the same number as a state highway, the state highway number usually changes. North Carolina grants exceptions to this rule in limited cases. Sometimes, as in NC 540/ I-540 ; the two routes are given the same number because they are seen as a continuous route.
Number Length (mi) [5] [b] Length (km) Southern or western terminus Northern or eastern terminus Formed Removed Notes US 1: 2,369: 3,813 Fleming and Whitehead streets in Key West, FL: Route 161 at Canadian border in Fort Kent, ME: 1926: current Follows the East Coast of the United States, longest north-south US Highway US 2: 2,112: 3,399
A total of $54.9 million was approved for new trails and greenways around the state with $2 million going to Shelby for the Carolina Harmony Trail.
North Carolina Highway 901 crosses US 21 in the center of Harmony, leading northwest 5 miles (8 km) to Interstate 77 and southeast 6 miles (10 km) to U.S. Route 64. According to the United States Census Bureau , the town has a total area of 1.4 square miles (3.5 km 2 ), of which 2.5 acres (0.01 km 2 ), or 0.38%, are water.