North Carolina Highway 186

NC 186 is a two-lane rural highway that traverses {{convert|23.4|mi|km}} from NC 48 near Gaston to the Virginia state line near Margarettsville. The first {{convert|3.4|mi|km}} parallel I-95 heading south before joining NC 46 towards Garysburg. Once in Garysburg, its concurrency with NC 46 ends and then briefly overlaps with US 301 before it heads in a northeasterly direction out of town. It then proceeds to connect Gumberry, Seaboard, and Margarettsville, before crossing the state line into Virginia, becoming Virginia State Route 186 (SR 186), and heading towards Branchville, Virginia and Boykins, Virginia.

Established around 1975 as a renumbering of NC 195; the number change was to match with Virginia's SR 186, which was originally SR 195 before I-195 was established in Richmond, Virginia, around 1970.{{citation needed|date=March 2016}} It remained unchanged until May 21, 2013, when it was extended west and north from its former terminus at US 301 to NC 48. The justification for the extension was to help facilitate truck traffic and serve the Northampton Commerce Park and Enviva Industrial Facility, on what was SR 1200 (Lebanon Church Road and James Jones Road); it can also be used as an alternate route for I-95 in the event traffic has to be rerouted.{{cite web |publisher= North Carolina Department of Transportation |url= https://connect.ncdot.gov/resources/safety/Route%20Changes/2013_05_21.pdf |format= PDF |title= NC 186 Route Change (2013-05-21)|date= May 21, 2013 |accessdate= June 13, 2013}}

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|type=NC

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|location=Garysburg-Virginia state line

|formed=1938

|deleted=1975

|length_mi=15.8

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North Carolina Highway 195 (NC 195) was established around 1938 as a renumbering of NC 305 between Garysburg to Seaboard, then continuing east on new primary routing into Virginia becoming SR 195. Around 1970, SR 195 was renumbered to SR 186; North Carolina reciprocated in 1975.{{citation needed|date=March 2016}}

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{{jcttop|state=NC|county=Northampton|length_ref=}}

{{NCint

|location=none

|mile=0.0

|road={{Jct|state=NC|NC|48|city1=Gaston}}

|notes=Western terminus}}

{{NCint

|location=none

|type=concur

|mile=3.4

|road={{Jct|state=NC|NC|46|dir1=west|city1=Gaston}}

|notes=West end of NC 46 overlap}}

{{NCint

|location=none

|mile=4.0

|road={{Jct|state=NC|I|95|city1=Roanoke Rapids|city2=Rocky Mount|location3=Emporia}}

|notes=Exit 176 (I-95)}}

{{NCint

|location=Garysburg

|lspan=2

|type=concur

|mile=7.4

|road={{Jct|state=NC|US|301|NC|46|dir1=south|dir2=ends|city1=Weldon}}

|notes=South end of US 301 overlap and eastern terminus of NC 46}}

{{NCint

|type=concur

|mile=7.6

|road={{Jct|state=NC|US|301|dir1=north|location1=Pleasant Hill}}

|notes=North end of US 301 overlap}}

{{NCint

|location=Seaboard

|mile=14.6

|road={{Jct|state=NC|NC|305|dir1=south|name1=Main Street|city1=Jackson}}

|notes=Northern terminus of NC 305}}

{{NCint

|location=none

|mile=23.4

|road={{Jct|state=VA|SR|186|dir1=east|city1=Branchville}}

|notes=Eastern terminus, Virginia state line}}

{{Jctbtm|keys=concur}}

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• [http://www.vahighways.com/ncannex/route-log/nc186.html NCRoads.com: N.C. 186]
• [http://www.vahighways.com/ncannex/route-log/nc195.html NCRoads.com: N.C. 195]

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Category:Transportation in Northampton County, North Carolina