North Carolina Highway 118: Difference between revisions

'''North Carolina Highway 118''' ('''NC 118''') is an {{convert|18.5|mi|km|adj=mid|-long}} primary [[state highway]] in the U.S. state of [[North Carolina]]. It runs east–west from [[North Carolina Highway 11|NC 11]] in [[Grifton, North Carolina|Grifton]] to [[North Carolina Highway 43|NC 43]] in [[Vanceboro, North Carolina|Vanceboro]].

A two-lane rural highway, it traverses {{convert|18.5|mi|km}} through mostly farmland, as it connects the towns of Grifton and Vanceboro. The highway begins at a stop-controlled intersection with the [[divided highway|divided]] NC&nbsp;11 just outside of the town limits of Grifton in [[Lenoir County, North Carolina|Lenoir County]]. NC&nbsp;118 heads east along West Contentnea Drive through farmland for {{convert|1/4|mi|km}} then enters Grifton and passes through small residential neighborhood for another {{convert|1/4|mi|km}}. At an intersection with South Highland Boulevard, NC&nbsp;118 turns to the northeast along this road and crosses the [[Contentnea Creek]] into [[Pitt County, North Carolina|Pitt County]] and downtown Grifton. It makes a turn towards the southeast at Queen Street where NC&nbsp;118 heads through the town's central business district. After curving slowly to due east, the road heads through another residential neighborhood of Grifton before exiting the town for a more rural area. One small settlement in Pitt County through which NC&nbsp;118 passes is [[Quinerly, North Carolina|Quinerly]] where some houses and streets line the south side of the road.<ref name="google"/>

NC&nbsp;118 heads towards the southeast again where it enters [[Craven County, North Carolina|Craven County]], again in a mostly rural area. It curves to the east where it passes through an unnamed settlement (at the intersection of Honolulu Road and Bay Bush Road) containing some churches, cemeteries, and a farm and garden store. The road makes one more drop towards the southeast passing another unnamed settlement with houses and churches before curving one last time to the east at wooded marshland containing Swift Creek. NC&nbsp;118 ends at an intersection with [[North Carolina Highway 43|NC&nbsp;43]] within a small [[Annexation|annexed]] portion of Vanceboro.<ref name="google"/><ref name=Craven_Inset_Map>{{cite map |url=https://xfer.services.ncdot.gov/imgdot/DOTCountyMaps/PDFs/Craven_CountyMap_Sheet02_Final_web.pdf |title=Enlarged Municipal and Suburban Areas - Craven County, North Carolina |publisher=[[North Carolina Department of Transportation]] - Management Systems and Assessments Unit - Mapping Section |date=June 2017 |accessdate=July 23, 2017}}</ref> The road continues east as state-maintained Dawson Lane (Secondary Road 1654) to end about {{convert|1/2|mi|km}} later at [[U.S. Route 17 Business (Vanceboro, North Carolina)|U.S. Route 17 Business]].<ref name=Craven_Inset_Map/>

Established in 1932 as a new primary routing, it initially ran from [[U.S. Route 70 in North Carolina|U.S. Route70]] (US&nbsp;70)/[[North Carolina Highway 10|NC 10]] (now [[North Carolina Highway 55|NC 55]]) in [[Fort Barnwell, North Carolina|Fort Barnwell]] to NC&nbsp;43 in Vanceboro. Around 1940, it was rerouted to a new western terminus at NC&nbsp;11 in Grifton. In 1969, it was extended west over an old section of NC 11 and Grifton Hugo Road to its current western terminus of NC 11.<ref>{{cite web |publisher= North Carolina Department of Transportation |url= https://connect.ncdot.gov/resources/safety/Route%20Changes/1969_09_11.pdf |page=7 |title= Route Changes (1969-09-11) |date= September 11, 1969 |accessdate= June 24, 2017}}</ref>