North Carolina Highway 801

NC 801
Route information
Maintained by NCDOT
Length:	100 mi (200 km)
Existed:	1927-1928[1] – present
Major junctions
North end:	US 601 near Yadkinville, NC
	US 70 near Cleveland US 601 near Cooleemee US 64 near Advance US 158 in Bermuda Run I-40 at Hillsdale
South end:	NC 152 in Mooresville, NC
Location
Counties:	Iredell, Rowan, Davie
Highway system
North Carolina Highway System ← I-795 I-840 →

NC 801 is a north–south state highway in the U.S. state of North Carolina that traverses three counties in the central Piedmont region of the state. It is mainly a rural route, linking small towns and communities like Bermuda Run, Hillsdale, North Carolina, Advance, Cooleemee, and eastern Mooresville. It is two-lanes for its entire length, with the exception of a concurrency with U.S. Highway 70 between Cleveland and Salisbury.

History

NC 801 was first commissioned in 1927-28 as a short route traveling east–west from to NC 65 (now U.S. Highway 158) at Hillsdale. The route was extended south from its eastern terminus to connect with NC 90 (now U.S. Highway 64) by 1930, becoming a north–south route. In 1933, the route was extended again, from NC 90 southewest to Mooresville, replacing all of NC 803, which ran from U.S. Highway 601 south of Mocksville to NC 26(now U.S. Highway 29) in Mooresville. Between 1934 and 1936, NC 801 was rerouted in the Hillsdale area, elminating a concurrency with US 158. In the early 1950s, another short concurrency, with US 64, was replaced with a continuous alignment. When US 70 was shifted onto a new alignment, so did the NC 801 concurrency in 1956-58.^[1]

Trivia

• NC 801 is the only surviving 800 series route in North Carolina and has held that title since 1941.

References

1. ^ ^{a b} NC Roads Annex: NC 801