North Carolina Highway 461 (NC 461) is a primary

state highway A state highway, state road, or state route (and the equivalent provincial highway, provincial road, or provincial route) is usually a road that is either ''numbered'' or ''maintained'' by a sub-national state or province. A road numbered by a ...

in the U.S. state of

North Carolina North Carolina () is a state in the Southeastern region of the United States. The state is the 28th largest and 9th-most populous of the United States. It is bordered by Virginia to the north, the Atlantic Ocean to the east, Georgia and So ...

. Its western terminus is at NC 561, passes through Winton and Cofield, and has its eastern end at an entrance to a

Nucor Nucor Corporation is an American producer of steel and related products based in Charlotte, North Carolina. It is the largest steel producer in the United States, the largest "mini-mill" steelmaker (i.e. it uses electric arc furnaces to melt scr ...

steel plant east of Cofield.

Route description

NC 461 is a two-lane rural highway that begins at NC 561 in Saint John, and travels northeast, crossing NC 11 and having a

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with

U.S. Route 13 U.S. Route 13 (US 13) is a north–south U.S. highway established in 1926 that runs for from Interstate 95 (I-95) just north of Fayetteville, North Carolina to US 1 in the northeastern suburbs of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, in Morrisville ...

(US 13). Following its split from US 13, it travels to NC 45 in Winton. From Winton, and in concurrency with NC 45, it travels through Cofield, then splits just east of the village. It continues north on Farmers Chemical Road, then east on River Road, ending at the entrance of Nucor Plate Mill, Hertford.

History

NC 461 was established in 1964 as a new primary routing from NC 561 in Saint John to US 13 south of Winton. In 1999, NC 461 was extended east, with a short concurrency with US 13 it splits near Winton, where it follows along Old Highway 13 to NC 45, then in concurrency until Farmers Chemical Road, where it continues as a new primary spur to the steel plant.

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External links

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NCRoads.com: N.C. 461
461 Transportation in Hertford County, North Carolina