North Carolina Highway 902 (NC 902) is a primary
state highway 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 ...
. The highway connects southwest
Chatham County with the county seat of
Pittsboro. NC 902 has mostly rural routing going northeast most of the way. NC 902 was created in 1929 running from
U.S. Route 64
U.S. Route 64 (US 64) is an east–west United States highway that runs for 2,326 miles (3,743 km) from Nags Head in eastern North Carolina to just southwest of the Four Corners in northeast Arizona. The western terminus is at U.S. Route 1 ...
(US 64) near
Asheboro
Asheboro is a city in and the county seat of Randolph County, North Carolina, United States. The population was 25,012 at the 2010 census. It is part of the Greensboro–High Point metropolitan area of the Piedmont Triad and is home of the sta ...
to
Carthage
Carthage was the capital city of Ancient Carthage, on the eastern side of the Lake of Tunis in what is now Tunisia. Carthage was one of the most important trading hubs of the Ancient Mediterranean and one of the most affluent cities of the cla ...
but has since been truncated to its current routing over a long period of time.
Route description
NC 902 begins at
NC 22/
NC 42 south of
Bennett. NC 902 heads east from there and crosses Falls Creek. From there NC 902 turns northeast and goes through
Harpers Crossroads at the intersection of Siler City Glendon Road. The road intersects Edwards Hill Church Road (Secondary Road 1141 or SR 1141) on its way to
Bear Creek. The road crosses over
Bear Creek before reaching the eponymous town about down the road. When the route finally enters Bear Creek it crosses over a
Norfolk Southern
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railroad and then intersects Old
US 421 S.
After the road leaves Bear Creek it crosses over Sandy Branch. NC 902 intersects US 421 northeast of Bear Creek and from there continues northeast to cross
Landrum Creek. Approximately one mile from the crossing of
Landrum Creek, NC 902 turns to the east to parallel US 64. The road turns left on Pittsboro Goldston Road, and starts to again head northeast towards Pittsboro. NC 902 intersects
NC 87 just south of downtown Pittsboro and turns north. NC 902 ends at
US 64 Business (US 64 Bus.) in downtown Pittsboro.
History
NC 902 first appeared on the North Carolina state highway map running from US 64/
NC 90 in Asheboro to
NC 74 (now
NC 24/
NC 27) west of Carthage. By 1933, NC 902 was removed off its routing from Bennett to its western terminus near Carthage. Instead NC 902 was routed along a
concurrency with
NC 64 and then along new routing to US 421 near Bear Creek.
Between 1958-63, NC 902 was truncated, just south of Bennett, at NC 22/NC 42; the old alignment became part of NC 42.
In 1964, NC 902 was extended east to its current eastern terminus at US 64 (now US 64 Bus.) and NC 87 in Pittsboro.
In 2000, NC 87 was rerouted onto of NC 902 in Pittsboro.
Junction list
References
External links
* {{commons category-inline, North Carolina Highway 902
NCRoads.com: N.C. 902
902
Transportation in Chatham County, North Carolina