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South Carolina Highway 198 (SC 198) is a primary
A two-lane rural highway, it traverses , starting in Blacksburg, it goes north to the
SC 198 at Virginia Highways' South Carolina Highways Annex
198 Transportation in Cherokee County, South Carolina
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
In the United States, a state is a constituent political entity, of which there are 50. Bound together in a political union, each state holds governmental jurisdiction over a separate and defined geographic territory where it shares its sover ...
of South Carolina
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, anthem = " Carolina";" South Carolina On My Mind"
, Former = Province of South Carolina
, seat = Columbia
, LargestCity = Charleston
, LargestMetro = ...
. It connects the town of Blacksburg at Interstate 85 (I-85) exit 102 and the northern terminus of SC 5 with the town of Earl, North Carolina
Earl is a town in Cleveland County, North Carolina, United States. The population was 260 at the 2010 census.
History
Earl incorporated in 1889, and was named for local landowner Abel Earl.William S. Powell and Michael Hill, North Carolina Gazet ...
by way of North Carolina Highway 198 (NC 198). Though it physically travels north and south, internal SCDOT
The South Carolina Department of Transportation (SCDOT) is a government agency in the US state of South Carolina. Its mission is to build and maintain roads and bridges and administer mass transit services.
By state law, the SCDOT's function and ...
data and the only signage of SC 198 at the I-85/SC 5 interchange indicates that it travels east–west.
Route description
A two-lane rural highway, it traverses , starting in Blacksburg, it goes north to the 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 ...
state line at Buffalo Creek. The highway continues towards Earl and eventually to Patterson Springs.
History
Established in 1940, but designated later in 1951, SC 198 was and ran fromU.S. Route 29
U.S. Route 29 (US 29) is a north–south United States highway that runs for from Pensacola, Florida to the western suburbs of Baltimore, Maryland in the Southern United States, connecting the Florida Panhandle to the Baltimore-Washington me ...
/SC 5 to the 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 ...
state line. Around 2006-2009, its southern terminus was shortened to I-85 and to a new western terminus of SC 5, which its southern section was designated too.
Major intersections
See also
*References
External links
*{{Commons category-inlineSC 198 at Virginia Highways' South Carolina Highways Annex
198 Transportation in Cherokee County, South Carolina